Tag: Geography

AP Human Geography Premium, 2024 6 Practice Tests + Comprehensive Review + Online Practice (Barron’s Test Prep)


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English | July 4th, 2023 | ISBN: 1506287670 | 360 pages | True EPUB | 16.58 MB
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Geography of World Pilgrimages


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031322088 | 647 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 63 MB
This book points out how pilgrimage studies rely on interdisciplinary academic interests, being always more determined by anthropological, social, cultural and economic factors. The volume gathers interdisciplinary contributions revealing different approaches and academic interests when researching pilgrimage. Finally, the proposal introduces a comparative international breath to reflect upon such complex phenomenon that since Antiquity still impregnates the history of human being across the world.

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Bisexual Spaces A Geography of Sexuality and Gender


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English | 2002 | pages: 257 | ISBN: 0415930820, 0415930839 | PDF | 34,4 mb
A largely unexplored area, this is an innovative and original examination of bisexual spaces as places that are defined by both geographical boundaries and cultural significance. Hemmings applies the ideas of queer theory as well as social and cultural geography in her fascinating investigation into the spaces and places of bisexual life. Specifically focusing on Northhampton, MA and San Francisco, she draws on interviews with community members and the town histories showing how and why they have developed into safe places for the gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities. By mapping out a space of bisexuality, Bisexual Spaces provides a new and provocative understanding of the concept.

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Images of Delhi A Literary and Humanistic Geography of Post-independence India


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031285840 | 220 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
The main objective of this book is to analyze prominent literary images of Delhi in post-independence India. The author has probed into a number of eminent writings in Hindi, English and other languages. The author’s methodology, a humanistic and phenomenological approach, allows exploration of experiential dimension of writers’ and their characters in various genres of literature. An inquiry into perceptions and imagination in literature enriches the understanding of place, space, time, and seasons, the concerns central to geography.

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Place Naming, Identities and Geography


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031215095 | 656 Pages | PDF (True) | 21 MB
This book presents research on geographical naming on land and sea from a wide range of standpoints on: theory and concepts, case studies and education. Space and place naming or toponymy has a long tradition in the sciences and a renewed critical interest in geography and allied disciplines including the humanities. Place: location and cartographical aspects, etymology and geo-histories so salient in past studies, are now being enhanced from a range of radical perspectives, especially in a globalizing, standardizing world with Googlization and the consequent ‘normalization’ of place names, perceptions and images worldwide including those for marketing purposes. Nonetheless, there are conflicting and contesting voices. The interdisciplinary research is enhanced with authors from regional, national and international toponymy-related institutions and organizations including the UNGEGN, IGU, ICA and so forth.

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Feminist Geography in Practice Research and Methods


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English | 2002 | pages: 290 | ISBN: 0631220194, 0631220208 | PDF | 4,5 mb
This is the first feminist geography text devoted to methodology and provides a basic framework for students wishing to undertake gendered work in the discipline

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