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How people live
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Penelope Arlon |
Describes different parts of the world and how people live in each, from the Eskimos and Inuit of the Arctic to the Amish and Maya of North America and the Asante and Zulu of Africa |
OL12060666W |
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American commodities in an age of empire
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Mona Domosh |
American Commodities in an Age of Empire is a novel interpretation of the relationship between consumerism, commercialism, and imperialism during the first empire building ear of America in the late … |
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Caring for the Earth
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Sally Hewitt |
"Describes many aspects of Earth's geography, from wildlife to water supplies, that are under threat from climate change and human actions. Offers many hands-on activities for conservation and recycl… |
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The world turns round and round
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Nicki Weiss |
Children describe the gifts that they have received from relatives around the world. |
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Media, place and mobility
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Shaun Moores |
"Media, Place and Mobility offers a new understanding of media uses as place-making practices in everyday living. Drawing primarily on phenomenological perspectives, Shaun Moores focuses on the ways … |
OL16564505W |
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Why geography matters
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Harm J. de Blij |
"Preparing for climate change, averting a cold war with China, defeating terrorism: all of this requires geographic knowledge. In Why Geography Matters, Harm de Blij makes an urgent call to restore g… |
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Greater Portland
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Carl Abbott |
"It has been called one of the nation's most livable regions, ranked among the best managed cities in America, and hailed a top spot to do business, enjoy the arts, pursue outdoor recreation, and mak… |
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Emotional geographies
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Mick Smith,L. Bondi,Joyce Davidson |
Bringing together well-established interdisciplinary scholars and a new generation of researchers, this volume presents a wide range of innovative studies of fundamentally important questions of emot… |
OL19847016W |
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Children from Australia to Zimbabwe
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Maya Ajmera,Anna Rhesa Versola |
" ... takes its readers on a trip through the alphabet and around the globe. Find out what children do with their families in Mexico, how they dress for festivals in Japan, and what they ride to scho… |
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Where People Work
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Ruth Nason |
Looks at different kinds of jobs people do in factories, fire stations, farms and offices. Considers why some work places are in the middle of towns, why some are built away from town centres and wha… |
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Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions
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Siddharth Sareen |
This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can an… |
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Living in a valley
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Ellen Labrecque |
Why are valleys popular places to live? Are there any dangers of living in a valley? What different types of valley are there? Living in a Valley looks at how people adapt to live in valleys. We take… |
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Explorations in social geography
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H.C. Kariel,P.E. Kariel |
For introductory courses in human, cultural, or social geography. |
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Geographies of development
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Robert B. Potter |
Taking an holistic approach to development geography, rather than dealing with topics such as agriculture, trade and aid separately, this text considers pressing issues like sustainable development. … |
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Peoples of the Arctic
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Robert Low |
Describes life in the Arctic regions of the world and how humans have adapted to the harsh conditions there. |
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Peoples of the river valley
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Robert Low |
Describes human life in river valleys, with the Wayana Indians of South America and the Omo of East Africa as examples. |
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Sports geography
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John Bale |
'Space' and 'place' are concepts central to both geography and sport. Places, for example, are the means of identifying most sports teams, while sport both affects, and is affected by, the physical e… |
OL3258666W |
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Racionalidad andina en el uso del espacio
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Raúl León Caparó |
"Ethnography of social and territorial space, based on fieldwork in Paucartambo, describes characteristics and social functions of socioeconomic units (kinship systems) in the community of Qollana-Wa… |
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Chinas unlimited
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Gregory B. Lee |
This book is about the ways Chineseness has been represented over the past hundred years or so. Much of the book discusses the Orientalizing and crude racist ideologies that have formed the foundatio… |
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Exploring world cultures
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Esko E. Newhill |
A social sciences textbook discussing how different cultures developed in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. |
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