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| Author | : Peter Gould |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 564 |
| Release | : 2016-01-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317336917 |
This book charts the developments in the discipline of geography from the 1950s to the 1980s, examining how geography now connects with urban, regional and national planning, and impacts on areas such as medicine, transport, agricultural development and electoral reform. The book also discusses how technical and theoretical advancements have generated a renewed sense of philosophic reflection – a concern closely linked with the critical examination and development of social theory.
| Author | : Henry L. Hunker |
| Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780814208571 |
"Personal and anecdotal, the book serves as an informal documentary of the past fifty years, when Columbus grew to become the largest city in Ohio. Famous for his tours of the city, Hunker includes itineraries for two tours - one in 1956, one in 1999 - which he uses to compare the city then and now.".
| Author | : Jon Fasman |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2006-02-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780143036623 |
"A brainy noir . . . [a] winningly cryptic tale . . . a cabinet of wonders written by a novelist whose surname and sensibility fit comfortably on the shelf between Umberto Eco and John Fowles." —Los Angeles Times "One of the year’s most literate and absorbing entertainments." —Kirkus Reviews Jon Fasman’s dizzyingly plotted intellectual thriller suggests a marriage between Dan Brown and Donna Tartt. When reporter Paul Tomm is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a reclusive academic, he finds himself pursuing leads that date back to the twelfth century and the theft of alchemical instruments from the geographer of the Sicilian court. Now someone is trying to retrieve them. Interspersed with the present action are the stories of the men and women who came to possess those charmed—and sometimes cursed—artifacts, which have powers that go well beyond the transmutation of lead into gold. Deftly combining history, magic, suspense, and romance—and as handsomely illustrated as an ancient incunabulum—The Geographer’s Library is irresistible.
| Author | : Thomas Walter Freeman |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
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| Author | : Jon Fasman |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2006-02-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101201002 |
"A brainy noir . . . [a] winningly cryptic tale . . . a cabinet of wonders written by a novelist whose surname and sensibility fit comfortably on the shelf between Umberto Eco and John Fowles." —Los Angeles Times "One of the year’s most literate and absorbing entertainments." —Kirkus Reviews Jon Fasman’s dizzyingly plotted intellectual thriller suggests a marriage between Dan Brown and Donna Tartt. When reporter Paul Tomm is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a reclusive academic, he finds himself pursuing leads that date back to the twelfth century and the theft of alchemical instruments from the geographer of the Sicilian court. Now someone is trying to retrieve them. Interspersed with the present action are the stories of the men and women who came to possess those charmed—and sometimes cursed—artifacts, which have powers that go well beyond the transmutation of lead into gold. Deftly combining history, magic, suspense, and romance—and as handsomely illustrated as an ancient incunabulum—The Geographer’s Library is irresistible.
| Author | : Peter Gould |
| Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2000-09-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780815606673 |
Peter Gould, a prominent, award-winning geographer who admits to having a low threshold for boredom, offers a collection of essays that reflect his eclectic research and provocative thinking. The topics range widely and include the diffusion of AIDS, mental maps, development themes in Africa, postmodernism, and the practices of teaching and writing. Becoming a Geographer expands on Gould's influential ideas and contributions to the field. Gould values the kind of independent thought and scholarship now often frowned upon by university administrators. He has written eighteen books and more than one hundred sixty articles that have appeared in more than seventy-six different journals during his forty-year career in research and higher education—his "lifetime sabbatical"—much of it spent teaching at Penn State. A witty, graceful, engaging writer, Could situates geography in a wider social context. In this book, he brings a fresh perspective to developments in the field including the quantitative and mathematical revolution in geography in the 1960s and 1970s. He writes with directness and clarity about the use and misuse of mathematics in illuminating social and geographical reality. His thoughts are especially valuable for what geography offers the world of learning and its capacity to help resolve urgent problems of the day.
| Author | : Owen J. Dwyer |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781930066717 |
"Owen Dwyer and Derek Alderman examine civil rights memorials as cultural landscapes, offering the first book-length critical reading of the monuments, museums, parts, streets, and sites dedicated to the African-American struggle for civil rights and interpreting them is the context of the Movement's broader history and its current scene. In paying close attention to which stories, people, and places are remembered and which are forgotten, the authors present an engaging account of an unforgettable story."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Lucy Sprague Mitchell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Geography |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : William Gordon East |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1965 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780393004199 |
In this book, Professor East discusses the vital relationship between history and geographical conditions. Drawing examples from ancient times up to the present, he demonstrates that a study of history must include consideration of the physical conditions under which an event occurs, and that "the particular characteristics of this setting serve not only to localise but also to influence part at least of the action." Topographical position, climate, distribution of water and minerals, the placement of routes and towns, and ease or difficulty of movement between districts and countries are among the factors which the historian must take into account. Book jacket.
| Author | : Alan R. H. Baker |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2003-11-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521288859 |
