география
The Dictionary of Human Geography
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With clear, critical, and constructive surveys of key terms by leading researchers in the field, The Dictionary of Human Geography, fifth edition, remains the definitive guide to the concepts and debates in human geography. Comprehensively...
Everyday Peace?
Philippa Williams
Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAG Providing important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday...
From World City to the World in One City
Tim Bunnell
From World City to the World in One City examines changing geographies of Liverpool through and across the lives of Malay seamen who arrived in the city during its final years as a major imperial port. Draws upon life histories and memories of...
Frontier Road
Sim?n Uribe
Frontier Road uses the history of one road in southern Colombia—known locally as “the trampoline of death”—to demonstrate how state-building processes and practices have depended on the production and maintenance of frontiers as...
Participatory Mapping
Jean-Christophe Plantin
This book is intended for applications of online digital mapping, called mashups (or composite application), and to analyze the mapping practices in online socio-technical controversies. The hypothesis put forward is that the ability to create...
Geographical Information Retrieval in Textual Corpora
Christian Sallaberry
This book addresses the field of geographic information extraction and retrieval from textual documents. Geographic information retrieval is a rapidly emerging subject, a trend fostered by the growing power of the Internet and the emerging...
Assembling Export Markets
Stefan Ouma
Assembling Export Markets explores the new ‘frontier regions’ of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade. Represents a major and empirically rich contribution to the emerging field of the social studies of...
Global Displacements
Marion Werner
Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape—and are shaped by—the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South. Makes an original...
Rehearsing the State
Fiona McConnell
Rehearsing the State presents a comprehensive investigation of the institutions, performances, and actors through which the Tibetan Government-in-Exile is rehearsing statecraft. McConnell offers new insights into how communities officially...
Metropolitan Preoccupations
Alexander Vasudevan
In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space,...
Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere
Marco Tedesco
The cryosphere, that region of the world where water is temporarily or permanently frozen, plays a crucial role on our planet. Recent developments in remote sensing techniques, and the acquisition of new data sets, have resulted in significant...
Exploring Spatial Scale in Geography
Christopher D. Lloyd
Exploring Spatial Scale in Geography provides a conceptual and practical guide to issues of spatial scale in all areas of the physical and social sciences. Scale is at the heart of geography and other spatial sciences. Whether dealing with...
The Dictionary of Physical Geography
David S. G. Thomas
This fully-revised comprehensive fourth edition covers the whole field of physical geography including climate and atmosphere, geomorphology, biogeography, hydrology, oceans, Quaternary, environmental change, soils, remote sensing and GIS. This...
Work-Life Advantage
Al James
Work-Life Advantage analyses how employer-provision of ‘family-friendly’ working arrangements – designed to help workers better reconcile work, home and family – can also enhance firms’ capacities for learning and innovation, in pursuit of...
Origination
Andy Pike
Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create meaning and value in commodity brands and branding through processes of geographical association....
Earth Observation for Land and Emergency Monitoring
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Earth Observation Science (EOS) is the study of the global Earth land-ocean-atmosphere system through observations. The principal tools for such studies are measurements from space since these provide the coverage of the planet that is necessary...
Kalman Filtering
Mohinder S. Grewal
The definitive textbook and professional reference on Kalman Filtering – fully updated, revised, and expanded This book contains the latest developments in the implementation and application of Kalman filtering. Authors Grewal and Andrews draw...
Solutions in LIDAR Profiling of the Atmosphere
Vladimir A. Kovalev
Provides tools and techniques to identify and address distortions and to interpret data coming from Lidar sensing technology This book covers the issues encountered in separating the backscatter and transmission terms in the LIDAR equation when...
Economic Geography
Brett Christophers
This volume in the celebrated Critical Introductions to Geography series introduces readers to the vibrant discipline of economic geography. The authors provide an original definition of the discipline, and they make a strong case for its vital...
Spatio-temporal Approaches
H?l?ne Mathian
Spatio-temporal Approaches presents a well-built set of concepts, methods and approaches, in order to represent and understand the evolution of social and environmental phenomena within the space. It is basedon examples in human geography and...
Environmental Modelling
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Simulation models are an established method used to investigate processes and solve practical problems in a wide variety of disciplines. Central to the concept of this second edition is the idea that environmental systems are complex, open...
Image Processing and GIS for Remote Sensing
Jian Guo Liu
Following the successful publication of the 1st edition in 2009, the 2nd edition maintains its aim to provide an application-driven package of essential techniques in image processing and GIS, together with case studies for demonstration and...
GIS and Geocomputation for Water Resource Science and Engineering
Barnali Dixon
GIS and Geocomputation for Water Resource Science and Engineering not only provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of geographic information systems but also demonstrates how GIS and mathematical models can be integrated to...
Bistatic SAR Data Processing Algorithms
Xiaolan Qiu
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is critical for remote sensing. It works day and night, in good weather or bad. Bistatic SAR is a new kind of SAR system, where the transmitter and receiver are placed on two separate platforms. Bistatic SAR is one...
Money and Finance After the Crisis
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Money and Finance After the Crisis provides a critical multi-disciplinary perspective on the post-crisis financial world in all its complexity, dynamism and unpredictability. Contributions illuminate the diversity of ways in which money and...
Remote Sensing Imagery
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Dedicated to remote sensing images, from their acquisition to their use in various applications, this book covers the global lifecycle of images, including sensors and acquisition systems, applications such as movement monitoring or data...
Geographies of Health
Anthony C. Gatrell
Setting out the debates and reviewing the evidence that links health outcomes with social and physical environments, this new edition of the well-established text offers an accessible overview of the theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and...
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography
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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography aims to account for the intellectual and worldly developments that have taken place in and around political geography in the last 10 years. Bringing together established names in the field as...
Pathological Lives
Allen John
Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases are a major global challenge. Focusing on the food and farming sector, and mobilising social theory as well as empirical enquiry, Pathological Lives investigates current approaches to biosecurity and...
Smoking Geographies
Lee Thompson
Smoking Geographies provides a research-led assessment of the impact of geographical factors on smoking. The contributors uncover how geography can show us not only why people smoke but also broader issues of tobacco control, providing deeper...
Application of the Neutral Zone in Prosthodontics
David R. Cagna
Application of the Neutral Zone in Prosthodontics offers a step-by-step guide to successfully designing and placing complete and implant-retained dentures using neutral zone concepts. Illustrates every technique described with more than 300...
Other Geographies
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An international group of distinguished scholars pay homage to and build on the work of one of the most influential thinkers of our time, Michael Watts. Shows how Michael Watts’ research, writings, teaching and mentoring have relentlessly pushed...
Health Geographies
Daniel Lewis
Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction explores health and biomedical topics from a range of critical geographic perspectives. Building on the field’s past engagement with social theory it extends the focus of health geography into new...
Articulations of Capital
John Pickles
Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe. Proposes a...
Природопользование и устойчивое развитие. Мировые экосистемы и проблемы России
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Выявляется роль природопользования в социально-экономическом развитии стран разного типа и мира в целом. Показана логическая связь между традиционными исследованиями проблем взаимодействия природы – общества – хозяйства и концепцией устойчивого...
Гидронимия бассейна реки Мсты. Свод названий и анализ микросистем
В. Л. Васильев
Книга состоит из двух частей. Основную часть занимает сводный гидронимический каталог —упорядоченное по гидрографическому принципу собрание водных и соотнесенных с ними названий иных типов, локализованных в пределах бассейна реки Меты. Названия...
Magnificat
А. В. Дроздов
Книга посвящена событиям недавней истории Российской академии наук. В очерках, составляющих эту небольшую книгу, автор предлагает читателям портреты членов Академии наук и других ученых – носителей традиций академического сообщества. Описываются...
Field guide to calcareous tubeworms (Polychaeta, Serpulidae) of the Arctic Ocean
A. V. Rzhavsky
The book is a taxonomic guide to serpulid polychaetes (including the subfamily Spirorbinae) of the Arctic Ocean. Taxonomic keys include 37 serpulid spesies described and illustrated in detail. It starts with a description of serpulid morphology...
Экосистема малой реки в изменяющихся условиях среды
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На примере основных биоресурсов реки Латка (макрофитов, планктона, бентоса, перифитона и рыбного населения, а также отдельных таксономических групп гидробионтов) показано влияние ключевых факторов среды (изменения скорости течения, точечных...
Горы Якутии
Аркадий Андреев
В книге в популярной форме приводятся сведения об особенностях горной природы Якутии. Издание богато насыщено фотографиями, схемами гор, хребтов, плато, нагорий. Предназначено для школьников среднего и старшего возраста, студентов, а также для...
1000 вопросов со всего света
А. И. Третьякова
Эта удивительная книга-викторина полностью перевернёт твоё представление о нашей планете. Каждый из тысячи предложенных на её страницах вопросов способен оказаться поводом для знакомства с государством, о котором ты, возможно, даже не слышал:...
Занимательные лабиринты. Города, реки и горы России
Мария Черепанова
Сборник занимательных карт-лабиринтов поможет ребёнку в игровой форме познакомиться с географией самой большой страны мира – России, совершив увлекательное путешествие по её городам, рекам и горам. Путешественникам предстоит пройти по Северному...
География на пальцах
Андрей Шляхов
География – это наука о нашей планете, о мире, в котором мы живем. В той или иной степени географические знания нужны каждому человеку. Название «география» в переводе с древнегреческого означает «землеописание». Какая погода будет послезавтра?...
Азиатско-Тихоокеанский регион. Страны и флаги
М. И. Амосов
В книге дается обзор развития Азиатско-Тихоокеанского региона от древнейших этапов его освоения человеком до современности, а также представлен актуальный справочный материал о 43 странах Восточной и Юго-Восточной Азии, Австралии и Океании с...
Знакомьтесь: Австралия и Океания
Сергей Афонькин
При взгляде из космоса наша Земля выглядит голубым шариком, потому что это планета воды. Почти три четверти ее поверхности занято океанами и морями. Континенты выглядят среди них огромными островами. Австралия среди континентов занимает особое...
Знакомьтесь: Азия
Сергей Афонькин
Культура Азии берет свое начало в глубине столетий. Когда на большей части территории Европы росли еще густые леса, в некоторых странах Азии уже возводились величественные храмы, которые продолжают удивлять до сих пор. Бумага, порох, шелк и...
Знакомьтесь: Арктика и Антарктика
Сергей Афонькин
Ледяные шапки мира – Арктика и Антарктика – уже давно привлекают внимание пытливых и отчаянных людей. О драматических историях освоения этих суровых краев, о животных, приспособившихся к лютым стужам, о суровой, но прекрасной природе...
Знакомьтесь: Африка
Сергей Афонькин
Мы приглашаем тебя в путешествие по огромному жаркому континенту, распростершемуся от песков пустыни Сахара до богатой алмазами Южной Африки. Мы пройдем по плодородным землям древнейшей цивилизации мира Египта, заглянем в джунгли, обитатели...
Удивительные места нашей планеты
Сергей Афонькин
Старая добрая пословица гласит: "Лучше один раз увидеть, чем сто раз услышать". Конечно, лучше воочию видеть чудеса природы нашей планеты, чем читать рассказы о них в книжках. Может возникнуть впечатление, что все подобные достопримечательности...
