география
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...
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...
Млекопитающие Вьетнама
Герман Кузнецов
Данная монография посвящена анализу фауны млекопитающих Вьетнама. В книге приводится физико-географическая характеристика современных ландшафтов Вьетнама и систематический обзор более 300 видов млекопитающих. Анализируется таксономическое...
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...
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...
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...
Экспериментальная географическая экология
Э. Г. Коломыц
Изложена авторская парадигма экспериментальной географической экологии и ее сердцевины – экологии ландшафтной. Описаны созданные автором эмпирико-статистические модели и разработанные на их основе эколого-географические концепции. Они раскрывают...
Путешествие в Китай
Елена Качур
В новой книге серии детских энциклопедий с Чевостиком любимые герои отправятся в Китай. Они узнают, почему рис выращивают в воде, в чём секрет китайского фарфора и кто изобрёл бумагу. Побывают на чайной плантации, пройдутся по самому большому...
Techniques and Methods in Urban Remote Sensing
Qihao Weng
An authoritative guide to the essential techniques and most recent advances in urban remote sensing Techniques and Methods in Urban Remote Sensing offers a comprehensive guide to the recent theories, methods, techniques, and applications in...
Biogeography
C. Barry Cox
Through nine successful editions, and for over 45 years, Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach has provided a thorough and comprehensive exploration of the varied scientific disciplines and research that are essential to...
Geographies of Anticolonialism
Andrew Davies
A fresh approach to scholarship on the diverse nature of Indian anticolonial processes. Brings together a varied selection of literature to explore Indian anticolonialism in new ways Offers a different perspective to geographers seeking to...
Геокультурный брендинг городов и территорий: от теории к практике. Книга для тех, кто хочет проектировать и творить другие пространства
Дмитрий Замятин
В книге предлагается новый методологический и практический подход к брендингу территорий различного уровня: городов, регионов и стран. В основе подхода лежит представление о геокультуре (геокультурах) территории, являющейся фундаментом...
Die Staaten der Erde
Isabella Ackerl
Anliegen der zweib?ndigen Ausgabe zu allen Staaten der Erde, deren erster Band im Juni erscheint, ist es, aktuelles, schnelles und kompaktes Wissen ?ber ein Land zu vermitteln. Bewusst wurde der Umfang der Informationen auf drei gro?e Bereiche...
Великие географические открытия. Большой иллюстрированный атлас
Дмитрий Иванов
Книга «Великие географические открытия. Большой иллюстрированный атлас» – это своеобразный путевой дневник, благодаря которому можно побывать в экспедициях вместе со знаменитыми исследователями, мореплавателями и путешественниками, чьи имена...
География для топографических кретинов
Андрей Шляхов
Наверное, ни одна из наук, изучаемых в школе, не разочаровывает так сильно, как география. Ученики ожидают увлекательных рассказов о путешествиях. Потому что географы только и делают, что путешествуют. А где путешествия, там приключения… Как же...
Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World
Francis Pretty
Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World by Francis Pretty libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!
The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia
K. Langloh Parker
The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia by K. Langloh Parker. Introduction by Andrew Lang libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in...
Laperouse
Ernest Findlay Scott
Laperouse by Ernest Scott libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Douglas Mawson
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Douglas Mawson libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in...
Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
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Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters by Logan Marshall libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
John Mandeville
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. Itinerarium
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