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The Red Atlas - How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russ...

The Phantom Atlas - The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

The astonishing story of the maps and atlases throughout history that got it completely wrong. "The Phantom Atlas" is a beautifully produ...

How to Lie with Maps

An instant classic when first published in 1991, How to Lie with Maps revealed how the choices mapmakers make--consciously or unconscious...

Geographic Information Systems and Science

Geographic information science (GISc) has established itself as a collaborative information-processing scheme that is increasing in popul...

"Und das ungeheure Bild der Landschaft..." - The Genesis of Landscape Understanding in the German-speaking Regions

The understanding of landscape in the German-speaking area has some similarities with the discussions of the topic in other European lang...

Remote Sensing Geology

Over the past decade, advances in sensor technology, processing algorithms, and computational capacity have taken remote sensing to a lev...

Knowledge and Networks

This book discusses a core question in many fields of the social sciences, namely how to create, share and adopt new knowledge. It create...

Making Markets Making Place - Geography, Topo/graphy and the Reproduction of an Urban Marketplace

This book examines place and place-making in London¿s Borough Market. In particular, it uses topo/graphy (¿place-writing) to interrogate ...

Geography Workbook 8

An outline of american geography

Strategic Use of GIS in Controlling Pipeline Vandalism of Oil and Gas

Nigeria is among the top ten nations of the world that is endowed and blessed with oil and gas. However, the oil and gas industry has con...

Geo-IT in Mobilität und Verkehr - Geoinformatik als Grundlage für moderne Verkehrsplanung und Mobilitätsmanagement

Im Zuge der einsetzenden Mobilitätstransformation insbesondere in den Städten und Ballungsräumen zeigt sich heute ein notwendiges Zusamme...

Human Migration in the Arctic - The Past, Present, and Future

This book discusses the past, present, and future of migration in the Arctic. It addresses many of the critical dynamics of immigration a...

Age of the City - Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together

Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social div...

Sea Change - An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean

"Sea level rise will make all current atlases obsolete as it encroaches on coastlines and erases whole islands from the Arctic to the Sou...

Modelling Landscape Dynamics - Determinism, Stochasticity and Complexity

This book offers a comprehensive exposition of the mathematical methods that can be used to model landscape dynamics. It is systematicall...

Humans in the Siberian Landscapes - Ethnocultural Dynamics and Interaction with Nature and Space

This book considers theoretical issues of the ethnocultural landscape concepts at large as well as examples of its practical application ...

SEAFLOOR OBSERVATORIES - A New Vision of the Earth from the Abyss

The oceans cover 70% of the terrestrial surface, and exert a pervasive influence on the Earth's environment but their nature is poorly re...

Spaces of Work - Global Capitalism and Geographies of Labour

This book is an examination of the role of labour in the modern world. The authors assess the present condition and future prospects for ...

Farthest North

Identity, Commodification and Revolution - Tourism and the Transformation of Society, Politics and Space in Cuba

This book explores how the commodification of the Cuban Revolution affects Cuban identities. Contrary to prevailing beliefs, commodificat...

Mountains - Sporting in the most beautiful mountain regions in Europe

Mountains guides you through the rich array of mountain sports, and in the meantime lets you discover the 20 most beautiful - known and l...

Cyclones in Southern Africa - Volume 3: Implications for the Sustainable Development Goals

Tropical cyclones in Southern Africa, also known as hurricanes or typhoons in other regions of the world, is a hot subject for academic r...

Invisible Lines - Boundaries and Belts That Define the World

'An illuminating glimpse of the chain reactions of human and physical geography.' Financial Times 'A truly original adventure into new wa...

Designing Sustainable Cities

This book emphasizes new ways of designing for a sustainable city and urban environment. From several angles the future of our urbanism i...

Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities - A Study of Mersin, Turkey¿From Antiquity to Modernity

This book surveys the historical development, current problems and likely prospects for Eastern Mediterranean port cities, providing cont...

European Regions, 1870 - 2020

This volume explains the national and regional border modifications that took place in Europe from 1870 to 2020. It provides insights tha...

The Southernmost End of South America Through Cartography - Tierra del Fuego, the South Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica from the 16th to 19th Century

This volume describes the construction of the territorial identity of the southern end of South America and analyzes the cartographic ter...

Geospatial Data Science in Healthcare for Society 5.0

The book introduces a variety of latest techniques designed to represent, enhance, and empower multi-disciplinary approaches of geographi...

Transport Geopolitics - Decoding and Understanding Transport as a Source of Conflicts

This book provides readers with fresh new theoretical tools to better understand how sociopolitical actors (from governmental institution...

Germany - Geographies of Complexity

This book addresses the highly differentiated spatial, social, cultural and demographic structure(s) of Germany, with a particular focus ...

Managing Natural Resource Conflicts with Participatory Mapping and PGIS Applications

This book integrates spatial analysis into the study and management of conflicts, and offers a model in conflict studies that incorporate...

Food Resistance Movements - Journeying Through Alternative Food Networks

This book examines food resistance movements as a form of alternative food network, charting the author¿s journey as a cultural anthropol...

Geographies of Digital Exclusion - Data and Inequality

Who shapes our digital landscapes, and why are so many people excluded from them?

Performing Technocapitalism - The Politics and Affects of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship in Kenya

In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to invest their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionaliti...

Principles of Map Design

This authoritative, reader-friendly text presents core principles of good map design that apply regardless of production methods or techn...

Mysteries of the Deep - How Seafloor Drilling Expeditions Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth History

"This book tells the story of how scientific ocean drilling, a crowning achievement of science and engineering in the 20th century, trans...

Terra Forma - A Book of Speculative Maps

"Reconsideration of maps, as well as the state of the world as shown through them"--

The Search for Modern China

This text, the classic introduction to modern China for students and general readers, emerged from Spence's highly successful introductor...

Sailing School - Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800

Ultimately, Sailing School helps us to rethink the relationship among maritime history, the Scientific Revolution, and the rise of print ...

China's Western Frontier and Eurasia - The Politics of State and Region-Building

By presenting three phases of Chinese domestic state-building and region-building from 1988-present, Garcia shows how region-building pro...

The EU, NATO and the Libya Conflict - Anatomy of a Failure

This book explores the causes and implications of the Libyan crisis since the anti-Gaddafi uprisings of 2011 from the perspective of the ...

Housing in the Margins - Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin's Allotment Gardens

Housing in the Margins offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governa...

Diplomatic Material - Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy

Applying new materialism to international relations, Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by tracing the way...

3D Geoinformation Science - The Selected Papers of the 3D GeoInfo 2014

Nowadays 3D Geoinformation is needed for many planning and analysis tasks. For example, 3D city and infrastructure models are paving the ...

Oceanography and Marine Biology - An Introduction to Marine Science

Oceanography and Marine Biology preserves the basic elements of the physical, chemical, and geological aspects of the marine sciences, an...

Introducing Physical Geography

The 6th edition of Introducing Physical Geography is known for its clear writing, distinctive photos and illustrations and a strong suppl...

Contemporary Human Geography - Culture, Globalization, Landscape

More than any other book for the introductory human geography course, Contemporary Human Geography shows what geographers actually do - h...

Age of the City - Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together

Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social div...

Introduction to Geospatial Technology (International Edition)

The Hidden Company That Trees Keep - Life from Treetops to Root Tips

"This book takes a deep dive into the complex and endlessly fascinating relationships between trees and the many organisms that rely on t...

Geographic Thought - A Critical Introduction

Geographic Thought An accessible and engaging introduction to geographic thought In the newly expanded Second Edition of Geographic Thoug...

Germany 2024 - Michelin National Map 718 - Map

Updated annually, MICHELIN National Map Germany (map 718) will give you an overall picture of your journey thanks to its clear and accura...

Beyond the 2026 Winter Olympic Games - Sustainable Scenarios for the Valtellina Mountain Region

This volume offers a novel study of the Milan-Cortina's Winter Olympics 2026, with a focus on the mountainous region of Valtellina. It br...

Geography Workbook 8

Recent Innovations In Oil and Gas Recovery

In pioneering age of oil and gas production science had little effect on progress. The situation in the 20th and particularly in the 21st...

The Maps of Second Bull Run - An Atlas of the Second Bull Run/Manassas Campaign from the Formation of the Army of Virginia Through the Battle of Chantilly, June 26 - September 1, 1862

The Maps of Second Bull Run: An Atlas of the Second Bull Run/Manassas Campaign from the Formation of the Army of Virginia Through the Bat...

Myths of Geography - Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong

Is geography really destiny? Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped...

The Joy Experiments - Reimagining Mid-sized Cities to Heal Our Divided Society

A new perspective on developing shared joy in urban spaces. Our divided society is quickly reaching crisis level. We are no longer able t...

Coasts

Measuring some 12,000 miles - not counting its myriad of offshore islands - the coast comprises the most varied, vulnerable and most fasc...