Political geography

Contested Waters provides an in-depth analysis of trans-boundary water conflict involving the Indus Basin in Pakistan.

The longest war the United States has ever fought is the ongoing war in Afghanistan.

At the height of her imperial power Britain clashed with Russia at many points from Turkey to China.

This study uses the private papers of Glubb Pasha to rethink the end of Britain''s imperial presence in the Middle East.

EIN BRUTALER ZEITKRIEG IST IM GANGE, aber die Menschheit ist dazu bestimmt, sich der galaktischen Gemeinschaft anzuschließen.

This anthology of research is divided into five sections: definition of the urban system, structural characteristics, distribution of urban growth, transportation networks and interaction between cities, and the impact of growth on urban behaviour and the rural economy.

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.

A comprehensive examination of the nature, causes, and consequences of internal migration in developing countriesDespite the key role of rural-urban migration in structural transformation and the persistence of lower living standards in the countryside, active policies to reduce, or even reverse, movement into towns are common in major developing regions.

Is it legitimate to prohibit political activities in a shopping centre, or the wearing of the full Islamic veil in a public space?

Tourism in European Microstates and Dependencies carefully examines the nuances and realities associated with tourism, social and economic development, geography, and geopolitics of Europe's smallest microstates and dependencies.

The Mexico-Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people.

Explains how various Islamists have endorsed human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and mobilize supportersIslamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West.

DER URSPRUNG DER NEUEN WELTRAUMFLOTTE UND WAFFENSYSTEME, die China einsetzt, liegt in den USA.

First published in 1996, A History of Ukraine quickly became the authoritative account of the evolution of Europe's second largest country.

Der deutsche Immobilienmarkt entwickelt sich zunehmend zu einem Transaktionsmarkt.

When are borders justified?

This book is a manifesto for real urban change.

The essential account of geopolitics right now, from one of our greatest living intellectuals - including a new afterword on President Donald Trump Noam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist.

This authoritative A-Z provides a wealth of up-to-date information on every country in the world, including dependent territories.

There can be no relationship in Europe's history more creative, significant, vexed and uneasy than that between Scotland and England.

Este trabajo se ocupa de los orígenes, evolución y situación actual de la ordenación del territorio en la Comunidad Valenciana.

Interpretar la cooperación transfronteriza desde la geopolítica nos permite aportar una mirada multiescalar, sopesando las estrategias de las comunidades locales en tiempos de blindajes fronterizos de los Estados como los promovidos en los últimos años por la Unión Europea, Mercosur o el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte.

Este libro tiene como objetivo contribuir al estudio sobre los efectos socio-espaciales de la crisis y, en particular, a los estudios relativos a un «urbanismo de la austeridad» y a un urbanismo desterritorializado en las grandes ciudades españolas, teniendo en perspectiva otros espacios urbanos de países del norte del Mediterráneo.

Adapted for the screen in 1998 starring Laurence Fishburne as Socrates Fortlow.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

On 2 August 1708 Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships, the Duke and Duchess, on an epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make him famous.

Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people.

Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people.

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed.

THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'A suspenseful epic' Daily Telegraph'A triumph' Financial Times'Heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday'Deeply moving' Sunday TimesMariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed.

In this book, the author explains the major strategies pursued by the United States of America, which govern its vision of itself and define the features of its role in the international system.

La cultura, entendida como esfera de actividad humana dirigida a la elaboración simbólica, ha tejido una estrecha relación con la ciudad a partir del Renacimiento.

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia.

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia.

Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, offering scholars and activists ways of seeing and doing to help navigate our turbulent present.

What should a metropolis for working women look like?

Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet.

Fins a quin punt els actuals models d'ordenació del territori permeten donar solució a problemes tan greus com la despoblació de l'interior, la infraestructura verda o la sostenibilitat dels ecosistemes?

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Arctic is demanding global attention.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Arctic is demanding global attention.

A modo de homenaje al profesor Joan Noguera Tur se recogen las veinticinco aportaciones que se publicaron en el número en línea que le dedicó 'TERRA.

En aquesta publicació analitzarem la realitat de la cooperació intermunicipal en el territori valencià, sobre la base de la identificació de les xarxes que els municipis formen entre ells i de la seua intensitat.

El trabajo explica en profundidad la realidad politica y socioeconomica de Cuba, desde el final del dominio espanol en 1898, hasta la actualidad, con la finalidad de aportar un analisis critico de su contexto en relacion con la factibilidad o no de politicas de desarrollo local.

Las áreas metropolitanas son, por su complejidad, un atractivo objeto de estudio para científicos sociales de todas las especialidades.

A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers'We are driving across Oklahoma in early June when we first hear about the waves of children arriving, alone and undocumented, from Mexico and Central America.

Discover the 12 crucial moments in Britain's past that will answer the greatest questions for our future in this richly insightful and fascinating history'A richly entertaining canter through the country's past.