Human geography

The world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think.

Our Ecological Footprint presents a powerful model for measuring humanity's impact on the Earth to reduce the harm we are causing the planet before it's too late.

An enchanting tale of travels among South East Asia's Sea Gypsies, scattered groups of semi-nomadic fisher people who occupy the spaces between the islands.

The world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think.

In Outline of a Theory of Practice, Bourdieu questions the preeminent ideas of social anthropologists such as Levi-Strauss who stressed the structural principles governing human action rather than the actions themselves and, Bourdieu asserts, doesn't account for all observable nuances of behaviour.

First published in 1999, this volume is drawn from a 1992-1996 study and seeks to explain the news process used to identify a newsworthy issue and its application to understanding the construction of environmental news.

Rachel Carson's 1962 Silent Spring is one of the few books that can claim to be epoch-making.

Richard Dawkins provides excellent examples of his reasoning and interpretation skills in The Selfish Gene.

Arabische Clans beherrschen die Berliner Unterwelt.

Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy.

Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy.

Building the City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world.

This book aims to introduce planners to AI, outlining essential concepts, terminologies, and methodologies.

Accompanied by an eight-part series, this is the story of Adam Nicolson's adventure in a small boat around the western coast of the British Isles.

Couchsurfing?

This study, first published in 1990, explores the ways in which institutions can succeed or fail at environmental improvement.

**A SUNDAY TIMES MUST-READ**'Riveting and vitally important' - Steven Pinker'A gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change' - Anjana Ahuja, New StatesmanEmpty Planet offers a radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic landscape.

** Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 **We live in epoch-making times.

While tourists see the beauty of Kenya, volunteers and medical health professionals often only see the poverty.

While tourists see the beauty of Kenya, volunteers and medical health professionals often only see the poverty.

'Morland predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?

A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.

This study, first published in 1990, explores the ways in which institutions can succeed or fail at environmental improvement.

¿Y SI LA MEJOR MANERA DE CONTAR LA HISTORIA DEL MUNDO FUERA SU GEOGRAFÍA?

Owen Gutfreund's Twentieth-Century Sprawl explains important--and largely unexamined--changes in the American landscape.

For thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south.

For thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south.

'Remarkable'OBSERVER'Deeply profound.

'A refreshingly original meditation.

This ebook edition does not include illustrations.

El escenario global de fines del siglo pasado e inicios del siglo XXI se caracteriza por la disputa entre grandes capitales transnacionales y por la apropiación de nuevos espacios como surtidores de recursos naturales, estas disputas se inscriben en el proceso histórico de la expansión de las fronteras de la ecología y el mundo capitalista.

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.

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1889 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Colorfully written by two popular and respected sociologists, this volume shows how sociology has evolved, how it became divided from Christian faith, and how Christian sociologists can make sense of this branch of social science.

Take a quick tour around the US by learning about all the fifty states.

For the last 1000 years, since the Maori Polynesians first arrived, New Zealand has been seen as a long way away and truly believes that it is on the edge, so much so that it often gets left off world maps!

While tourists see the beauty of Kenya, volunteers and medical health professionals often only see the poverty.

A hilarious field guide to the world's most remarkable and unusual creatures: the English.

Globalization has shrunk the world in the name of free trade and broken down many of the boundaries between peoples.