Geography

Founded in 1909 as a "e;garden suburb"e; of the Mediterranean port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv soon became a model of Jewish self-rule and was celebrated as a jewel in the crown of Hebrew revival.

A philosopher, architect, astronomer, and polymath, Thomas Jefferson lived at a time when geography was considered the "e;mother of all sciences.

The Alaska Homesteader's Handbook is a remarkable compilation of practical information for living in one of the most impractical and inhostpitable landscapes in the United States.

Anthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the "e;everyday,"e; the quotidian, the taken-for-granted; however, geographers have lagged behind in engaging with this slippery aspect of reality.

For readers who relish the image of clinging to a sinking makeshift raft while fighting off sword-wielding and delirious mutineers wrenching the last cask of water from a sailor's sun-scorched hands (while sharks circle in famished anticipation), Shipwrecked!

Canadian Geography: A Scholarly Bibliography is a compendium of published works on geographical studies of Canada and its various provinces.

The Nature of Revolution provides the first account of art and politics under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.

Inspired by his ranger days in Rocky Mountain National Park more than forty five years ago as well as more recent rambles, Richard Fleck has created these descriptive essays that take readers from shimmering desert heat to snowy summits.

Visionary, explorer, researcher, diplomat, humanist?

Becoming the Arsenal discusses one of the three signal events that transformed the relationship of government and the private sector in directing the American economy.

Extraordinary, Ordinary Women provides an intimate portrait of twenty American expatriate women currently residing in Paris.

Coming to Pass tells the story of a little-developed necklace of northern Gulf Coast islands.

Urban Process and Power has two chief aims.

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living.

Combining theories of calculation and property relations and using an array of archival sources, this book focuses on the building and decommissioning of state-owned defense factories in World War II-era Chicago.

Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and big-game hunting companies.

Gendered Commodity Chains is the first book to consider the fundamental role of gender in global commodity chains.

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland's society, environment, and resource spaces.

This volume examines how cities, migration, and urban governance are intertwined.

The built environment is undergoing a profound transformation driven by the integration of cutting-edge geospatial technologies.

This volume discusses the nuances of cultural phenomena in the transforming urban landscape of Indian cities.

Unequal distribution of income is one of the most important socio-economic issues.

This book explores the way people participate with the Oslo Opera House, Norway.

This book presents an overview of different data collection methods and approaches that have been used to identify and analyse institutions associated with natural resource governance.

Taking the Temperature of the Earth: Steps towards Integrated Understanding of Variability and Change presents an integrated, collaborative approach to observing and understanding various surface temperatures from a whole-Earth perspective.

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Les derniers dialogues de l'émission radiodiffusée de 1987 à 1991, l'histoire de la capitale du Togo à travers les souvenirs croisés de ses habitants : Le doyen des prêtres catholiques; Une vieille famille de Lomé : les Anthony; Un fonctionnaire et homme politique; Un artisan maçon; L'école de la route d'Aného; Les Chemins-de-fer du Togo et le quartier Gbadago; Le wharf de Lomé.

Low-Cost Aviation: Aeromobilities Culture, Politics, and Infrastructures covers critical societal issues such as labor regimes, unequal and changing flying publics, transnational dynamics of migration, tourism, business experiences, environmental challenges and shifting territorialities of LCCs at various scales.

Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health identifies the most critical areas of integration between the profession of emergency management and the specialty of disaster behavioral health, providing perspectives from both of these critical areas, and also including very practical advice and examples on how to address key topics.

The study of the Quaternary ice age has revolutionized ideas about Earth system change and the pace of landscape and ecosystem dynamics.

The definitive guide to photogrammetry--fully updatedThoroughly revised to cover the latest technological advances in the field, Elements of Photogrammetry with Applications in GIS, Fourth Edition, provides complete details on the foundational principles of photogrammetry as well as important advanced concepts.

Les derniers dialogues de l'émission radiodiffusée de 1987 à 1991, l'histoire de la capitale du Togo à travers les souvenirs croisés de ses habitants : Le Port autonome de Lomé, Le Collège protestant, l'Hôtel du Golfe et le tourisme, le CHU de Lomé-Tokoin, L'Union des métis, une grande compagnie commerciale : la CFAO, la Régie nationale des Eaux du Togo, le Collège Saint-Joseph, les débuts de la recherche scientifique au Togo.

The study and application of spatial information systems have been developed primarily from the use of computers in the geosciences.

This revision maintains the position of Forest Ecosystems as the one source for the latest information on the advanced methods that have enhanced our understating of forest ecosystems.

GPS and GNSS Technology in Geosciences offers an interdisciplinary approach to applying advances in GPS/GNSS technology for geoscience research and practice.

Dans les années 70, l'Equateur a connu des changements profonds qui ont transformé son organisation territoriale, économique et démographique.

Now with full-color topographic maps and featuring the latest on electronic navigation, The Essential Wilderness Navigator is the clearest and most up-to-date route-finding primer available.

Marine Paleobiodiversity presents a concise history, development and current status of paleobiodiversity research, thus forming a reference work for beginners, graduates and postgraduates, who are interested in this subject and intend venture into serious research.

Although biologists recognize evolutionary ecology by name, many only have a limited understanding of its conceptual roots and historical development.

Badlands Dynamics in the Context of Global Change presents the newest ideas concerning badland formation and relates them to the larger context of global change.

Explainable machine learning (XML), a subfield of AI, is focused on making complex AI models understandable to humans.

Cretaceous Sea Level Rise delves into the question of whether the observed short-term sea-level changes are regional (tectonic) or global (eustatic) and determines their possible relation to climate cycles; to assess the role of feedback mechanisms, i.

How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world's earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.

Some of the maps in this title are best viewed on a tablet device.

Advanced Remote Sensing is an application-based reference that provides a single source of mathematical concepts necessary for remote sensing data gathering and assimilation.

Google Earth Forensics is the first book to explain how to use Google Earth in digital forensic investigations.

Reflexive Cartography addresses the adaptation of cartography, including its digital forms (GIS, WebGIS, PPGIS), to the changing needs of society, and outlines the experimental context aimed at mapping a topological space.

The treetops of the world's forests are where discovery and opportunity abound, however they have been relatively inaccessible until recently.