This book tries to present the foundation of Physical Geography-Lithosphere, Atmosphere and Hydrosphere, in a very precise and simple understandable language for the students of graduate and postgraduate classes in Geography.
This book discusses the importance of socio-spatial patterns in cities that are embedded in the cultural heritage and self-understanding of a society, showing that Indian cities follow different urban concepts.
This book presents 41 selected articles written by leading researchers from the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Get your COW out of my kitchen will take you on an oft-times humorous journey discovering new creatures and how their amazing personalities captured the heart of a little red-haired girl.
Routledge Readings on Security and Governance in Northeastern India: Resource Conflicts, Militarisation and Development Challenges presents some of the finest essays on a region that stretches across the Northeastern Himalaya, eight Indian States and many tribal and non-tribal peoples.
Routledge Readings on Security and Governance in Northeastern India: Resource Conflicts, Militarisation and Development Challenges presents some of the finest essays on a region that stretches across the Northeastern Himalaya, eight Indian States and many tribal and non-tribal peoples.
Cities in South Asia are homes to one of the highest concentrations of people anywhere in the world and the allocation of land and urban resources and the benefits that can be derived from them in this region have become increasingly contested.
The chapters in this book grapple in varying ways with Barbara Adam's concept of timescapes, which provides a powerful metaphor that extends the imagery of landscapes to enable an understanding of time as entwined with space, conceptually drawn and constituted experientially.
The chapters in this book grapple in varying ways with Barbara Adam's concept of timescapes, which provides a powerful metaphor that extends the imagery of landscapes to enable an understanding of time as entwined with space, conceptually drawn and constituted experientially.
This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs and wishes in diverse surroundings in the Northern periphery and beyond.
Eight days after the devastating loss of her mom from Alzheimer's disease, the author leaves her home in Wisconsin to embark on a five-month journey into the remote wilderness of the Arizona desert to get away, mourn, and heal.
This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs and wishes in diverse surroundings in the Northern periphery and beyond.
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 : Un village dans la ville: Bè et ses traditions (Député E.
Destiné aux élèves, aux étudiants et à un large public, cet ouvrage présente d'abord le cadre géographique où vivent les hommes et où se déroulent leurs activités.
Face à l'encombrement, les occupations anarchiques, les difficultés de mobilités et d'accès au logement, Dakar était devenu un handicap dans son processus d'émergence.
Ce livre présente une analyse de géographe, à partir de terrains sénégalais, sur les enjeux de développement territorial associés à l'industrie minière et les limites des mécanismes de régulation du secteur extractif dans le contexte de la décentralisation au Sénégal.
Dans les dernières décennies du XVIIe et au début du XVIIIe à la façade atlantique de leur pays les peuples issus d'Ajatado ont connu un fort afflux de vaisseaux négriers envoyés par les Compagnies commerciales, ainsi que l'implantation de comptoirs anglais et français qui viennent faire concurrence à la traite habituelle des portugais.
Contested Places, Contested Pasts focuses on how the First and Second World Wars, Holocaust, Cold War communist period, and 1956 Uprising have been memorialized and marked in the Hungarian landscape.
Cet ouvrage est un recueil de travaux de recherche originaux produits par des enseignants - chercheurs à l'université Marien Ngouabi et des chercheurs évoluant dans d'autres structures scientifiques et techniques.
