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Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning

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Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning

Hardback. This volume's contributors examine the ways the legacies of socialism continue to shape and inform China's capitalist present, contending that contemporary China is shaped by an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices. Editor(s): Rojas, Carlos; Litzinger, Ralph A. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC; KCM; KCP; RGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822361770
ISBN
9780822361770
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Hardback. In Emergent Ecologies Eben Kirksey insists that we should turn our attention toward small-scale ecologies and search for hope in the efforts of individuals who are building new ecologies, and in the plants, animals, and fungi that are flourishing in unexpected places. Num Pages: 312 pages, 72 illustrations. BIC Classification: RNKH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360179
ISBN
9780822360179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.56

Paperback. In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Bjorkman explores why water is chronically unavailable in Mumbai, India's economic and financial capital. She attributes water shortage to economic reforms that allowed urban development to ignore the water infrastructure, which means that in Mumbai, politics is often about water. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822359692
ISBN
9780822359692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Hardback. Offers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of forestry "miracle" in Chile. This book narrates the century-long struggles among peasants, indigenous communities, large landowners, and the state over access to forest commons in the frontier territory. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 416 pages, 13 photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBG; HBLW; JFC; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822355984
ISBN
9780822355984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.20

Hardback. Argues that maize biodiversity in central and southern Mexico is threatened as much by rural out-migration as by the flow of genes from genetically modified to local corn varieties. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 photo, 11 tables, 2 maps, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; KNAC; RNCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822349389
ISBN
9780822349389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.27

Hardback. A rich ethnography of ecopolitics in Hong Kong in the late 1990s Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; 3JJPR; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822349310
ISBN
9780822349310
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Paperback. Explores the cultural significance of the explosive growth of China s cities during the past three decades through interpretations of Chinese fiction, cinema, visual art, architecture, and urban design. Num Pages: 376 pages, 53 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822347286
ISBN
9780822347286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Presents a framework for re-conceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, this book argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 photographs, 1 table, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JHMP; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 225 x 21. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822344834
ISBN
9780822344834
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Traces Brazil's complex environmental politics as they have unfolded over time, from their mid-twentieth-century conservationist beginnings to the contemporary development of a distinctive 'socio-environmentalism' which seeks to address ecological destruction and social injustice simultaneously. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822340317
ISBN
9780822340317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. Explores conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, a crucial unexamined actor in the state's violent history. This title provides insights into policy debates surrounding the recent global resurgence of peasant land reform movements as well as theoretical frameworks that have long guided the study of agrarian politics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 illustrations, 6 tables, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMP; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6147 x 4039 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822340041
ISBN
9780822340041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the infamously violent struggles over forests in the U.S. Southwest. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 408 pages, 36 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; JHMP; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822338475
ISBN
9780822338475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. This comparative frontier history explores the role that natural environments played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonization Num Pages: 456 pages, 28 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JHMC; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 30. Weight in Grams: 653.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822336891
ISBN
9780822336891
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Collects essays that offer important reflections on the image and rhetoric of the rain forest. Attentive to such complexities, this title focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these representations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. Editor(s): Slater, Candace. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 328 pages, 20 b&w photos, 8 maps. BIC Classification: RNF; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4623 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822332183
ISBN
9780822332183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

paperback. Offers a survey of different strands of ecological schools of thought, discusses their implications for the larger political sphere, and advances a three-dimensional concept of politics that emphasises ethics and discourse, as well as strategy. This title is suitable for those interested in environmental and public policy, and social activism. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: RNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822323709
ISBN
9780822323709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Employing modes of criticism and theory that have transformed study in the humanities, this title addresses questions seldom if ever raised in jazz writing: What are the implications of building jazz history around the medium of the phonograph record? Why did jazz writers first make the claim that jazz is an art? Editor(s): Gabbard, Krin. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780822315964
ISBN
9780822315964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. Editor(s): Dunlap, Riley E.; Kraft, Michael E.; Rosa, Eugene A. Num Pages: 384 pages, 12figs.92tabs. BIC Classification: JPQB; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822313731
ISBN
9780822313731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. Editor(s): Caminero-Santangelo, Byron; Myers, Garth Andrew. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780821419786
ISBN
9780821419786
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.47

Hardback. The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. This title examines culturally constructed views of the environmental history of the Middle East and suggest that they have often benefitted elites at the expense of the ecologies and the people of the region. Editor(s): Davis, Diana K.; Burke, Edmund, III. Series: Ecology & History. Num Pages: 280 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; RGL; RNC; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821419748
ISBN
9780821419748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Hardback. Is Italy il bel paese - where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity's greed and nature's cruelty? This book presents the interplay of Italy's human history and its dramatic natural diversity is a subject appeal to a wide range of readers. Editor(s): Armiero, Marco; Hall, Marcus. Series Editor(s): Webb, James L. A., Jr. Series: Ecology & History. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; RNF; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780821419151
ISBN
9780821419151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Hardback. For more than a century, the world has recognized the extraordinary biological diversity of the forests of Tanzania's Usambara Mountains. This title unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape itself. Series: Ecology & History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15ill. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; RNKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 585. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780821415535
ISBN
9780821415535
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Hardback. Editor(s): Locklear, James H. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: RGBC; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 237 x 31. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Revised
SKU
V9780816698011
ISBN
9780816698011
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QSP; DSB; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780816691586
ISBN
9780816691586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPA; KN; RNFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816680917
ISBN
9780816680917
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.51

Paperback. Series: Quadrant Book. Num Pages: 360 pages, 66 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA; RG; TQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780816676392
ISBN
9780816676392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

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