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Loss Adaptation and Creativity. The Future of Heritage as Climates Change provides scholars, managers, policy makers and students with a much needed examination of heritage and climate change to help make critical decisions in the next several decades.

People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging economy played in pushing the US into foreign adventurism? What exactly is the relationship between US militarism abroad and do...

Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis give teachers, administrators, and literacy specialists the chance to listen in as they interview renowned reading researcher and comprehension theorist P. David Pearson to get the inside scoop on the research behind high-quality comprehension instruction.

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A text in urban geography that includes the essay 'The Right to the City'. It analyzes core issues in city planning and policy - employment and housing location, zoning, transport costs, concentrations of poverty - asking in each case about the relationship between social justice and space.

With a few notable exceptions, sociological studies of poor, native-born, non-ethnic whites in rural areas are rare. This book provides an ethnographic study of a small, poor, white, heartland community that the author calls "Potter Addition." It focuses especially on the family and kinship structures that have developed in "Potter Addition".

Politicians regularly use noble values to build and justify their policies, so how and why do their policies frequently result in violence and repression, such as Guantanamo Bay?

This book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice, and seeks new ways to think about the future of urbanization in the twenty-first century. It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place and nature - the material frames of daily life - are constituted and represented through social practices, not as separate elements but in relation to each other. It describes how geographical differences a...

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Hip hop, which first began on the streets of the South Bronx in the early 1970s, has traveled the globe, finding a home in every corner of the planet. Remade by local cultures in their own language and regional style, hip hop's versatility speaks to its accessibility and universality. The lyrics, the look, and the lifestyle could easily be a cultural anthropologist's best example-or worst nightmare-of America's influence and cultural dominance...

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A collection of Mattas latest poems, horticultural, whimsical, ecological, political and just plain funny.

This is the story of Belfast's trolley bus system, told through an eclectic collection of over 200 photographs, from its opening in 1938 to its closure in 1968. During that time it had the largest number of operating trolley buses in the UK outside London Transport's enormous fleet.246 trolley buses ran over 37.50 miles of route and but for World War II, and a subsequent change of policy by a new general manager, the size of the operation woul...

Die größte Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise seit der Großen Depression und der Versuch, die Ursprünge dieses aktuellen Dilemmas zu verstehen, hat das Interesse an Karl Marx' Werk - quer durch die politischen Lager - beträchtlich ansteigen lassen. David Harvey, marxistischer Humangeograph und Sozialwissenschaftler, forscht und unterrichtet seit fast 40 Jahren zum 'Kapital'. Hervorgegangen aus seinen Vorlesungen zur Kapitallektüre, denen große inter...

Radical sociologist Harvey explains how capitalism came to dominate the world, why it resulted in the current financial crisis, and why it's time for a change.