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Environmental Justice in South Africa

McDonald, David A.
Environmental Justice in South Africa
An overview of the first ten years of post-apartheid politics in South Africa. Written by activists and academics, it offers a critical perspective of environmental justice theory and practice and includes an assessment of where the environmental justice movement may be headed in the future.

CHF 47.90

World City Syndrome

McDonald, David A.
World City Syndrome
The literature on world cities has had an enormous influence on urban theory and planning alike. From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town 's standing in this network of urban centres, and an investigation of the conceptual appropriateness of this world city hypothesis. Drawing on more than a dozen years of fieldwork in Ca...

CHF 190.00

Chemesthesis

McDonald, Shane T. / Bolliet, David A. / Hayes, John E.
Chemesthesis
Chemesthesis are the chemically initiated sensations that occur via the touch system. Examples in the mouth include the burn of capsaicinoids in chilies, the cooling of menthol in peppermint, and the tingle of carbonation. It is physiologically distinct from taste and smell, but is increasingly understood to be just as important as these senses for their contribution to flavor, especially with the sustained growth in interest in spicy foods fr...

CHF 229.00

The Call of Everest: The History, Science, and Future of ...

Mcdonald, Bernadette / Coburn, Broughton / Breashears, David
The Call of Everest: The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak
Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain. In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak and the first successful climb up the hazardous West Ridge (a climb so difficult no one has yet repeated it). In 201...

CHF 47.90

Environmental Justice in South Africa

McDonald, David A.
Environmental Justice in South Africa
An overview of the first ten years of post-apartheid politics in South Africa. Written by activists and academics, it offers a critical perspective of environmental justice theory and practice and includes an assessment of where the environmental justice movement may be headed in the future.

CHF 119.00

José Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in ...

McDonald, David R. / Arnoldo, de Le
José Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas
The first biography to appear in more than a generation on the most influential Tejano leader of the nineteenth century, "Jose Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas "fills one of the most glaring gaps in the current historical literature on Texas. The product of a lifetime of research by author David McDonald, this volume is sure to stand as the definitive treatment of Navarro's life for decades to come. ...

CHF 38.90

World City Syndrome

McDonald, David A
World City Syndrome
The literature on 'world cities' has had an enormous influence on urban theory and planning alike. From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town's standing in this network of urban centres, and an investigation of the conceptual appropriateness of this world city hypothesis. Drawing on more than a dozen years of fieldwork in C...

CHF 74.00