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International Library of Human Geography

Examines the interfaces between religion, gender, anthropology, and social development, and focuses on the operation of grass roots non-governmental organisations. This book argues that these agencies need to adopt a fresh methodology if they are to increase efficiency.

Cultural Geography A Critical Dictionary of Key Ideas Cover

This text identifies the territory occupied by cultural geography and the larger network of ideas of which it forms a part. It should be invaluable to students of cultural geography and related disciplines such as cultural studies, anthropology and sociology.

Culture and Space Conceiving a New Cultural Geography Cover

Provides an introduction to the ideas of Joel Bonnemaison and to his distinctive approach to cultural geography. Through an examination of key concepts such as culture and civilization, and the idea of a cultural system, the author moves from a critical appreciation of established notions of human and cultural geography to a focus on territory.

Egypt An Economic Geography Cover

The author describes the problems of food supply for a rapidly growing population, reviews the effects of water and land shortage, and considers the impact of globalization on Egypt's attempt to industrialize.

Geography and Vision Cover

  • Geography and Vision

  • Author: Denis E. Cosgrove
  • 30 Apr 2008
  • Hardback | Paperback
  • Price: £56.00 | £17.99

Provides a series of personal reflections on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. This book contains essays which draw upon pictorial images to explore the varied ways in which the earth, and at times the heavens beyond, have been both imagined and represented as a place of human habitation.

Globalisation and Identity Cover

Globalization is often perceived as a single universal process leading ultimately to global equality and global democracy. This book argues that globalisation is far more complex, a fact reflected in a range of key problems, centred on issues of equality and identity, facing peoples and governments around the world.

A guide to the many and varied issues that policy-makers will face in addressing the challenge of booming populations and demographic changes in the Middle East and North Africa. The book is organized country by country or sub-region, and supported by statistical data and analysis.

Creates a community profile which looks at Muslims as an entire faith community from a sociological and social policy perspective. This work reveals the social position of Muslims as a group compared to other faith communities in terms of educational qualifications, economic activity and housing conditions.

Picturing Place Photography and the Geographical Imagination Cover

These essays present images and analysis that cover the period from the invention of photography to digital technology. They reveal how photographs have acted as sites through which the subjective experience of space and time is expressed and shaped.

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