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  • Invisible Countries

    Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood

    by Joshua Keating ...
    A journalist explores how our world’s borders came to be and how self-proclaimed countries across the globe could change the map.What is a country? While certain basic criteria—borders, a government, and recognition from other countries—seem obvious, journalist Joshua Keating investigates what happens in areas of the world that exist as exceptions to these rules. Invisible Countries looks at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition)

    by Jared Diamond, Ph.D. ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York Times Bestseller • Over Two Million Copies Sold“One of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation” (Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times), Guns, Germs, and Steel presents a groundbreaking, unified narrative of human history.Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Co-habiting with Ghosts

    Knowledge, Experience, Belief and the Domestic Uncanny

    by Caron Lipman ...
    How does it feel to live in a ’haunted home’? How do people negotiate their everyday lives with the experience of uncanny, anomalous or strange events within the domestic interior? What do such experiences reveal of the intersection between the material, immaterial and temporal within the home? How do people interpret, share and narrate experiences which are uncertain and unpredictable? What does ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Hoe migratie echt werkt

    Het ware verhaal over migratie aan de hand van 22 mythen

    by Hein de Haas ...
    Migratie-expert Hein de Haas vertelt het ware verhaal over migratie en de effecten ervanAl jaren zorgt het debat over migratie voor verdeeldheid binnen de wereldpolitiek en inmiddels lijkt de kloof groter dan ooit. De media tonen bijna wekelijks beelden van gevaarlijke overtochten op de Middellandse Zee en politici beloven de toestroom van migranten en asielzoekers in te perken. Anderen beweren ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • India in the 21st Century

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Mira Kamdar ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    India is fast overtaking China to become the most populous country on Earth. By mid-century, its 1.7 billion people will live in what is projected to become the world's second-largest economy after China. While a democracy and an open society compared to China, assertive Hindu nationalism is posing new challenges to India's democratic freedoms and institutions at a time when illiberal democracies ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • The Alchemy of Meth

    A Decomposition

    by Jason Pine ...
    Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into goldMeth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness. Meth fires up your attention and makes repetitive tasks ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Maphead

    Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

    by Ken Jennings ...
    Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and New York Times bestselling author of Planet Funny Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives, “a literary gem” (The Atlantic).Ken Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses at the National Geographic Bee to the computer programmers at ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Place

    An Introduction

    by Tim Cresswell ...
    Thoroughly revised and updated, this text introduces students of human geography and allied disciplines to the fundamental concept of place, combining discussion about everyday uses of the term with the complex theoretical debates that have grown up around it.A thoroughly revised and updated edition of this highly successful short introduction to placeFeatures a new chapter on the use of place in ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • Why Geography Matters

    More Than Ever

    by Harm de Blij ...
    In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Age of the City

    -- A Financial Times Book of the Year -- Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together

    by Ian Goldin, Tom Lee-Devlin ...
    One of the Financial Times' Best Economics Books of 2023Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or Shanghai, cities throughout history have been the engines of human ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • The Day the World Stops Shopping

    How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

    by J.B. MacKinnon ...
    Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping.We can’t stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma.The economy says we must always consume more: even the slightest drop in spending leads to widespread unemployment, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations

    Politics, place and power

    Edited by Lisa Ann Richey ...
    Discussion over celebrity engagement is often limited to theoretical critique or normative name-calling, without much grounded research into what it is that celebrities are doing, the same or differently throughout the world. Crucially, little attention has been paid to the Global South, either as a place where celebrities intervene into existing politics and social processes, or as the generator ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Social Class in the 21st Century

    by Mike Savage ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?How has the meaning of class changed?What does this mean for social mobility and inequality?In this book Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey look beyond the labels to explore how and why our ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Movement

    how to take back our streets and transform our lives

    by Thalia Verkade, Marco te Brömmelstroet ...
    Translated by Fiona Graham ...
    Our dependence on cars is damaging our health — and the planet’s. Movement asks radical questions about how we approach the biggest urban problem, reflecting on the apparent successes of Dutch cities.Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts with asking the fundamental question: who do our streets belong to?Although there have been experiments in decreasing traffic in city centres, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Agriculture in World History

    by Mark B. Tauger ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    Now in its second edition, Agriculture in World History presents a unique exploration of farmers and farming, and their relationships to non-farmers and urban societies from the ancient world to the 21st century.From its origins, civilization has depended on the food, fiber, and other goods produced by farmers. This book illustrates how urban societies both exploited and supported farmers, and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • India

    A Wounded Civilization

    by V. S. Naipaul ...
    **From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a masterpiece of astonishing insight and candor about a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past.“Extraordinarily forceful.... Naipaul is an elegantly precise and exacting writer.” –Newsweek**In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Bollywood

    A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema

    by Tejaswini Ganti ...
    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    'Bollywood' is the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterised by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production values and an emphasis on stars and spectacle, Bollywood films have met with box-office success and enthusiastic audiences from India to West Africa to Russia, and throughout the English-speaking world ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • El Salvador (1550-1973)

    by Alastair White ...
    Series Book 5 - Historia de los países latinoamericanos
    El Salvador es el país más pequeño de la tierra continental americana con 8.259 millas cuadradas; el más densamente poblado, (se estima que alcanzará los 4 millones en 1975); el único país al norte del Ecuador que carece de costas en el Atlántico; y, por último, es también excepcional en el hecho de que todos los indios han sido casi por completo asimilados y no existen minorías raciales ni ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Colonizer's Model of the World

    Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

    by J. M. Blaut ...
    This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world resulted from the diffusion of European civilization. J. M. Blaut persuasively argues that this doctrine is not grounded in the facts of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Soviet Succession Struggles

    Kremlinology and the Russian Question from Lenin to Gorbachev

    by Anthony D'Agostino ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Politics
    Soviet Succession Struggles (1988) is a key study of the history, nature and development of Soviet politics and politicians from the earliest days of Soviet Russia up to the rise of Gorbachev. It examines the power struggles between opposing factions within the Soviet leadership, and identifies two main political standpoints that were always vying for ultimate control of the Communist State. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Born on Third Base

    A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good

    by Chuck Collins ...
    As heard on NPR's Fresh Air"This empowering light into a brighter future is a narrative you won’t want to miss." – Ralph Nader"Collins not only talks the talk but walks the walk...this is a worthwhile book to read, digest, and share" – Publishers WeeklyAn essential piece of reading for anyone concerned by the increasing wealth inequality–made worse by the global pandemic and political partisanship ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rising

    Dispatches from the New American Shore

    by Elizabeth Rush ...
    A Pulitzer Prize Finalist, this powerful elegy for our disappearing coast “captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry” (The New York Times).Hailed as “the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing” (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love.With every record-breaking ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Theory

    New critical perspectives

    Edited by Mark Jayne, Kevin Ward ...
    Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies. Chapters offer easily accessible and digestible reviews, and as a reference text Urban Theory is a comprehensive and integrated primer which covers topics necessary for a full understanding of recent theoretical engagements with cities.The introduction outlines the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Removing Mountains

    Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields

    by Rebecca R. Scott ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    A coal mining technique practiced in southern West Virginia known as mountaintop removal is drastically altering the terrain of the Appalachian Mountains. Peaks are flattened and valleys are filled as the coal industry levels thousands of acres of forest to access the coal, in the process turning the forest into scrubby shrublands and poisoning the water. This is dangerous and environmentally ... Read more

    $17.99 USD