This book is a balanced and comprehensive overview of the links between climate and man's advance from pre-history to modern times. It is a synthesis of the many historical and scientific theories regarding man's progress through the ages..
Uses extended case studies of two New York teachers and their students combined with discussion of the existing research literature, to explore issues central to understanding teaching, learning, and testing in secondary school history classrooms...
By bringing together historically-oriented approaches and contemporary ethnographies which engage with science and technology studies (STS), this book reflects the multi-sited, multi-species and multiple ways in which lives have been assembled, disassembled, practised, policed and politicized. The b..
Drawing together the theoretical and empirical work of prominent urban scholars, this volume explores how interrelated economic, political and cultural everyday processes form and transform urban environments...
This book challenges many of the popular myths surrounding informal economic activities, offering a radical reconceptualisation of their extent, growth, location and nature as well as evaluating the contrasting policy options...
Theoretically, this book develops new insights by bringing together human geography, biogeography and archaeology to provide a long term perspective on human-wheat relations. Although the relational, more-than-human turn in the social sciences has seen a number of plant-related studies, these have n..
Theoretically, this book develops new insights by bringing together human geography, biogeography and archaeology to provide a long term perspective on human-wheat relations. Although the relational, more-than-human turn in the social sciences has seen a number of plant-related studies, these have n..
This indispensable classroom resource will celebrate geography and give children the opportunity to experience the thrill of finding out about the world around them. It will be a lifeline to any classroom teacher looking to teach geography in a fun and exciting way._x000D_
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In a new and critical analysis, this book explores the impact of an influential idea - sustainable development - on the institutions and practices governing use of land...