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Eaglehawk and Crow; a study of the Australian aborigines including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian... Eaglehawk and Crow; a study of the Australian aborigines including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian languages (Hardcover)
John Mathew
R1,000 R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Save R93 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Conceptions of the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Hardcover): Georgia L Irby Conceptions of the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Hardcover)
Georgia L Irby
R3,452 Discovery Miles 34 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores ancient efforts to explain the scientific, philosophical, and spiritual aspects of water. From the ancient point of view, we investigate many questions including: How does water help shape the world? What is the nature of the ocean? What causes watery weather, including superstorms and snow? How does water affect health, as a vector of disease or of healing? What is the nature of deep-sea-creatures (including sea monsters)? What spiritual forces can protect those who must travel on water? This first complete study of water in the ancient imagination makes a major contribution to classics, geography, hydrology and the history of science alike. Water is an essential resource that affects every aspect of human life, and its metamorphic properties gave license to the ancient imagination to perceive watery phenomena as the product of visible and invisible forces. As such, it was a source of great curiosity for the Greeks and Romans who sought to control the natural world by understanding it, and who, despite technological limitations, asked interesting questions about the origins and characteristics of water and its influences on land, weather, and living creatures, both real and imagined.

Geography Notes - For 3rd, 4th and 5th Classes (Hardcover): George E. Henderson Geography Notes - For 3rd, 4th and 5th Classes (Hardcover)
George E. Henderson; Created by Geo A (George a ) Fraser
R840 Discovery Miles 8 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas - Integrated Assessment for Policy Analysis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Robert J.... Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas - Integrated Assessment for Policy Analysis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Robert J. Nicholls, Craig W. Hutton, W. Neil Adger, Susan E. Hanson, Md. Munsur Rahman, …
R1,422 Discovery Miles 14 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book answers key questions about environment, people and their shared future in deltas. It develops a systematic and holistic approach for policy-orientated analysis for the future of these regions. It does so by focusing on ecosystem services in the world's largest, most populous and most iconic delta region, that of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh. The book covers the conceptual basis, research approaches and challenges, while also providing a methodology for integration across multiple disciplines, offering a potential prototype for assessments of deltas worldwide. Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas analyses changing ecosystem services in deltas; the health and well-being of people reliant on them; the continued central role of agriculture and fishing; and the implications of aquaculture in such environments.The analysis is brought together in an integrated and accessible way to examine the future of the Ganges Brahmaputra delta based on a near decade of research by a team of the world's leading scientists on deltas and their human and environmental dimensions. This book is essential reading for students and academics within the fields of Environmental Geography, Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy focused on solving the world's most critical challenges of balancing humans with their environments. This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Names and Naming - Multicultural Aspects (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Oliviu Felecan, Alina Bughesiu Names and Naming - Multicultural Aspects (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Oliviu Felecan, Alina Bughesiu
R5,394 Discovery Miles 53 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited book examines names and naming policies, trends and practices in a variety of multicultural contexts across America, Europe, Africa and Asia. In the first part of the book, the authors take theoretical and practical approaches to the study of names and naming in these settings, exploring legal, societal, political and other factors. In the second part of the book, the authors explore ways in which names mirror and contribute to the construction of identity in areas defined by multiculturalism. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to onomastics, and it will be of interest to scholars working across a number of fields, including linguistics, sociology, anthropology, politics, geography, history, religion and cultural studies.

Conserving Southern Longleaf - Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management (Hardcover, New): Albert G. Way Conserving Southern Longleaf - Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management (Hardcover, New)
Albert G. Way
R2,794 Discovery Miles 27 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Red Hills region of south Georgia and north Florida contains one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in North America, with longleaf pine trees that are up to four hundred years old and an understory of unparalleled plant life. At first glance, the longleaf woodlands at plantations like Greenwood, outside Thomasville, Georgia, seem undisturbed by market economics and human activity, but Albert G. Way contends that this environment was socially produced and that its story adds nuance to the broader narrative of American conservation.

The Red Hills woodlands were thought of primarily as a healthful refuge for northern industrialists in the early twentieth century. When notable wildlife biologist Herbert Stoddard arrived in 1924, he began to recognize the area's ecological value. Stoddard was with the federal government, but he drew on local knowledge to craft his land management practices, to the point where a distinctly southern, agrarian form of ecological conservation emerged. This set of practices was in many respects progressive, particularly in its approach to fire management and species diversity, and much of it remains in effect today.

Using Stoddard as a window into this unique conservation landscape, "Conserving Southern Longleaf" positions the Red Hills as a valuable center for research into and understanding of wildlife biology, fire ecology, and the environmental appreciation of a region once dubbed simply the "pine barrens."

For the Love of Lab Rats - Kinship, Humanimal Relations, and Good Scientific Research (Hardcover, New): Simone Dennis For the Love of Lab Rats - Kinship, Humanimal Relations, and Good Scientific Research (Hardcover, New)
Simone Dennis
R2,597 Discovery Miles 25 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The movement of research animals across the divides that have separated scientist investigators and research animals as Baconian dominators and research equipment respectively might well give us cause to reflect about what we think we know about scientists and animals and how they relate to and with one another within the scientific coordinates of the modern research laboratory. Scientists are often assumed to inhabit the ontotheological domain that the union of science and technology has produced; to master 'nature' through its ontological transformation. Instrumental reason is here understood to produce a split between animal and human being, becoming inextricably intertwined with human self-preservation. But science itself is beginning to take us back to nature; science itself is located in the thick of posthuman biopolitics and is concerned with making more than claims about human being, and is seeking to arrive at understandings of being as such. It is no longer relevant to assume that instrumental reason continues to hold a death grip on science, nor that it is immune from the concerns in which it is deeply embedded. And, it is no longer possible to assume that animal human relationships in the lab continue along the fault line of the Great Divide. This book raises critical questions about what kinship means, or might mean, for science, for humanimal relations, and for anthropology, which has always maintained a sure grip on kinship but has not yet accounted for how it might be validly claimed to exist between humanimals in new and emerging contexts of relatedness. It raises equally important questions about the position of science at the forefront of new kinships between humans and animals, and questions our assumptions about how scientific knowing is produced and reflected upon from within the thick of lab work, and what counts as 'good science'. Much of it is concerned with the quality of humanimal relatedness and relationship. For the Love of Lab Rats will be of great interest to scientists, laboratory workers, anthropologists, animal studies scholars, posthumanists, phenomenologists, and all those with an interest in human-animal relations.

Geographers - Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 5 (Hardcover): T.W. Freeman Geographers - Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 5 (Hardcover)
T.W. Freeman
R6,432 Discovery Miles 64 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known: explorers, independent thinkers and scholars. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas. Each study includes a select bibliography and brief chronology. The work includes a general index and a cumulative index of geographers listed in volumes published to date.

Digital Social Innovation - Spatial Imaginaries and Technological Resistances in Urban Governance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021):... Digital Social Innovation - Spatial Imaginaries and Technological Resistances in Urban Governance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Chiara Certoma
R1,969 Discovery Miles 19 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book engages the reader in exploring the relationships between digital social innovation initiatives and the city. It delivers a fresh, accessible and case-based discussion on the emergence of digitally-enabled social innovation practices in Europe that are redesigning the urban space and challenging the consolidated urban governance processes. By adopting a critical geography perspective, this ground-breaking analysis of digital social innovation provides the reader with an accessible overview of the way in which urban reproductive processes mobilise the physical and the virtual dimensions of the city and generate distinctive spatial configurations. Together with novel urban narratives and socio-technical imaginaries, these support the existing geometries of power or construct new ones. The author clearly describes contemporary cities as the new battlegrounds for controlling the digital sphere, shaped by the interplay between digital capitalism and resistance movements. In light of grassroots initiatives advanced by cyber-activists, e-makers and hackers, the book unveils the socio-political and cultural underpinnings of the revolution produced by the digital social innovations in the city and the socio-technological regimes supporting them. This author successfully sheds new critical light on traditional innovation studies exploring the debate on digital innovation through the lens of social and cultural geography providing an invaluable reference for those working in this field.

The American Universal Geography, or, A View of the Present State of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics in the... The American Universal Geography, or, A View of the Present State of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics in the Known World, and of the United States of America in Particular. of 2; Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Jedidiah Morse
R1,201 Discovery Miles 12 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Kona's Tale (Hardcover): Joe Demartino Kona's Tale (Hardcover)
Joe Demartino
R537 R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How to Be - Life Lessons from the Early Greeks (Hardcover): Adam Nicolson How to Be - Life Lessons from the Early Greeks (Hardcover)
Adam Nicolson
R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbour-cities, that way of thinking began to change. Men (and some women) decided to cast off mental subservience and apply their own worrying and thinking minds to the conundrums of life. These great innovators shaped the beginnings of philosophy. Through the questioning voyager Odysseus, Homer explored how we might navigate our way through the world. Heraclitus in Ephesus was the first to consider the interrelatedness of things. Xenophanes of Colophon was the first champion of civility. In Lesbos, the Aegean island of Sappho and Alcaeus, the early lyric poets asked themselves ‘How can I be true to myself?’ In Samos, Pythagoras imagined an everlasting soul and took his ideas to Italy where they flowered again in surprising and radical forms. Prize-winning writer Adam Nicolson travels through this transforming world and asks what light these ancient thinkers can throw on our deepest preconceptions. Sparkling with maps, photographs and artwork, How to Be is a journey into the origins of Western thought. Hugely formative ideas emerged in these harbour-cities: fluidity of mind, the search for coherence, a need for the just city, a recognition of the mutability of things, a belief in the reality of the ideal — all became the Greeks’ legacy to the world. Born out of a rough, dynamic—and often cruel— moment in human history, it was the dawn of enquiry, where these fundamental questions about self, city and cosmos, asked for the first time, became, as they remain, the unlikely bedrock of understanding.

Stray Leaves From Highland History (Hardcover): R. Gillis Stray Leaves From Highland History (Hardcover)
R. Gillis; Created by D J (Duncan Joseph) 1874-1 Rankin
R823 Discovery Miles 8 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Micro-Pollutant Regulation in the River Rhine - Cooperation in a Common-Pool Resource Problem Setting (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Micro-Pollutant Regulation in the River Rhine - Cooperation in a Common-Pool Resource Problem Setting (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Laura Mae Jacqueline Herzog
R3,073 Discovery Miles 30 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates how actors organize in order to solve a water quality problem. Research on the use of environmental resources has mainly focused on the circumstances needed for users to self-organize or to maintain an already sustainable way of resource use. Few studies have investigated the reasons why actors start to cooperate when they are faced with an environmental problem. Actor networks in three regions of the Rhine catchment area are scrutinized regarding a) actors' cooperation pattern when managing an environmental problem; and b) the factors that trigger actors in a common-pool resource situation to initiate cooperation. Water quality policy is analysed in two European countries - Germany and Luxembourg - and one non-European country - Switzerland -, providing an overview of the distinctive measures applied in these regions aiming to tackle the water quality problem of micro-pollutants in river surface water. Applying the social-ecological system framework (SESF) devised by E. Ostrom and her colleagues and Social Network Analysis (SNA), the current book combines qualitative and quantitative methods to answer the question of why actors cooperate in the management process of an environmental problem like water pollution.

Himalaya on the Threshold of Change (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Vishwambhar Prasad Sati Himalaya on the Threshold of Change (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Vishwambhar Prasad Sati
R1,610 Discovery Miles 16 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a unique and comprehensive assessment of the changes that have been taking place in the Himalayas. It describes in detail all the aspects of change, both natural and cultural, along with their implications, and suggests policy measures to help mitigate them. The book is divided into two major sections - on natural changes and cultural changes - and 11 chapters: an introduction, six addressing changes that concern natural aspects, and four exploring cultural changes and presenting the book's conclusions. The content is based on a study conducted using a participatory observation/empirical method. Time series data from secondary sources is also included, helping to analyze the various changes. The findings are presented in the form of color graphs, models, maps, photographs, and tables. The book offers a valuable resource for policymakers, and will prove equally useful for all other stakeholders, e.g. researchers, students and development agents.

A Narrative Of Voyages And Travels In The Northern And Southern Hemispheres - Comprising Three Voyages Round The World Together... A Narrative Of Voyages And Travels In The Northern And Southern Hemispheres - Comprising Three Voyages Round The World Together With A Voyage Of Survey And Discovery In The Pacific Ocean And Oriental Islands (Hardcover)
Amasa DeLano
R1,202 Discovery Miles 12 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge (Hardcover): Charles Lebuff J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge (Hardcover)
Charles Lebuff
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage From the Atlantic to the Pacific [microform] - Performed in the... Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage From the Atlantic to the Pacific [microform] - Performed in the Years 1819-20, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper; Under the Orders of William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S., and Commander... (Hardcover)
William Edward Parry
R994 Discovery Miles 9 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Assessing Global Water Megatrends (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Asit K Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada, Philippe Rohner Assessing Global Water Megatrends (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Asit K Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada, Philippe Rohner
R3,324 Discovery Miles 33 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book highlights what are likely to be the future megatrends in the water sector and why and how they should be incorporated to improve water governance in the coming decades. In this first ever book on megatrends for the water sector, 22 leading world experts from different disciplines representing academia, business, government, national and international organisations discuss what the major megatrends of the future are and how they will radically change water governance in the coming decades.

Migration Borders Freedom (Paperback): Harald Bauder Migration Borders Freedom (Paperback)
Harald Bauder
R1,507 Discovery Miles 15 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

International borders have become deadly barriers of a proportion rivaled only by war or natural disaster. Yet despite the damage created by borders, most people can't - or don't want to - imagine a world without them. What alternatives do we have to prevent the deadly results of contemporary borders? In today's world, national citizenship determines a person's ability to migrate across borders. Migration Borders Freedom questions that premise. Recognizing the magnitude of deaths occurring at contemporary borders worldwide, the book problematizes the concept of the border and develops arguments for open borders and a world without borders. It explores alternative possibilities, ranging from the practical to the utopian, that link migration with ideas of community, citizenship, and belonging. The author calls into question the conventional political imagination that assumes migration and citizenship to be responsibilities of nation states, rather than cities. While the book draws on the theoretical work of thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, David Harvey, and Henry Lefebvre, it also presents international empirical examples of policies and practices on migration and claims of belonging. In this way, the book equips the reader with the practical and conceptual tools for political action, activist practice, and scholarly engagement to achieve greater justice for people who are on the move.

New Localism - Living in the Here and Now (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Andrew Stables New Localism - Living in the Here and Now (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Andrew Stables
R1,597 Discovery Miles 15 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines "New Localism' - exploring how communities have turned towards more local concerns: my street, my town, my state, as an expression of dissatisfaction with globalization. It details the ideas that have created a political force that academics have often misunderstood and provides a template for further investigation with a strong focus on how to harness the motivations behind such changes for the benefit of individuals, communities and the more-than-human environment. The book discusses human progress, both individual and collective, in terms of the interactions of the local and the global, the specific and the universal, and the concrete and the abstract. It also considers how forms of social progress can be understood and reconfigured in the context of the rejection of certain aspects of liberal intelligentsia orthodoxy over recent years. Developing his arguments with specific reference to the evolving, political landscape, the author helps readers to understand major events such as the Trump presidency and the British vote to leave the EU from a fully semiotic perspective. He also explains how educational processes can use and respond to such events in ways that are locally grounded but nevertheless not at odds with more abstract formulations of progress such as sustainability and social justice.

Nigeria's Resource Wars (Hardcover): Egodi Uchendu Nigeria's Resource Wars (Hardcover)
Egodi Uchendu
R2,180 Discovery Miles 21 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Demographic Transition, Labour Markets and Regional Resilience (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Cristina Martinez, Tamara Weyman,... Demographic Transition, Labour Markets and Regional Resilience (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Cristina Martinez, Tamara Weyman, Jouke Van Dijk
R3,092 Discovery Miles 30 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses the question of how a regional economy can develop under the influence of an ageing and declining population, and how regional development policies can help make labor markets more resilient and more inclusive. As the greatest impacts of demographic change and policy and fiscal challenges can be observed at the local level, examples from European, North American and Asian regions are combined to present a comprehensive, global range of strategic solutions from different policy contexts. The book shows how institutions, organizations and communities can enhance their pathways for sustainable development through the intelligent management of their demographic transition, and offers a synthesis of valuable lessons and strategies.

Handbook of Himalayan Ecosystems and Sustainability, Two Volume Set (Hardcover): Bikash Ranjan Parida, Arvind Chandra Pandey,... Handbook of Himalayan Ecosystems and Sustainability, Two Volume Set (Hardcover)
Bikash Ranjan Parida, Arvind Chandra Pandey, Mukunda Dev Behera, Navneet Kumar
R7,571 Discovery Miles 75 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a comprehensive handbook focused on geospatial applications used to study, assess, and monitor the Himalayan mountains. As a region of high relevance and very vulnerable regarding geohazards, it is crucial to detect landscape changes and understand the drivers behind the changes. With advanced remote sensing and GIS tools, in-depth analyses, and interdisciplinary approaches, the Handbook of Himalayan Ecosystems and Sustainability, Two Volume Set studies forest and agriculture ecosystems, urban sprawl and air pollution, geo and other hazards, and provides a breadth of data to support decision making and to aids in the preservation of the landscapes in a sustainable way. Features: Uses geospatial technology for studying fragile Himalayan ecosystems and their sustainability Includes 21 case studies from Indian Himalayan, Nepal, and Afghanistan regions Provides satellite data and geospatial modelling tools for assessing and monitoring all Himalayan landscapes Addresses cryospheric studies and related ongoing geohazards and potential climate change impacts Discusses ecology of the Himalayan rivers, biodiversity, and floristic shifting of endemic species, and landscape restoration

The Four-Color Theorem - History, Topological Foundations, and Idea of Proof (Hardcover): Rudolf Fritsch, Gerda Fritsch The Four-Color Theorem - History, Topological Foundations, and Idea of Proof (Hardcover)
Rudolf Fritsch, Gerda Fritsch
R2,644 Discovery Miles 26 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This elegant little book discusses a famous problem that helped to define the field now known as topology: What is the minimum number of colors required to print a map such that no two adjoining countries have the same color, no matter how convoluted their boundaries. Many famous mathematicians have worked on the problem, but the proof eluded fomulation until the 1950s, when it was finally cracked with a brute-force approach using a computer. The book begins by discussing the history of the problem, and then goes into the mathematics, both pleasantly enough that anyone with an elementary knowledge of geometry can follow it, and still with enough rigor that a mathematician can also read it with pleasure. The authors discuss the mathematics as well as the philosophical debate that ensued when the proof was announced: Just what is a mathematical proof, if it takes a computer to provide one -- and is such a thing a proof at all?

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