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The ultimate street atlas to navigate your way around London. A
comprehensive paperback street atlas of London encompassing an area
of 1,450 square miles with coloured street mapping, and including
more than 90,000 streets and other addresses. The coverage extends
beyond the Greater London and M25 area to: Hemel Hempstead, St.
Albans, Potters Bar, Waltham Cross, Epping, Brentwood, Thurrock,
Stanford-le-Hope, Gravesend, Wrotham, Sevenoaks, Westerham, Oxted,
Redhill, Reigate, Leatherhead, Great Bookham, Woking, Egham,
Windsor, Slough, Chalfont St. Peter, Chorleywood, Bovingdon There
are eighteen pages of large scale (9" to 1 mile) street mapping of
central London which gives additional clarity and detail, this
mapping extends to: Regent's Park, St. Pancras International
Station, Old Street, Tower Bridge, Bricklayer's Arms Junction,
Vauxhall Bridge, South Kensington, Paddington Station and Lord's
Cricket Ground. Postcode districts and one-way streets are included
on the street mapping. Other features include: * The Congestion
Charging Zone (CCZ) boundary which is shown on both scales of
mapping and an overview map of the zone is also included. * The
Greater London Low Emission Zone boundary is shown on the street
mapping and an overview map of the zone is also included. * The
Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) boundary * There are eight pages of
road mapping at 3 miles to 1 inch that cover much of the Home
Counties area. * London Underground map. * London Rail Connections
map. * West End Cinema and Theatre maps. The index section of the
atlas includes streets, places & areas, hospitals, industrial
estates, selected flats & walkways, service areas, stations and
selected places of interest. Please note hospitals and rail
stations are now listed in the main index and highlighted in
different colour. They are not included as a separate list as in
previous editions.
Human geographers have been at the forefront of research that
examines the relationships between space, culture and society. This
volume contains twenty-one essays, published over the past thirty
years, that are iconic instances of this investigative field. With
a focus on four broad themes - landscape, identity, colonialism,
nature - these essays represent some of the best and most
innovative interventions that geographers have made on these
topics. From the visual to the corporeal, from rural Ceylon to
urban America and from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first,
this volume brings together a set of theoretically sophisticated
and empirically grounded works.
This book makes a significant contribution to the history of
placemaking, presenting grassroots to top-down practices and
socially engaged, situated artistic practices and artsled spatial
inquiry that go beyond instrumentalising the arts for development.
The book brings together a range of scholars to critique and
deconstruct the notion of creative placemaking, presenting diverse
case studies from researcher, practitioner, funder and policymaker
perspectives from across the globe. It opens with the creators of
the 2010 White Paper that named and defined creative placemaking,
Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa Nicodemus, who offer a cortically
reflexive narrative on the founding of the sector and its
development. This book looks at vernacular creativity in place, a
topic continued through the book with its focus on the practitioner
and community-placed projects. It closes with a consideration of
aesthetics, metrics and, from the editors, a consideration of the
next ten years for the sector. If creative placemaking is to
contribute to places-in-the-making and encourage citizenled agency,
new conceptual frameworks and practical methodologies are required.
This book joins theorists and practitioners in dialogue, advocating
for transdisciplinary, resilient processes.
Living with water brings together sociologists, geographers,
artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water
binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international
research on river crossings, boat dwelling, wild swimming, sea
fishing, and draught impacts, and navigating urban waters, glacial
lagoons, barrier reefs and disappearing tarns, the collection
illuminates the ways that we live with and without water, and
explores how we can think and write with water on land. Water
offers a way of attending to emerging and enduring social and
ecological concerns and making sense of them in lively and creative
ways. By approaching Living with water from different disciplinary
and methodological perspectives, and drawing on research from
around the world, this collection opens up discussions that
reinvigorate and renew previously landlocked debates. This book is
relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, Clean
water and sanitation -- .
Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in
Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of
other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established
themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era,
Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth
century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field emphasizing
transoceanic networks and cultural encounters, it is now possible
to develop a more nuanced understanding of the history of Germans
in the Pacific. The studies gathered here offer fascinating
research into German missionary, commercial, scientific, and
imperial activity against the backdrop of the Pacific's overlapping
cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits.
Interest in tourism with a social imperative is gaining momentum
not only amongst policy makers, but also researchers and the
academy. This thought-provoking and timely Handbook considers the
impact and challenges that social tourism has on people's lives.
Integrating case studies from around the world, chapters showcase
the latest research on social tourism and its potential role in
tackling the challenges posed by modern, mass tourism development
that can lead to sustainable alternatives and social equity in
participation. Contributors explore tourism activities that are
directed towards positive social and personal outcomes for people
who would not be able to access leisure or holiday travel without
such interventions and illustrate the social imperative of tourism
as a force for good. The Handbook of Social Tourism enables
academics and students from various disciplines, as well as
practitioners in the tourism sector, to obtain a more holistic
understanding of this phenomenon and offers an enlightening and
stimulating read. Contributors include: C. Billen, N. Carr, J.D.
Cisneros-Martinez, V. Cops, A. Diekmann, V. Eichhorn, A.E.
Estrada-Gonzalez, C. Eusebio, A. Fernandez-Morales, J. Finniear, E.
Herengodts, E. Hermans, P. Hunter Jones, L. Jolin, K.I. Kakoudakis,
M. Kay Smith, R. Komppula, T. Kosar, J. Lima, S. McCabe, L.
Minnaert, N. Morgan, B. Prideaux, S. Pyke, J. Pyke, G. Qiao, Y.
Ram, A.C. Reyes Uribe, H. Schanzel, E. Schenkel, G. Shaw, L. Sie,
E. Vento, M. Vilele de Almeida, M. Vincent, J. Wooton
Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a
critical topic - oil. While there have been numerous works about
petroleum from 'experience-far' perspectives, there have been
relatively few that have turned the 'experience-near' ethnographic
gaze of anthropology on the topic. Crude Domination does just this
among more peoples and more places than any other volume. Its
chapters investigate nuances of culture, politics and economics in
Africa, Latin America, and Eurasia as they pertain to petroleum.
They wrestle with the key questions vexing scholars and
practitioners alike: problems of the economic blight of the
resource curse, underdevelopment, democracy, violence and war.
Additionally they address topics that may initially appear
insignificant - such as child witches and lionmen, fighting for oil
when there is no oil, reindeer nomadism, community TV - but which
turn out on closer scrutiny to be vital for explaining conflict and
transformation in petro-states. Based upon these rich, new worlds
of information, the text formulates a novel, domination approach to
the social analysis of oil.
The movement of people from small towns and villages of India to
places outside the country raises a number of questions- about the
networks that enable their mobility, the aspirations that motivate
them, what they give back to their home regions, and how their
provincial home worlds engage with and absorb the consequent
transnational flows of money, ideas, influence and care. This book
analyzes the social consequences of the transmission of migrant
resources to provincial places in India. Bringing together case
studies from four regions, it demonstrates that these flows are
very diverse, are inflected by regional histories of mobility and
development, and may reinforce local power structures or instigate
social change in unexpected ways. The chapters collected in this
volume examine conflicts over migrant-funded education or rural
development projects, how migrants from Dalit, Muslim and other
marginalized groups use their new wealth to promote social progress
or equality in their home regions, and why migrants invest in
property in provincial India or return regularly to their ancestral
homes to revitalize ritual traditions. These studies also
demonstrate that diaspora philanthropy is routed largely through
social networks based on caste, community or kinship ties, thereby
extending them spatially, and illustrate how migrant efforts to
'develop' their home regions may become entangled in local politics
or influence state policies. This collection of eight original
ethnographic field studies develops new theoretical insights into
the diverse outcomes of international migration and the influences
of regional diasporas within India. These collected studies
illustrate the various ways in which migrants remain socially,
economical and politically influential in their home regions. The
book develops a fresh perspective on the connections between
transnational migration and processes of development, revealing how
provincial India has become deeply globalized. It will be of
interest to academics and students in the fields of anthropology,
geography, transnational and diaspora studies, and South Asian
studies.
Transgender, gender variant and intersex people are in every sector
of all societies, yet little is known about their relationship to
place. Using a trans, feminist and queer geographical framework,
this book invites readers to consider the complex relationship
between transgender people, spaces and places. This book addresses
questions such as, how is place and space transformed by gender
variant bodies, and vice versa? Where do some gender variant people
feel in and / or out of place? What happens to space when binary
gender is unravelled and subverted? Exploring the diverse politics
of gender variant embodied experiences through interviews and
community action, this book demonstrates that gendered bodies are
constructed through different social, cultural and economic
networks. Firsthand stories and international examples reveal how
transgender people employ practices and strategies to both create
and contest different places, such as: bodies; homes; bathrooms;
activist spaces; workplaces; urban night spaces; nations and
transnational borders. Arguing that bodies, gender, sex and space
are inextricably linked, this book brings together contemporary
scholarly debates, original empirical material and popular culture
to consider bodies and spaces that revolve around, and resist,
binary gender. It will be a valuable resource in Geography, Gender
and Sexuality studies.
GPS Tracking with Java EE Components: Challenges of Connected Cars
highlights how the self-driving car is actually changing the
automotive industry, from programing embedded software to hosting
services and data crunching, in real time, with really big data.
The book analyzes how the challenges of the Self Driving Car (SDC)
exceed the limits of a classical GPS Tracking System (GTS.) It
provides a guidebook on setting up a tracking system by customizing
its components. It also provides an overview of the prototyping and
modeling process, and how the reader can modify this process for
his or her own software. Every component is introduced in detail
and includes a number of design decisions for development. The book
introduces Java EE (JEE) Modules, and shows how they can be
combined to a customizable GTS, and used as seed components to
enrich existing systems with live tracking. The book also explores
how to merge tracking and mapping to guide SDCs, and focuses on
client server programming to provide useful information. It also
discusses the challenges involved with the live coordination of
moving cars. This book is designed to aid GTS developers and
engineers in the automotive industry. It can also help Java
Developers, not only interested in GPS Tracking, but in modern
software design from many individual modules. Source code and
sample applications will be available on the book's website.
Extraordinary, Ordinary Women provides an intimate portrait of
twenty American expatriate women currently residing in Paris.
Pulling back the veil of idealism and romanticism shrouding the
women's migrant lives, the book examines the very real pitfalls and
triumphs of life after the "happily ever after." Extraordinary,
Ordinary Women examines the consequences of immigration,
biculturalism, and assimilation on the individual identities of
modern expatriate women.
That children need nature for health and well-being is widely
accepted, but what type of nature? Specifically, what type of
nature is not only necessary but realistically available in the
complex and rapidly changing worlds that children currently live
in? This book examines child-nature definitions through two related
concepts: the need for connecting to nature and the processes by
which opportunities for such contact can be enhanced. It analyses
the available nature from a scientific perspective of habitats,
species and environments, together with the role of planning, to
identify how children in cities can and do connect with nature.
This book challenges the notion of a universal child and childhood
by recognizing children's diverse life worlds and experiences which
guide them into different and complex ways of interacting with the
natural world. Unfortunately not all children have the freedom to
access the nature that is present in the cities where they live.
This book addresses the challenge of designing biodiverse cities in
which nature is readily accessible to children.
This book uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as
a starting point for an analysis of notions of disaster,
vulnerability, reconstruction and recovery. The turn to a wide
range of literary works enables a composite comparative analysis,
which encompasses the social, political and individual dimensions
of the earthquake. This book focuses on a vision of an open-ended
future, otherwise than as a threat or fear. Mika turns to concepts
of hinged chronologies, slow healing and remnant dwelling. Weaving
theory with attentive close-readings, the book offers an open-ended
framework for conceptualising post-disaster recovery and healing.
These processes happen at different times and must entail the
elimination of compound vulnerabilities that created the disaster
in the first place. Challenging characterisations of the region as
a continuous catastrophe this book works towards a bold vision of
Haiti's and the Caribbean's futures. The study shows how narratives
can extend some of the key concepts within discipline-bound
approaches to disasters, while making an important contribution to
the interface between disaster studies, postcolonial ecocriticism
and Haitian Studies.
Islamic powers in secular countries have presented a challenge for
states around the world, including Indonesia, home to the largest
Muslim population as well as the third largest democracy in the
world. This book explores the history of the relationships between
Islam, state, and society in Indonesia with a focus on local
politics in Madura. It identifies and explains factors that have
shaped and characterized the development of contemporary Islam and
politics in Madura and recognizes and elucidates forms and aspects
of the relationships between Islam and politics; between state and
society; between conflicts and accommodations; between piety,
tradition and violence in that area, and the forms and characters
of democratization and decentralization processes in local
politics. This book shows how the area's experience in dealing with
Islam and politics may illuminate the socio-political trajectory of
other developing Muslim countries at present living through
comparable democratic transformations. Madura was chosen because it
has one of the most complex relationships between Islam and
politics during the last years of the New Order and the first years
of the post-New Order in Indonesia, and because it is a strong
Muslim area with a history of a very strong religious as well as
cultural tradition than is commonly understood and is largely
ignored in literature on Islam and politics. Based on extensive
sets of anthropological fieldwork and historical research, this
book makes an important contribution to the analysis of Islam and
politics in Indonesia and future socio-political trajectory of
other developing Muslim countries experiencing comparable
democratic transformations. It will be of interest to academics in
the field of Religion and Politics and Southeast Asian Studies, in
particular Southeast Asian politics, anthropology and history.
Hardbound. This book is designed to give an overview and critical
assessment of the developing field of tourism study in
anthropology. It aims to engage the reader with questions that
anthropologists have raised about tourist and the ways that they
have dealt with them in their research. Basic research from three
theoretical perspectives is reviewed and assessed: tourist as a
form of development or acculturation, as a personal transition, and
as a kind of social super structure. In later chapters, the applied
side of the field is examined, including considerations of tourist
policy and sustainable tourism development. Most chapters include
summary case studies illustrating some of the important points
under examination. The book concludes with a discussion of the
integration of basic and applied approaches in the anthropological
agenda on tourism and suggestions concerning the future course of
study in the field.
Hardbound. The study of tourism is, arguably, ready for a thorough
theoretical yet empirical analysis of the relationship between
tourism and host communities. Pearce, Moscardo and Ross deal with
the impacts tourism is having on communities internationally, going
beyond a mere review of such impacts to investigate the origins,
development and manifestations of community attitudes. A
theoretical perspective is developed on how communities come to
understand tourism and react to it. In terms of its disciplinary
approaches the book combines social-psychological, sociological,
economic and media analyses and can properly be termed a study
within the new specialism of tourism. A number of
yet-to-be-published studies of tourism and communities are reported
on, and some large scale existing works on tourism and community
reaction are reviewed and revisited.
Planning for a City of Culture gives us a new way to understand how
cities use arts and culture in planning, fostering livable
communities and creating economic development strategies to build
their brand, attract residents and tourists, and distinguish
themselves from other urban centers worldwide. While the common
thinking on creative cities may coalesce around the idea of one
goal--economic development and branding--this book turns this idea
on its head. Goldberg-Miller brings a new, fresh perspective to the
study of creative cities by using policy theory as an underlying
construct to understand what happened in Toronto and New York in
the 2000s. She demystifies the processes and outcomes of
stakeholder involvement, exogenous and endogenous shocks, and
research and strategic planning, as well as warning us about the
many pitfalls of neglecting critical community voices in the
burgeoning practice of creative placemaking. This book is an
essential resource in examining the development and sustainability
of the global trend of integrating arts and culture in city
planning and urban design that has become an international
phenomenon. Perfect for students, scholars, and city-lovers alike,
Planning for a City of Culture illuminates the ways that this
creative city trend went global, with the two case study cities
serving as perfect illustrations of the power and promise of arts
and culture in current and future municipal strategies. Please
visit Shoshanah Goldberg-Miller's website for more information and
research: www.goldberg-miller.com
This workbook: targets key misconceptions and barriers to help your
students get back on track addresses areas of underperformance in a
systematic way, with a unique approach that builds, develops and
extends students' skills gets students ready for the new GCSE (9-1)
assessments with exercises focused around exam-style questions
provides ready-to-use examples and activities, aligned to the
Pearson Progression Map, freeing up your time to focus on working
directly with students fits around your needs, being flexible as
part of an intervention strategy or for independent student work
addresses an area of difficulty in each unit with a unique
approach, to develop and extend students' skills.
Throughout history people have sought ways in which to map the
heavens. From the sources of mathematics and mythology sprang the
classic star chart, the finest examples of which are both
scientific documents and works of art. In this beautifully
illustrated book, Peter Whitfield reveals some of the ways in which
the structure of the universe has been conceived, explained and
depicted. With examples ranging from the Stone Age to the Space Age
- ancient observatories, the angelic visions of Dante, images from
the Copernican revolution, the rationalized heavens of Isaac
Newton, and modern deep space technology - Whitfield offers a
challenging exploration of the tension between rigorous scientific
knowledge and the continuing search for cause, certainty and
harmony in the universe. This new edition is updated to include a
wider range of stunning maps of the skies in full colour, including
imagery from the latest voyages of space exploration.
This book chronicles individual perspectives and specific
iterations of Muslim community, practice, and experience in the
Himalayan region to bring into scholarly conversation the presence
of varying Muslim cultures in the Himalaya. The Himalaya provide a
site of both geographic and cultural crossroads, where Muslim
community is simultaneously constituted at multiple social levels,
and to that end the essays in this book document a wide range of
local, national, and global interests while maintaining a focus on
individual perspectives, moments in time, and localized
experiences. It presents research that contributes to a broadly
conceived notion of the Himalaya that enriches readers'
understandings of both the region and concepts of Muslim community
and highlights the interconnections between multiple experiences of
Muslim community at local levels. Drawing attention to the
cultural, social, artistic, and political diversity of the Himalaya
beyond the better understood and frequently documented
religio-cultural expressions of the region, this book will be of
interest to academics in the fields of Anthropology, Geography,
History, Religious Atudies, Asian Studies, and Islamic Studies.
Urban refugees now account for over half the total number of
refugees worldwide. Yet to date, far more research has been done on
refugees living in camps and settlements set up expressly for them.
This book provides crucial insights into the worldwide phenomenon
of refugee flows into urban settings, repercussions for those
seeking protection, and the agencies and organizations tasked to
assist them. It provides a comparative exploration of refugees and
asylum seekers in nine urban areas in Africa, Asia and Europe to
examine issues such as status recognition, international and
national actors, housing, education and integration. The book
explores the relationship between refugee policies of international
organisations and national governments and on the ground realities
and demonstrates both the diverse of circumstances in which
refugees live, and their struggle for recognition, protection and
livelihoods.
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