Human Geography

With the crisis of the global capitalist economy, the topic of global culture is regaining its importance and needs to be revisited from both theor...

Wade Davis has been called ''a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life''s diversity''. In Shadows in t...

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the worlds largest body of water, and in matters e...

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsi...

Where did the human species originate? Why are tropical peoples much more diverse than those at polar latitudes? Why can only Japanese peoples dige...

What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just betw...

Circulation and Urbanization is a foundational investigation into the history of the urban. Moving beyond both canonical and empirical portrayals, ...

Circulation and Urbanization is a foundational investigation into the history of the urban. Moving beyond both canonical and empirical portrayals, ...

Maps take place in time as well as representing space. The Google map on your smartphone appears to fix the world, serving as a practical spatial t...

The Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender series serves undergraduate college students who have had little or no exposure to Gender Studies...

Global Cities and Urban Theory provides an innovative set of approaches to understanding some of the worlds major cities, working with concepts suc...

To Pass On a Good Earth is the candid and compelling new biography of one of the twentieth centurys most distinctive and influential scholars. The ...