Regional Geography

Martin Luther Kings policy of non-violent protest in the struggle for civil rights in the United States during the second half of the twentieth cen...

Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebes essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Achebe a ...

This comprehensive survey of the countries of East and South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, along with 22 Pacific islands, fully revised to ...

Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks, healers and wise women who were deeply connecte...

This book forms a continuation of the research published in Medieval Parks, Anne Rowe's highly regarded volume of 2009. Now she turns her attention...

Alec Forshaws latest volume covers the troubled decade of 1980s London, the Thatcher years, a time of political and civil unrest and protest, dereg...

Travels across the Roof of the World provides a sweeping yet intimate view of the breathtaking peaks, splendid valleys, and extraordinary people of...

''A wonderful book: Nancy Campbell is a fine storyteller with a rare physical intelligence. The extraordinary brilliance of her eye confers the rea...

Chichester Harbour Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is a special place of tranquillity in the crowded south of England. It is recognized national...

Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, ric...

The Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty have been described as the jewels of the English landscape, and the North Wessex Downs, the third largest A...

Dividing the county of Hertfordshire into four broad regionsthe champion countryside in the north, the Chiltern dip slope to the west, the fertile ...

Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international group of researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America an...

Discovering Qatar evolved from a series of features on the archaeology, natural history and traditional life of Qatar that Frances Gillespie began ...

Discovering Qatar evolved from a series of features on the archaeology, natural history and traditional life of Qatar that Frances Gillespie began ...

Many traditional approaches to rural land management are strictly sectoral, with a rigid introspective focus. Consequently the impact of silo-drive...

A varied and charming collection of 17 papers that bring something new about the people from many countries and backgrounds who travelled to, from ...

China is in the midst of the fastest and most intense process of urbanisation the world has ever known, and Shanghai - its biggest, richest and mos...

This lushly illustrated and fully comprehensive book about the wildlife, landscapes and history of Pembrokeshire is a much-anticipated addition to ...

As the threat of global climate change becomes a reality, many look to the Arctic Ocean to predict coming environmental phenomena. There, the conse...

This is an introductory textbook on spatial analysis and spatial statistics through GIS. Each chapter presents methods and metrics, explains how to...

There are many places in the world named Newcastle. At one time they may have had castles. Some still do. Not all of them are English-speaking. T...

This textbook of essays by leading critical urbanists is a compelling introduction to an important field of study; it interrogates contemporary con...

Antarctica is the planet''''s fifth largest continent. It contains the Earth''''s largest (of two) remaining ice sheets and is considered to be one...

The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion ...

The International Conference on Environment: Survival and Sustainability, held at the Near East University, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus 19-24 February...

Many East Asian states have undergone profound economic transformations over the last two decades. Singapore and Hong Kong especially have adapted ...

The outstanding natural beauty and distinctive geology of the county, and its rich archaeology and history, are seen through a series of case studi...

This book addresses important and under-researched issues such as, the role of young people in democratization processes, the role of new democraci...