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Lloyd's Maritime Atlas: Of World Ports and PlacesAuthor:
John FossyPages:
165Format:
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1843116049Features full-colour world, ocean, regional, port, and detailed inset maps for locating the world's ports and shipping places. Also includes major canal and river systems, major road, rail, and airport links serving the ports, weather hazards at sea, and international load line zones. 
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Sudan (Modern World Nations)Author:
Joseph R. OppongPages:
132Format:
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1604136200Sudan, the largest country in Africa, has been called one of the most politically unstable nations in the world. Throughout its long history, Sudan has experienced turmoil, and in the second half of the 20th century alone, millions of Sudanese were killed or displaced by civil war. The country was once a great empire, ruled by Nubia. Today, it is a bloody, war-torn country ruled by a power-hungry military government. The Sudanese had a brief respite from civil war in July 2002 when a ceasefire was declared between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army. In 2004, another war that began in the northwestern region of Darfur caused outcry from the international community. Still, the Sudanese government remains defiantly indifferent to the calls to stop the violence. Although the UN's International Criminal Court has charged Sudan's leader with war crimes and crimes against humanity, little has changed. As a result, the UN estimates that 1.1 million people are without food and water and another million without healthcare. Sudan covers the history of this country torn apart by war and explores its people, culture, and government.
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Atlas of the World's DesertsAuthor:
Nathaniel HarrisPages:
358Format:
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1579583105Deserts are beautiful places, even when unforgiving of those who do not respect their nature. This is an attractive book, written for the nonspecialist, that portrays that nature with a wealth of simple maps, lovely photographs, and considerable basic introductory information.
Topical chapters, each dealing with some general characteristic such as physical geography, plants, or animals, are interspersed with atlas sections on the deserts of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Australia and the Poles (the arid "cold deserts" of the Arctic and Antartica). Each major desert area is described by a location map, a larger desert map, a sentence or two about specific areas identified on the map, a fact file, and illustrations of some unique attributes. The deserts are not always easy to find on the small location maps.The Atlas of the World's Deserts is a vibrant and thorough survey of the desert regions of the world and is an excellent resource for exploring every feature of the desert ecosystem. The book also includes 160 color maps and photos.
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Encyclopedia of IslandsAuthor:
Rosemary G. Gillespie, David A. ClaguePages:
1111Format:
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0520256492Islands have captured the imagination of scientists and the public for centuries--unique and rare environments, their isolation makes them natural laboratories for ecology and evolution. This authoritative, alphabetically arranged reference, featuring more than 200 succinct articles by leading scientists from around the world, provides broad coverage of all the island sciences. But what exactly is an island? The volume editors define it here as any discrete habitat isolated from other habitats by inhospitable surroundings. The Encyclopedia of Islands examines many such insular settings--oceanic and continental islands as well as places such as caves, mountaintops, and whale falls at the bottom of the ocean.This essential, one-stop resource, extensively illustrated with color photographs, clear maps, and graphics will introduce island science to a wide audience and spur further research on some of the planet's most fascinating habitats.
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Space-Body-Ritual: Performativity in the CityAuthor:
Reena TiwariPages:
168Format:
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0739128574SpaceDBodyDRitual emphasizes the need for careful design of public spaces by creating opportunities for 'performativities' in everyday spaces of the city-its streets and squares. Tiwari compels her readers to think the parameters of spatial design as cultural generator.
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The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global CulturesAuthor:
Dolores MartinezPages:
228Format:
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0521637295This is a lively discussion of Japanese popular culture from an anthropological perpective. An international team of authors considers a broad range of topics, including sumo, karaoke, manga, women's magazines, soccer and morning television. Through these topics--many of which have never previously been addressed by scholars--the contributors also explore several deeper themes: the construction of gender in Japan; the impact of globalization and modern consumerism; and the rapidly shifting boundaries of Japanese culture and identity.
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Confronting Climate Change: Risks, Implications and ResponsesAuthor:
Irving M. MintzerPages:
400Format:
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0521421098This book, which was published in time for the Earth Summit in Brazil in June 1992, is likely to make a huge impact on the political and economic agendas of international policy makers. It summarizes the scientific findings of Working Group I of the IPCC in the first part of the book. While acknowledging the uncertainties in subsequent chapters, it challenges and expands upon the existing views on how we should tackle the problems of climate change.
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Glaciers (Science Matters)Author:
Christine Webster,Pages:
24Format:
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1590363035Introduces a core science topic through visual diagrams, hands-on experiments and biographies. This book is suitable for young readers with a lifelong curiosity about science and the world.
Explains what glaciers are, how they form, and what affect they have on the earth's landscape.Contents:Studying glaciers
How glaciers form
Types of glaciers
Glacial movement
Water cycle
Rock movers
Glacial deposits
Icebergs
Surfing water science
Science in action
What have you learned?
Words to know/index
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Nature (Key Ideas in Geography)Author:
Noel CastreePages:
312Format:
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0415339049Exploring the shifting ways in which geographers have studied nature, this book emphasizes the relationships and differences between human geography, physical geography and resource and hazards geography.
The first to consider the topic of nature in modern geography as a whole, this distinctive text looks at all its major meanings, from the human body and psyche through to the non-human world, and develops the argument that student readers should abandon the idea of knowing what nature is in favour of a close scrutiny of what agendas lie behind competing conceptions of it. [b]It deals with, amongst others, the following areas:[/b]
[list][*]the idea of nature
[*]the 'nature' of geography
[*]de-naturalization and re-naturalization
[*]after-nature.
[/list]As everything from global warming to GM foods becomes headline news, the use and abuse of nature is on the agenda as never before. Synthesizing a wealth of diverse and complex information, this text makes the significant theories, debates and information on nature accessible to students of geography, environmental studies, sociology, and cultural studies.
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Political Atlas of the Modern WorldAuthor:
Andrei Melville, Yuri Polunin, Mikhail Ilyin, and Mikhail MironyukPages:
256Format:
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1444335804The Political Atlas of the Modern World is a unique reference source which addresses these questions by providing a comparative study of the political systems of all 192 countries of the world.* Uses quantitative data and multidimensional statistical analysis
* Ranks countries according to five indices of political development: stateness, external and internal threats, potential of international influence, quality of life, institutional basis of democracy
* Illustrated throughout with tables and diagrams.
