Wiley-VCH - Geography

Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS

Kennedy, Michael D. — 20 May 2013 08:18:28 +0200

An integrated approach that combines essential GIS background with a practical workbook on applying the principles in ArcGIS 10.0 and 10.1 Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGISintegrates a broad introduction to GIS with a software-specific workbook for Esri's ArcGIS. Where most courses make do using two separate texts, one covering GIS and another the software, this book enables students and instructors to use a single text with an integrated approach covering both in one volume with a common vocabulary and instructional style. This revised edition focuses on the latest software updates--ArcGIS 10.0 and 10.1. In addition to its already successful coverage, the book allows students to experience publishing maps on the Internet through new exercises, and introduces the idea of programming in the language Esri has chosen for applications (i.e., Python). A DVD is packaged with the book, as in prior editions, containing data for working out all of the exercises. This complete, user-friendly coursebook: * Is updated for the latest ArcGIS releases--ArcGIS 10.0 and 10.1 * Introduces the central concepts of GIS and topics needed to understand spatial information analysis * Provides a considerable ability to operate important tools in ArcGIS * Demonstrates new capabilities of ArcGIS 10.0 and 10.1 * Provides a basis for the advanced study of GIS and the study of the newly emerging field of GIScience Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS, Third Edition is the ideal guide for undergraduate students taking courses such as Introduction to GIS, Fundamentals of GIS, and Introduction to ArcGIS Desktop. It is also an important guide for professionals looking to update their skills for ArcGIS 10.0 and 10.1. [672 Pages, Softcover]

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Dunes

Warren, Andrew — 13 May 2013 08:17:53 +0200

The first book to embrace the entire breadth of this active and rapidly developing field, this text examines the shapes, sizes, patterns, distribution, history, and care of wind-blown dunes, covering all aspects of the subject, both terrestrially and elsewhere in the solar system. The author incorporates the latest research out of China, where the field is most rapidly expanding, as well as the findings of mathematical models; improved instrumentation to measure sand movement in the field and the wind tunnel; the analysis of remotely sensed images; and dating techniques. [236 Pages, Hardcover]

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Dunes

Warren, Andrew — 13 May 2013 08:17:52 +0200

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography

Johnson, Nuala C. / Schein, Richard H. / Winders, Jamie — 8 Apr 2013 08:17:22 +0200

Combining coverage of key themes and debates from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives, this authoritative reference volume offers the most up-to-date and substantive analysis of cultural geography currently available. [568 Pages, Hardcover]

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Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Inertial Navigation, and Integration

Grewal, Mohinder S. / Andrews, Angus P. / Bartone, Chris G. — 25 Mar 2013 08:18:09 +0100

The Global Positioning System (GPS) may be used in conjunction with Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) for tracking and navigation and may be applied in the civilian and military sectors to track devices, to locate people and objects, in the air, on the ground, or at sea. The book is intended for readers who need to combine Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Inertial Navigation Systems (INS), and Kalman filters. With a focus on providing readers with solutions to real-world problems, the book offers numerous detailed examples and practice problems, as well as software that demonstrates Kalman filter algorithms with GNSS and INS data sets. The book is accompanied by a Solutions Manual for instructors. [608 Pages, Hardcover]

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The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy

Purcell, Mark — 25 Mar 2013 08:17:46 +0100

This volume explores issues central to the civil uprisings that swept the world in 2011. It offers profound analysis of the relationship between democracy and neoliberalism in an urban context, explaining how democracy can help us evolve socially, and how it can be used to revivify the political left. Featuring in-depth exploration of key political theorists such as Gramsci, Lefebvre, Ranciere, Deleuze & Guattari, and Hardt & Negri, The Down-deep Delight of Democracy is an inspiring work for readers in politics, social sciences, geography, urban studies, and architecture. [184 Pages, Softcover]

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The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy

Purcell, Mark — 25 Mar 2013 08:17:45 +0100

Arguing that the hegemony of the neoliberal/capitalist nexus must be challenged if we are to address the proliferating challenges facing our world, this inspiring book explains how democracy can revive the political fortunes of the left. * Explores issues central to the civil uprisings that swept the world in 2011, drawing profound connections between democracy and neoliberalism in an urban context * Features in-depth analysis of key political theorists such as Gramsci; Lefebvre; Rancière; Deleuze and Guattari; and Hardt and Negri * Advocates the reframing of democracy as a personal and collective struggle to discover the best in ourselves and others * Includes empirical analysis of recent instances of collective action [184 Pages, Hardcover]

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Hyperspectral Data Processing

Chang, Chein-I — 25 Mar 2013 08:17:33 +0100

This book is intended to be a sequel to the author's previous work, Hyperspectral Imaging: Techniques for Spectral Detection and Classification. It is comprised of five major parts and covers a wealth of information, including: a discussion of OSP, FPGA designs for OSP and CEM, Kalman filter-based linear unmixing, least squares fully constrained linear mixture analysis, interference rejection for linear unmixing, signal-composed interference-annihilated theory, techniques for linear unmixing, spectral coding, and more. [1164 Pages, Hardcover]

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Communities and Networks

Giuffre, Katherine — 25 Feb 2013 08:18:10 +0100

In Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring questions such as: How do communities shape our lives and identities? How do they foster either conformity or innovation? What holds communities together and what happens when they fragment or fall apart? How is community life changing in response to technological advances? Refreshingly accessible and built on fascinating case examples, this unique book provides not only the theoretical grounding necessary to understand how and why the burgeoning area of social network analysis can be useful in studying communities, but also clear technical explanations of the tools of network analysis and how to gather and analyze real-world network data. Network analysis allows us to see community life in a new perspective, with sometimes surprising results and insights, and this book enables readers to gain a deeper understanding of social life and the relationships that build (and break) communities. This engaging text will be an exciting new resource for upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students in a wide range of courses including social network analysis, community studies, urban studies, organizational studies, and quantitative methods. [224 Pages, Softcover]

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Communities and Networks

Giuffre, Katherine — 25 Feb 2013 08:18:09 +0100

In Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring questions such as: How do communities shape our lives and identities? How do they foster either conformity or innovation? What holds communities together and what happens when they fragment or fall apart? How is community life changing in response to technological advances? Refreshingly accessible and built on fascinating case examples, this unique book provides not only the theoretical grounding necessary to understand how and why the burgeoning area of social network analysis can be useful in studying communities, but also clear technical explanations of the tools of network analysis and how to gather and analyze real-world network data. Network analysis allows us to see community life in a new perspective, with sometimes surprising results and insights, and this book enables readers to gain a deeper understanding of social life and the relationships that build (and break) communities.This engaging text will be an exciting new resource for upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students in a wide range of courses including social network analysis, community studies, urban studies, organizational studies, and quantitative methods. [224 Pages, Hardcover]

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Banking Across Boundaries

Christophers, Brett — 25 Feb 2013 08:17:59 +0100

This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual 'placement'. It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking 'productiveness' have evolved alongside the shifting loci of banking activity. * An original contribution to the urgent debates taking place on banking sparked by the current economic crisis * Offers a unique perspective on the geographical and social concept of 'placement' of the banking industry * Combines theoretical approaches from political economy with contemporary literature on the performativity of economics * Details the globalization of Western banking, and analyzes how representations of the banking sector's productiveness have shifted throughout the evolution of Western economic theory * Analyzes the social conceptualization of the nature - and value - of the banking industry * Illuminates not only how economic ideas 'perform' and shape the economic world, but how those ideas are themselves always products of particular economic realities [302 Pages, Hardcover]

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Banking Across Boundaries

Christophers, Brett — 25 Feb 2013 08:17:58 +0100

This book traces the evolving links between the geographical and conceptual 'placement' of the banking industry, revealing how our notions of banking 'productiveness' have evolved alongside the shifting loci of banking activity. Written in an original voice in the urgent debate on capital and banking reignited by the current economic crisis, it is a unique combination of theoretical approaches from political economy and the contemporary literature on economics. It illuminates the contingency of economic ideas, shaped by mutable economic realities at the same time as giving form to our evolving conception of the economic environment. [302 Pages, Softcover]

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The Dictionary of Human Geography 5e + Geographies of Globalization Set

Gregory, Derek — 18 Feb 2013 08:17:42 +0100

[1368 Pages, Softcover]

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Introducing Globalization

Sparke, Matthew — 14 Jan 2013 08:19:18 +0100

Introducing Globalization is the first major textbook on globalization designed specifically for introductory courses and students engaging with the topic of the first time. Broken down into three sections on Economy, Power and Space, and People, this broad guide identifies and explores the major economic, political and social ties that comprise global interdependency. Accessible and comprehensive, the book is enhanced by numerous empirical examples, maps, tables, and other illustrations. [508 Pages, Softcover]

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Introducing Globalization

Sparke, Matthew — 14 Jan 2013 08:19:16 +0100

Introducing Globalization is a major textbook on globalization designed specifically for introductory courses, actively encouraging students to engage with the topic and develop informed opinions about controversial debates. * Identifies and explores the major economic, political and social ties that comprise contemporary global interdependency * Examines a broad sweep of topics, from the rise of transnational corporations and global commodity chains, to global health challenges and policies, to issues of worker solidarity and global labor markets, through to emerging forms of global mobility by both business elites and their critics * Written by an award-winning teacher, and enhanced throughout by numerous empirical examples, maps, tables, an extended bibliography, glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading and student research * Supported by additional web resources - available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/sparke - including hot links to news reports, examples of globalization and other illustrative sites, and archived examples of student projects [508 Pages, Hardcover]

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Spatial Politics

Featherstone, David / Painter, Joe (eds.) — 7 Jan 2013 08:17:56 +0100

This critical engagement with Doreen Massey's ground-breaking work in geographic theory and its relationship to politics features specially commissioned essays from former students and colleagues, as well as the artists, political figures and activists whose thinking she has helped to shape. It seeks to mark and take forward her compelling contributions to geographical theorizing and political debate. * High profile contributors include Lawrence Grossberg, Chantal Mouffe, Jamie Peck and Jane Wills * The global reach and significance of Massey's work recommends this volume to a diverse readership * Provides an agenda for work on spatial politics and critical geography * Sets out the contours of a human geography informed by Doreen Massey's work [326 Pages, Hardcover]

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Spatial Politics

Featherstone, David / Painter, Joe (eds.) — 7 Jan 2013 08:17:55 +0100

Land

Hall, Derek — 24 Dec 2012 08:19:13 +0100

Land is one of the world's most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local level to the global, we are often in conflict over the ground beneath our feet. But because human relationships to land are so complex, it can be difficult to think them through in a unified way. This path-breaking book aims to change that by combining insights from multiple disciplines to develop a framework for understanding the geopolitics of land today. Struggles over land, argues Derek Hall, relate to three basic principles: its role as territory, its status as property, and the ways in which its use is regulated. This timely introduction explores key dimensions of these themes, including inter-state wars over territory, the efforts of non-governmental organizations to protect property rights and environments in the global South, and the 'land grabs' attempted by contemporary corporations and governments. Drawing on a wide range of cases and examples - from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to the Canadian Arctic, China's urban fringe to rural Honduras - the book provides new ways of thinking about the political dynamics of land in the 21st century. This richly detailed and authoritative guide will be of interest to students across the social sciences, as well as anyone interested in current affairs and contemporary geopolitics. [176 Pages, Softcover]

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Land

Hall, Derek — 24 Dec 2012 08:19:06 +0100

Places of Possibility

Mackenzie, A. Fiona D. — 20 Dec 2012 08:18:13 +0100

Through original research conducted in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, Places of Possibility shows how community land ownership can open up the political, social, environmental, and economic terrain to more socially just and sustainable possibilities than private ownership. * Reveals how community land ownership is more just and sustainable than private ownership * Features original theoretical insights into ideas of property and nature that disrupt the process of neoliberalisation * Based on original research conducted by the author in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland [270 Pages, Hardcover]

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Places of Possibility

Mackenzie, A. Fiona D. — 20 Dec 2012 08:18:12 +0100

Places of Possibility reveals how community land ownership can lead to more socially just and sustainable possibilities than the privatization espoused by neoliberalism. Drawing on comprehensive qualitative research in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, environmental geography specialist A. Fiona D. Mackenzie argues that these possibilities are created through the disruption of prevalent norms of property and nature. Places of Possibility dispels prevailing notions of neoliberal globalization to reveal the political possibilities of community land ownership in the twenty-first century world. [272 Pages, Softcover]

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Geographic Thought

Cresswell, Tim — 20 Dec 2012 08:18:09 +0100

This engaging and accessible introduction to geographic thought explores the major thinkers and key theoretical developments in the field of human geography. * Covers the complete range of the development of theoretical knowledge of the field, from ancient geography to contemporary non-representational theory * Presents theories in an accessible manner through the author's engaging writing style * Examines the influence of Darwin and Marx, the emergence of anarchist geographies, the impact of feminism, and myriad other important bodies of thought * Stresses the importance of geographic thought and its relevance to our understanding of what it is to be human, and to the people, places, and cultures of the world in which we live [298 Pages, Hardcover]

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Geographic Thought

Cresswell, Tim — 20 Dec 2012 08:18:08 +0100

Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction presents an engaging and accessible account of the major thinkers and key theoretical developments in the field of human geography. Broad in scope, the volume traces the development of the discipline from its origins in classical thought to the most cutting edge theoretical discourses such as Geographic Information Science. By revealing theoretical underpinnings and current methodologies, Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction offers thought-provoking insights into a profound discipline concerned with the people, places, and cultures of the world we live in. [298 Pages, Softcover]

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Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth

McCann, Philip / Oxley, Les — 10 Dec 2012 08:20:20 +0100

This book provides a timely, accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth. Expert contributions provide a thorough roadmap of the developments in research at the interface of these themes. It is a timely and accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth as well as a highly comprehensive roadmap of the range of issues addressed by research in these areas. Containing contributions from leading experts in the field, it discusses the most profitable ways forward for enhancing our understanding of arising issues from a variety of theoretical, empirical and institutional angles. [208 Pages, Softcover]

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Gramsci

Ekers, Michael / Hart, Gillian / Kipfer, Stefan / Loftus, Alex (eds.) — 3 Dec 2012 08:18:01 +0100

This unique collection is the first to bring attention to Antonio Gramsci's work within geographical debates. Presenting a substantially different reading to Gramsci scholarship, the collection forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory. * Offers the first sustained attempt to foreground Antonio Gramsci's work within geographical debates * Demonstrates how Gramsci articulates a rich spatial sensibility whilst developing a distinctive approach to geographical questions * Presents a substantially different reading of Gramsci from dominant post-Marxist perspectives, as well as more recent anarchist and post-anarchist critiques * Builds on the emergence of Gramsci scholarship in recent years, taking this forward through studies across multiple continents, and asking how his writings might engage with and animate political movements today * Forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory, building on Gramsci's innovative philosophy of praxis [376 Pages, Hardcover]

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Gramsci

Ekers, Michael / Hart, Gillian / Kipfer, Stefan / Loftus, Alex (eds.) — 3 Dec 2012 08:18:00 +0100

This collection is the first to bring attention to Antonio Gramsci's work within geographical debates. Presenting a substantially different reading to Gramsci scholarship, the collection forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory. It demonstrates how Gramsci articulates a rich spatial sensibility whilst developing a distinctive approach to geographical questions. Building on the emergence of Gramsci scholarship in recent years, it asks how his writings might engage with and animate political movements today and for a new approach within human geography, environmental studies, and development theory. [376 Pages, Softcover]

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AP Study Guide to Accompany Human Geography

de Blij, H. J. — 29 Oct 2012 08:18:40 +0100

Human Geography gets general readers to think geographically across scale and across a wide range of geographical phenomena and global issues. All concepts and themes are touched on with the historical background one would expect, but also with current examples to make the reading more relevant. The content is written in such a way that it is approachable and appealing. It includes all of the important themes in a succinct and engaging narrative style that can easily be understood. From the Field boxes and opening vignettes help anyone who has not personally traveled much of the world. General readers will also find the latest data as they build their understanding of important concepts. [240 Pages, Softcover]

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The City

Stevenson, Deborah — 29 Oct 2012 08:18:13 +0100

This book is a fresh and engaging analysis of the city as a central concept in contemporary social thought. It probes the contested and negotiated ways in which cities are built, understood, lived and imagined. Taking a thematic approach and drawing on a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical points of reference, it examines such subjects as urban inequality, public space, creative cities, globalization, the night-time economy, suburbia, and memory and emotion. In The City Deborah Stevenson argues that, as theories and concepts shape what is known about cities and urban life, it is necessary to build conceptual frameworks that engage with the intersections and tensions between urban processes and trends, as well as with the complexities of everyday urban life. This book's combination of original insight and critical synthesis will make it an invaluable contribution for an international, interdisciplinary readership of students and scholars in sociology, geography, urban studies and wider social science and the humanities. [224 Pages, Softcover]

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The City

Stevenson, Deborah — 29 Oct 2012 08:18:11 +0100

The Dynamic Earth

Skinner, Brian J. — 10 Oct 2012 08:17:41 +0200

[656 Pages, Softcover]

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A Short History of Migration

Bacci, Massimo Livi — 8 Oct 2012 08:18:09 +0200

Translated by Carl Ipsen. This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of human beings out of Africa into Asia and Europe to the present day, exploring along the way those factors that contribute to the successes and failures of migratory groups. Separate chapters deal with the migration flows between Europe and the rest of the world in the 19th and 20th centuries and with the turbulent and complex migratory history of the Americas. Livi Bacci shows that, over the centuries, migration has been a fundamental human prerogative and has been an essential element in economic development and the achievement of improved standards of living. The impact of state policies has been mixed, however, as states have each established their own rules of entry and departure - rules that today accentuate the differences between the interests of the sending countries, the receiving countries, and the migrants themselves. Lacking international agreement on migration rules owing to the refusal of states to surrender any of their sovereignty in this regard, the positive role that migration has always played in social development is at risk. This concise history of migration by one of the world's leading demographers will be an indispensable text for students and for anyone interested in understanding how the movement of people has shaped the modern world. [160 Pages, Softcover]

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A Short History of Migration

Bacci, Massimo Livi — 8 Oct 2012 08:18:07 +0200

A Companion to Global Environmental History

McNeill, J. R. / Stewart Mauldin, Erin (eds.) — 8 Oct 2012 08:17:58 +0200

The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, providing an essential road map to past interpretations, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combining temporal, geographic, thematic, and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day, it explores environmental thought and action in a cultural, intellectual, and political context around the world. This resource is relevant to a number of areas of study, including history, environmental studies, geography, anthropology, and archaeology. [568 Pages, Hardcover]

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The Improvised State

Jeffrey, Alex — 1 Oct 2012 08:17:49 +0200

The Improvised State provides a highly developed account of the nature and outcomes of Bosnian state practices since the Dayton Peace Agreement. Based on extensive fieldwork in Bosnia, the author presents new and significant theories, including the idea of state improvisation as a process of both performance and resourcefulness. A major contribution to our understanding of state building after violent conflict, this book offers invaluable insight for academics in international relations as well as political and social geography, post-socialist geography, development studies, sociology, and anthropology. [220 Pages, Softcover]

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The Improvised State

Jeffrey, Alex — 1 Oct 2012 08:17:47 +0200

The Improvised State provides a highly developed account of the nature and outcomes of Bosnian state practices since the Dayton Peace Agreement. Jeffrey presents new and significant theories, based on extensive fieldwork in Bosnia, which advance understanding of state building. * Provides a major contribution to recent academic debates as to the nature of the state after violent conflict, and offers invaluable insights into state building * Introduces the idea of state improvisation, where improvisation refers to a process of both performance and resourcefulness * Uses the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu to explore how powerful agencies have attempted to present a coherent vision of Bosnia and Herzegovina following the conflict 1992-5 * Advances our understanding of the Bosnian state by focusing on the practices of statecraft fostered in the post-Dayton era * Research based on four periods of residential fieldwork in Bosnia, which allowed a detailed analysis of political practices in the country [220 Pages, Hardcover]

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Water

Feldman, David L. — 24 Sep 2012 08:17:43 +0200

Water is our planet's most precious resource. It is required by every living thing, yet a huge proportion of the world's population struggles to access clean water daily. Agriculture, aquaculture, industry, and energy all depend on it - yet its provision and safety engender widespread conflict; battles likely to intensify as threats to freshwater abundance and quality, such as climate change, urbanization, new forms of pollution, and the privatization of control, continue to grow. But must the cost of potable water become prohibitively expensive for the poor - especially when supplies are privatized? Do technological advances only expand supply or can they carry hidden risks for minority groups? And who bears responsibility for managing the adverse impacts of dams funded by global aid organizations when their burdens fall on some, while their benefits accrue to others? In answering these and other pressing questions, the book shows how control of freshwater operates at different levels, from individual watersheds near cities to large river basins whose water - when diverted - is contested by entire countries. Drawing on a rich range of examples from across the world, it explores the complexity of future challenges, concluding that nations must work together to embrace everyone's water needs while also establishing fair, consistent criteria to promote available supply with less pollution. [200 Pages, Softcover]

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Water

Feldman, David L. — 24 Sep 2012 08:17:42 +0200

Laboratory Manual for Physical Geography

Strahler, Alan H. / Potosnak, Mark — 17 Sep 2012 08:17:47 +0200

This student-friendly, interactive lab manual presents activities and experiments that enhance students' ability to both visualize and understand physical geographic topics. In a clear and concise tone, the manual requires students to first apply information they learned and then to critically evaluate the information. [360 Pages, Softcover]

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Fluvial Remote Sensing for Science and Management

Carbonneau, Patrice / Piégay, Hervé (eds.) — 17 Sep 2012 08:17:41 +0200

This book offers a comprehensive overview of progress in the general area of fluvial remote sensing with a specific focus on its potential contribution to river management. The book highlights a range of challenging issues by considering a range of spatial and temporal scales with perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The book starts with an overview of the technical progress leading to new management applications for a range of field contexts and spatial scales. Topics include colour imagery, multi-spectral and hyper-spectral imagery, video, photogrammetry and LiDAR. The book then discusses management applications such as targeted, network scale, planning, land-use change modelling at catchment scales, characterisation of channel reaches (riparian vegetation, geomorphic features) in both spatial and temporal dimensions, fish habitat assessment, flow measurement, monitoring river restoration and maintenance and, the appraisal of human perceptions of riverscapes. Key Features: * A specific focus on management applications in a period of increasing demands on managers to characterize river features and their evolution at different spatial scales * An integration across all scales of imagery with a clear discussion of both ground based and airborne images * Includes a wide-range of environmental problems * Coverage of cutting-edge technology * Contributions from leading researchers in the field [458 Pages, Hardcover]

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The Visualisation of Spatial Social Structure

Dorling, Danny — 6 Aug 2012 08:18:08 +0200

How do you draw a map of 100,000 places, of more than a million flows of people, of changes over time and space, of different kinds of spaces, surfaces and volumes, from human travel time to landscapes of hopes, fears, migration, manufacturing and mortality? How do you turn the millions of numbers concerning some of the most important moments of our lives into images that allow us to appreciate the aggregate while still remembering the detail? The visualization of spatial social structure means, literally, making visible the geographical patterns to the way our lives have come to be socially organised, seeing the geography in society. To a statistical readership visualization implies using data. More widely defined it implies freeing our imaginations. The Visualization of Spatial Social Structure introduces the reader to new ways of thinking about how to look at social statistics, particularly those about people in places. The author presents a unique combination of statistical focus and understanding of social structures and innovations in visualization, describing the rationale for, and development of, a new way of visualizing information in geographical research. These methods are illustrated through extensive full colour graphics; revealing mistakes, techniques and discoveries which present a picture of a changing political and social geography. More complex aspects on the surface of social landscapes are revealed with sculptured symbols allowing us to see the relationships between the wood and the trees of social structure. Today's software can be so flexible that these techniques can now be emulated without coding. This book centres on a particular place and time; 1980s Britain, and a particular set of records; routine social statistics. A great deal of information about the 80s' social geography of Britain is contained within databases such as the population censuses, surveys and administrative data. Following the release of the 2011 census, now is a good time to look back at the past to introduce many new visualization techniques that could be used by future researchers. [401 Pages, Hardcover]

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Introduction to Cities

Chen, Xiangming / Orum, Anthony M. / Paulsen, Krista E. — 30 Jul 2012 08:17:43 +0200

This text, illustrated with over 80 photographs, follows the basic premise that cities and metropolitan centers must be seen as both places and spaces that are vital to the making of the human experience. Place and space are defined in clear terms, and then they are elaborated upon in a broad but accessible theoretical manner. Having provided these basic conceptual building blocks, the authors explore various theories of the metropolis, ranging from the German theorists, such as Simmel, in the 19th century, to the most recent work on the nature of the new global economy and its effects on metropolitan centers. [408 Pages, Softcover]

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Human Geography

Fouberg, Erin H. — 17 Jul 2012 08:17:32 +0200

[Hardcover]

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Iron Curtains

Hirt, Sonia A. — 26 Mar 2012 08:18:21 +0200

Iron Curtains explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe. Utilizing firsthand research culled from more than 100 interviews conducted primarily in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia--a city whose public spaces have unraveled over the last two decades--Sonia Hirt examines the ways people live and experience the new, post-socialist urbanism. Also addressed are what these new spaces tell us about their builders, users, and inhabitants. This book offers provocative insights into the complex relationship between society and space during times of fundamental change. [252 Pages, Hardcover]

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Iron Curtains

Hirt, Sonia A. — 26 Mar 2012 08:18:20 +0200

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography

Barnes, Trevor J. / Peck, Jamie / Sheppard, Eric (eds.) — 26 Mar 2012 08:18:18 +0200

This Companion presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the state of the field, from a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars. It addresses the growing diversity of the field, its increasingly international make-up, and the major areas of debate, including economic questions about what societies produce and consume; political questions about how governance shapes production and consumption; and social and cultural questions about how identities shape economic processes. [664 Pages, Hardcover]

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