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Geography is fundamental to understanding the way the world works. This text offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography. Including discussion of both the human and the natural realms, the text looks at key themes such as environment, space, and place-as well as geography's methods and the history of the discipline-showing us how and why they are essential for a thriving planet. Introdu...

Introductory but not simplified, What Is Geography? provides students with the ability to understand the history and context of the subject without any prior knowledge. Designed as a key text for beginning students, this book will be of interest to all readers interested in and intrigued by the "geographical imagination.

40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World is a collection of historic and contemporary maps and the insights they reveal about geography, geopolitics, art, history, science and society.

Alastair Bonnett bestimmt mit seinem bahnbrechenden Buch die Grundlagen der Rassismusforschung neu. Er zeigt: Die westlich zentrierte Forschung ignoriert einen Großteil der Menschheit und lässt antirassistische Stimmen jenseits des Westens im internationalen Diskurs ungehört verhallen. Von der Masseninhaftierung von Uigur:innen in China über den Genozid an den Jesid:innen durch den >Islamischen Staat< bis zur gewaltsamen Assimilierung ethnisch...

This book aims to provide guidance on originality so that students can transform their work and achieve better grades.

This book aims to provide guidance on originality so that students can transform their work and achieve better grades.

Students need to be able to build strong arguments in their assignments, presentations, and exams. This very short, sharp skills book will help them do just that.

Students need to be able to build strong arguments in their assignments, presentations, and exams. This very short, sharp skills book will help them do just that.

At a time when Google Maps can take you on a virtual tour of Yosemite's remotest trails and cell phones double as navigational systems, it's hard to imagine there's any uncharted ground left on the planet. In Unruly Places, Alastair Bonnett goes to some of the most unexpected, offbeat places in the world to reinspire our geographical imagination. Bonnett's remarkable tour includes moving villages, secret cities, no man's lands, and floating is...

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At a time when Google Maps can take you on a virtual tour of Yosemite's remotest trails and cell phones double as navigational systems, it's hard to imagine there's any uncharted ground left on the planet. In Unruly Places, Alastair Bonnett goes to some of the most unexpected, offbeat places in the world to reinspire our geographical imagination. Bonnett's remarkable tour includes moving villages, secret cities, no man's lands, and floating is...

First published in 1993, Radicalism, Anti-Racism and Representation is a study set within a wider political context for the discussion of `racial¿ representation and anti-racism.

Explorer and geographer Alastair Bonnett takes us on a thought-provoking tour of the world's most fascinating islands, featuring hand-drawn maps, color photos, and stories from his travels. There are millions of islands on our planet. New islands are being built at an unprecedented rate, for tourism and territorial ambition. Many are also disappearing, besieged by rising sea levels. The story of our world's islands is one of the great dramas o...

In der Arktis gibt das zurückweichende Eis nie von Menschen betretene Inseln frei, der Likouala-Sumpf im Kongo wartet bis heute auf seine geografische Erfassung, Städte wie Hong Kong oder São Paulo verlieren buchstäblich ihre Bodenhaftung. Doch das Allersonderbarste, so die feste Überzeugung des Autors, ist fast immer vor der eigenen Haustür zu finden. Eines haben die sehr verschiedenen Orte, von denen Bonnett berichtet, gemeinsam: Sie lassen ...

Racism is a world problem. From Morocco to China, Brazil to Indonesia, racism is being debated and contested. Multiracism broadens the horizon on this global blight, showing that racism has a diverse history with multiple roots and routes. Drawing on examples of racism from across the globe, with particular focus on cases from Asia and Africa, Alastair Bonnett rethinks the origins of racism and the connections between racism and modernity. Ar...

Racism is a world problem. From Morocco to China, Brazil to Indonesia, racism is being debated and contested. Multiracism broadens the horizon on this global blight, showing that racism has a diverse history with multiple roots and routes. Drawing on examples of racism from across the globe, with particular focus on cases from Asia and Africa, Alastair Bonnett rethinks the origins of racism and the connections between racism and modernity. Ar...

Überall auf der Welt werden in einem noch nie dagewesenen Tempo künstliche Inseln erschaffen, während immer mehr natürliche Inseln aufgrund des steigenden Meeresspiegels verschwinden. Der Geograf und Bestsellerautor Alastair Bonnett zeigt in seinem aktuellen Buch, wie sich unsere Welt durch das neue und verschwindende Land im Meer von Grund auf verändert. Bonnett nimmt seine Leser*innen mit auf eine Entdeckungsreise ins unbekannte Reich de...

Extraordinary... A fascinating and intelligent book.' Sunday TimesNew islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are disappearing or fragmenting because of rising sea levels. It is a strange planetary spectacle, creating an ever-changing map which even Google Earth struggles to keep pace with. In The Age of Islands, explorer and geographer Alastair Bonnett takes the reader o...

Because of their size and boundedness, islands tell tales about what's happening to our world more clearly than continental lands ever could. One of those tales is about the inexorable rise of sea levels and the disappearance of land, which is plainly visible on islands. But surprisingly, islands also continue to come into being regularly, some created through natural forces such as volcanism or melting ice, others through human desires for po...

The related phenomena of new islands emerging and certain islands disappearing around the world are taken the measure of by author of "Off The Map" and others Alastair Bonnett.