New Cultural Landscapes

Documents the shift of immigrants toward smaller towns and metropolitan areas in the United States. This book presents eleven case studies of immig...

This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis - the leading et...

The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated ci...

The momentous changes which are transforming American life call for a new exploration of the economic and cultural landscape. In this book, the aut...

Placing much-needed emphasis on the re-emergence of religion, this timely and vital volume offers a new, critical approach to the study of the vola...

Landscapes are all around us, but most of us know very little about how they have developed, what goes on in them, and how they react to changing c...

This new, sixth edition of Bradt's Iran continues to provide the most detailed background, history and cultural information available when visiting...

DescriptionGreek Colonization in Local Context takes a fresh look at Greek colonies around Europe and the Black Sea. The emphasis is on cultural in...

This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Ame...

Contributor(s): Author: Caroline LevineForms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultu...

The natural wealth of the Amazon and Andes has long attracted fortune seekers, from explorers, farmers, and gold panners to multimillion-dollar min...

Reducere. Mesa Verde National Park was America's first cultural park and also the world's first cultural heritage park. Created in 1906, it preserves the sit...

DescriptionSacred Ground is a sumptuous photographic portrait of New Orleans's legendary cemeteries. Robert S. Brantley celebrates the otherworldly...

The Brazos River and the Rio Grande: what lies between are physical and cultural geographies stretching south from the Texas Hill Country to the bo...

Reducere. A major contribution to one of the central themes in social theory, this book integrates multiple case studies of the relationship between water co...

DescriptionUpdated and expanded 2nd edition of this popular and accessible explorer's handbook to a fascinating corner of Europe. Blue Guide Travel...

DescriptionThe Society for Psychical Research was established in 1882 to further the scientific study of consciousness, but it arose in the surf of...

Reducere. Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do w...

Sociologist Stephen Klineberg presents "a trailblazing study" (Kirkus Reviews) that shows how the city of Houston has emerged as a microcosm for Am...

Reducere. 50 Hikes in the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests provides hikers the chance to explore and experience the ever-changing environments of these fo...

Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Caste: Yester...

Thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden's Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new...

DescriptionPrehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithe...

Reducere. Visitors to Texas and New Mexico have marveled for centuries at the immensity of the Llano Estacado and the surprising contrast as, at the edges of...

Reducere. Glamour subverts convention. Models, images, and even landscapes can skew ordinary ways of seeing when viewed through the lens of photography, sugg...

AwardsLukas Prize ProjectDescriptionIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminat...

Reducere. Christopher AwardsIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, illumina...

The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in Persia and the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment to form and contest Irani...

One of the most famous and admired painters of all time, Claude Monet (1840- 1926) was the architect of impressionism--a revolution that gave birth...

Reducere. Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-...

Reducere. We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet. In this book, a world leader in agricultural research, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali...

Reducere. Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) was one of the leading British landscape painters of the 19th century. Inspired by his mentor, the artist and poet Willia...

Reducere. The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist-a must-have...

Reducere. DescriptionEducated in the creative and enduring traditions of her Navajo kinspeople and at Harvard University, Gloria Emerson has a special intere...

A fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes...

Reducere. An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent In Recollec...