Human Geography
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Joshua Keating [Keating, Joshua]

For all its many serious problems, it is hard to argue with Somaliland’s relative success. Perhaps this is the bigotry of low expectations, but whatever negatives you can say about ...
( Category: Human Geography January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-04 | Author:Jim Thatcher, Josef Eckert [Jim Thatcher, Josef Eckert]

Fig. 7-1. From left to right: Foursquare homepage showing locations of friends; Foursquare profile page; Foursquare check-in screen showing nearby locations. Courtesy of Emily Fekete. While Foursquare is an excellent ...
( Category: Information Systems January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Marie-Janine Calic

12. The 1960s: Transition to an Industrial Society At no other time in its history did Yugoslavia change as much as it did in the twenty years following 1945. The ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore [Patel, Raj & Moore, Jason W.]

THE DUTCH DISEASE Let’s begin with the words of Peter Voser, who in 2012 was the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell: In the United States, for example, the American Petroleum ...
( Category: Human Geography January 19,2020 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:Ge Zhaoguang

The Mixed, Multilayered State of Chinese Culture: The Song-Dynasty Transition I have previously written about the emergence of a “China sensibility” in the Song dynasty and argued that the open ...
( Category: Human Geography January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Philipp Ther [Ther, Philipp]

Predatory Lending in Central and Eastern Europe One of the most difficult legacies of the pre-crisis period has been the many billions of foreign currency loans. Since these loans were ...
( Category: Emigration & Immigration January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:David Turner

ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION THEORY Ecological modernization (EM) is a process by which societies address environmental change issues. Ecological modernization theory (EMT) is a theory of social change, i.e., an effort to ...
( Category: Ecology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Immerwahr

* What this rotting empire needed was faster transportation. And that required seizing land. Captain Mahan had suggested opening a canal through the Central American isthmus, which divided the Atlantic ...
( Category: History & Theory January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-06 | Author:Sarah De Nardi;Hilary Orange;Steven High;Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto;

19 ‘Hidden in plain sight’ Uncovering the gendered heritage of an industrial landscape Lucy Taksa Introduction The impact of industrial heritage on men and masculinity continues to be a subject ...
( Category: Human Geography January 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-25 | Author:Bobby Duffy

Figure 24. Accuracy was mixed on the proportion of female politicians: people in a number of countries were very accurate, whereas others significantly overestimated and underestimated. A majority of the ...
( Category: Statistics November 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-23 | Author:Bodley, John H.

Chapter 10 Scale Limits The Breakdown of States Learning Objectives After studying this chapter you should be able to do the following: Explain what happens to people and culture when ...
( Category: Human Geography November 27,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Ross;

The Protectors The CCHP’s earliest neighborhood restoration was the Anatreh Quarter, southeast of the Manger Square ridge, and named for one of the seven clans that has dominated Bethlehem life ...
( Category: Human Geography November 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-18 | Author:Jeff Kingston

Natural Disaster: The 2011 Tsunami In some respects, the tsunami that slammed Japan on March 11, 2011 marked the end of the Lost Decades, precipitating the LDP’s comeback. The subsequent ...
( Category: Asian October 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-02 | Author:Harry M. Caudill [Caudill , Harry M.]

Chapter Fifteen: The Legacy of the Thirties The massive passing of coal companies shut thousands of miners off from even the scanty benefit of two or three workdays per week ...
( Category: Poverty September 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-25 | Author:Carolyn Merchant

The earth, though notwithstanding it yieldeth thus naturally the richest and most precious commodities of all others, and is properly the fountain and mother of all the riches and abundance ...
( Category: Human Geography September 10,2019 )