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  • The Beacon Builder

    A Novella

    by Andrew McGregor ...
    Land surveyor Oscar Murphy is working on a hilltop in Paternoster on South Africa’s west coast when he catches a glimpse of imminent danger through a telescope and rushes to the scene to help Ruby, a young, talented woman with a bright future.When Oscar’s friend Luke Watson, a lawyer, travels to Paternoster to help banker Lisa-Marie Pieterse uncover financial fraud and hold the perpetrator, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Violent Atmospheres

    Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia

    by Wolfram Heinz Dressler, Mary Mostafanezhad, Annie Shattuck, Alison Copeland, Anthony Bebbington, Franck Billé, Helena Varkkey, Dr. Sango Mahanty, Carl Grundy-Warr0, Kimberley Anh Thomas1, Carl Middleton2, Tim Werner3, Alya Shaiful Bahari4, Dr. Ian G. Baird5, Jenny E. Goldstein6, Philip Hirsch7, Lisa C. Kelley8, McGregor, Andrew9, Dr Fiona Miller0, Dr. Sarah Milne1, Dr. Muhamad Muhdar2, K. B. Roberts3, Tessa D. Toumbourou4 ...
    In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers who have long depended on fire to clear land for new crops. Yet only recently have political ecologists drawn attention to such events’ volumetric social and environmental character. Violent Atmospheres ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Researching Justice

    Engaging with Questions and Spaces of (In)Justice through Social Research

    by Elizabeth Mavroudi, Deepti Chatti, Don Mitchell, Barbora Adlerova, Ana Moragues Faus, Richard White, Andrew McGregor, Simon Springer, Ophélie Véron, Jen Dickinson, Natasha Uwimanzi, Jennifer Balint, Corine Wood-Donnelly, Kate Derickson ...
    Series series Spaces and Practices of Justice
    Understanding justice, for many, begins with questions of injustice. This volume pushes us to consider the extent to which our scholarly and everyday practices are, or can become, socially just. In this edited collection, international contributors reflect on what the practice of ‘justice’ means to them, and discuss how it animates and shapes their research across diverse fields from international ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Development

    Edited by Andrew McGregor, Lisa Law, Fiona Miller ...
    Southeast Asia is one of the most diverse regions in the world – hosting a wide range of languages, ethnicities, religions, economies, ecosystems and political systems. Amidst this diversity, however, has been a common desire to develop. This provides a uniting theme across landscapes of difference.This Handbook traces the uneven experiences that have accompanied development in Southeast Asia. The ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Motion Pictures

    Travel Ideals in Film

    Edited by Gemma Blackwood, Andrew McGregor ...
    Series Book 8 - Film Cultures
    This volume examines representations and explorations of travel ideals in contemporary international cinema. It assembles work from a diverse range of academic fields including anthropology, sociology, ethnography, cinema, culture, tourism, communication and language studies, with contributions from international experts such as Mary Louise Pratt of New York University, whose work on ‘contact ... Read more

    $83.69 USD

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    Lessons across Natural Resource Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Merle Sowman, Rachel Wynberg ...
    Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between rich and poor and the crises of sustainability. Improved understanding is also essential to promote governance approaches that are underpinned by justice and equity principles and that aim to reduce ... Read more

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  • The Atlas of Environmental Migration

    by Dina Ionesco, Daria Mokhnacheva, François Gemenne ...
    As climate change and extreme weather events increasingly threaten traditional landscapes and livelihoods of entire communities the need to study its impact on human migration and population displacement has never been greater.The Atlas of Environmental Migration is the first illustrated publication mapping this complex phenomenon. It clarifies terminology and concepts, draws a typology of ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing

    Edited by Andreas Neef, Chanrith Ngin, Tsegaye Moreda, Sharlene Mollett ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing.Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodological, ... Read more

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  • Paradise...My Ass!

    by Tony Fitzsimmons ...
    One minute you're relaxing by the pool in a luxury Thai resort and the next you're a gringo with a donkey on an isolated island off Brazil!When Tony and his wife Sue were caught in the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated hundreds of thousands of lives, they wanted more than to return to the rat race of suburban life, they wanted to 'live the dream'. After careful consideration, or possibly in ... Read more

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  • Cool It

    by Bjorn Lomborg ...
    Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Geographies of Developing Areas

    The Global South in a Changing World

    by Glyn Williams, Paula Meth, Katie Willis ...
    Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenges students' pre-conceptions and promotes lively debate. Rather than presenting the Global South as a set of problems, from rapid urbanization to poverty, this book focuses on the diversity of life in the South, and looks at the role the South plays in ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • A Small Place

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him- ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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