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  • Texans on the Brink

    Threatened and Endangered Animals

    by David Ford, Jeremy D. Maikoetter, Timothy H. Bonner, Chad W Hargrave, David S. Ruppel, Nicky M. Hahn, Robert J. Edwards, Paige Najvar, William Godwin, Mary Jones, David J. Berg, Ned E. Strenth, Jerry L. Cook, Benjamin T. Hutchins, Anthony A. Echelle, Alice F. Echelle, J. Curtis Creighton, D. Craig Rudolph, Josh Pierce, Loren K. Ammerman, Christopher E. Comer, Michael E. Tewes, Julia Buck, Mary Kay Skoruppa, Kim Withers, Andrew C. Kasner, John Karges, Timothy Brush, Clifford E. Shackelford, Heather A. Mathewson, David Cimprich, James M Mueller, Robert Allen, Karl Berg, Philip Matich, Donna J. Shaver, Mary M Streitch, Bernd Würsig, Dr. Neil B. Ford ...
    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University
    What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress and prosperity, and scientists fear that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction event. Brian R. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Brain, Mind, and the Narrative Imagination

    by Professor Christopher Comer, Dr Ashley Taggart ...
    Stories can inspire love, anger, fear and nostalgia – but what is going on in our brains when this happens? And how do our minds conjure up worlds and characters from the words we read on the page?Rapid advances in the scientific understanding of the brain have cast new light on how we engage with literature. This book – collaboratively written by an experienced neuroscientist and literary critic ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Identity and Heritage

    Contemporary Challenges in a Globalized World

    Edited by Peter F. Biehl, Douglas C. Comer, Christopher Prescott, Hilary A. Soderland ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book will suggest new agendas for identity and heritage studies by means of presenting contentious issues facing archaeology and heritage management in a globalized world. The book is not only present the variability of heritage objectives and experiences in the New and Old World, and opens a discussion, in a shrinking world, to look beyond national and regional contexts. If the heritage ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Culture and Development in a Globalizing World

    Geographies, Actors and Paradigms

    Edited by Sarah Radcliffe ...
    Using recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and practice. Providing a theoretical and empirically informed critique, this informative book includes conceptual overviews and case studies on topics such as:development for indigenous peoplenatural resource managementsocial capital and ... Read more

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  • Museum Frictions

    Public Cultures/Global Transformations

    Edited by Ivan Karp, Corinne A. Kratz, Lynn Szwaja, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto ...
    Museum Frictions is the third volume in a bestselling series on culture, society, and museums. The first two volumes in the series, Exhibiting Cultures and Museums and Communities, have become defining books for those interested in the politics of museum display and heritage sites. Another classic in the making, Museum Frictions is a lavishly illustrated examination of the significant and varied ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Exotic No More

    Anthropology for the Contemporary World

    Edited by Jeremy MacClancy ...
    "This excellent collection of essays by some of the leading lights of anthropology provides paths from the never more pressing question 'what is to be done?'" —Catherine Lutz, University of North Caroline at Chapel HillIn this new edition of the anthropological classic Exotic No More, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contributions that anthropological ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Theory Beyond the West

    A World of Cities

    Edited by Tim Edensor, Mark Jayne ...
    Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Slum Tourism

    Poverty, Power and Ethics

    Edited by Fabian Frenzel, Ko Koens, Malte Steinbrink ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of ‘otherness’, ‘moral decay’, ‘deviant liberty’ or ‘authenticity’. ‘Slumming’ has a long tradition in the Global North, for example in Victorian London when the upper classes toured the East End. What is new, however, is its ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Tourism Mobilities

    Places to Play, Places in Play

    by Mimi Sheller, John Urry ...
    Many places around the world are being produced, converted, interpreted and made fit for tourist consumption.This fascinating book analyzes tourist performances such as walking, shopping, sunbathing, photographing, eating and clubbing, and studies why, and indeed how, some places become global centres whilst others don’t. Arranged in four distinct parts, Sheller and Urry consider:Performing ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Reimagining Political Ecology

    by Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau, Michael R. Dove ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    Reimagining Political Ecology is a state-of-the-art collection of ethnographies grounded in political ecology. When political ecology first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970s, it was rooted in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection showcases second-generation political ecology, which retains the Marxist interest in capitalism as a global structure but which is also ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage

    Edited by Peter Davis, Michelle Stefano ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    This collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the book also discusses local-level conceptualizations of living cultural traditions, practices and expressions, and reflects on ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Tourism Development

    by Rosaleen Duffy, Mick Smith ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Drawing upon a variety of important philosophical traditions, this book develops an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context. It considers the ethical/political issues arising in many areas of tourism development, including:the profound cultural and environmental impacts on tourist destinationsthe reciprocity (or lack of) in host ... Read more

    $104.99 USD