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  • Daring to Write

    Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women

    by Rhina Espaillat, Leonor Suarez, Ana-Maurine Lara, Yalitza Ferreras, Nelly Rosario, Marívell Contreras, Kersy Corporan, Angie Cruz, Carolina Gonzalez, Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, Jina Ortiz, Sofia Quintero, Delta Eusebio-Pol, Noris Eusebio-Pol, Farah Hallal Muñoz, Ángela Hernández Núñez, Miriam Mejía, Riamny Méndez, Jeannette Miller, Sheilly Núñez, Lissette Rojas-Berroa, Ludin Santana, Dulce Reyes-Bonilla, Luisa A. S. Vicioso ...
    With this new Latino literary collection Erika M. Martínez has brought together twenty-four engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living in the United States. The first volume of its kind, Daring to Write’s insightful works offer readers a wide array of content that touches on a range of topics: migration, history, religion, race, class, gender, and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Evolution of the Chilean-Argentinean Andes

    Edited by Andrés Folguera, Eduardo Contreras-Reyes, Nemesio Heredia, Alfonso Encinas, Sofía B. Iannelli, Verónica Oliveros, Federico M. Dávila, Gilda Collo, Laura Giambiagi, Andrei Maksymowicz, María Paula Iglesia Llanos, Martín Turienzo, Maximiliano Naipauer, Darío Orts, Vanesa D. Litvak, Orlando Alvarez, César Arriagada ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes the Mesozoic to Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes. The book is structured from a historical perspective concentrating on specific processes explained in each chapter. The chapters cover dynamic subsidence; neotectonics; magmatism; long and short term deformation; spatial development of ancient orogenic processes that control Andean reactivations; relation ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Displacement Urbanism

    Politics of Bodies and Spaces of Abandonment and Endurance

    by Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Sofia Moriconi, Paola Pellegrini, Jinliu Chen, Francesco Pasta, Yasna Contreras Gatica, Layla Zibar, Stefano Mastromarino, Sana Murrani, Dhirgham Alobaydi, Ula Merie, Eray Çaylı, Peter Kasaija, Kieran Tam, Irit Katz ...
    Available open access digitally under CC BY NC ND licence.At a time when the annihilation of places to live and to imagine a future is unfolding—through the violent return of war, aggressive capitalism, and biopolitical projects of territorial control—this timely book explores the layered and ongoing displacements that shape much of the world today. Bringing together case studies from both the ... Read more

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  • Natural Hazards and Human-Exacerbated Disasters in Latin America

    Special Volumes of Geomorphology

    by Edgardo Latrubesse ...
    Series Book 13 - Developments in Earth Surface Processes
    The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. The chapters are written by selected specialists of each country. Human-induced disasters are also included, such as desertification in Patagonia and soil erosion in Brazil. The receding of South-American glaciers as a ... Read more

    $131.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
    Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new ... Read more

    $280.99 USD

  • Gender Dynamics in Transboundary Water Governance

    Feminist Perspectives on Water Conflict and Cooperation

    Edited by Jenniver Sehring, Rozemarijn ter Horst, Margreet Zwarteveen ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    This volume assesses the nexus of gender and transboundary water governance, containing empirical case studies, discourse analyses, practitioners’ accounts, and theoretical reflections.Transboundary water governance exists at the intersection of two highly masculinised fields: diplomacy and water resources management. In both fields, positions are mainly held by men, and core ideas, norms, and ... Read more

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  • Caldera Volcanism

    Analysis, Modelling and Response

    Edited by Joachim Gottsmann, Joan Marti ...
    Series Book 10 - Developments in Volcanology
    This volume aims at providing answers to some puzzling questions concerning the formation and the behavior of collapse calderas by exploring our current understanding of these complex geological processes. Addressed are problems such as:- How do collapse calderas form? - What are the conditions to create fractures and slip along them to initiate caldera collapse and when are these conditions ... Read more

    $166.99 USD

  • Cities by Design

    The Social Life of Urban Form

    by Fran Tonkiss ...
    Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments.With cities taking a growing share of the global population, urban forms and urban experience are crucial for understanding social injustice, economic ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Rifts and Passive Margins

    Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes, and Petroleum Systems

    by Michal Nemčok ...
    Rifts and passive margins are extremely important for the petroleum industry, as they are areas of high sedimentation and can contain significant oil and gas resources. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of rifts and passive margins as a whole. It synthesises in one volume the existing information devoted to specific aspects of these vitally important hydrocarbon habitats. This ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Migration

    by Michael Samers, Michael Collyer ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Geography
    While the subject of migration has received enormous attention in academic journals and books across the social sciences, introductory texts on the matter are few and far between. Even fewer books have explored migration through a critical and explicit engagement with spatial concepts.Now in its second edition, Migration remains the only text in more than a decade that emphasizes how geographical ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • São Francisco Craton, Eastern Brazil

    Tectonic Genealogy of a Miniature Continent

    Edited by Umberto G. Cordani, Fernando F. Alkmim, Monica Heilbron ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The region of the São Francisco river valley in eastern Brazil encompasses two main components of the geologic framework of the South American continent: the São Francisco craton and its marginal orogenic belts. Cratons, as the oldest, differentiated and relatively stable pieces of the continental lithosphere, preserve a substantial part of the Earth's memory. Orogenic belts, on the other hand, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Global Governance and the New Wars

    The Merging of Development and Security

    by Mark Duffield ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    In this hugely influential book, originally published in 2001 but just as - if not more - relevant today, Mark Duffield shows how war has become an integral component of development discourse. Aid agencies have become increasingly involved in humanitarian assistance, conflict resolution and the social reconstruction of war-torn societies. Duffield explores the consequences of this growing merger ... Read more

    $23.99 USD