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  • Digital Inclusion in an Unequal World

    An Emancipatory Manifesto

    by Tim Unwin ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Why do so many attempts to use digital tech to help the world’s poor ultimately end in failure? Digital Inclusion in an Unequal World provides a detailed critique of previous theory and practice, while also proposing practical and realistic suggestions for good practice.This book combines longer thematic chapters by Tim Unwin, one of the world’s leading thinkers on ICT for development, with ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • A European Geography

    by Tim Unwin ...
    A European Geography provides a geographical interpretation and exposition of the whole of Europe. Beginning with a historical and envronmental introduction, the text covers the cultural identity, political structure, economic organisation and social context of Europe, examining the complex issues that are shaping the characteristics and meaning of contemporary Europe. More than fifty contributors ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture

    Edited by Steve Charters, Marion Demossier, Jacqueline Dutton, Graham Harding, Jennifer Smith Maguire, Denton Marks, Tim Unwin ...
    This title was a prize winner at the OIV (International Organisation of Vine and Wine) Awards 2023.The link between culture and wine reaches back into the earliest history of humanity. The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture brings together a newly comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of contemporary research and thinking on how wine fits into the cultural frameworks of production, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Place of Geography

    by Tim Unwin ...
    The Place of Geography is designed to provide a readable and yet challenging account of the emergence of gepgraphy as an academic discipline. It has three particular aims: it seeks to trace the development of geography back to its formal roots in classical antiquity; provides an interpretation of the changes that have taken place in geographical practice within the context of Jurgen Haberma's ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Europe

    Lives in Transition

    by Bettina Van Hoven, Tim Unwin ...
    First published in 2003. Europe: lives in transition gives a voice to people living through transition, opening a door for outsiders to understand how such people have lived - an opportunity for one to speak and another to listen. The book has been deliberately written in an accessible, engaging and first-hand manner. Original quotes from various projects are woven together throughout the text ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Information and Communication Technologies for Development

    by Tim Unwin ...
    The development of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has transformed the world over the last two decades. These technologies are often seen as being inherently 'good', with the ability to make the world better, and in particular to reduce poverty. However, their darker side is frequently ignored in such accounts. ICTs undoubtedly have the potential to reduce poverty, for ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • Wine and the Vine

    An Historical Geography of Viticulture and the Wine Trade

    by Tim Unwin ...
    Very few books have products as diverse as those of the grape vine: even fewer have products with such a cultural significance. Wine and the Vine provides an introduction to the historical geography of viticulture and the wine trade from prehistory to the present. It considers wine as both a unique expression of the interaction of people in a particular environment, rich in symbol and meaning, and ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries

    Essays for Alan B. Mountjoy

    Edited by Robert Potter, Tim Unwin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Urbanization
    Originally published in 1989, The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national material. The book discusses the various theories of urban-rural interaction, and summarises the topic in ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures

    A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures

    by Paul Lukacs ...
    The story of how wine, as enjoyed by millions of people today, came to be.Drinking wine can be traced back 8,000 years, yet the wines we drink today are radically different from those made in earlier eras. While its basic chemistry remains largely the same, wine's social roles have changed fundamentally, being invented and reinvented many times over many centuries.In Inventing Wine, Paul Lukacs ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption

    Edited by Frank Trentmann ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The term 'consumption' covers the desire for goods and services, their acquisition, use, and disposal. The study of consumption has grown enormously in recent years, and it has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a consumer revolution? Was there a great divergence between East and West? Did the twentieth century see the triumph of global ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Kerstin Jacobsson ...
    Series series Cities and Society
    What can we learn about collective action across Central and Eastern Europe by focusing on activism within urban spaces? This volume argues that the recent resurgence of urban grassroots mobilisation represents a new phase in the development of post-socialist civil societies and that these civil societies have significantly more vitality than is commonly perceived. The case studies here reflect ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Haves and the Have-Nots

    A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality

    by Branko Milanovic ...
    Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why -- beyond the idle curiosity -- do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the world's leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of how wealth is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD