Insights Into Human Geography
Landscapes: Ways of Imagining the World
1st Edition
By Hilary P.M. Winchester
June 23, 2003
Landscapes is a timely and well-written analysis of the meaning of cultural landscapes. The book delves into the layers of meaning that are invested in ordinary landscapes as well as landscapes of spectacle and power. Landscapes is a powerful and vivid application of the new cultural geography to...
Environments in a Changing World
1st Edition
By John Huckle, Adrian Martin
June 27, 2001
While there is no shortage of of books on the environment there are few introductory texts that outline the social theory....
Mapping: Ways of Representing the World
1st Edition
By Daniel Dorling, David Fairbairn
April 09, 1997
Illustrates how maps tell us as much about the people and the powers which create them, as about the places they show. Presents historical and contemporary evidence of how the human urge to describe, understand and control the world is presented through the medium of mapping, together with the ...