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Brain-storm - When the Mind Becomes the Utimate Weapon

By: David K. Brown

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Brain-storm - When the Mind Becomes the Utimate Weapon

By: David K. Brown

Daniel Jefferies was always happy even though he led a challenging life. It was not so much that Danny was bothered by his troubles, rather life was hard on those who loved and cared about him. At a very young age it became clear that Danny was a special person. Whether that was special in a good way or special in a bad way was in the eye of the beholder. Danny was neither a square or round peg so he never fit into the spaces that were laid out for him. The only thing for sure was that Daniel Jefferies had an unmistakable effect on everyone around him. And since Danny was a happy person it made sense that he would make those around him feel better. But all that changed one day when researchers believed that they could harness his gift. In doing so they unwittingly unleashed Daniel Jefferies to become something that was not meant to be unleashed. Brain-Storm is a story so real that you wonder when, not if it is going to happen!

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1365247007

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Debating Tudor policy in sixteenth-century Ireland

'Reform' treatises and political discourse

By: David Heffernan

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Debating Tudor policy in sixteenth-century Ireland

'Reform' treatises and political discourse

By: David Heffernan

This book provides the first systematic analysis of the whole range of treatises written on the ‘reform’ of Ireland in Tudor times. By assessing approximately six-hundred extant treatises it demonstrates how the Tudors viewed Ireland and how they arrived at the policies which they chose to implement there during the sixteenth century.

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Manchester University Press

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1526118181

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9781526118189

The DD Group

An Online Investigation Into the Death of Marilyn Monroe

By: David Marshall

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The DD Group

An Online Investigation Into the Death of Marilyn Monroe

By: David Marshall

I am told that the first two names I recognized as a child were President Eisenhower and Marilyn Monroe. Hopefully, for my parents' sake, this was after I understood who Mama and Daddy were. To be truthful, I'm not at all certain. By the time the newsman interrupted my cartoons on Sunday morning, August 5, 1962, to tell me that Marilyn Monroe had been found dead of an overdose at the age of 36, she had become such a natural part of my daily life that I could not quite grasp the concept of a world where she was not still out there going about her surely incredible life. To even begin to attempt to understand that someone as big as Marilyn Monroe could actually die threw my seven-year-old brain into serious philosophical doubt. I kept a close watch on my parents, my teachers, even my close friends. The way I saw it, if Marilyn Monroe could die, everyone was up for grabs. -author David Marshall, from the introduction to The DD Group: An Online Investigation Into the Death of Marilyn Monroe

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0595345204

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Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020

By: Will Abberley,Christina Alt,David Higgins,Graham Huggan,Pippa Marland

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Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020

By: Will Abberley,Christina Alt,David Higgins,Graham Huggan,Pippa Marland

This first full-length study of modern British nature writing is timely and invaluable for literary scholarship in the environmental crisis.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107191327

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Literary Englands

Versions of 'Englishness' in Modern Writing

By: David Gervais

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Literary Englands

Versions of 'Englishness' in Modern Writing

By: David Gervais

The influence of 'Englishness' - loss, nostalgia and exile - on the work of twentieth-century writers.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521443385

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Bloody British History: Salisbury

By: David J Vaughan

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Bloody British History: Salisbury

By: David J Vaughan

Saxons of Old Sarum buried alive! The plague pits of Salisbury! Cathedral organist intent on murder! The book bound in human skin! Locked in a cage with criminal lunatics! A monocled killer! Salisbury has one of the most gruesome histories on record. Human remains filled its barrows, its nobles were tortured, its witches hanged and a deadly disease once lurked in its murky waters. There was no safety in its inns either, for one was plagued with suicides and another hid a severed hand. Even the introduction of the railways led to death and destruction. With more than sixty illustrations, hundreds of years of terrible true history are waiting for you inside this book!

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The History Press

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075095891X

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Dark Things

By: David Humphrey Sr

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Dark Things

By: David Humphrey Sr

A quiet and historic neighborhood in Washington, D.C., is the setting for this supernatural thriller. This fantastic tale of the world we cannot see, the spiritual world, takes us into the life of rape-victim Virginia Sills and the forces of evil that are fighting to gain her soul.

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1575676567

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Coastal Wetlands of the World

Geology, Ecology, Distribution and Applications

By: David B. Scott,Jennifer Frail-Gauthier,Petra J. Mudie

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Coastal Wetlands of the World

Geology, Ecology, Distribution and Applications

By: David B. Scott,Jennifer Frail-Gauthier,Petra J. Mudie

Salt marshes and mangrove forests, the intertidal wetlands of the world's coastlines, provide key ecological services to all areas of the globe. This cutting-edge, richly illustrated book introduces the essential elements of coastal wetlands and their applications. The book opens by introducing coastal oceanography, the physical features of wetlands, their ecology, and human impacts upon them, giving all students the necessary background for wetlands studies. It then presents detailed case studies from around the world with extensive illustrations, supplying a wider, global-scale picture of wetlands geomorphology and biodiversity. The final chapters discuss some unique applications of coastal wetlands, including geological monitoring, uses in biotechnology and agriculture, and various experimental mesocosms. This is ideal as supplementary reading to support students on a wide range of earth and life science courses, from environmental science, ecology and palaeoecology to geomorphology and geography. It will also be a valuable interdisciplinary reference for researchers.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139868225

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The Greening of the Cities

By: David Nicholson-Lord

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The Greening of the Cities

By: David Nicholson-Lord

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1135795150

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Commune, Country and Commonwealth

The People of Cirencester, 1117-1643

By: David Rollison

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Commune, Country and Commonwealth

The People of Cirencester, 1117-1643

By: David Rollison

Makes original contributions to late medieval and early modern historiography, including detailed, contextualized studies of the 'Lancastrian revolution', the Reformation and the English Revolution. Commune, Country and Commonwealth suggests that towns like Cirencester are a missing link connecting local and national history, in the immensely formative centuries from Magna Carta to the English Revolution. Focused on atown that made highly significant interventions in national constitutional development, it describes recurring struggles to achieve communal solidarity and independence in a society continuously and prescriptively divided by grossinequalities of class and status. The result is a social and political history of a great trans-generational epic in which local and national influences constantly interacted. From the generation of Magna Carta to the regicides of Edward II and Richard II, through the vernacular revolution of the 'long fifteenth century' and the chaos of state reformations to the great revival that ended in the constitutional wars of the 1640s, the epic was united by strategic location and by systemic, 'structural' inequalities that were sometimes mitigated but never resolved. Individual and group personalities emerge from every chapter, but the 'personality' that dominates them all, Rollison argues, is a commune with 'a mind of its own', continuously regenerated by enduring, strategic realities. An afterword describes the birth and development of a new, 'rural' myth and identity and suggests some archival pathways for the exploration of a legendary English town in the modern and postmodern, industrial and post-industrial epochs. DAVID ROLLISON is Honorary Research Associate in History, University of Sydney. DAVE ROLLISON isHonorary Research Associate in History, University of Sydney.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843836718

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9781843836711

Adventurers

The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650

By: David Howarth

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Adventurers

The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650

By: David Howarth

The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company—from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch—to laying the groundwork for future British expansion The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The Tudor revolution in commerce led ambitious merchants to search for new forms of investment, not least in risky overseas enterprises—and for these “adventurers” the most profitable bet of all would be on the Company. Through a host of stories and fascinating details, David Howarth brings to life the Company’s way of doing business—from the leaky ships and petty seafarers of its embattled early days to later sweeping commercial success. While the Company’s efforts met with disappointment in Japan, they sowed the seeds of success in India, setting the outline for what would later become the Raj. Drawing on an abundance of sources, Howarth shows how competition from European powers was vital to success—and considers whether the Company was truly “English” at all, or rather part of a Europe-wide movement.

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Yale University Press

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030025881X

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9780300258813

Going to Market

Women, Trade and Social Relations in Early Modern English Towns, c. 1550-1650

By: David Pennington

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Going to Market

Women, Trade and Social Relations in Early Modern English Towns, c. 1550-1650

By: David Pennington

Going to Market rethinks women’s contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not the early modern period closed occupational opportunities for women. By attending to women’s everyday business practices, and not merely to their position on the occupational ladder, this book shows that they could take advantage of new commercial opportunities and exercise a surprising degree of economic agency. This has implications for early modern gender relations and commercial culture alike. For the evidence analyzed here suggests that male householders and town authorities alike accepted the necessity of women’s participation in the commercial economy, and that women’s assertiveness in marketplace dealings suggests how little influence patriarchal prescriptions had over the way in which men and women did business. The book also illuminates England’s departure from what we often think of as a traditional economic culture. Because women were usually in charge of provisioning the household, scholars have seen them as the most ardent supporters of an early-modern ’moral economy’, which placed the interests of poor consumers over the efficiency of markets. But the hard-headed, hard-nosed tactics of market women that emerge in this book suggests that a profit-oriented commercial culture, far from being the preserve of wealthy merchants and landowners, permeated early modern communities. Through an investigation of a broad range of primary sources-including popular literature, criminal records, and civil litigation depositions-the study reconstructs how women did business and negotiated with male householders, authorities, customers, and competitors. This analysis of the records shows women able to leverage their commercial roles and social contacts to defend the economic interests of their households and their neighborhoods.

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Routledge

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1317126157

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100 Years of the Isle of Man TT

A Century of Motorcycle Racing - Updated Edition covering 2007 - 2012

By: David Wright

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100 Years of the Isle of Man TT

A Century of Motorcycle Racing - Updated Edition covering 2007 - 2012

By: David Wright

Run over the everyday roads of the Isle of Man for over 100 years, the world-famous Tourist Trophy races have gripped the imaginations of successive generations of motorcyclists. From the earliest days of single-speed, belt-driven machines delivering 5 bhp, to the highly developed projectiles of today offering a fearsome 200 bhp, race fans have thronged the roadside banks and watched in awe as the best racing motorcyclists in the world rode the fastest machines of their day around the twists, turns and climbs of the 374 mile Mountain Course, all in pursuit of a coveted Tourist Trophy. This new updated edition covering the 2007 - 2012 races, reveals the event's colourful history through the high-speed activities of great riders such as the Collier brothers, Geoff Duke, Mike Hailwood, Giacomo Agostini, Steve Hislop, Joey Dunlop, John McGuinness and many others. It also looks at the machines and mechanical developments and race organisation, plus the financial rewards and commercial interests; setting them all in the context of the triumphs and tragedies of a great sporting event that has seen average lap speeds rise from 40 mph to over 130 mph. Written in an easy style, this book reveals the Manx TT's colourful history through its great riders, machines, mechanical developments and race organisation and is superbly illustrated with over 250 colour photographs.

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Crowood

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1847976484

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Soil Behaviour and Critical State Soil Mechanics

By: David Muir Wood

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Soil Behaviour and Critical State Soil Mechanics

By: David Muir Wood

Soils can rarely be described as ideally elastic or perfectly plastic and yet simple elastic and plastic models form the basis for the most traditional geotechnical engineering calculations. With the advent of cheap powerful computers the possibility of performing analyses based on more realistic models has become widely available. One of the aims of this book is to describe the basic ingredients of a family of simple elastic-plastic models of soil behaviour and to demonstrate how such models can be used in numerical analyses. Such numerical analyses are often regarded as mysterious black boxes but a proper appreciation of their worth requires an understanding of the numerical models on which they are based. Though the models on which this book concentrates are simple, understanding of these will indicate the ways in which more sophisticated models will perform.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316224236

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The Puppet Master

By: David A. Xavier

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The Puppet Master

By: David A. Xavier

Oliver Soames is a Detective Sergeant in the Metropolitan Police Service who is called out to an apparent open-and-shut murder-suicide which turns out to be the doorway into a world he never knew existed. All around us are Strangers - people with unique abilities to do things that most of us cannot. Soames finds himself inducted into the Metropolitan Special Circumstances Executive - a secret branch of the police force dedicated to monitoring the Strangers, and ensuring that they do not disrupt the lives of those around them. The only problem is that there appears to be a murderer on the loose - and it is one of them...

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Trafford Publishing

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1490744193

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Cognitive Neuroscience of Language

By: David Kemmerer

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Cognitive Neuroscience of Language

By: David Kemmerer

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It guides students through all of the major areas of investigation, beginning with the fundamental aspects of brain structure and function and then following with key topics such as classic and progressive aphasia syndromes; speech perception and production; the meanings of object nouns, action verbs, and abstract words; the formulation and comprehension of complex expressions, including grammatically inflected words, complete sentences, and entire stories; and several other domains of neurolinguistic research, including reading and writing, sign language, and the bilingual brain. Drawing heavily on prominent theoretical models, the core chapters illustrate how such frameworks are supported, and sometimes challenged, by experiments employing diverse brain mapping techniques. This edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, and now includes a dedicated chapter on the neural substrates of bilingualism. Chapters have been revised to reflect the most salient developments in the field, and the book has undergone a thoughtful restructure to mirror course teaching. While the study of language can be challenging, the text has been written accessibly and requires no previous knowledge of either neuroscience or linguistics and includes definitions of technical terms and explanations of important principles from both disciplines along the way. Accompanied by online resources for students and instructors, it is an essential companion for graduate or upper-level undergraduate students.

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Taylor & Francis

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0429647255

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9780429647253

Star Trek: Picard: Firewall

By: David Mack

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Star Trek: Picard: Firewall

By: David Mack

A thrilling prequel adventure based on the acclaimed TV series Star Trek: Picard! Two years after the USS Voyager’s return from the Delta Quadrant, Seven of Nine finds herself rejected for a position in Starfleet…and instead finds a new home with the interstellar rogue law enforcement corps known as the Fenris Rangers. The Rangers seem like an ideal fit for Seven—but to embrace this new destiny, she must leave behind all she’s ever known, and risk losing the most important thing in her life: her friendship with Admiral Kathryn Janeway.

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Simon and Schuster

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1668046350

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9781668046357

Mission Gamma: Book One

Twilight

By: David R. George III

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Mission Gamma: Book One

Twilight

By: David R. George III

THE TIME HAS COME...for a new era of exploration. With the Dominion War behind them, the crew of the U.S.S. Defiant journeys through the wormhole as Commander Elias Vaughn leads a "corps of discovery" to blaze new trails into the unexplored reaches of the Gamma Quadrant. THE TIME HAS COME ...for a civilization to reach a crossroads. As political forces throughout the Alpha Quadrant intersect at Deep Space 9™ to determine the future of Bajor, the planet's theological unity threatens to shatter. And for Colonel Kira Nerys, the path of the Prophets may become a road to ruin. THE TIME HAS COME...for a father and daughter to confront their past while a mother and son fight for the future, for lovers to be tested and for friendships to transform, and for worlds on opposite ends of the galaxy to face the dusk...or the dawn. TWILIGHT

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Simon and Schuster

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0743445619

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9780743445610

Observatories and Telescopes of Modern Times

By: David Leverington

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Observatories and Telescopes of Modern Times

By: David Leverington

Radio Observatory and Telescope Index -- General Index

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Cambridge University Press

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0521899931

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Plants for Medicines

A Chemical and Pharmacological Survey of Plants in the Australian Region

By: David John Collins

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Plants for Medicines

A Chemical and Pharmacological Survey of Plants in the Australian Region

By: David John Collins

Includes details of alkaloid and anti-tumour screening of nearly 2000 species, the pharmacological testing of the alkaloids of selected species, and the chemical fractionation of those species which had reproducible tumour-inhibiting properties.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643049924

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9780643049925

The History of England Part F

Volume 1

By: David Hume

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The History of England Part F

Volume 1

By: David Hume

Reproduction of the original: The History of England Part F by David Hume

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3752312033

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The Observation and Analysis of Stellar Photospheres

By: David F. Gray

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The Observation and Analysis of Stellar Photospheres

By: David F. Gray

Describes the equipment, observational techniques and analysis used in the investigation of stellar photospheres.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521408687

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Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns

Perspectives on Cultural Geography

By: Simon Naylor,James Ryan,Ian Cook,David Crouch

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Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns

Perspectives on Cultural Geography

By: Simon Naylor,James Ryan,Ian Cook,David Crouch

Introduces undergraduates to the key debates regarding space and culture and the key theoretical arguments which guide cultural geographical work. This book addresses the impact, significance, and characteristics of the 'cultural turn' in contemporary geography. It focuses on the development of the cultural geography subdiscipline and on what has made it a peculiar and unique realm of study. It demonstrates the importance of culture in the development of debates in other subdisciplines within geography and beyond. In line with these previous themes, the significance of space in the production of cultural values and expressions is also developed. Along with its timely examination of the health of the cultural geographical subdiscipline, this book is to be valued for its analysis of the impact of cultural theory on studies elsewhere in geography and of ideas of space and spatiality elsewhere in the social sciences.

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