50 de mest populära böckerna i Sverige●Geografi

Världspolitiken har alltid styrts av geografiska förutsättningar: floder, berg, hav, råvaror naturliga gränser och källor till välstånd. Med utgångspunkt i tio kartbilder förklarar den prisbelönta utrikeskorrespontenten Tim Marshall världen på ett sätt som öppnar ögonen för geografins makt historisk, i nutid och i framtiden. Geografins makt har legat på New York Times bestsellerlista och sålt i över en miljon exemplar. Nu finns den äntligen på svenska.

Releasedatum: 2019-06-28 29,00 kr

Hur lärde sig människan att hitta på havet? Var Magellan verkligen den förste världsomseglaren? Hur bidrog kaskelotvalen till upplysningen? På vilket sätt förändrade den skotske bagaren Robert Dick vår syn på livets historia? Hur vet vi egentligen hur djupt havet är? Efter debuten med ”Ålevangeliet” har Patrik Svensson skrivit en bok om människorna som utforskat, kartlagt, försökt förstå och lägga havet under sig. ”Den lodande människan” handlar om havets lockelse, om...

Releasedatum: 2022-08-15 159,00 kr

När vi talar om mänsklighetens historia handlar det alltid om stora ledare, folkvandringar och omvälvande krig. Men hur har själva jorden avgjort människans öde? Hur har planeten vi bor på skapat oss? Hur hänger Himalayas berg ihop med jordens bana och med de brittiska öarnas form? Lewis Dartnell tar oss miljarder år tillbaka i jordens utveckling för att berätta historien om vårt verkliga ursprung. Som art har vi människor alltid formats av vår miljö. Det var geologiska krafter s...

Releasedatum: 2021-02-26 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 179,00 kr

Geographies of Globalization 2nd edition offers an animated and fully-updated exposition of the geographical impacts of globalization and the contribution of human geography to studies and debates in this area. Energetic and engaging, this book: • Illustrates how the core principles of human geography – such as space and scale – lead to a better understanding of the phenomenon • Debates the historical evolution of globalized society • Analyses the interconnected economic, political and...

Releasedatum: 2014-09-15 459,00 kr

A Guardian 'Top 10 Nature Memoirs' pick 'Poetic and heartful' Guardian Icelandic author and activist Andri Snær Magnason's 'Letter to the Future', an extraordinary and moving eulogy for the lost Okjökull glacier, made global news and was shared by millions. Now he attempts to come to terms with the issues we all face in his new book On Time and Water. Magnason writes of the melting glaciers, the rising seas and acidity changes that haven't been seen for 50 million years. These are changes that...

Releasedatum: 2020-08-06 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 59,00 kr

Carl von Linnés expedition till Lappland år 1732 var en viktig del av hans vetenskapliga karriär. Linné lämnade Uppsala där han var student och reste runt Bottniska viken under loppet av sex månader, med större avstickare från Umeå, Luleå och Torneå. Hans observationer blev grunden för boken Flora Lapponica (1737) i vilken Linnés idéer om nomenklatur och klassifikation resulterade i Linnés sexualsystem.

Releasedatum: 2020-01-13 89,00 kr

The division of ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ is one of the oldest ideas in Geography and is deeply engrained in our culture. Throughout history, the rural has been attributed with many meanings: as a source of food and energy; as a pristine wilderness, or as a bucolic idyll; as a playground, or a place of escape; as a fragile space of nature, in need of protection; and as a primitive place, in need of modernization. But is the idea of the rural still relevant today? Rural provides an advanced int...

Releasedatum: 2010-10-18 369,00 kr

It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Yet what if this narrative obscures a more hopeful truth? In Inheritors of the Earth , renowned ecologist and environmentalist Chris D. Thomas overturns the accepted story, revealing how nature is fighting back. Many animals and plants actually benefit from our presence, raising biological diversity in most parts of the world and increasing the rate at which new species are formed, perhaps to the highest le...

Releasedatum: 2017-07-06 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 115,00 kr

'Utterly extraordinary ... the starkest book I've read on the impacts of accelerating climate change for a very long time ... if we're not listening to the likes of Peter Wadhams, then we too are in denial' Jonathon Porritt Most of the scientific establishment predict that the North Pole will be free of ice around the middle of this century. As Peter Wadhams, the world's leading expert on sea ice, demonstrates in this book, even this assessment of the future is optimistic. Wadhams has visited th...

Releasedatum: 2016-09-01 Genre:Vetenskap och natur 115,00 kr

Most social geography undergraduate textbooks are structured around different social categories, splintering the discussion of gender, class, race and increasingly now sexuality and disability, into separate chapters. This has the effect, firstly, of making social relations rather than space (the raison d'etre of human geography) the focus of undergraduate books; secondly of ignoring the way that social relations are negotiated and contested in different space. Rather than reproducing this c...

Releasedatum: 2014-06-06 729,00 kr

The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe and the food we eat. It is where we came from, and it carries our commerce. It represents home and migration, ceaseless change and constant presence. It covers two-thirds of our planet. Yet caught up in our everyday lives, we seem to ignore it, and what it means. In The Sea Inside, Philip Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea, its islands, birds and beasts. He begins on the south coast where he grew up, a place of family ...

Releasedatum: 2013-06-06 69,00 kr

As one of the world’s largest industries, tourism carries with it significant social, environmental, economic and political impacts. Although tourism can provide significant economic benefits for some destinations, the image of tourism as a benign and environmentally friendly industry has often been challenged. There is a clear and growing body of evidence that suggests that the effects of tourism development are far more complex than policy-makers usually suggest and that the impacts of touri...

Releasedatum: 2009-09-10 459,00 kr

This imformative book is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic introduction to urbanization in developing areas. Using case studies of cities drawn from around the world, including Bangkok, Delhi, Manila, Mexico City, Singapore and cities in Zimbabwe, this key text confronts three main questions: Is there still a Third World, does it have a common urban form, and what is the relationship between urbanization and sustainability? The text analyzes: the dimension of urban gro...

Releasedatum: 2002-09-26 459,00 kr

Miljöproblem kan ibland verka hopplösa att klara av. Vi står inför katastrofala klimatförändringar. Tidningsrubriker berättar också om massutrotning av djur och växter, om miljögifter och plastnedskräpningen av världshaven. Kunskap om miljöframgångar från förr i tiden kan vara till hjälp i en tid då utmaningarna kan framstå som oövervinnerliga. Det gick att avveckla freonerna, införa en av världens första koldioxidskatter och att skärpa EU:s kemikalielagar. Utifrån inter...

Releasedatum: 2020-03-02 105,00 kr

This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of ‘second generation’ ANT scholars from around the world, it highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and its future possibilities. The companion has 38 chapters, each answering a key question about ANT and its capacities. Early chapters explore ANT as an intellectual practice and ...

Releasedatum: 2019-06-17 369,00 kr

'I never knew air could be so interesting' Bill Bryson 'A wonderful lesson in how science works' Simon Singh, Daily Telegraph ____________________ We not only live in the air, we live because of it. At ground level air transforms miraculously; it wraps our planet in a blanket of warmth, while the outer layer of our atmosphere soaks up violent flares from the sun. And air is about much more than just breathing. At ground level air transforms miraculously into solid food, and witho...

Releasedatum: 2010-08-03 169,00 kr

I wrote this summary for a class I taught.  It is an introduction to GIS and ArcGIS, with fundamental concepts, methods, and applications of GIS in spatial analysis and decision making for real world problems.  Lists of instructions from the textbook were simplified into verbal commands in text form.  

Releasedatum: 2019-03-17 25,00 kr

David Evans introduces glaciers and ice sheets as systems, discussing the processes that shape them, and their impacts on our planet in terms of erosional and depositional processes. He explains how we can use this knowledge in reconstructing glaciers and ice sheets of the past, and discusses the impacts on glaciers of climate change.

Releasedatum: 2018-10-18 119,00 kr

 The pursuit of sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe; innovations within the arts and sciences, business, design, engineering, and agriculture; historic policies and laws at municipal and state levels; and crucial international protocols and agreements.  Yet the meaning of sustainability remains unsettled, and the term frequently serves as green veneer for business as usual rather than a driver of fundamental change. The second edition of this...

Releasedatum: 2016-10-05 189,00 kr

Le 6 juin 1866, sur la rade houleuse de Saint-Denis, on voyait un trois-mâts barque dont les voiles à demi déployées pendaient aux vergues, présage d’un départ prochain. C’était l’Infatigable, un des quatre navires qui, depuis quelques années, se hasardent à trafiquer, du fort Dauphin à Mouroundava, sur les côtes inhospitalières du Sud et du Sud-Ouest de la grande île africaine. Le capitaine Bellanger, jeune et brave marin rompu aux dangers des cyclones aussi bien qu’aux pé...

Releasedatum: 2016-06-29 25,00 kr

En typisk Erling Alfredson ser du på omslaget. Han är en medelålders målare som inte varit särdeles framgångsrik förrän han kom på att måla trasmattor på skurgolv. Nu åtnjuter han allmän uppskattning och får sälja så många trasmattor som han hinner måla. Framgången har lockat ett förlag att planera en bok om hans målningar, åtföljda av en självbiografisk text av Alfredson. Eftersom han inte har någon klar bild av sitt liv och sitt måleri bereder uppdraget honom rätt av...

Releasedatum: 2016-05-02 79,00 kr

Sveaborg är en storslagen idyll. Stig Claesson känner den väl. Han har bott där i tre månader hösten 1981 som gäst hos Nordiskt Konstcentrum, en av de konstnärer från fem nordiska länder som i omgångar får arbeta i de vackra ateljéer man inrett i en gammal kasern. Stig Claesson har varit på Sveaborg många gånger förr, bland annat under en intensiv sejour våren 1978, då han gjorde ett stort antal teckningar som gått på vandringsutställning i Norden och nu hänger på öarna....

Releasedatum: 2016-05-02 79,00 kr

Stig Claesson är förälskad i Budapest, och hans kärlek till den gamla staden i Centraleuropas hjärta smittar av sig på alla som öppnar denna bok. Få författare kan som Stig Claesson gripa det ogripbara i en atmosfär och få en miljö och dess människor att leva, antingen de är luggslitna violinister i plyschklädda kaféer eller diktare som varit döda i hundra år. Och ingen annan skulle undra varför korset på Stefanskronan sitter snett, se sambandet mellan Jultomtens dag i Budape...

Releasedatum: 2016-05-02 79,00 kr

Resilience is currently infusing policy debates and public discourses, widely promoted as a normative goal in fields as diverse as the economy, national security, personal development and well-being. Resilience thinking provides a framework for understanding dynamics of complex, inter-connected social, ecological and economic systems. The book critically analyzes the multiple meanings and applications of resilience ideas in contemporary society and to suggests where, how and why resilience might...

Releasedatum: 2015-12-14 399,00 kr

The 6th edition of this highly respected text builds upon the successful structure, engaging writing style and clear presentation of previous editions. Examining urban social geography from a theoretical and historical perspective, it also explores how it has developed into the modern day. Taking account of recent critical work, whilst simultaneously presenting well established approaches to the subject, it ensures students are well-informed about all the issues. The result is a topical book tha...

Releasedatum: 2014-09-15 439,00 kr

This major new text provides an introduction to the interaction of culture and society with the landscape and environment. It offers a broad-based view of this theme by drawing upon the varied traditions of landscape interpretation, from the traditional cultural geography of scholars such as Carl Sauer to the 'new' cultural geography which has emerged in the 1990s. The book comprises three major, interwoven strands. First, fundamental factors such as environmental change and population pressure ...

Releasedatum: 2014-05-12 319,00 kr

The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the editors. The sections cover: the nature of development, theories and strategies of development...

Releasedatum: 2014-03-21 699,00 kr

Geographical Thought provides a clear and accessible introduction to the key ideas and figures in human geography. The book provides an essential introduction to the theories that have shaped the study of societies and space. Opening with an exploration of the founding concepts of human geography in the nineteenth century academy, the authors examine the range of theoretical perspectives that have emerged within human geography over the last century from feminist an...

Releasedatum: 2013-12-02 359,00 kr

Vi behöver, framför allt, icke-styrda utrymmen – de öppna mellanrummen i såväl våra kalendrar som i stadsplaneringen. Detta innebär en utmaning efter tidigare rationaliseringsvåg. Men konstnären kan stå som förebild, inte minst i sitt sätt att använda olika platser och sinnesstämningar. (Ett kapitel ur antologin Framtiden är nu.)

Releasedatum: 2012-02-06 15,00 kr

Landscape is a stimulating introduction to and contemporary understanding of one of the most important concepts within human geography. A series of different influential readings of landscape are debated and explored, and, for the first time, distinctive traditions of landscape writing are brought together and examined as a whole, in a forward-looking critical review of work by cultural geographers and others within the last twenty to thirty years. This book clearly and concisely explores ...

Releasedatum: 2007-08-07 399,00 kr

Disruption following the Gulf War, and the need to satisfy both rising economic aspirations and the Islamic values of the region's peoples, demands fresh examination of development issues in the Arab world. This introductory text assesses how agricultural, industrial and urban development has evolved in the Arab region. Contrasting Arab and Western interpretations of `development', it draws on case studies covering states as diverse as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Morocco and Jordan. The author suggests...

Releasedatum: 2002-09-11 159,00 kr

Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity and been awarded a polar medal and an OBE. He has been an elite soldier, an athlete, a mountaineer, an explorer, a bestselling author and nearly replaced Sean Connery as James Bond. In his autobiography he describes how he led expeditions all over the world and became the first person to travel to both ...

Releasedatum: 2009-11-26 45,00 kr