The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur. Using examples from all over the world, the book highlights the underlying causes behind environmental problems, the human actions which have made them issues, and the hopes for solutions. It is a book about the human impact on the environment and the ways in which the natural environment i...

A cutting edge examination of urban theory as related to the realities of social and economic change in today's global cities.

Geographies of Embodiment provides a critical discussion of the literatures on the body and embodiment, and humanism and post-humanism, and develops arguments about "otherness" and "encounter" which have become key ideas in urban studies, and studies of the city.

Statistical Methods for Geography is the essential introduction for geography students looking to fully understand and apply key statistical concepts and techniques.

Tackling the questions raised by twenty-first century urbanization, this handbook engages with contemporary debates and contributions to policy as well as looking at recent empirical and methodological shifts in the area

The materials for the sketch of this astonishing man are sufficiently abundant. We make special use in this place of those charming letters which his daughter wrote to him from her convent home. More than a hundred of these have been preserved, and it may well be doubted whether any more beautiful and touching series of letters addressed to a parent by a dearly loved child have ever been written. An admirable account of this correspondence is contained in a little book entitled "The Private L...

Als het ervaren mag gaan spreken, is het goed opletten geblazen. Want het ervaringsspreken heeft een eigen idioom en wijkt regelmatig af van wat wij eigenlijk gewoon vinden. Vele voorbeelden passeren de revue, zoals:

• Sien die wil weten hoe de binnenkant van een muur er uitziet;

• de oom van Carlos die weet dat Carlos gewoon zijn eigen ritme heeft in de ontwikkeling van zijn/haar gender.

Waarin het ervaringsspreken kan verschillen van andere vormen van spreken, is beschreven.

De verhoud...

Indian poetry of the classical style, kāvya, has been long ignored by western Indologists. Nowadays opinion slowly tends to change in favour of this rather extreme poetry. Bhāravi's Kirātārjunīya, the poem treated in this volume is part of the tradition of epic poems or mahākāvyas. Six are recognized. The Kirātārjunīya marks the beginning of a new style of Indian poetry and represents one of the best written in this tradition. The plot is taken from the Mahābhārata.

The authors of...

Volgens medici en neurobiologen is drank- en drugverslaving een chemische gevangenis. Daar begin je niets tegen. Anderen menen dat verslaving juist te maken heeft met een gebrek aan wilskracht en doorzettingsvermogen, het is een moreel falen. In dit boek worden de tekortkomingen van zowel het morele als het medische model besproken.

Verslaving is een dankbaar onderwerp om onze opvattingen over vrije wil, rationaliteit en autonomie aan te toetsen. Neurowetenschappers plaatsen steeds vaker vra...