Author: David Buisseret
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
“The” Oxford Companion to World Exploration
Author: David Buisseret
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Oxford Companion to World Exploration
The Oxford Companion to World Exploration
Author: David Buiisseret (ed)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Contains cross-referenced articles--arranged alphabetically from Antoine d'Abbadie to Longitude--on topics of land, space, and sea exploration and provides biographical profiles of notable explorers throughout history.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Contains cross-referenced articles--arranged alphabetically from Antoine d'Abbadie to Longitude--on topics of land, space, and sea exploration and provides biographical profiles of notable explorers throughout history.
The Oxford Companion to World Exploration
Author: David Buisseret
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195307412
Category : Astronautics and civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Covers various aspects of world exploration from Antarctica to the North Pole; from the discovery of the New World to the age of space exploration. This illustrated reference work features 750 articles, selected by a group of editors and advisers to examine exploration from different angles: thematically, geographically, and biographically.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195307412
Category : Astronautics and civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Covers various aspects of world exploration from Antarctica to the North Pole; from the discovery of the New World to the age of space exploration. This illustrated reference work features 750 articles, selected by a group of editors and advisers to examine exploration from different angles: thematically, geographically, and biographically.
The Young Oxford Companion to Maps and Mapmaking
Author: Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195080421
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
More than 350 entries offer a view of how humankind has pictured the world over the centuries.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195080421
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
More than 350 entries offer a view of how humankind has pictured the world over the centuries.
A Book of Discovery
Author: Margaret Bertha Synge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
A Book of Discovery
Author: Margaret Bertha (M. B. Synge
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789386780645
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A thoroughly fascinating book about the world's exploration from the earliest times to the discovery of the South Pole. A book to be owned by older boys and girls who like true tales of adventure.
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789386780645
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A thoroughly fascinating book about the world's exploration from the earliest times to the discovery of the South Pole. A book to be owned by older boys and girls who like true tales of adventure.
Book of Discovery
Author: M. B. Synge
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243687329
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243687329
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Rural-Urban Interface
Author: Ellen Hoffmann
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030799727
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Bengaluru is one of the fastest growing megacities in India. As such, it provides an in-situ laboratory for studying rural-urban transitions. While urbanization is most evident in the changing landscape with increasing built-up areas, it comes along with changes in ecosystem functions, new economic opportunities, changes in social organization and individual attitudes and behavior. All of these processes are interlinked and mutually depend on each other. This book attempts to integrate studies from a wide scope of disciplinary perspectives and at different spatial scales under the framework of complex social-ecological systems. Agriculture is the prime example of a system in which humans interact with their biophysical environment, and the production systems in the rural-urban interface are profoundly affected by urbanisation. Intensification and diversification of agriculture are immediate responses to urban pressures and demands, and are linked as much to resource (over-)use as to commercialisation. Yet, little is known about the spatial patterns of agricultural transformation in areas of urban sprawl. The focus of the contributions here is explicitly on the interface, in-between the rural and urban systems. It thus differs from the urban-centered perspective of city planners as well as from the rural predominance in most of the agricultural research. In the present volume this focus is implemented by analysing samples along a spatial gradient representing different stages of urbanization. Ongoing time series analyses and a panel study will complement the spatial approach by a temporal dimension.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030799727
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Bengaluru is one of the fastest growing megacities in India. As such, it provides an in-situ laboratory for studying rural-urban transitions. While urbanization is most evident in the changing landscape with increasing built-up areas, it comes along with changes in ecosystem functions, new economic opportunities, changes in social organization and individual attitudes and behavior. All of these processes are interlinked and mutually depend on each other. This book attempts to integrate studies from a wide scope of disciplinary perspectives and at different spatial scales under the framework of complex social-ecological systems. Agriculture is the prime example of a system in which humans interact with their biophysical environment, and the production systems in the rural-urban interface are profoundly affected by urbanisation. Intensification and diversification of agriculture are immediate responses to urban pressures and demands, and are linked as much to resource (over-)use as to commercialisation. Yet, little is known about the spatial patterns of agricultural transformation in areas of urban sprawl. The focus of the contributions here is explicitly on the interface, in-between the rural and urban systems. It thus differs from the urban-centered perspective of city planners as well as from the rural predominance in most of the agricultural research. In the present volume this focus is implemented by analysing samples along a spatial gradient representing different stages of urbanization. Ongoing time series analyses and a panel study will complement the spatial approach by a temporal dimension.
Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus
Author: Wolfgang Behn
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047414357
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
This third and last of the three-volume Who’s Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia. Taking as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus, the author, Wolfgang Behn (Berlin), has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user to quickly gain knowledge on the life, work, and professional background of almost every major and minor author, and thus to place each author in his/her proper perspective. A tremendous achievement and a true must for every library.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047414357
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
This third and last of the three-volume Who’s Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia. Taking as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus, the author, Wolfgang Behn (Berlin), has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user to quickly gain knowledge on the life, work, and professional background of almost every major and minor author, and thus to place each author in his/her proper perspective. A tremendous achievement and a true must for every library.