Seductions of place

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Oliver Bender, Niki Evelpido, Alenka Krek

"Geoinformation technologies offer many new perspectives for geocultural landscape research in a huge variety of scientific disciplines such as archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, history, spatial planning, and cultural resource management. The main objective of this book is to constitute a link between landscape related research problems, geoinformation methods and corresponding applications in a wide multi and interdisciplinary perspective. Thus, it bridges the gap between theoretically addressed research issues, methodology used for analysis and practical cases. Its main value is that it addresses innovative geospatial technologies that can support different workflows needed for such analysis. It provides descriptions of a variety of research issues and technological approaches that may be used to support processes of data capturing, mapping, and analysis. These techniques and concepts are illustrated in selected case studies and numerous practical examples."--Jacket.

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[edited by] Robert D. Bullard

"Written mostly by African-American scholars, the chapters in this book describe the challenges facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan regions as they seek to address continuing and emerging patterns of racial polarization in the twenty-first century. The book clearly shows that the United States entered the new millennium as one of the wealthiest and most powerful nations on Earth. Yet amid this prosperity, our nation is faced with some of the same challenges that confronted it at the beginning of the twentieth century, including rising inequality in income, wealth, and opportunity; economic restructuring; immigration pressures and ethnic tension; and a widening gap between "haves" and "have nots.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Gillian Dale [and others

This is a collection of all the units you need to pass your Double Award in Travel and Tourism for Edexcel. Case studies with exploratory questions help you assess and discuss issues within the world of travel and tourism and give a real understanding of the world in which you may want to work.

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Katherine Russell Rich

Rich accepts a freelance assignment to go to India for a year, where she gradually sheds her foreigness, to discover a new country and a new way of communicating.