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The City's Hinterland Dynamism and Divergence in Europe's Peri-Urban Territories

The City's Hinterland Dynamism and Divergence in Europe's Peri-Urban Territories

Despite the fact that the rural commuter belts of cities are major loci of population change economic growth and dynamic social change within city regions most research tends to ignore this area while focusing on the built-up city core. However with the current emphasis on the role of rural areas in policy debates it is vital to recognize the importance of the 'commuter belt'. By comparing four major European cities (in England France Germany and Spain) this book offers the first comparative investigation of the dynamism of city rural hinterlands. It assesses whether rural areas will become effectively integrated into quality of life improvements as a result of their inter-dependencies with cities focusing on the critical arenas of employment change housing and service provision. In doing so it investigates how change in these three fields impact on the quality of life and physical environment of rural hinterlands. | The City's Hinterland Dynamism and Divergence in Europe's Peri-Urban Territories

GBP 12.99
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Narrating Africa in South Asia

Narrating Africa in South Asia

The coastal belts and hinterlands of East Africa and South Asia have historically shared a number of cultural traits commodities and cosmologies circulated on the wings of the monsoon winds. The forced and voluntary migrations of Asians and Africans across the Indian Ocean littoral over several centuries have reverberated in the memories literatures travelogues and religious architectural and socio-political imaginations of both the regions. And they continue to do so in various forms and platforms. This book explores nuances of various narratives on these long-term transcultural exchanges with a special focus on India. It explores the ways in which Africa and Africans have been narrated in South Asian history and culture in order to unravel the nuanced layers of reflexive rhetorical stereotypical populist racialist racist and casteist frameworks that informed diverse narratives in vernacular texts songs films and newspaper reports. Emphasizing the interdisciplinary approaches of narratology Afro-Asian studies and Indian Ocean studies the contributors enunciate how the African lives in South Asia have been selectively remembered or systematically forgotten. Through multi-sited ethnographies multilingual archival researches and interdisciplinary frameworks each chapter provides theoretical engagements on the basis of empirical research in such regions as Gujarat Kerala Karnataka Goa Hyderabad and Mumbai as well as in Sri Lanka. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture. | Narrating Africa in South Asia

GBP 130.00
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Foundation of Structural Geology

Foundation of Structural Geology

Since the first edition was published in 1983 this highly-regarded introductory textbook has been used by many generations of students worldwide. It is specifically tailored to the requirements of first or second year geology undergraduates. The third edition has been extensively revised and updated to include many new sections and over 50 new or redrawn illustrations. There are now over 220 illustrations many incorporating a second colour to highlight essential features. The format has been changed to enhance the visual attractiveness of the book. The tripartite organization of the first and second editions has been modified by combining the purely descriptive or factual aspects of fault and fold structure in the earlier chapters with a simple treatment of mechanisms leaving the more geometrically complex treatment until after the relevant sections on stress and strain as before. Some subjects are introduced for the first time e. g. inversion and orogen collapse and others have been extensively modified e. g. the chapter on gravity controlled structures now emphasises modern work on salt tectonics. The last third of the book is devoted to the wider context of geological structures and how they relate to plate tectonics. The final two chapters have been considerably expanded and give examples of various types of geological structures in their plate tectonic settings in both modern and ancient orogenic belts. | Foundation of Structural Geology

GBP 175.00
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Transformative Propaganda Opening the Archives of the British Safety Council

Transformative Propaganda Opening the Archives of the British Safety Council

What do seat belts life jackets and anti-jack knife technology have in common? They were all the subjects of campaigns run by the British Safety Council since its inception in 1957. James Tye its charismatic founder and leader for nearly 40 years created the British Safety Council to bring about a transformation in how Great Britain viewed safety and health. In 1957 hundreds if not thousands of workers were killed in accidents and James marshalled every conceivable technique to save lives including PR stunts training lobbying for better laws and crucially what he called ‘propaganda’ in the form of posters and other communication tools. In 2014 a long-lost collection of posters papers and letters were found gathering dust in a warehouse. The British Safety Council wanting to mark its 60-year history and its role in reducing deaths at work decided to preserve the collection and commissioned historian Mike Esbester to trace the history of health and safety in Britain from the late 1960s through the posters and photographs of the time. Transformative Propaganda: Opening the Archives of the British Safety Council offers a fascinating and vivid insight into the social and political realities of the 1960s 1970s and 1980s through a wealth of historical documents press cuttings correspondence photographs and posters. It offers a truly extraordinary window onto the evolution of health and safety within the UK and richly deserves a place on the bookshelf of every safety professional. | Transformative Propaganda Opening the Archives of the British Safety Council

GBP 35.99
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