Author: Rhys Jones
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: rgs, transformation, ibg, book, series, state, british, states, territories, political, geographies, people
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2007-06-26
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 1405140348
ISBN-13: 9781405140348

People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demonstrates how agents have actively contributed to the reproduction and transformation of the British state over the long term. A valuable corrective to recent characterizations of territory as a static and given geographical concept An explication of the political geographies of state reproduction and transformation, through its focus on state territoriality and the variegated character of state power Considerable empirical insight into the consolidation o

Authors:Bernard Cache,  Michael Speaks, Anne Boyma,
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: writing, architecture, territories, furnishing, moves, earth
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 1995-10-05
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0262531305
ISBN-13: 9780262531306

Earth Moves, Bernard Cache’s first major work, conceptualizes a series of architectural images as vehicles for two important developments. First, he offers a new understanding of the architectural image itself. Following Gilles Deleuze and Henri Bergson, he develops an account of the image that is nonrepresentational and constructive—images as constituents of a primary, image world, of which subjectivity itself is a special kind of image. Second, Cache redefines architecture beyond building proper to include cinematic, pictoral, and other framings. Complementary to this classification

Authors:Idith Zertal, Akiva Eldar,
Publisher: Nation Books
Keywords: settlements, occupied, territories, israel, over, land, war, lords
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2009-06-09
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1568584148
ISBN-13: 9781568584140

The 1967 Arab-Israeli War was a devastating triumph for Israel, which immediately began to establish settlements in the newly conquered territories. Those settlements, and the movement that made them possible, have utterly transformed Israel, and yet until now the full history of the occupation has never been told. Lords of the Land tells that tragic story, and reveals what a catastrophe it has been for both Israel and the Palestinians.

Author: Arturo Escobar
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: hope, franklin, center, book, john, redes, difference, place, movements, life, territories
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2008
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822343274
ISBN-13: 9780822343271

In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCN’s visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movement’s struggles for

Author: Gary Field
Publisher: Stanford Business Book
Keywords: computer, dell, innovation, technology, world, swift, enterprises, communications, profit, capitalist, development, innovative, territories
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-11-24
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0804747229
ISBN-13: 9780804747226

Territories of Profit compares Dell Computer, the dominant computer manufacturer of the late twentieth century, and G. F. Swift, the leading meatpacking firm of the late nineteenth century, to reveal how communications revolutions in different periods enabled businesses to innovate their operations, reorganize the structure of the firm, and reshape the geography of profit-making. By depicting the parallel experiences of Dell and Swift, which both deployed revolutionary communications technologies in their business systems and transformed patterns of development through their innovative advance

Author: and Geographical Survey of the Territori
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: survey, territories, geological, states, united, report
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2009-07-18
List price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 1113215070
ISBN-13: 9781113215079

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Forei
Publisher: Stationery Office
Keywords: report, together, formal, minutes, volume, session, territories, seventh, overseas
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 2008-07
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0215521471
ISBN-13: 9780215521477