ISBN: 087338900X Binding: Paperback Edition: 2nd Author(s): N/A Publisher: Kent State University Press Number of Pages: 285
As one reviews and reflects on the events of the past century it is easy to see the emergence of a new geography of the world and how that has trickled down to Ohio From World War I into the 1950s Ohio was part of the preeminent manufacturing heart of the United States Now formerly proud industrial cities have little or no manufacturing and the economic base has shifted toward the service sector These changes have affected the people of Ohio and impacted the environment; consequently the physical and human geography of the state has been significantly altered The social upheavals of the 1960s and the oil crisis of the 1970s which eventually led to the economic recessions of the 1980s are events contributing to the demise of industry in many towns throughout the state These events profoundly affected the demographics of Ohio In "The Geography of Ohio" numerous scholars describe and discuss how the state has evolved Using a systematic and thematic approach "The Geography of Ohio" serves as the definitive study of both the state's landscape and people scape Standardized and updated maps are featured throughout in full color as well as current census and demographic data With the addition of sidebars study questions a glossary and an extensive bibliography "The Geography of Ohio" is the essential text for an understanding of Ohio's place in the "new order"
The EU and Neighbors: A Geography of Europe in the Modern World
ISBN: 0471655546 Binding: Paperback Edition: 1 Author(s): Brian W. Blouet Publisher: Wiley Number of Pages: 552
Presenting an entry level introductory systemic and regional survey this book will quickly get readers up to speed on the European landscape It uses the European Union as an organizing focus while discussing modern events in two sections The systematic section covers the environment cultural geography population settlement systems economies and political geography The regional section examines Europe on a country-by-country basis
ISBN: 0516272985 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Allan Fowler Publisher: Children's Press(CT) Number of Pages: 32
The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons - to all corners of the globe With this series all about geography emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities nations waterways and habitats around the worldand right in their own backyards
ISBN: 0812097181 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Margaret Kenda, Phyllis A. Sawyer, Phyllis S. Williams Publisher: Barrons Juveniles Number of Pages: 332
Geography Wizardry describes more than 200 entertaining projects each of them conceived to familiarize boys and girls with a fundamental geographical concept With the inspiration of these activities including map making and designing a postage stamp children will begin to discover what a fascinating place our planet can be
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory
ISBN: 0860919366 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Edward W. Soja Publisher: Verso Number of Pages: 266
Written by one of America's foremost geographers Postmodern Geographies contests the tendency still dominant in most social science to reduce human geography to a reflective mirror or as Marx called it an ""unnecessary complication"" Beginning with a powerful critique of historicism and its constraining effects on the geographical imagination Edward Soja builds on the work of Foucault Berger Giddens Berman Jameson and above all Henri Lefebvre to argue for a historical and geographical materialism a radical rethinking of the dialectics of space time and social being Soja charts the respatialization of social theory from the still unfolding encounter between Western Marxism and modern geography through the current debates on the emergence of a postfordist regime of ""flexible accumulation"" The postmodern geography of Los Angeles exposed in a provocative pair of essays serves as a model in his account of the contemporary struggle for control over the social production of space
Sex Work and the City: The Social Geography of Health and Safety in Tijuana, Mexico (Inter-America)
ISBN: 0292721641 Binding: Paperback Edition: 1 Author(s): Yasmina Katsulis Publisher: University of Texas Press Number of Pages: 196
A gateway at the US-Mexico border Tijuana is a complex urban center with a sizeable population of sex workers An in-depth case study of the trade Sex Work and the City is the first major ethnographic publication on contemporary prostitution in this locale providing a detailed analysis of how sex workers' experiences and practices are shaped by policing and regulation Contextualizing her research within the realm of occupational risk Yasmina Katsulis examines the experiences of a diverse range of sex workers in the region and explores the implications of prostitution particularly regarding the spheres of class hierarchies public health and other broad social effects Based on eighteen months of intensive fieldwork and nearly 400 interviews with sex workers customers city officials police local health providers and advocates Sex Work and the City describes the arenas of power and the potential for disenfranchisement created by municipal laws designed to regulate the trade Providing a detailed analysis of this subculture's significance within Tijuana and its implications for debates over legalization of "vice" elsewhere in the world Katsulis draws on powerful narratives as workers describe the risks of their world ranging from HIVAIDS and rape (by police or customers) to depression work-related stress drug and alcohol addiction and social stigma Insightful and compelling Sex Work and the City captures the lives (and deaths) of a population whose industry has broad implications for contemporary society at large
Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness, Revised
ISBN: 0813519098 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Frederick Turner Publisher: Rutgers University Press Number of Pages: 360
"With learning that embraces not only the history but the literary evolution the dreams and the profound psychic cravings of Western development with insight elegance and uncanny precision that his readers have come to take for granted Turner's work addresses the underlying delusion the tragedy the wreckage of our age and how it came to pass We are all in his debt" --W S Merwin "It is an astonishing performance and it works--not merely because Turner writes with a grace and perception that place him with a handful of historians who can be called great literary stylists but because he has an idea going here a significant one A brilliant demanding and important work" --San Francisco Chronicle "This is no ordinary critique of modern civilization Beyond Geography is clearly a work of brilliance and imagination a compelling disturbing and uncommonly literate exploration of one of mankind's most basic dilemmas" --Atlantic Monthly First published in 1980 Beyond Geography continues to influence and impress its readers providing a reconstruction of the spiritual history that led up to the European domination and decimation of native culture that were as rich in mythic life as the Western culture was barren This new edition prepared for the Columbus quincentennial includes a new foreword by T H Watkins and a new preface by the author As the public debates Columbus's legacy it is important for us to learn of the spiritual background of European domination of the Americas for the Europeans who conquered the Americas substituted history for myth as a way of understanding life Frederick Turner is the author of six books including a biography of John Muir a personal investigation of the roots of New Orleans jazz and a study of the making of the American literary landscape His essays have appeared in such publications as the New York Times International Herald Tribune American Heritage and the Nation
