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Geography: A Very Short Introduction [#185]
Geography: A Very Short Introduction [#185]
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非常に多様化しているアメリカの宗教。本書では、先住民族の時代から現在までのアメリカの宗教の歴史をたどりつつ、ハイブリッドな宗教的アイデンティティの拡大現象、増え続ける新しい宗教運動などにも目を向けます。現代アメリカにおける多数派、ならびに少数派も含む、他では触れられることのない多角的な要素を取り上げて、アメリカの宗教事情や、今後を左右し得る要素を探っていきます。
   

  • An essential insight into one of the most complex and misunderstood disciplines
  • Shows how Geography forms an integral part of contemporary life, with a wide range of up-to-date examples from global warming and oil to urbanization and ethnicity
  • Explains the methods and cutting-edge technologies that geographers use today
  • Looks at both Physical Geography, which covers natural environments and landscapes, and Human Geography, which investigates people and the cultural landscape, and explains the tensions and also the unity between the two areas of study
  • Reveals how Geography can help solve major environmental and social issues

   
Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography, the discipline today is unique as a subject which can bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities, and between the environment and our society. 

Using wide-ranging examples from global warming and oil, to urbanization and ethnicity, this Very Short Introduction paints a broad picture of the current state of Geography, its subject matter, concepts and methods, and its strengths and controversies. The book>'s conclusion is no less than a manifesto for Geography's future.

目次: 

Preface
1: Geography: the World is our stage
2: The physical dimension: our natural environments
3: The human dimension: people in their places
4: Geography as a whole: the common ground
5: How geographers work
6: Geography's present and future
References
Further reading
Index

著者について: 

John A. Matthews is Professor of Physical Geography in the School of the Environment and Society at the University of Wales, Swansea. His main interests include the biogeography and geomorphology of glacier-foreland landscapes and the reconstruction of Holocene glacier and climatic variations. He has led 36 expeditions to southern Norway for which he has received the Ness Award from the Royal Geographical Society. He has published six books and numerous research articles, edits an international journal (`The Holocene') and was a member of the UK Geography Benchmarking Committee, which sets standards for university degrees in Geography. 
 
David T. Herbert is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Swansea University' he is also a Honorary Fellow of the university. His main interests are in urban and social geography and with social problems in cities. His research publications include studies of urban change, urban neighbourhoods, residential mobility and housing markets, crime and deviance, educational attainment in urban schools and aspects of city planning. More recently he has developed research interests in heritage tourism and has a particular interest in literary places. David Herbert has served on most of the main committees for British Geography, such as the ESRC. RGS/IBG and the Research Assessment Panel.

"Matthews and Herbert's book is written- as befits the VSI series- in an accessible prose style and is peppered with attractive and understandable images, graphs and tables." - Geographical
  

"The authors make an honest effort to represent the wide and diverse range of proffesional geographers' interests." - Geographical

商品情報

ISBN : 9780199211289

著者: 
John A. Matthews; David T. Herbert
ページ
200 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2008年05月
シリーズ
Very Short Introductions
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Geography: A Very Short Introduction [#185]

Geography: A Very Short Introduction [#185]

Geography: A Very Short Introduction [#185]