Paperbacks Direct: Human Geography - Research Methods and Techniques

By Dimitri Ginev

Recent methodological debates have shown that practice theory can either be developed by combining and slightly extending established theoretical concepts of inter-subjectivity, social normativity, collective behavior, interaction between agents and environment, habits, learning, collective…

Paperback – 2019-12-12
Routledge

Edited by Susan Gair, Ariella van Luyn

In an era of rapid technological change, are qualitative researchers taking advantage of new and innovative ways to gather, analyse and share community narratives? Sharing Qualitative Research presents innovative methods for harnessing creative storytelling methodologies and technologies that help…

Paperback – 2019-12-12
Routledge

Edited by Helena Flam, Jochen Kleres

Gathering scholars from different disciplines, this book is the first on how to study emotions using sociological, historical, linguistic, anthropological, psychological, cultural, and mixed approaches. Bringing together the emerging lines of inquiry, it lays foundations for an overdue…

Paperback – 2019-12-12
Routledge

By Kevin Cox, Reginald Golledge

Originally published in 1969, Behavioral Problems in Geography unpacks and identifies elements of behavioral models and theories. The book seeks to examine their specific effects on spatial activity and to operationalize some of the concepts previously used in a subjective and descriptive manner.…

Paperback – 2019-12-10
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Mark Birkin, Graham Clarke, Martin Clarke

The way in which products and services are delivered to consumers, through branches and retail outlets, or more generally through a network of distribution channels, remains fundamentally important for maintaining a competitive advantage for a very wide range of businesses. This is true within…

Paperback – 2019-01-22
Routledge

By Ahmadreza Foruzanmehr

With increases in global temperatures, the risk of overheating is expected to rise around the world. This results in a much higher dependency upon energy-intensive cooling systems and air-conditioners to provide thermal comfort, but how sustainable is this in a world where problems with the…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
Routledge
Routledge Research in Architecture

Edited by Hongmian Gong

This book is a collection of selected papers presented in the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York honoring James O. Wheeler (1938-2010). The eight papers are informed and inspired by James O. Wheeler's many contributions to urban geography, particularly…

Paperback – 2018-08-23
Routledge

By Iris Levin

How do migrants feel "at home" in their houses? Literature on the migrant house and its role in the migrant experience of home-building is inadequate. This book offers a theoretical framework based on the notion of home-building and the concepts of home and house embedded within it. It presents…

Paperback – 2018-02-06
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Geography

By Robin Flowerdew

An increasing amount of work in many aspects of human geography is concerned with the effects caused by different types of institutions. Included in this book, originally published in 1982, is material from Britain, Ameican and Europe and it is shown that differences in institutional powers in…

Paperback – 2017-11-28
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Human Geography

Edited by Nurit Kliot, Stanley Waterman

In this comprehensive study, problems of racial and religious division are examines in places as diverse as Northern Ireland and the West Bank. Territorial and spatial expression, intergovernmental relationships in federal states, alliance blocs within the United Nations and American foreign policy…

Paperback – 2017-11-28
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Human Geography

Edited by Katharina Manderscheid, Tim Schwanen, David Tyfield

Although Foucault’s work has been employed and embraced enthusiastically by some ‘mobilities’ scholars, discussion across these two traditions to date has mostly been partial and unsystematic. Yet Foucault’s work can make critical contributions, for example, to thinking about governing mobilities…

Paperback – 2017-04-16
Routledge

Edited by David Ormandy

In this cross-disciplinary research David Ormandy and expert contributors explain the nature and development of the World Health Organization's study of housing across Europe. In-depth analysis provides new evidence of links between the health of inhabitants and their housing conditions,…

Paperback – 2016-06-03
Routledge
Housing and Society Series