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Prisoners of Geography

Author : Tim Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501121470

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First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Elliott and Thompson Limited.

Prisoners of Geography: Our World Explained in 12 Simple Maps (Illustrated Young Readers Edition)

Author : Tim Marshall
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615198481

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Prisoners of Geography: Our World Explained in 12 Simple Maps (Illustrated Young Readers Edition) by Tim Marshall Pdf

“For curious children ages 7–15, Prisoners of Geography has lots to fascinate.”—The Wall Street Journal The secret world history written in the mountains, rivers, and seas that shape every country’s politics, economy, and international relations—and our own lives—is revealed in this illustrated young readers edition of Prisoners of Geography, the million-copy international bestseller. History is a story—and it’s impossible to tell the whole tale without understanding the setting. In this eye-opening illustrated edition of the international bestseller Prisoners of Geography, you’ll learn to spot connections between geography and world affairs in ways you never noticed before. How did the US’s rivers help it become a superpower? Why are harsh, cold and swampy Siberia and the Russian Far East two of that country’s most prized regions? How come Japan prefers to trade along the coasts instead of across its land? What do the Himalayas have to do with war? With colorful maps that capture every continent and region, plus hundreds of illustrations that illuminate how our surroundings shape us, this one-of-a-kind atlas will inspire curious minds of all ages!

The Power of Geography

Author : Tim Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781982178642

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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” (The Washington Post) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the challenges to today’s world powers and how they presage a volatile future. Tim Marshall’s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography offered us a “fresh way of looking at maps” (The New York Times Book Review), showing how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and walls. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed, but the world has. Now, in this “wonderfully entertaining and lucid account, written with wit, pace, and clarity” (Mirror, UK), Marshall takes us into ten regions set to shape global politics. Find out why US interest in the Middle East will wane; why Australia is now beginning an epic contest with China; how Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the UK are cleverly positioning themselves for greater power; why Ethiopia can control Egypt; and why Europe’s next refugee crisis looms closer than we think, as does a cutting-edge arms race to control space. Innovative, compelling, and delivered with Marshall’s trademark wit and insight, this is “an immersive blend of history, economics, and political analysis that puts geography at the center of human affairs” (Publishers Weekly).

A Flag Worth Dying For

Author : Tim Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501168338

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First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Elliott and Thompson Limited as: Worth dying for: the power and politics of flags.

Perspectives on Strategy

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199674275

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"Companion though stand-alone work to my earlier book, The strategy bridge"--Pref.

Shadowplay

Author : Tim Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1783964464

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The Revenge of Geography

Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812982220

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “ambitious and challenging” (The New York Review of Books) work, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe’s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan’s porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India’s main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century’s looming cataclysms.

Historical Geographies of Prisons

Author : Karen M. Morin,Dominique Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317532620

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This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution of correctional institutions as a specific subset of carceral geographies. This book analyzes and critiques global practices of incarceration, regimes of punishment, and their corresponding spaces of "corrections" from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines individuals' experiences within various regulatory regimes and spaces of punishment, and offers an interpretation of spaces of incarceration as cultural-historical artifacts. The book also analyzes the spatial-distributional geographies of incarceration, particularly with respect to their historical impact on community political-economic development and local geographies. Contributions within this book examine a range of prison sites and the practices that take place within them to help us understand how regimes of punishment are experienced, and are constructed in different kinds of ways across space and time for very different ends. The overall aim of this book is to help understand the legacies of carceral geographies in the present. The resonances across space and time tell a profound story of social and spatial legacies and, as such, offer important insights into the prison crisis we see in many parts of the world today.

"Dirty Northern B*st*rds!" and Other Tales from the Terraces

Author : Tim Marshall
Publisher : Elliott & Thompson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08
Category : Chants
ISBN : 1783960604

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It starts with one voice, one word - and becomes raised in unison. The roar of the fans casts a spell, creating an atmosphere along with a sense of unity, loyalty and belonging. It's the grassroots of the sport, from the Premiership all the way down to the Conference, encapsulating all the imagination, flair and banter that bring the beautiful game to life. Here, Tim Marshall recounts the history of this powerful and passionate weekly ritual. From the industrial revolution to the sexual revolution, touching on issues of race, class and regional identity, the sentiments behind the roar when the 'Dirty Northern bastards!' meet the 'Soft Southern bastards!' follow the divisions and the history of modern Britain.

Divided

Author : Tim Marshall
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Division (Philosophy)
ISBN : 1783963433

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New from the No. 1 Sunday Times We feel more divided than ever. This riveting analysis tells you why. Walls are going up. Nationalism and identity politics are on the rise once more. Thousands of miles of fences and barriers have been erected in the past ten years, and they are redefining our political landscape. There are many reasons why we erect walls, because we are divided in many ways: wealth, race, religion, politics. In Europe the ruptures of the past decade threaten not only European unity, but in some countries liberal democracy itself. In China, the Party's need to contain the divisions wrought by capitalism will define the nation's future. In the USA the rationale for the Mexican border wall taps into the fear that the USA will no longer be a white majority country in the course of this century. Understanding what has divided us, past and present, is essential to understanding much of what's going on in the world today. Covering China; the USA; Israel and Palestine; the Middle East; the Indian Subcontinent; Africa; Europe and the UK, bestselling author Tim Marshall presents a gripping and unflinching analysis of the fault lines that will shape our world for years to come.

Why Geography Matters, More Than Ever

Author : Harm de Blij
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780199913749

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"This work was first published by Oxford University Press in 2005 as Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America."

At the Mountains of Madness

Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588364753

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At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft Pdf

Introduction by China Miéville Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition’s uncanny discoveries–and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization–is a milestone of macabre literature. This exclusive new edition, presents Lovecraft’s masterpiece in fully restored form, and includes his acclaimed scholarly essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature.” This is essential reading for every devotee of classic terror.

The Power of Place

Author : Harm J. De Blij
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199754328

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Harm de Blij contends in this book that geography continues to hold us all in an unrelenting grip and that we are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and collectively.

The Geography Behind History

Author : William Gordon East
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : 0393004198

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In this book, Professor East discusses the vital relationship between history and geographical conditions. Drawing examples from ancient times up to the present, he demonstrates that a study of history must include consideration of the physical conditions under which an event occurs, and that "the particular characteristics of this setting serve not only to localise but also to influence part at least of the action." Topographical position, climate, distribution of water and minerals, the placement of routes and towns, and ease or difficulty of movement between districts and countries are among the factors which the historian must take into account. Book jacket.

The Curious Map Book

Author : Ashley Baynton-Williams
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226237299

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Since that ancient day when the first human drew a line connecting Point A to Point B, maps have been understood as one of the most essential tools of communication. Despite differences in language, appearance, or culture, maps are universal touchstones in human civilization. Over the centuries, maps have served many varied purposes; far from mere guides for reaching a destination, they are unique artistic forms, aides in planning commercial routes, literary devices for illuminating a story. Accuracy—or inaccuracy—of maps has been the make-or-break factor in countless military battles throughout history. They have graced the walls of homes, bringing prestige and elegance to their owners. They track the mountains, oceans, and stars of our existence. Maps help us make sense of our worlds both real and imaginary—they bring order to the seeming chaos of our surroundings. With The Curious Map Book, Ashley Baynton-Williams gathers an amazing, chronologically ordered variety of cartographic gems, mainly from the vast collection of the British Library. He has unearthed a wide array of the whimsical and fantastic, from maps of board games to political ones, maps of the Holy Land to maps of the human soul. In his illuminating introduction, Baynton-Williams also identifies and expounds upon key themes of map production, peculiar styles, and the commerce and collection of unique maps. This incredible volume offers a wealth of gorgeous illustrations for anyone who is cartographically curious.