E-book Earth At Night: Our Planet in Brilliant Darkness

Dazzling photographs and images from space of our planet’s nightlights have captivated public attention for decades. In such images, patterns are immediately seen based on the presence or absence of light: a distinct coastline, bodies of water recognizable by their dark silhouettes, and the faint tendrils of roads and highways emanating from the brilliant blobs of light that are our modern, w…

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Milan and the Lakes

Explore the exciting history, culture, architecture, and fashion of Milan. Discover museums, foods, shops, and more. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Milan & the Lakes.

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Portugal

This small but immensely varied country has something for everyone. If you crave adventure, travel through the soaring mountains and volcanic craters of the Azores to the subtropical paradise of Madeira to get your fix. If that is not quite your thing, urban Portugal is just as unmissable. Explore the cutting-edge galleries, cool hangouts and restaurants of Lisbon and Porto — two of Europe’…

E-book Hawaii : A Guide to the Islands

There are six major Hawaiian Islands for you to choose from when planning your Hawaii trip or vacation. They are, in order of popularity, Oahu, Maui, the Big Island of Hawaii, Kauai, Molokai and Lanai. We go into detail about the four most popular within this travel guide to help you plan your trip. Each of the islands is different with its own “personality” - they each respectively represe…

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Jerusalem, Israel and the Palestinian Territories

This travel book covers everything you need to explore its culture, history and attractions. Whether you’re passing through or staying for a week, this top 10 guide brings together the best of Israel and Palestine.

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Vietnam

Taste traditional street food in Hanoi, cruise in Halong bay, explore nature and wildlife, take a boat trip through paddy fields and marvel at colonial architecture in Ho Chi Minh City. Your DK guide has it all: Welcome to Vietnam!

E-book The Handy Geography Answer Book

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Ebook Eyewitness: Switzerland

witzerland is small in size, big on experience Whether you want to hit the slopes, join the Swiss in their national pastime of hut-to-hut hiking or take a scenic railway journey of a lifetime, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Switzerland has to offer. Awash with magical sights and exhilarating activities, Switzerland's small size is hidden with its beguil…

E-book A Guide to The Savage Earth: A Dramatic Journey Across The Planet

This book provides a remarkable account of our planet's structure and the literally Earth-shattering process that shape it -- often with savage consequences for human being and other living things. Lavishly and spectacularly illustrated, with many unusual views of the Earth and its features, DK Guide to Savage Earth offers a comprehensive approach to understanding the making and shaping of plan…

E-book Earth (Pocket Genius)

The prefect sized books for backpacks, DK's Pocket Genius series is bright, inviting, concise, and punchy ?? the ideal source for reference. Featuring essential information, full-color images, glossary, and top ten lists, these books are a brand-new type of encyclopedia for young readers. A visual look at the planet we call home, Pocket Genius Earth delves into Earth's geology and geography, ex…

E-book Eyewitness: Poland

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Poland is your in-depth guide to the very best of Poland. Whether exploring the liveliness of its big cities or taking in the natural beauty of its idyllic lakes, beaches and mountains, you will experience the culture of Eastern hospitality and community values of this land that is deeply rooted in tradition and history.

E-book Eyewitness: Japan

Konnichiwa from one of the most fascinating countries on earth. Whether you want to see cherry blossoms in Kyoto, speed through the countryside aboard a shinkansen, or shop til you drop in futuristic Shibuya, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all Japan has to offer. Japan is a land of contrast - think tranquil zen gardens and peaceful pagodas, neon-lit cities and r…

E-book Chicago The First 100 Years 1833-1933

Chicago, Illinois is a recent manifestation that challenges the imagination. Just two hundred years ago, this land was inhabited by the Potawattomie Indians, Chicago did not exist. The original Fort Dearborn that had neen built in 1803, had lain in ashes since 1812. Up till 1816, there was only a French Canadian Fur trader, named Antoine Ouilmette along with his wife living in the shadows of th…

E-book The Rough Guide to Myanmar (Burma)

Until recently the least-known nation in Southeast Asia, Myanmar is finally getting the attention it deserves.

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Budapest

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E-book Eyewitness Travel: Brittany

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E-book Eyewitness Travel: Northern Spain

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E-book Eyewitness Travel: Top 10 San Diego

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E-book Eyewitness Travel: Top 10 Seoul

One of Asia's cultural capitals, Seoul is the perfect blend of traditional and modern, and is both fashion hub and food lover's paradise. Your DK Eyewitness Top 10 travel guide ensures you'll find your way around this dynamic city with absolute ease. Our regularly updated Top 10 travel guide breaks down the best of Seoul into helpful lists of ten - from our own selected highlights to the bes…

E-book Eyewitness Travel: London

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E-book Eyewitness Travel: Sardinia

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E-Book How the World Hunger Problem Was not Solved

The world food crisis (1972–1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use ‘modern’ inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation. This would turn subsistence producers into business owners, transform rural areas, invigorate national economies and the crisis-stricken world economy and thus stabilize capi…

E-Book The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960–2000

The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films to write a history of twentieth century Hollywood narrative cinema at the intersection of the geographies of narrative location, production, consumption and taste in the post-classical era, before the rise of digital cinema. This text reorients and redraws the boundarie…

E-Book Reflecting on Practices: New Directions for Spatial Theories

This collection of essays aims to better understand what researchers do when they practice research. The team of contributors – which includes human geographers, urban planners and environmental scientists – expose various epistemological, ontological and methodological challenges to pin down what practices "are". The essays showcase how practice theory can help spatial scientists generate …

E-Book Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and De…

Richly detailed and timely study on conservation, development and sustainability in Tanzania. Provides valuable insights into the successes and failures of the management and governance of wildlife, forestry and coastal resources. Responding to the urgent need to examine the outcome of interventions in governing natural resources, this book analyses different types of sustainability partnership…

E-Book Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World

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E-Book Intersectional Lives: Chinese Australian Women in White Australia

Intersectional Lives explores the varied experiences of Chinese Australian females across time and place during the White Australia Policy era (1901-1973). Chinese Australian women’s personal reflections are examined alongside postcolonial feminist readings of official records to illustrate how their everyday lives were influenced by multiple and fluid identities and subject positions includi…

Cityscopes: Beijing

Cityscoopes: concise, illustrated guides that provide an overview of a city's past as well as a focused eye on its present.

E-book Geographic Citizen Science Design : No One Left Behind

Little did Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and other ‘gentlemen scientists’ know, when they were making their scientific discoveries, that centuries later they would inspire a new field of scientific practice, research and innovation called citizen science. Citizen science can be defined in lay terms as ‘scientific work undertaken by members of the general pu…

E-book Addressing the Climate Crisis: Local Action in Theory and Practice

This open access book brings together a collection of cutting-edge insights into how action can and is already being taken against climate change at multiple levels of our societies, amidst growing calls for transformative and inclusive climate action. In an era of increasing recognition regarding climate and ecological breakdown, this book offers hope, inspiration and analyses for multi-level …

E-book Ancient Mesopotamia : Potrait of a Dead Civilization

It is now well or over a hundred years since western European scholars succeeded in discovering the key to the writings that two long-vanished Near Eastern civilizations had left behind. These are the hieroglyphic inscriptions to be found on Egyptian buildings and objects, and the writings, in cuneiform script, on clay tablets and on stone objects found in and around today's Iraq.

E-book Manual of Digital Earth

In the two decades since the debut of the Digital Earth (DE) vision, a con-certed international effort has engaged in nurturing the development of a technologyframework and harnessing applications to preserve the planet and sustain humansocieties. Evolutionary threads can be traced to key historic and multidisciplinaryfoundations, which were presciently articulated and represented at the first …

E-book Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere : Transnational Imaginatio…

The journey motif is what enables Melville’s Ishmael to assert his independence, just as it helps Huck Finn escape from the constric-tions of Southern society, an unjust and restrictive social order. This legendary motif functions as a characteristic element in the literary construction of American experience – and of the United States as a distinct geographic and cultural space. …

E-book Mapping Crisis Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the …

This book is being published in the midst of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, an event that was beyond the imagination of most people at the time that the project started, but one that now grips the world and is one of the principal factors in how we presently organise our daily existence. It was suggested that we might add some information to the book about these changes and…