Michael Dear

Doug Richardson

Professor of City and Regional Planning Michael Dear

Jim Ketchum

Sarah Luria

Geohumanities identifies a convergence of transdisciplinary thought characterized by geography’s engagement with the humanities, and the humanities’ integration of place and the tools of geography into its studies. With this cutting edge book, an international collaboration of scholars, architects, artists, activists, scientists and writers map this emerging intellectual terrain. This volume explores the creative zone at the edge of the humanities’ rapidly expanding engagement with geography, and the multi-methodological inquiries that analyze the meanings of place, and then reconstruct those meanings to provoke new knowledge as well as the possibility of altered political practices. It is no coincidence that the geohumanities are forcefully emerging at a time of immense intellectual and social change. The book’s contributors address urgent contemporary imperatives, such as the link between creativity and place; altered practices of spatial literacy; the increasing complexity of visual representation in art, culture, and science; and the ubiquitous presence of geospatial technologies in the Information Age.

Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place

GeoHumanities

Stephen Daniels

Dydia DeLyser

J. Nicholas Entrikin

The past decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in the intellectual interplay between geography and the humanities in both academic and public circles. The metaphors and concepts of geography now permeate literature, philosophy and the arts. Concepts such as space, place, landscape, mapping and territory have become pervasive as conceptual frameworks and core metaphors in recent publications by humanities scholars and well-known writers. Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds contains over twenty-five contributions from leading scholars who have engaged this vital intellectual project from various perspectives, both inside and outside of the field of geography. The book is divided into four sections representing different modes of examining the depth and complexity of human meaning invested in maps, attached to landscapes, and embedded in the spaces and places of modern life. The topics covered range widely and include interpretations of space, place, and landscape in literature and the visual arts, philosophical reflections on geographical knowledge, cultural imagination in scientific exploration and travel accounts, and expanded geographical understanding through digital and participatory methodologies. The clashing and blending of cultures caused by globalization and the new technologies that profoundly alter human environmental experience suggest new geographical narratives and representations that are explored here by a multidisciplinary group of authors. This book is essential reading for students, scholars, and interested general readers seeking to understand the new synergies and creative interplay emerging from this broad intellectual engagement with meaning and geographic experience.

Geography and the Humanities

Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds

When Sheriff's Deputy Lucky Dey discovers his little brother has been murdered, he'll stop at nothing until he takes down the cop-killer. Lucky finds himself in L.A., which is whirling in the wake of a major star's fatal accident. With peril and mayhem around every corner, the risk-addicted cop might not be so lucky this time around.

A Lucky Dey Thriller

Blood Money

Mark Dando

Want to get more done in your life...? Want to create more space for yourself...? Want to transform the way you look at your time...? You do? Here's how we can help: o A small book, full of big ideas o A powerful book, short enough to read in the bath before the water goes cold o A provocative book to get you thinking differently in no time Drawing on insights gained through coaching thousands of people since 2000, Mark Dando and Doug Richardson have put together a hard-hitting attack on the key thinking patterns to be addressed, in order to help you get more of the important things done. In addition they offer straightforward hints and tricks to help you change the way you manage time and yourself, and therefore drive improvements in your personal productivity. So, do you want to make the important things happen in your life or not? Don't think about it any longer - you're wasting time. Find an hour...run a bath...read this book... Make things different.

A Mindset Book

Squeeze Your Time

Doug Richardson

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