Words Into Worlds: Learning a Second Language Through by Shin-Mei Kao

Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions

Because the mid-1990s, have an effect on has turn into important to the social sciences and arts. Debates abound over the best way to conceptualise have an effect on, and the way to appreciate the interrelationships among affective lifestyles and a number modern political modifications. In Encountering have an effect on, Ben Anderson explores why knowing impact issues and provides one account of affective existence that hones within the other ways during which impacts are ordered.

The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia

Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean

Our global is a water international. Seventy percentage of our planet comprises ocean. even though, geography has usually ignored this important element of the earth's composition. The be aware 'geography' at once interprets as 'earth writing' and according to this definition, the self-discipline has preoccupied itself with the research of terrestrial areas of society and nature.

Seeking refuge : birds and landscapes of the Pacific flyway

Every one fall and spring, hundreds of thousands of birds trip the Pacific Flyway, the westernmost of the 4 significant North American chicken migration routes. The landscapes they move range from wetlands to farmland to concrete, inhabited not just by way of flora and fauna but in addition through farmers, suburban households, and significant towns. within the 20th century, farmers used the wetlands to irrigate their plants, remodeling the panorama and placing migratory birds in danger.