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Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People Greg Bankoff 9781853839641
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £43.92Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to personal property,... -
Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines Greg Bankoff 9781138879263
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Engagingly written with 34 graphs and 15 tables showing climate changes and the history of hazards in the PhilippinesWith the current threat of global warming, this is something that will affect... -
A History of Natural Resources in Asia: The Wealth of Nature by Greg Bankoff 9781403977366
Booksplease Price: £46.58Much has been written about the wealth of nations, the history of unequal distribution and zones of affluence and deprivation within and between societies. This book explores why some Asian nations... -
Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World by Greg Bankoff 9780299283841
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant risk of fire has left a deep and lasting imprint on almost every dimension of urban... -
Why Vulnerability Still Matters: The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation Greg Bankoff 9781032113432
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66We think vulnerability still matters when considering how people are put at risk from hazards and this book shows why in a series of thematic chapters and case studies written by eminent disaster... -
Post-Colonial National Identity in the Philippines: Celebrating the Centennial of Independence by Greg Bankoff 9781138730861
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23This title was first published in 2002.Presenting a fresh understanding of the construction of Post-Colonial national identity in the new context of globalization, this text looks at the dilemmas of... -
Post-Colonial National Identity in the Philippines: Celebrating the Centennial of Independence by Greg Bankoff 9781138730908
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World: Bordering on Danger by Greg Bankoff 9781349948567
Booksplease Price: £112.42This book examines the dangers and the patterns of adaptation that emerge through exposure to risk on a daily basis. By addressing the influence of environmental factors in Indian Ocean World... -
Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World: Bordering on Danger by Greg Bankoff 9781349956586
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book examines the dangers and the patterns of adaptation that emerge through exposure to risk on a daily basis. By addressing the influence of environmental factors in Indian Ocean World... -
Breeds of Empire: The Invention of the Horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa 1500-1950 by Greg Bankoff 9788776940218
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Ships of empire carried not just merchandise, soldiers and administrators but also equine genes from as far afield as Europe, Arabia, the Americas, China and Japan. In the process, they introduced... -
Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation by Christi-Anne Castro 9780199746408
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £64.00The first cultural history of the Philippines during the twentieth century, Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation focuses on the relationships between music, performance, and ideologies of... -
Companion to Environmental Studies Noel Castree (University of Manchester, UK) 9781138192201
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.04Companion to Environmental Studies presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, debates, concepts, approaches and questions that together define environmental studies... -
All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State by Assistant Professor Saptarishi Bandopadhyay
RRP: £74.00Booksplease Price: £55.14Disasters are all around us. In everyday parlance, disasters are understood as exceptional occurrences that destroy human life, property, and resources. For centuries, people have looked to political... -
Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction Fred Kruger (Erlangen Nuernberg University, Germany) 9780415745604
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the... -
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines by Warwick Anderson
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how... -
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines by Warwick Anderson 9780822338048
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how...