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  • Evacuation

    The Politics and Aesthetics of Movement in Emergency

    by Peter Adey ...
    In Evacuation, Peter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of moving people and animals from harm during emergencies. He outlines how the governance and design of evacuation are recursive, operating on myriad political, symbolic, and affective levels in ways that reflect and reinforce social hierarchies. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from the retrieval of wounded soldiers ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Air

    Nature and Culture

    by Peter Adey ...
    Series series Earth
    Air has always been essential to life, from the atmospheric composition that gave life to the forests and gigantic insects of the Carboniferous age some 300 million years ago to the air that fuels the most important technologies today. We are immersed in a great ocean of air; from internal combustion and jet engines to modern cities with artificial climates, air is remarkable because it is so ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Aerial Life

    Spaces, Mobilities, Affects

    by Peter Adey ...
    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOK PRIZE 2011!This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies and individuals.Brings together a number of interdisciplinary approaches towards the aeroplane and its relation to societyPresents an original theory that our societies are aerial societies, or ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Mobility

    by Peter Adey ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Geography
    Mobility aims to take the pulse of this enormously expanded and energetic field. It explores the breadth of the disciplinary areas mobility studies now encompass, examining the diverse conceptual and methodological approaches wielded within the field, and explores the utility of mobility to illuminate a cornucopia of mobile lives: from the mass movements of individuals within global processes such ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Writings

    Book 1

    by Unknown ...
    Narrated by Peter Adey, Simone Feiler ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Writings

    Unabridged

    10 hours 27 min

    All such Wisdom as this may be viewed as having multiple purposes. All of which are to trigger a shift in personal and global Consciousness.There are so many choices available to you as to how you approach The Writings as a personal relationship.As with all love affairs there has to be an initial introduction in which you want to gain an appreciation for the nature of who and what it is youare ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Encyclopedia of Mobilities

    Edited by Peter Adey, Weiqiang Lin, Kaya Barry ...
    Series series Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series
    This Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamic and interdisciplinary field of mobilities. It offers a broad definition of the rich and varied approaches to understanding the uneven movement of people, things, animals, infrastructures and ideas.Scholars, practitioners and activists from across the globe illustrate the differences and contradictions in this kaleidoscopically ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Moving Towards Transition

    Commoning Mobility for a Low-Carbon Future

    by Prof. Peter Adey, Tim Cresswell, Jane Yeonjae Lee, Anna Nikolaeva, André Nóvoa, Cristina Temenos ...
    Series series Just Sustainabilities
    Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations, this book provides a critique of current transitions, mobility and transport policies. The authors consider how our mobility futures have been imagined, what they will potentially look and feel ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Crime, Regulation and Control During the Blitz

    Protecting the Population of Bombed Cities

    by Prof. Peter Adey, Dr. David J. Cox, Barry Godfrey ...
    Series series History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment
    Crime, Regulation and Control during the Blitz looks at the social effect of bombing on urban centres like Liverpool, Coventry and London, critically examining how the wartime authorities struggled to regulate and control crime and offending during the Blitz. Focusing predominantly on Liverpool, it investigates how the authorities and citizens anticipated the aerial war, and how the State and ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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    Future Warfare

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    How the wars of the near future will be fought and who will win themMany nations, peoples and special interest groups believe that violence will advance their cause. Warfare has changed greatly since the Second World War; it continued to change during the late 20th century and this process is still accelerating. Political, technological, social and religious forces are shaping the future of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Stages of Emergency

    Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense

    by Tracy C. Davis ...
    In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages of Emergency the distinguished performance historian Tracy C. Davis investigates the fundamentally theatrical nature of these Cold War civil defense exercises. Asking what it meant for civilians to be ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Everyday Peace

    How So-called Ordinary People Can Disrupt Violent Conflict

    by Roger Mac Ginty ...
    Series series Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding
    An exploration of how so-called ordinary people can disrupt violent conflict and forge peace. In this pathbreaking book, Roger Mac Ginty explores everyday peace-or how individuals and small groups can eke out spaces of tolerance and conciliation in conflict-ridden societies. Drawing on original material from the Everyday Peace Indicators project, he blends theory and concept-building together with ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods

    Edited by Alison J. Williams, Neil Jenkings, Rachel Woodward, Matthew F. Rech ...
    This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues.As an edited collection, it brings together an extensive group of authors from a range of disciplinary perspectives whose chapters engage with the conceptual, practical and political questions raised when doing military research. The book considers a wide range of questions around research about, on and with ... Read more

    $68.99 USD