- Author : Tim Marshall
- Publsiher : Simon and Schuster
- Release : 11 October 2016
- ISBN : 1501121472
- Pages : 305 pages
- Rating : 4/5 from 26 ratings
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First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Elliott and Thompson Limited.
Prisoners of Geography
- Author : Tim Marshall
- Publisher : Simon and Schuster
- Release : 11 October 2016
First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Elliott and Thompson Limited.
The Power of Geography
- Author : Tim Marshall
- Publisher : Simon and Schuster
- Release : 09 November 2021
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, the highly anticipated follow-up that uses ten maps of crucial regions around the globe to explain the geopolitical strategies of today’s world powers and what it means for our future. Tim Marshall’s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography offered us a “fresh way of looking at maps” (The New York Times Book Review), showing how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete.
Prisoners of Geography
- Author : Tim Marshall
- Publisher : The Experiment
- Release : 26 October 2021
Discover a secret world history written in the mountains, rivers, and seas that shape every country’s politics, economy, and international relations—and our own lives! History is a story—and it’s impossible to tell the whole tale without understanding the setting. In this eye-opening illustrated edition of the international bestseller Prisoners of Geography, you’ll learn to spot connections between geography and world affairs in ways you never noticed before. How did the US’s rivers help it
Prisoners of Geography
- Author : Tim Marshall
- Publisher : Elliott & Thompson Limited
- Release : 26 June 2022
All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to understand world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements...but if you dont know geography, youll never have the full picture.; To understand Putins actions, for example, it is essential to consider that, to be a ......
The Age of Walls
- Author : Tim Marshall
- Publisher : Scribner
- Release : 15 October 2019
Tim Marshall, the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography, offers “a readable primer to many of the biggest problems facing the world” (Daily Express, UK) by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populations. The globe has always been a world of walls, from the Great Wall of China to Hadrian’s Wall to the Berlin Wall. But a new age of isolationism and economic nationalism is upon us, visible in Trump’s
The Revenge of Geography
- Author : Robert D. Kaplan
- Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Release : 10 September 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. Bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the recent and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look
Prison Terms
- Author : Ellen Victoria Nerenberg,Professor Ellen Nerenberg
- Publisher : University of Toronto Press
- Release : 01 January 2001
An analysis of the confinement experience in Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960, covering the last years of Fascism. Not limiting herself to prisons, Nerenberg also explores military barracks, convents, and brothels as carceral homologues.
Prisoners of Geography
- Author : Tim Marshall,Emily Hawkins
- Publisher : Anonim
- Release : 26 June 2022
How did the USA become a superpower? Why do people go to war? And why are some countries rich while others are so poor? The answers to these questions and many more in this eye-opening book, which uses maps to explain how geography has shaped the history of our world. Discover how the choices of world leaders are swayed by mountains, rivers and seas - and why geography means that history is always repeating itself. This remarkable, unique introduction to
The Palgrave Handbook of Prison and the Family
- Author : Marie Hutton,Dominique Moran
- Publisher : Springer
- Release : 11 June 2019
This handbook brings together the international research focussing on prisoners’ families and the impact of imprisonment on them. Under-researched and under-theorised in the realm of scholarship on imprisonment, this handbook encompasses a broad range of original, interdisciplinary and cross-national research. This volume includes the experiences of those from countries often unrepresented in the prisoner’s families’ literature such as Russia, Australia, Israel and Canada. This broad coverage allows readers to consider how prisoners’ families are affected by imprisonment in countries
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Historical Geographies of Prisons
- Author : Karen M. Morin,Dominique Moran
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release : 12 June 2015
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution of correctional institutions as a specific subset of carceral geographies. This book analyzes and critiques global practices of incarceration, regimes of punishment, and their corresponding spaces of "corrections" from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines individuals' experiences within various regulatory regimes and spaces of punishment, and offers an interpretation of spaces of incarceration as cultural-historical artifacts. The book also analyzes the spatial-distributional geographies
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Golden Gulag
- Author : Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- Publisher : Univ of California Press
- Release : 08 January 2007
Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an
A Flag Worth Dying For
- Author : Tim Marshall
- Publisher : Simon and Schuster
- Release : 04 July 2017
First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Elliott and Thompson Limited as: Worth dying for: the power and politics of flags.
Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire
- Author : Tim Marshall
- Publisher : Anonim
- Release : 01 August 2019
The last of the devastating series of conflicts resulting from the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the Kosovo War saw more than 13,500 fatalities, with reports of atrocities, amid controversial intervention and bombing by NATO. Twenty years have passed since the war's end on 11 June 1999, yet Kosovo's status remains uncertain and questions remain about the possibility of future conflict on European soil. Tim Marshall, then diplomatic editor at Sky News, was on the ground covering the war. This is
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Prisoners of Reason
- Author : S. M. Amadae
- Publisher : Cambridge University Press
- Release : 14 January 2016
Using the theory of Prisoner's Dilemma, Prisoners of Reason explores how neoliberalism departs from classic liberalism and how it rests on game theory.
Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States
- Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on Science, Technology, and Law,Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences Community
- Publisher : National Academies Press
- Release : 29 July 2009
Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained by lack of adequate resources, sound policies, and national support. It is clear that change and advancements, both systematic and scientific, are needed in a number of forensic science disciplines to ensure the reliability of work, establish enforceable standards, and promote best practices with consistent application. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward provides a detailed plan
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