The Book Company: New Products - Human Geography

Who Cares? (The Unequal Geographies of Healthcare)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:36:32 +0000

There are massive disparities, globally, nationally and regionally, in the provision of healthcare services and access to them. This textbook from one of the foremost geographers of health examines the unequal production and consumption of healthcare and seeks explanations for such diverse distrib..

Price: $120.00

Methods for Researching Global Challenges (An Interdisciplinary Guide)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:51:37 +0000

Methods for Researching Global Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Guide is a practical and forward-thinking guide to the transdisciplinary research methods best suited for studying complex, high-stakes global issues, from climate change and inequality to digital governance and pandemics.Price: $233.99

Mapping Place Names of India

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:50:10 +0000

This book is the first of its kind to chart the terrain of contemporary India’s many place names. It explores different ‘place connections’, investigates how places are named and renamed and looks at the forces that are remaking the future place name map of India.

Price: $233.99

Walking (A sociological field guide)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:17:27 +0000

Going for a walk with twenty sociologists, this collection is a playful rendition of the social worlds that we move in and through. From city streets to coastlines, along riverbanks and through street markets, alone and together, each walk blurs descriptive, poetic and theoretical observations and..

Price: $130.00

Environments of power (Vibrant terrain and landscapes of resistance)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:14:03 +0000

Environments of power provides unique case studies of environmental inclusion and exclusion across the Americas, Africa, Japan, India, and the South-Pacific. Using more-than-human and Indigenist approaches, chapters focus on Indigenous environmental resistance, marginalisation across social and ph..

Price: $140.00

Postcapitalist cities (Towards a common urban future)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:05:50 +0000

A visionary exploration of what the city might be in a postcapitalist world.

In a world dominated by capitalism, where urban landscapes suffer from inequality, environmental degradation and social strife, a vision for what comes next is vital. Postcapitalist cities guides readers through..

Price: $120.00

Demystifying informal urban design and planning (Insights from Asia)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:50:25 +0000

With more than half of the world’s population living in cities, informal settlements, or slums, continue to expand. This book explores the informality-urban design nexus, and asks why formal urban designers and planners have remained largely reluctant to address these challenges facing our citi..

Price: $130.00

Arctic state identity (Geography, history, and geopolitical relations)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:36:00 +0000

This book sets out to answer what it means to hold a formal title as one of the eight ‘Arctic states’; is there such a thing as an Arctic state identity, and if so, what does this mean for state personnel? It charts the thoughtful reflections and stories of state personnel from three Arctic states..

Price: $120.00

Resisting Olympic evictions (Contesting space in Rio de Janeiro)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:27:27 +0000

By tracing the way evictions in a small community of around 600 families made news headlines all over the world, this book explores how activists in Rio protested against evictions at the Rio 2016 Olympics. They constructed the favela as safe, welcoming and homely, directly contesting the myth of ..

Price: $130.00

Gendered urban violence among Brazilians (Painful truths from Rio de Janeiro and London)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:24:41 +0000

This book aims to examine the nature of and resistance to gendered urban violence among Brazilian women in London and in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on the conceptualisation of translocational gendered urban violence framework, it highlights the importance of examining direct f..

Price: $130.00