Although often framed as politics ultimate ‘other’, it is hard to ignore that sport and the political are intimately connected. Historians, however, have up until now hardly reflected on nature of this connection in postwar years, how politicisation has actually taken shape, actors institutions delineated, navigated, crossed boundaries between two. This article tackles these questions through a...

The spatial distribution of commercial activities is vital to support healthy lifestyles and achieve livable public spaces environmental, social economic sustainability in our cities. However, require a constant flow expenditure for their own viability. As result, understanding the temporal fundamental, although lack detailed, complete data sources has impeded this task until now. Bank card pav...

Medical geography-the study of the global distribution of human diseases as a function of environmental conditions-was a largely nineteenth-century preoccupation. It incorporated the earlier and contemporaneously continuing interest of medical topography -the description of the medical conditions of particular places. Victorian medical geographers cited J F Cartheuser's De morbis endemiis libel...

1 School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China 2 School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA 3 Dept. of Civil and Structural Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong, China 4 Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA 5 Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA * now at: Nicholas School, Duke Un...

1 UHI Millennium Institute, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban PA37 1QA, Scotland, UK 2 Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban PA37 1QA, Scotland, UK 3 Environmental Systems Research Group, Geography Department, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland, UK * now at: Institute of Marine Geology and Chemistry,...

This article argues that the history of geography should be written from an externalist perspective; that is, its history should be directly related to the larger historical context in which it is embedded. My example is American human geography during the early Cold War period. The argument is that as a result of America’s experience during the Second World War, the USA mobilised its academy t...

GILFEDDER, L. & KIRKPATRICK, J.B., 1996 The distribution, ecology and conservation needs of Colobanthus curtisiae West. Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasm. 130(1): 25-30. ISSN 0080-4703. Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252C, Hobart, Australia 7001 QBK and formerly LG), LG now Parks and Wildlife Division, DELM, GPO Box 44A, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001 (...

BACKGROUND Primary squamous cell carcinomas of the colorectum are very uncommon. Until now, to the best of our knowledge, only 114 cases of squamous cell carcinoma in the colorectum exist in the reported literature. Here we report a case of squamous cell carcinoma of the rectum in the ethnic Kashmiri population in northern India. CASE PRESENTATION The case of a 60-year-old male patient (Asian...

Work on ethnicity and health has mainly focussed on specific illnesses or has been based in specific locations. Nationally representative information on the health of ethnic minority people in Britain is scarce and until recently has largely relied on immigrant mortality statistics. While these show important differences in health between ethnic groups, they have a number of drawbacks, includin...

The Geography of Hunger, now the target of reflective reading 50 years after it was first published, shows the author' elegant combination of argumentative skill and scientific confidence. Josué de Castro's provocative focus is both a new way of thinking and acting towards the food and nutritional situation in Brazil and a pioneering approach to the issue of collective hunger as a geographicall...