ISBN: 1770450378 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): C. C. Long Publisher: General Books LLC Number of Pages: 42
The book has no illustrations or index Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge Subjects: Geography; History General; Science Earth Sciences Geography; Social Science Human Geography; Travel General; Travel United States General; Travel Maps
ISBN: 0140253718 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Loida Maritza Perez Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Number of Pages: 336
A luminous first novel about the Latina immigrant experience peopled with "characters whose humanity is so vivid and universal that one cannot help but be swept into their torment" (Miami Herald)
After leaving the college she'd attended to escape her religiously conservative parents Iliana a first-generation Dominican-American woman returns home to Brooklyn to find that her family is falling apart: one sister is careening toward mental collapse another sister is living in a decrepit building with her abusive husband and three children and a third sister has simply disappeared In this dislocating urban environment Iliana reluctantly confronts the anger and desperation that seem to seep through every crack of her family's small house and experiences all the contradictions superstitions joys and pains that come from a life caught between two cultures In this magnificent debut novel filled with graceful prose and searing detail Loida Maritza Perez offers a penetrating portrait of the American immigrant experience as she explores the true meanings of identity family--and home
"A powerful debut novel"-- Newsweek
"With haunting magic realism reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende Perez underscores the dual existence every immigrant child navigates"-- Latina magazine
"Geographies of Home will leave you feeling both amazingly breathless and wonderfully redeemed"-- Edwidge Danticat
Nominated for a Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award Perez was named one of El Diario's "50 Latinas of 1999"
Dragons and Tigers: A Geography of South, East, and Southeast Asia
ISBN: 0471630845 Binding: Paperback Edition: 2 Author(s): Barbara A. Weightman Publisher: Wiley Number of Pages: 464
This Second Edition of Dragons and Tigers explores and illustrates conditions events problems and trends of both larger regions and individual nations Using a cross-disciplinary approach the author discusses evolving physical and cultural landscapes Nature-Society relations provide the foundation for social economic political and environmental problems This comprehensive text includes two new interludes on China and Japan
ISBN: 0767413458 Binding: Paperback Edition: 2 Author(s): Crane S Miller, Richard S Hyslop Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Number of Pages: 295
The second edition of this popular topically arranged text is an account of the most vital significant and fascinating aspects of California's rich physical and cultural landscape
Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation (8th Edition) (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0131475371 Binding: Hardcover Edition: annotated instructors Author(s): Tom L. McKnight & Darrel Hess Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall Number of Pages:
The Europeans: A Geography of People, Culture, and Environment (Texts In Regional Geography)
ISBN: 0898622727 Binding: Paperback Edition: 1 Author(s): Robert C. Ostergren, John G. Rice Publisher: The Guilford Press Number of Pages: 386
Offering a comprehensive introduction to European geography this timely text is as authoritative as it is richly nuanced and engaging The authors analyze the ongoing process of integration that is giving new meaning to the idea of being European while also delineating the important subregional differences that exist among the continent's people and places Coverage encompasses the entire region: its physical setting and environment; population and migration; work and leisure; language and religion; and political organization Particular attention is given to the historic evolution and contemporary features of the urban environments in which the majority of Europeans live their daily lives Combining vivid descriptionup-to-date information and cogent analysis the text is illustrated with 200 photographs and over 45 maps
ISBN: 0415567629 Binding: Paperback Edition: 2 Author(s): Warwick Murray Publisher: Routledge Number of Pages: 392
Globalization is a term that is increasingly used to rationalize a wide range of economic and political processes and explain a plethora of cultural economic and social processes Despite this it is rarely well defined or critically appraised As both a process and political agenda it is a theme that has become increasingly pervasive in human geography written in the last 20 years Geographies of Globalization critically engages with the contested concept of globalization from an explicitly human geographical viewpoint illustrating how an appreciation of the principles of the discipline is fundamental to understanding this phenomenon It also analyses the geographical work of non-geographers Part 1 introduces the concept of globalization while also discussing various theories and perspectives drawing out their spatial ramifications and placing them in historical perspective Part 2 breaks down and analyses the process into overlapping economic political and socio-economic spheres emphasizing the links and breaks between change in these areas The environmental impacts of globalization are integrated throughout Part 3 uses case studies from the UK USA Argentina and Mozambique to ground the processes introduced in the previous part Part 4 draws together the theoretical historical and empirical analysis in order to reflect on the changing nature of globalization resistance to it and the implications of this for human geography In summarizing and analyzing the major arguments put forward to explain promote and criticize globalization the reader is provided with a critical resource through which to make sense of the confusing array of competing perspectives Boxed sections highlight and explain "key concepts" in a jargon free manner and showcase classic and innovative work by geographers in the field The book is highly illustrated with figures and photographs as well as chapter summaries and annotated further reading
World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography (World Development Report)
ISBN: 0821376403 Binding: Hardcover Edition: illustrated edition Author(s): World Bank Publisher: World Bank Publications Number of Pages: 383
Rising densities of human settlements migration and transport to reduce distances to market and specialization and trade facilitated by fewer international divisions are central to economic development The transformations along these three dimensions - density distance and division - are most noticeable in North America Western Europe and Japan but countries in Asia and Eastern Europe are changing in ways similar in scope and speed World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography concludes that these spatial transformations are essential and should be encouragedThe conclusion is not without controversy Slum-dwellers now number a billion but the rush to cities continuesGlobalization is believed to benefit many but not the billion people living in lagging areas of developing nations High poverty and mortality persist among the world's 'bottom billion' while others grow wealthier and live longer lives Concern for these three billion often comes with the prescription that growth must be made spatially balancedThe WDR has a different message: economic growth is seldom balanced and efforts to spread it out prematurely will jeopardize progress The Report: documents how production becomes more concentrated spatially as economies grow; proposes economic integration as the principle for promoting successful spatial transformations; and revisists the debates on urbanization territorial development and regional integration and shows how today's developers can reshape economic geography
ISBN: 159385160X Binding: Paperback Edition: Second Edition Author(s): Melinda S. Meade, Robert J. Earickson Publisher: The Guilford Press Number of Pages: 501
This essential text surveys the perspectives methodologies and theories that geographers use to address the subject of human health and disease Wide ranging and international in scope the volume synthesizes knowledge from across the social physical and biological sciences Coverage includes the cultural ecology of disease; landscape epidemiology; developmental change and human health; biometeorology; disease ecology and spatial analysis in developed countries; spatial interaction in disease diffusion; health care resources delivery systems and planning; and research methodologies and data-analytic techniques Throughout clearly presented vignettes examine special issues and demonstrate the use of advanced statistical tools The text is richly illustrated with tables figures and maps including a four-page color insert
