ISBN: 0471536202 Binding: Hardcover Edition: 3 Author(s): James O. Wheeler, Peter O. Muller, Grant Ian Thrall, Timothy J. Fik Publisher: Wiley Number of Pages: 424
Provides readers with a solid background in the theories of economic geography while examining contemporary issues Updated edition integrates new recent research on industrial geography using information published within the last ten years with an added global emphasis Features a new chapter on interdependent global economies and improved figures and graphics including updated tables throughout the text
ISBN: 0516272993 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Allan Fowler Publisher: Children's Press(CT) Number of Pages: 32
The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons - to all corners of the globe With this series all about geography emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities nations waterways and habitats around the worldand right in their own backyards
ISBN: 0073051519 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Jerome Donald Fellmann Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education Number of Pages: 516
A non-major introduction to humancultural geography that focuses on culture society and human activity from a geographic perspective The book is also designed for majors taking their first course in Human Geography Fellmann provides a thorough classic up-to-date and balanced approach to this broad range of topics Among the most distinctive and important features of the text is its thorough and well-integrated coverage of gender roles in society and cultureInstructors and students using the sixth edition update will have access to PowerWeb a course-specific website developed with the help of instructors teaching the course to provide instructors and students with curriculum-based materials updated weekly assessments informative and timely world news refereed web links and much more
Communicating in Geography and the Environmental Sciences
ISBN: 019551761X Binding: Paperback Edition: 3 Author(s): Iain Hay Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Number of Pages: 262
This book was written to provide students with an insight into the expectations of the people for whom they will be writing essays giving talks and drawing figures enabling them to prepare better work than might otherwise have been possible
ISBN: 1557866813 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): David Harvey Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Number of Pages: 480
This book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice and seeks new ways to think about the future of urbanization in the twenty-first century It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space time place and nature - the material frames of daily life - are constituted and represented through social practices not as separate elements but in relation to each other It describes how geographical differences are produced and shows how they then become fundamental to the exploration of political economic and ecological alternatives to contemporary life
The book is divided into four parts Part I describes the problematic nature of action and analysis at different scales of time and space and introduces the reader to the modes of dialectical thinking and discourse which are used throughout the remainder of the work Part II examines how "nature" and "environment" have been understood and valued in relation to processes of social change and seeks from this basis to make sense of contemporary environmental issues
Part III is a wide-ranging discussion of history geography and culture explores the meaning of the social "production" of space and time and clarifies problems related to "otherness" and "difference" The final part of the book deploys the foundational arguments the author has established to consider contemporary problems of social justice that have resulted from recent changes in geographical divisions of labor in the environment and in the pace and quality of urbanization
Justice Nature and the Geography of Difference speaks to a wide readership of students of social cultural and spatial theory and of the dynamics of contemporary life It is a convincing demonstration that it is both possible and necessary to value difference and to seek a just social order
Ptolemy's "Geography": An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters
ISBN: 0691092591 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Ptolemy Publisher: Princeton University Press Number of Pages: 216
Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time Written in the second century AD for more than fifteen centuries it was the most detailed topography of Europe and Asia available and the best reference on how to gather data and draw maps Ptolemy championed the use of astronomical observation and applied mathematics in determining geographical locations But more importantly he introduced the practice of writing down coordinates of latitude and longitude for every feature drawn on a world map so that someone else possessing only the text of the Geography could reproduce Ptolemy's map at any time in whole or in part at any scale Here Berggren and Jones render an exemplary translation of the Geography and provide a thorough introduction which treats the historical and technical background of Ptolemy's work the contents of the Geography and the later history of the work Also included here are unique color reproductions of maps from manuscripts and early printed editions of the text representative of the beautiful and practical cartographic artistry that flowed from Ptolemy's work Historians of science classicists and anyone who enjoys beautiful maps or map making will find this work an indispensable addition to their library
ISBN: 0516270869 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): David F. Marx Publisher: Children's Press(CT) Number of Pages: 31
The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons - to all corners of the globe With this series all about geography emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities nations waterways and habitats around the worldand right in their own backyards
Geo-Mexico: the geography and dynamics of modern Mexico
ISBN: 0973519134 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Edition: First Author(s): Richard Rhoda, Tony Burton Publisher: Sombrero Books Number of Pages: 288
Geo-Mexico provides a lively up-to-date and comprehensive exploration of Mexico from climates to culture population to politics ecosystems to economy transport to tourism and globalization to gated communities Key features: - assesses Mexico's success in meeting its demographic economic and environmental challenges - traces the historical processes behind Mexico s modern landscapes - utilizes a variety of concepts models and theories - engages the reader in contemporary issues such as development international migration sustainability and global warming - explains Mexico s spatial patterns and its growing north-south divide More than 100 original maps graphs and diagrams Over 50 text boxes highlight illustrative examples and case studies Complete reference notes bibliography and index Geo-Mexico is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in Mexico
