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Types of Maps (Rookie Read-About Geography)

Textbook - Types of Maps (Rookie Read-About Geography) ISBN: 0516277685
Binding: Paperback
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Author(s): Mary Dodson Wade
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

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Medical Geography, Second Edition

Textbook - Medical Geography, Second Edition 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


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Hands-On Geography/Grades K-3: Reproducibles and Activities to Develop Early Geography Skills

Textbook - Hands-On Geography/Grades K-3: Reproducibles and Activities to Develop Early Geography Skills ISBN: 0590493515
Binding: Paperback
Edition:
Author(s): Susan Buckley, Elspeth Leacock
Publisher: Scholastic Trade
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography

Textbook - The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography ISBN: 0393333647
Binding: Paperback
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Author(s): Graham Robb
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Number of Pages: 480

"A witty engaging narrative styleRobb's approach is particularly engrossing"New York Times Book Review front-page review A narrative of explorationfull of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitantsthat explains the enduring fascination of France While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris large parts of France were still terra incognita Even in the age of railways and newspapers France was a land of ancient tribal divisions prehistoric communication networks and pre-Christian beliefs French itself was a minority language

Graham Robb describes that unknown world in arresting narrative detail He recounts the epic journeys of mapmakers scientists soldiers administrators and intrepid tourists of itinerant workers pilgrims and herdsmen with their millions of migratory domestic animals We learn how France was explored charted and colonized and how the imperial influence of Paris was gradually extended throughout a kingdom of isolated towns and villages

The Discovery of France explains how the modern nation came to be and how poorly understood that nation still is today Above all it shows how much of Francepast and presentremains to be discovered A New York Times Notable Book Publishers Weekly Best Book Slate Best Book and Booklist Editor's Choice 16 pages of illustrations

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The Geography

Textbook - The Geography ISBN: 0486268969
Binding: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Author(s): Claudius Ptolemy
Publisher: Dover Publications
Number of Pages: 288

Second-century classic of civilization listed over 8000 places in Europe Africa and Asia tabulated according to latitude and longitude Excellent reproduction of the rare first (and definitive) English translation published in a limited edition of 250 copies by the New York Public Library Included are 27 maps from the Ebner Manuscript ca 1460 and an Introduction by Professor Joseph Fischer S J


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The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape

Textbook - The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape ISBN: 0375758321
Binding: Paperback
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Author(s): Joel Kotkin
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Number of Pages: 272

In the blink of an eye vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones In The New Geography acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live and work in the decades to come and why He examines the new role of cities in America and takes us into the new American neighborhood The New Geography is a brilliant and indispensable guidebook to a fundamentally new landscape

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Geography & Geographers: Anglo-American Human Geography since 1945

Textbook - Geography & Geographers: Anglo-American Human Geography since 1945 ISBN: 0340808608
Binding: Paperback
Edition: 6
Author(s): R. J. Johnston, J. D. Sidaway
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication
Number of Pages: 542

This book provides a survey of the major debates key thinkers and schools of thought in human geography in the English-speaking world setting them within the context of economic social cultural and political as well as intellectual changes It focuses on the debates among geographers regarding what their discipline should study and how that should be done and draws on a wide reading of the geographical literature

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Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire

Textbook - Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire ISBN: 0631201122
Binding: Paperback
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Author(s): Felix Driver
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Number of Pages: 272

Geography Militant is a compelling account of the relations between geographical knowledge exploration and empire This book traces the emergence of a modern culture of exploration as reflected in the role of institutions such as the Royal Geographical Society and the reputation of explorers such as Livingstone and Stanley The production and dissemination of geographical knowledge in the age of empire involved much more than the collection of new facts: it required the mobilization of a wide range of material and imaginative resources Geography Militant pays particular attention to the contradictory and contested nature of geography unraveling contemporary debates over the status of fieldwork the ethics of exploration and the relations between science and sensationalism These issues are of more than historical interest as the culture of Geography Militant continually regenerates itself in the worlds of advertising tourism and heritage This engaging book will be of interest to scholars and students in Geography History Literature Anthropology Cultural Studies and the History of Science

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Dragons and Tigers: A Geography of South, East, and Southeast Asia

Textbook - 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

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World Geography Mysteries

Textbook - World Geography Mysteries ISBN: 0881602612
Binding: Paperback
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Author(s): Mark Falstein
Publisher: Learning Works
Number of Pages: 96

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