Introducing Human Geographies (Hodder Arnold Publication)
ISBN: 034088276X Binding: Paperback Edition: 2 Author(s): Paul Cloke, Philip Crang, Mark Goodwin Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication Number of Pages: 576
Introducing Human Geographies is a comprehensive stimulating and innovative introduction to human geography This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to build upon the success of the acclaimed first edition Now in full color and with sixteen new chapters discussion points and glossary definitions in the margin it is even more accessible
ISBN: 0679775226 Binding: Paperback Edition: illustrated edition Author(s): J. Allen Queen Publisher: Princeton Review Number of Pages: 180
Eccentric billionaire Bartholomew Van Morrow has hidden a huge treasure and it's up to you and the Smart Juniors gang to find it Share the adventures of Bridget Babette Barnaby and Beauregard as their search takes them around the world Your travels will teach you how to: -- explain how rivers and oceans shape the earth -- read and design maps -- find specific locations using longitude and latitude -- identify land forms such as peninsulas capes deltas and plateausYou'll learn cool new things about our world and end with the treasure in your handsGeography Smart Junior is part of the "Smart Junior" series of books that help kids in grades 6-8 master the basics of different subjects with a fun relaxed interactive approach to learning
ISBN: 0439944562 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Anita Ganeri Publisher: Scholastic Number of Pages: 160
This title contains geography with the gritty bits left in Where in the world can you: Peer over the edge of a roaring waterfall Come face-to-face with a peckish piranha Go white-water rafting through hair-raising rapids
ISBN: 0226360660 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Alexander von Humboldt, Aime Bonpland Publisher: University Of Chicago Press Number of Pages: 296
The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (17691859) looms large over the natural sciences His 17991804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aim Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth century especially Darwins travels to South America and inspired such essayists and artists as Emerson Goethe Thoreau Poe and Church
The chronicles of the expedition were published in Paris after Humboldts return and first among them was the 1807 Essay on the Geography of Plants Among the most cited writings in natural history after the works of Darwin and Wallace this work appears here for the first time in a complete English-language translation Covering far more than its title implies it represents the first articulation of an integrative science of the earth encompassing most of todays environmental sciences The edition also includes a poster-sized color reproduction of the Mt Chimborazo tableau an icon in the history of science and scientific graphics
Here ecologist Stephen T Jackson introduces the treatise and explains its enduring significance two centuries after its publication He also provides materials on the instruments used by Humboldt and biographical sketches of the persons mentioned in the Essay Sylvie Romanowski a scholar of eighteenth-century literature provides a detailed analysis of the Mt Chimborazo plate from the perspectives of literary history history of science and art in the period
ISBN: 0415184401 Binding: Paperback Edition: 1 Author(s): N/A Publisher: Routledge Number of Pages: 288
Embodied Geographies presents how life crises develop our identities and affect how we live our lives Several types of life moments and stages are presented which play roles as to how we create who we are Embodied Geographiesshows how we develop from middle childhood to the teenage years to parenthood The stages provide insight to the relationship between body place and identity The geographical spread includes the United States Canada the UK Australia New Zealand Singapore and Hong Kong
Uruguay in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series)
ISBN: 1575059614 Binding: Library Binding Edition: Author(s): Alison Behnke Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT) Number of Pages: 80
Uruguay in Pictures explores the history and government economy people geography and cultural life of Uruguay This edition includes comprehensive text with strong curriculum ties beautiful full-color photography throughout and interesting detailed sidebars
ISBN: 0516270834 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
