Voices from World Geography
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kirsten Simonsen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781138416093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the key points made in this volume is that despite the relative similarities between Nordic countries, specific academic developments have taken place that touch on the histories of Nordic human geography in a manner that influences contemporary geographical discourses.
Author: Eric Weiner
Publisher: Twelve
Published: 2008-01-03
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0446511072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.
Author: Jan Nijman
Publisher: Wiley Global Education
Published: 2016-01-11
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 1119116422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe World Today is the number one bestselling brief World Regional Geography textbook. The seventh edition continues to bring readers geographic perspectives on a fast-changing world through the regional view. Restructured chapters provide a macro review of important physical, cultural, and political characteristics, drawing upon up-to-date significant world events and crises. The cartographically superior maps have been updated for the seventh edition to offer an accurate and vast picture of the world--multi-layer, interactive, GIA maps have been added to WileyPLUS Learning Space. To complement the extensive map program, the majority of the photos have been taken by our authors during their field research, allowing the student to experience an authentic geographical viewpoint of our world.
Author: Peter Gould
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2002-03-01
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780815629405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese highly personal essays reflect experiences and insights of key geographers of the past half-century. Contributors not only document the growing concern for research on social conditions and social justice, they also prove that scholarly commitment .is still vibrant and healthy in the discipline. A unique contribution in North American geographical publishing, this book is ideal for undergraduate courses in the history and philosophy of geography, and for early graduate seminars on recent developments in geographic thought.
Author: Michael John Bradshaw
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 572
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Bradshaw
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Published: 2008-09-25
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780073051505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary World Regional Geography provides a current, balanced geographical study of world issues through analysis of ten world regions and the countries in each. It integrates the themes of "global connections" and "local voices" and utilizes a consistent structure within each chapter. Per reviewer requests, each chapter is now organized to begin with environmental issues of the region followed by historical geography, global and local issues and economic, political, cultural, and social issues. The greatest advantage of the new organization is that students will be able to easily compare one region with another to understand similarities and differences.
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0812982223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “ambitious and challenging” (The New York Review of Books) work, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe’s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan’s porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India’s main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century’s looming cataclysms.
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Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2009-07-16
Total Pages: 10985
ISBN-13: 0080449107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas. The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers, and geographical thought and praxis in different parts of the world. This groundbreaking project covers every field of human geography and the discipline’s relationships to other disciplines, and is global in scope, involving an international set of contributors. Given its broad, inclusive scope and unique online accessibility, it is anticipated that the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography will become the major reference work for the discipline over the coming decades. The Encyclopedia will be available in both limited edition print and online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit http://info.sciencedirect.com/content/books/ref_works/coming/ Available online on ScienceDirect and in limited edition print format Broad, interdisciplinary coverage across human geography: Philosophy, Methods, People, Social/Cultural, Political, Economic, Development, Health, Cartography, Urban, Historical, Regional Comprehensive and unique - the first of its kind in human geography
Author: Steck-Vaughn Company
Publisher: Heinemann/Raintree
Published: 1990-12-01
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780811427722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReal people tell about major world regions with which they are familiar.