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This trusted text, the market's best-seller, makes an often complex subject accessible to beginning students with a strong focus on readability and illustra...

This shorter version of the highly successful Contemporary World Regional Geography, 2e gives readers a fresh new approach that combines fundamental geogra...

anyone Interested In Learning About Geographic Concepts Will Appreciate This Concise Book. The Fourth Edition Presents Authoritative Content, Currency, An...

This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the...

Trusted for its timeliness, readability, and sound pedagogy, The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography emphasizes the relevance of geograph...

What made cities 'modern' in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Cities in Modernity explores connections between culture, economy and built envir...

This book thoroughly explores the processes now driving globalization, their consequences for the structure of the world economy, and the concepts needed to...

Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, in...

Part I. Essays On Fresh Water Issues -- An Introduction To Global Fresh Water Issues / Peter H. Gleick -- World Fresh Water Resources / Igor A. Shiklomanov ...

Rising interest in climate change and severe weather phenomena are making meteorology courses more popular than ever–yet this fast-paced, one-semester cur...

This undergraduate textbook provides a current and comprehensive survey of the sediments and forms generated within Pleistocene and pre-Pleistocene glacial...

Beautifully written and thoroughly revised by one of the foremost geographers in the field, Introducing Physical Geography, Third Edition Media Version buil...

This Revised And Updated Edition Integrates The Latest In Modern Technology With Traditional Cartographic Principles. While Providing A Solid Conceptual Fou...

Sand dunes cover up to a quarter of many desert regions. Understanding the factors that determine their shape, size and dynamics is important to an understa...

This unique compilation of current research assesses glacial and fluvial processes of supply, transport, and deposition of sediment in alpine glacerized dra...

Predicting water runoff in ungauged water catchment areas is vital to practical applications such as the design of drainage infrastructure and flooding defe...

The Geography of the World Economy provides an in-depth and stimulating introduction to the 'globalization' of the world economy. The book offers a consider...

Global Warming: The Hard Science presents a comprehensive, qualitatively rigorous, and critical discussion of the science underlying the global warming issu...

This is the first book to combine a discussion of post-apartheid development initiatives with an extended historical analysis of South Africa's dynamic race...

the Latest Edition Of This Highly Successful And Popular Textbook Has Been Completely Revised And Updated To Include The Latest Developments In Biogeograp...

Edited By Stephen Graham. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Arts & Photography Architecture Urban & Land Use PlanningLand Us...

This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern concep...

This Fourth Edition of a well-established text on physical geography provides rigorous coverage of the topic at the undergraduate level. It includes a full-...

Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography,Third Edition captures the changes in the nature and outcomes of urbanization processes for people, as wel...

Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Canadian EditionCategories: Science & Math Earth Sciences GeographyGeneral

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importa...

Contemporary World Regional Geography provides a current, balanced geographical study of world issues through analysis of ten world regions and the countri...

Most social geography undergraduate textbooks are structured around different social categories, splintering the discussion of gender, class, race and incre...

Maps provide information on world politics, climate, vegetation, soil, population, gross national products, languages, religions, health, agriculture, natur...

This new book brings together leading scholars from around the world to provide an international and interdisciplinary overview of twentieth-century devel...

Different Places, Different Voices challenges Western feminist and post-colonial approaches in its analysis of the changing lives of women of Asia, Africa, ...

Getting to Know ArcGIS, fourth edition, is a comprehensive introduction to the features and tools of ArcGIS for Desktop. Through hands-on exercises, reader...

A Manifesto For A Radically Different Philosophy And Practice Of Manufacture And Environmentalism. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Urge Environmentalists--in Other ...

A fascinating exploration of lakes around the world, from Walden Pond to the Dead Sea. More than a century and a half have passed since Walden was first pu...

A Revelatory History--spanning Continents And Millennia--of How The Distribution Of Water Has Shaped Human Civilization, By The Chief Strategy Officer And G...

Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of the Just My Type reveals the fascinating relationship between man and map. Simon Garfieldâ€Â...

From One Of The World’s Most Renowned Cave Divers, A Firsthand Account Of Exploring The Earth’s Final Frontier: The Hidden Depths Of Our Oceans And The ...

In The Wake Of Hurricane Katrina, Longtime New Orleans Residents Abdulrahman And Kathy Zeitoun Are Cast Into An Unthinkable Struggle With Forces Beyond Wind...

One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of t...

Wind, Waves And Snow: Atlantic Canada Has Experienced More Than Its Share Of Dramatic And Tragic Storms. In This Accessible Narrative, Author Dan Soucoup Ta...

Tectonic Geomorphology Is The Study Of The Interplay Between Tectonic And Surface Processes That Shape The Landscape In Regions Of Active Deformation. Recen...

Robert J. Twiss, Eldridge M. Moores. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Science & Math Earth Sciences GeologyStructural

in This Short Book, David Archer Gives Us The Latest On Climate Change Research, And Skillfully Tells The Climate Story That He Helped To Discover: Genera...

The third edition of this comprehensive encyclopedic dictionary covers the whole field of physical geography and provides an essential reference for all stu...

Few Books Have Had A Greater Impact Than A Sand County Almanac, Which Many Credit With Launching A Revolution In Land Management. Written As A Series Of Ske...

An award-winning science journalist traces the development of the marine chronometer by an obscure, uneducated clock maker--an invention that revolutionized...

Trevor C. Bailey, Anthony C. Gatrell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. System Requirements For Accompanying Computer Disk: Ibm Pc (or Compatib...

From The Author Of The Bestselling The Professor And The Madman Comes The Fascinating Story Of William Smith, The Orphaned Son Of An English Country Blacksm...