Author: Matthew Fontaine MauryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology
Author: Matthew Fontaine MauryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Physical Geography of the Sea
Author: Matthew Fontaine MauryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatology
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Origin and History of the English Language and of the Early Literature it Embodies
Author: George Perkins MarshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Physical Geography
Author: Richard H. BryantPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483278476
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Physical Geography Made Simple focuses on developments in physical geography, including advancements in the study of landforms, weather, climate, water, soils, plants, and animals. The book first offers information on rocks and relief, weathering, slopes, and rivers and drainage basins. Topics include rock structures and landforms, crustal structure and movement, physical and chemical weathering, measurement and description of slopes, and transport, erosion, and deposition. The manuscript then ponders on glacial and periglacial landforms and desert and uropical landforms. The publication takes a look at coastal features, landscape development, and the atmosphere and its energy. The manuscript also elaborates on moisture in the atmosphere, air motion, general circulation, and weather. Discussions focus on fronts, weather prediction, planetary wind belts, pressure variations, upper air motion, adiabatic processes, and evaporation and condensation. The text is a valuable reference for geographers and readers interested in physical geography.
Proceedings
Author: Latin America
Author: Robert B. KentPublisher: Guilford Publications
ISBN: 1462525520
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Popular among students for its engaging, accessible style, this text provides an authoritative overview of Latin America's human geography as well as its regional complexity. Extensively revised to reflect the region's ongoing evolution in the first decades of the 21st century, the second edition's alternating thematic and regional chapters trace Latin America's historical development while revealing the diversity of its people and places. Coverage encompasses cultural history, environment and physical geography, urban development, agriculture and land use, social and economic processes, and the contemporary patterns of the Latin American diaspora. Pedagogical features include vivid topical vignettes, end-of-chapter recommended readings and other resources, and 217 photographs, maps, and figures. New to This Edition *Discussions of climate change and its impacts, the demise of the Monroe doctrine, neoliberal agriculture, the growing influence of Chinese investment, and other new topics. *13 new vignettes highlighting current issues such as the thaw in United States-Cuba relations, drug violence in Mexico, aerial gondolas in the Andes, and the first Latin pope. *Annotated website and film recommendations for most chapters. *The latest development trends, population and economic data, and current events of local and global significance. *26 new photographs, maps, and figures.
A Student′s Introduction to Geographical Thought
Author: Pauline CouperPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1473911311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
This ism-busting text is an enormously accessible account of the key philosophical and theoretical ideas that have informed geographical research. It makes abstract ideas explicit and clearly connects it with real practices of geographical research and knowledge. Written with flair and passion, A Student′s Introduction to Geographical Thought: Explains the key ideas: scientific realism, anti-realism and idealism / positivism / critical rationalism / Marxism and critical realism/ social constructionism and feminism / phenomenology and post-phenomenology / postmodernism and post-structuralism / complexity / moral philosophy. Uses examples that address both physical geography and human geography. Use a familiar and real-world example - ‘the beach’ - as an entry point to basic questions of philosophy, returning to this to illustrate and to explain the links between philosophy, theory, and methodology. All chapters end with summaries and sources of further reading, a glossary explaining key terms, exercises with commentaries, and web resources of key articles from the journals Progress in Human Geography and Progress in Physical Geography. A Student′s Introduction to Geographical Thought is a completely accessible student A-Z of theory and practice for both human and physical geography.
Official Report of the Proceedings of the Board of Education of the City of Chicago
Author: Chicago (Ill.). Board of EducationPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Geographical Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately.
Man and Nature
Author: George P. MarshPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486847284
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
This landmark text analyzes the impact of human action on nature by linking the environmental degradation of ancient Mediterranean civilization to the United States of the 1800s. As profoundly topical today as it was in 1864.