Author: CAITLIN. FINLAYSONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY. (PRODUCT ID 23958336).
Author: CAITLIN. FINLAYSONIs Geography Destiny?
Author: John Luke GallupPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821383671
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
For decades, the prevailing sentiment was that, since geography is unchangeable, there is no reason why public policies should take it into account. In fact, charges that geographic interpretations of development were deterministic, or even racist, made the subject a virtual taboo in academic and policymaking circles alike. 'Is Geography Destiny?' challenges that premise and joins a growing body of literature studying the links between geography and development. Focusing on Latin America, the book argues that based on a better understanding of geography, public policy can help control or channel its influence toward the goals of economic and social development.
The Geography of South America
Author: Thomas A. RumneyPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810886359
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
South America is an area of fascination and study for geographers and other scholars from around the world, and its land and people have played important roles in the discovery and distribution of civilizations, resources, and nations for millennia. The region has long stimulated a large amount of research across the many subdisciplines of geography, and Thomas A. Rumney collects, organizes, and presents as many scholarly publications as possible in The Geography of South America: A Scholarly Guide and Bibliography. Every South American nation is included: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Beginning with an overview of the region as a whole, successive chapters, one per nation, are divided by specific subdisciplines of geography: cultural, social, economic, historical, physical and environmental, political, and urban. Each section is then divided by document type: atlases, books, book chapters, articles from scholarly journals, master’s theses, and doctoral dissertations. Although the majority of entries focus on English-language works, selected entries written in Spanish, French, German, and other languages are also included (with the entry titles translated into English and noted accordingly).
Notes on the Geography of South America, Physical and Political ... With Coloured Physical Map
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.
The English language: its grammar and history. With examination papers
Author: Henry Lewis (M.A.)Adventures in the air, tr. and ed. by J.S. Keltie
Author: Wilfrid de FonviellePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balloon ascensions
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Teacher's List: Containing a Calendar of All Executive and Examining Bodies; Universities ... Colleges; Public ... Schools ... Together with a Complete Alphabetical Directory of ... Teachers, and a List of School Boards Throughout the Kingdom. Edited by P. Bevan
Author: George Phillips BEVANPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Prisoners of Geography
Author: Tim MarshallPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501121472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Elliott and Thompson Limited.
The Physical Geography of South America
Author: Thomas T. VeblenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019803184X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Physical Geography of South America, the eighth volume in the Oxford Regional Environments series, presents an enduring statement on the physical and biogeographic conditions of this remarkable continent and their relationships to human activity. It fills a void in recent environmental literature by assembling a team of specialists from within and beyond South America in order to provide an integrated, cross-disciplinary body of knowledge about this mostly tropical continent, together with its high mountains and temperate southern cone. The authors systematically cover the main components of the South American environment - tectonism, climate, glaciation, natural landscape changes, rivers, vegetation, animals, and soils. The book then presents more specific treatments of regions with special attributes from the tropical forests of the Amazon basin to the Atacama Desert and Patagonian steppe, and from the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific coasts to the high Andes. Additionally, the continents environments are given a human face by evaluating the roles played by people over time, from pre-European and European colonial impacts to the effects of modern agriculture and urbanization, and from interactions with El Niño events to prognoses for the future environments of the continent.