Author: Jane Werner WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The First Golden Geography
Author: Jane Werner WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Little Golden Book Library: First golden geography
Author: Rediscovering the Golden State
Author: William A. SelbyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119493145
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Now in its fourth edition, Rediscovering the Golden State: California Geography examines this unique state’s incredibly diverse landscapes, and how geography and geographic change influences everything from the state’s natural systems and cycles, to its agriculture and more advanced industries, to human migration, cultures, and urban planning. Exploring California through a geographic lens reveals how the field has evolved to cross traditional boundaries, connect local and global issues, and provide the insights that lead to practical solutions to problems new and old. Challenging the reader to look beyond stereotypes and assumptions, this book encourages active participation in planning the state’s dynamic future. And this project makes teaching and learning about the geography of California more convenient, exciting, and rewarding for instructors and students. Going beyond a scientific analysis of natural features and environmental processes, this book illustrates how social, political, and economic divides can be bridged through the study of geography and the connections it brings to light. From geology, weather and climate, biogeography, and hydrology, we cover the state’s physical geography. And from demography and migration, to cultures and economies, to rural and urban geography, we monitor the state’s human geography pulse and then make the vital connections. California continues to lead the nation in population, economics (5th largest in the world), agriculture, natural and cultural diversity, and a host of other categories. This powerful state has earned this powerful publication. This timely and versatile book will prove useful to Californians in business, education, government, and to concerned citizens and curious readers seeking to learn more about the Golden State.
Map of Dreams
Author: Uri ShulevitzPublisher: Andersen Press (UK)
ISBN: 9781842707609
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
When war devastates their country, a boy and his parents are forced to flee to another country far east, where they must live in a small room shared with another couple. Food is scarce. But one day, when father goes to the bazaar to buy bread, he comes home with a map instead. The boy and his mother are furious, they are so hungry! But the map floods their cheerless room with colour. The boy becomes fascinated by it and is transported far away without ever leaving the room. Father was right to buy it, after all.
The Golden Geography
Author: Jane Werner WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A historical geography of the British colonies. Vol. 6 [of the work begun by sir C.P. Lucas]. Australasia
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Author: Sir Charles Prestwood LucasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A Historical Geography of the British Colonies: Australasia
Author: Sir Charles Prestwood LucasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Geography of Genius
Author: Eric WeinerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451691688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times. In this “intellectual odyssey, traveler’s diary, and comic novel all rolled into one” (Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness), acclaimed travel writer Weiner sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas. A “superb travel guide: funny, knowledgeable, and self-deprecating” (The Washington Post), he explores the history of places like Vienna of 1900, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, Song Dynasty Hangzhou, and Silicon Valley to show how certain urban settings are conducive to ingenuity. With his trademark insightful humor, this “big-hearted humanist” (The Wall Street Journal) walks the same paths as the geniuses who flourished in these settings to see if the spirit of what inspired figures like Socrates, Michelangelo, and Leonardo remains. In these places, Weiner asks, “What was in the air, and can we bottle it?” “Fun and thought provoking” (Miami Herald), The Geography of Genius reevaluates the importance of culture in nurturing creativity and “offers a practical map for how we can all become a bit more inventive” (Adam Grant, author of Originals).
A Historical Geography of the British Colonies
Author: Sir Charles Prestwood LucasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
The Golden Geography
Author: Elsa Jane WernerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description