A Geographical View Of The World

Author : Rediscovering Geography Committee
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309577624
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering Geography written by Rediscovering Geography Committee and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-04-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As political, economic, and environmental issues increasingly spread across the globe, the science of geography is being rediscovered by scientists, policymakers, and educators alike. Geography has been made a core subject in U.S. schools, and scientists from a variety of disciplines are using analytical tools originally developed by geographers. Rediscovering Geography presents a broad overview of geography's renewed importance in a changing world. Through discussions and highlighted case studies, this book illustrates geography's impact on international trade, environmental change, population growth, information infrastructure, the condition of cities, the spread of AIDS, and much more. The committee examines some of the more significant tools for data collection, storage, analysis, and display, with examples of major contributions made by geographers. Rediscovering Geography provides a blueprint for the future of the discipline, recommending how to strengthen its intellectual and institutional foundation and meet the demand for geographic expertise among professionals and the public.

Author : Sir Richard Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Geographical View of the World written by Sir Richard Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501121472
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of Geography written by Tim Marshall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Elliott and Thompson Limited.

Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812982223
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revenge of Geography written by Robert D. Kaplan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW 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.

Author : John Bigland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Geographical and Historical View of the World written by John Bigland and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ezekiel Blomfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General View of the World written by Ezekiel Blomfield and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Bigland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Geographical and Historical View of the World: Exhibiting a Complete Delineation of the Natural and Artificial Features of Each Country written by John Bigland and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David W. S. Wong
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462533736
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China written by David W. S. Wong and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has become a superpower, exerting significant influence globally. This accessible text integrates thematic and regional coverage to provide a panoramic view of China--its physical geography; population, including ethnic diversity; urban development; agriculture and land use; transportation networks; dynamic economic processes; and environmental challenges. Cultural and political geography topics are woven throughout the chapters. The text also offers in-depth assessments of selected regions, capturing the complexity of this vast and populous country. It is richly illustrated with more than 150 maps, tables, figures, and photographs--including 8 pages in full color--which are available as PowerPoint slides at the companion website. Pedagogical Features *Chapter-opening learning objectives. *Chapter-opening key concepts and terms. *Extensive notes pointing students to relevant online resources. *Engaging topic boxes in every chapter.

Author : Richard Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A view of the earth: a short system of modern geography written by Richard Turner and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir Richard Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Geographical View of the World, written by Sir Richard Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: