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History of the Study of Landformsby R. J. Chorley; R. P. Beckinsale; A. J. Dunn
Routledge 1973; US$ 270.00A volume which is devoted to the study of the life and work of the world's most famous geomorphologists, William Morris Davis (1850-1934). more...
American Empireby Neil Smith
University of California Press 2003; US$ 34.95An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geography and was pieced together as part of a powerful geographical vision. The power of geography did not die with the twilight of European colonialism, but it did change fundamentally. That the inauguration of the American Century brought a loss of public geographical sensibility in the United States was itself a political symptom of the emerging empire. This book provides a vital geographical-historical context for understanding the power and limits... more...
Michael Brein's Guide to Barcelona by the Metroby Michael Brein
Michael Brein, Inc. 1997; US$ 8.00Michael Brein's Guide to Barcelona by the Metro shows visitors how to go to Barcelona's top 50 visitor attractions by the Barcelona Metro. The guide shows which transit to use, which lines to take, which transit stops to board and exit, and, using detailed mini-area-walking maps, how to walk exactly from these transit stops directly to the visitor attractions. Additional nearby points of interest are also indicated on these mini-area-walking maps. An ultra-large official map of the Barcelona Metro is also provided. more...
Michael Brein's Guide to Madrid by the Metroby Michael Brein
Michael Brein, Inc. 2009; US$ 8.00Michael Brein's Guide to Madrid by the Metro shows visitors how to go to Madrid's top 50 visitor attractions by the Madrid Metro as well as by Madrid's suburban rail system. The guide shows which transit to use, which lines to take, which transit stops to board and exit, and, using detailed mini-area-walking maps, how to walk exactly from these transit stops directly to the visitor attractions. Additional nearby points of interest are also indicated on these mini-area-walking maps. An ultra-large official map of the Madrid Metro is also provided. more...
Coming Home to Chinaby Yi-Fu Tuan
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 55.50In 2005, distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan ventured to China to speak at an architectural conference, returning for the first time to the place he had left as a child sixty-four years before. In this enchanting volume, Tuans childhood memories and musings on the places he encountered during his homecoming are interspersed with new lectures, engaging principles of human geography and the changing Chinese landscape. more...
Complex Locationsby Avril Maddrell
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 89.95This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field. A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970 Includes oral histories from women who have held appointments in British universities since World War II Makes the work of women geographers visible and challenges the notion of pre 1970s geography as an overwhelmingly masculine field Makes an important contribution to debates about the theoretical and methodological framing of the historiography of geography more...
Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscapeby William M. Denevan; Kent Mathewson
LSU Press 2009; US$ 40.00Perhaps one of the most distinctive and studied geographers of the twentieth century, Carl O. Sauer (18891975) had influence that extends well beyond the confines of any one discipline. With a focus on historical and cultural geography, Sauers essays have garnered praise from poets, natural historians, and social scientists alike who continue to explore Sauers work. In Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape, editors William M. Denevan and Kent Mathewson have compiled thirty-seven of Sauers original works, including rare early writings, articles in now largely inaccessible publications, and transcriptions of key oral presentations that remain little known.A student of the relationships between land and life, people and places,... more...
Dangerous Passageby Gerard Kenney
Dundurn Press 2006; US$ 19.95The story of the opening up of the Northwest Passage and the ensuing potential risks to the Arctic environment and Canadian sovereignty are explored. more...
The Franklin Conspiracyby Jeffrey Blair Latta; John Robert Colombo
Dundurn Press 2001; US$ 22.99In 1845, two British Royal Navy ships entered the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Neither ship returned. more...