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The Geographer's Library

Author : Jon Fasman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143036623
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Geographer's Library written by Jon Fasman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brainy noir . . . [a] winningly cryptic tale . . . a cabinet of wonders written by a novelist whose surname and sensibility fit comfortably on the shelf between Umberto Eco and John Fowles." —Los Angeles Times "One of the year’s most literate and absorbing entertainments." —Kirkus Reviews Jon Fasman’s dizzyingly plotted intellectual thriller suggests a marriage between Dan Brown and Donna Tartt. When reporter Paul Tomm is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a reclusive academic, he finds himself pursuing leads that date back to the twelfth century and the theft of alchemical instruments from the geographer of the Sicilian court. Now someone is trying to retrieve them. Interspersed with the present action are the stories of the men and women who came to possess those charmed—and sometimes cursed—artifacts, which have powers that go well beyond the transmutation of lead into gold. Deftly combining history, magic, suspense, and romance—and as handsomely illustrated as an ancient incunabulum—The Geographer’s Library is irresistible.

American Empire

Author : Neil Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520230272
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book American Empire written by Neil Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roosevelt's, Bowman was present at the creation of U.S. liberal foreign policy.".

Columbus, Ohio

Author : Henry L. Hunker
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814208571
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Columbus, Ohio written by Henry L. Hunker and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Personal and anecdotal, the book serves as an informal documentary of the past fifty years, when Columbus grew to become the largest city in Ohio. Famous for his tours of the city, Hunker includes itineraries for two tours - one in 1956, one in 1999 - which he uses to compare the city then and now.".

The Geographer at Work

Author : Peter Gould
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317336925
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Geographer at Work written by Peter Gould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the developments in the discipline of geography from the 1950s to the 1980s, examining how geography now connects with urban, regional and national planning, and impacts on areas such as medicine, transport, agricultural development and electoral reform. The book also discusses how technical and theoretical advancements have generated a renewed sense of philosophic reflection – a concern closely linked with the critical examination and development of social theory.

Becoming a Geographer

Author : Peter Gould
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815606673
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Geographer written by Peter Gould and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Gould, a prominent, award-winning geographer who admits to having a low threshold for boredom, offers a collection of essays that reflect his eclectic research and provocative thinking. The topics range widely and include the diffusion of AIDS, mental maps, development themes in Africa, postmodernism, and the practices of teaching and writing. Becoming a Geographer expands on Gould's influential ideas and contributions to the field. Gould values the kind of independent thought and scholarship now often frowned upon by university administrators. He has written eighteen books and more than one hundred sixty articles that have appeared in more than seventy-six different journals during his forty-year career in research and higher education—his "lifetime sabbatical"—much of it spent teaching at Penn State. A witty, graceful, engaging writer, Could situates geography in a wider social context. In this book, he brings a fresh perspective to developments in the field including the quantitative and mathematical revolution in geography in the 1960s and 1970s. He writes with directness and clarity about the use and misuse of mathematics in illuminating social and geographical reality. His thoughts are especially valuable for what geography offers the world of learning and its capacity to help resolve urgent problems of the day.

The Geographer's Craft

Author : Thomas Walter Freeman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geographer's Craft written by Thomas Walter Freeman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Young Geographers

Author : Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Young Geographers written by Lucy Sprague Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory

Author : Owen J. Dwyer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9781930066717
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory written by Owen J. Dwyer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Owen Dwyer and Derek Alderman examine civil rights memorials as cultural landscapes, offering the first book-length critical reading of the monuments, museums, parts, streets, and sites dedicated to the African-American struggle for civil rights and interpreting them is the context of the Movement's broader history and its current scene. In paying close attention to which stories, people, and places are remembered and which are forgotten, the authors present an engaging account of an unforgettable story."--BOOK JACKET.

The Revenge of Geography

Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812982223
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 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.

The Geography Behind History

Author : William Gordon East
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393004199
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Geography Behind History written by William Gordon East and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1965 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Professor East discusses the vital relationship between history and geographical conditions. Drawing examples from ancient times up to the present, he demonstrates that a study of history must include consideration of the physical conditions under which an event occurs, and that "the particular characteristics of this setting serve not only to localise but also to influence part at least of the action." Topographical position, climate, distribution of water and minerals, the placement of routes and towns, and ease or difficulty of movement between districts and countries are among the factors which the historian must take into account. Book jacket.

Abolition Geography

Author : Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839761733
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Abolition Geography written by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, offering scholars and activists ways of seeing and doing to help navigate our turbulent present. Abolition Geography moves us away from explanations of mass incarceration and racist violence focused on uninterrupted histories of prejudice or the dull compulsion of neoliberal economics. Instead, Gilmore offers a geographical grasp of how contemporary racial capitalism operates through an “anti-state state” that answers crises with the organized abandonment of people and environments deemed surplus to requirement. Gilmore escapes one-dimensional conceptions of what liberation demands, who demands liberation, or what indeed is to be abolished. Drawing on the lessons of grassroots organizing and internationalist imaginaries, Abolition Geography undoes the identification of abolition with mere decarceration, and reminds us that freedom is not a mere principle but a place. Edited with an introduction by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano.

Mark Jefferson, Geographer

Author : Geoffrey J. Martin
Publisher : Ypsilanti, Mich. : Eastern Michigan University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mark Jefferson, Geographer written by Geoffrey J. Martin and published by Ypsilanti, Mich. : Eastern Michigan University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Journal of Geography

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Geography written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life as a Geographer in India

Author : Anu Kapur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000372774
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Life as a Geographer in India written by Anu Kapur and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book which provides an engaging and insightful narrative on the life of a geographer in India. The author introspects on her own experiences and engagements with the discipline and explores the life and works of twenty-four other geographers from India. The volume documents and acknowledges the commitment of geographers to life, teaching, and the subject of geography. Collectively these provide an insight into the growth and expansion of the discipline in the country. The book offers critical perspectives on the changing disciplinary practices within the field of geography by highlighting the major achievements and teaching methods of geographers. It highlights the diverse interests, themes, and problems in geography which these geographers pursued while also influencing the lives of other researchers and professionals. This book will be of immense interest to students, teachers, and researchers of geography and social anthropology and readers interested in the lives of these influential educators and academicians.

The Geography of Strabo

Author : Strabo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Geography of Strabo written by Strabo and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Geography of Transport Systems

Author : Jean-Paul Rodrigue
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134257783
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book The Geography of Transport Systems written by Jean-Paul Rodrigue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities, including commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. This book focuses on understanding how mobility is linked with geography. It links spatial constraints and attributes with the origin, destination, extent, nature and purpose of movements.

Eratosthenes' "Geography"

Author : Eratosthenes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069114267X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Eratosthenes' "Geography" written by Eratosthenes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then known, Eratosthenes of Kyrene (ca. 285-205 BC) invented the discipline of geography as we understand it. A polymath who served as librarian at Alexandria and tutor to the future King Ptolemy IV, Eratosthenes created the terminology of geography, probably including the word geographia itself. Building on his previous work, in which he determined the size and shape of the earth, Eratosthenes in the Geographika created a grid of parallels and meridians that linked together every place in the world: for the first time one could figure out the relationship and distance between remote localities, such as northwest Africa and the Caspian Sea. The Geographika also identified some four hundred places, more than ever before, from Thoule (probably Iceland) to Taprobane (Sri Lanka), and from well down the coast of Africa to Central Asia. This is the first collation of the more than 150 fragments of the Geographika in more than a century. Each fragment is accompanied by an English translation, a summary, and commentary. Duane W. Roller provides a rich background, including a history of the text and its reception, a biography of Eratosthenes, and a comprehensive account of ancient Greek geographical thought and of Eratosthenes' pioneering contribution to it. This edition also includes maps that show all of the known places named in the Geographika, appendixes, a bibliography, and indexes.