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Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
by Inc Merriam-Webster
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Completely revised! The ideal geographic reference. Over 54,000 entries with economic, political, and physical data. Comprehensive global coverage. 250 easy-to-read maps. Pronunciations and variant spellings. An alphabetical reference with some 48,000... (read more)

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Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History
Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History
by Nicola Di Cosmo
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Boundaries - whether demarcating physical space, enclosing political entities, distinguishing social groups, and defining ethnic categories - constitute an essential facet of historical investigation. Obscured by the influence upon scholars of a myth of... (read more)

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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
by Ken Jennings
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It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, "Jeopardy! "legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. "Maphead "recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to... (read more)

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Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism
Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism
by Harm J. De Blij
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Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people. Abrupt climate change may throw the global system into chaos; China will emerge as a... (read more)

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Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
by Ben Wisner
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The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art... (read more)

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The Handbook of Geographic Information Science
The Handbook of Geographic Information Science
by John Wilson
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This Handbookis an essential reference and a guide to the rapidly expanding field of Geographic Information Science. Designed to suit those who want an in-depth treatment of the subject, it comprises over thirty substantial essays, each written by a... (read more)

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Advances in Location-Based Services: 8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services, Vienna 2011
Advances in Location-Based Services: 8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services, Vienna 2011
by Georg Gartner
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This book gives a general picture of research-driven activities related to location and map-based services. The interdisciplinary character of the topic leads to a variety of contributions with backgrounds from academia to business and from computer... (read more)

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GIS: A Computing Perspective
GIS: A Computing Perspective
by Michael Worboys
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GIS is essentially a computer-based information system, designed to handle data spatially references to geographic locations on the Earth. This fully updated new edition of Michael Worboys' highly successful book addresses GIS from a computing... (read more)

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography
by Trevor J. J. Barnes
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This comprehensive overview of the field is the successor to the successful and highly regarded Companion to Economic Geography published by Blackwell more than a decade ago.    In a clear and accessible format, leading authors... (read more)

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Enterprising Worlds: A Geographic Perspective on Economics, Environments & Ethics
Enterprising Worlds: A Geographic Perspective on Economics, Environments & Ethics
by Jay D. Gatrell
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Enterprising World represents the culmination of several years of work by geographers, planners, and economists. The chapters included in this volume represent the collective efforts of the International Geographical Union's Commission on the Dynamics of... (read more)

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Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
by Marq De Villiers
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Examines the political and ecological consequences of the uses and misuses of water as increasing demands threaten the global supply--issues compounded by decreasing water table levels and rampant pollution.... (read more)

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Sustainable Retail Development: New Success Strategies
Sustainable Retail Development: New Success Strategies
by Jerry Yudelson
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Sustainable Retail Development, addresses the emerging issue of green retail buildings and retail development that will grow significantly in importance over the next half-decade, a trend seen throughout the developed world. This volume is a practical... (read more)

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The Analysis of Tidal Stream Power
The Analysis of Tidal Stream Power
by Jack Hardisty
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The Analysis of Tidal Stream Power integrates a wide range of research and tidal resource theory and data to present, for the first time, a detailed analysis of the physics and oceanography of tidal stream power devices together with a world-wide... (read more)

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Historical GIS
Historical GIS
by Ian N. Gregory
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Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell present the first study comprehensively to define this emerging field, exploring all aspects of using... (read more)

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Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America
Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America
by Martin Bell
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Focusing on the four 'New World' countries - Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States - this book explores key themes and issues in indigenous mobility. In each of these countries, indigenous peoples share a common historical experience of... (read more)

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Geographic Information Systems in Oceanography and Fisheries
Geographic Information Systems in Oceanography and Fisheries
by Vasilis D. Valavanis
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Over the last two decades there has been increasing recognition that problems in oceanography and fisheries sciences and related marine areas are nearly all manifest in the spatio-temporal domain. Geographical Information Systems (GIS), the natural... (read more)

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John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue (1618): A Critical Edition
John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue (1618): A Critical Edition
by Mark Netzloff
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Though John Norden's text The Surveyor's Dialogue is remarkable for the unique commentary it provides regarding the social and economic changes affecting agrarian life in early modern England, until now there has been no modern edition of the text... (read more)

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Groundwater Geochemistry: A Practical Guide to Modeling of Natural and Contaminated Aquatic Systems
Groundwater Geochemistry: A Practical Guide to Modeling of Natural and Contaminated Aquatic Systems
by Broder J. Merkel
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The second edition of "Groundwater Geochemistry - A practical guide to modeling of natural and contaminated aquatic systems" remains a comprehensive text book offering beginners and advanced modelers alike a minimum theoretical background and a strong... (read more)

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Regional Hydrological Response to Climate Change
Regional Hydrological Response to Climate Change
by J. A. A. Jones
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The potential impact of global warming on water resources is of major national and international concern. This book draws together for the first time research work aimed at providing global and regional syntheses of the likely hydrological effects of... (read more)

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In Search of the Rain Forest
In Search of the Rain Forest
by Candace Slater
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The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys... (read more)

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