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Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary by Inc Merriam-Webster Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.96 Your price: $24.81 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History by Nicola Di Cosmo Publisher Comments 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) List Price $170.00 Your price: $43.26 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism by Harm J. De Blij Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.83 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction and Management by Ben Wisner Publisher Comments 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) List Price $240.00 Your price: $231.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Handbook of Geographic Information Science by John Wilson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $116.95 Your price: $112.56 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Advances in Location-Based Services: 8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services, Vienna 2011 by Georg Gartner Publisher Comments 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) List Price $179.00 Your price: $172.29 Google eBooks - Electronic
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GIS: A Computing Perspective by Michael Worboys Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $94.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography by Trevor J. J. Barnes Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $159.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Enterprising Worlds: A Geographic Perspective on Economics, Environments & Ethics by Jay D. Gatrell Publisher Comments 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) List Price $169.00 Your price: $162.66 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource by Marq De Villiers Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $14.80 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Sustainable Retail Development: New Success Strategies by Jerry Yudelson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $129.00 Your price: $124.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Analysis of Tidal Stream Power by Jack Hardisty Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $119.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Historical GIS by Ian N. Gregory Publisher Comments 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) List Price $32.00 Your price: $30.80 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America by Martin Bell Publisher Comments 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) List Price $183.00 Your price: $176.14 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Geographic Information Systems in Oceanography and Fisheries by Vasilis D. Valavanis Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $84.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue (1618): A Critical Edition by Mark Netzloff Publisher Comments 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) List Price $104.95 Your price: $101.01 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Groundwater Geochemistry: A Practical Guide to Modeling of Natural and Contaminated Aquatic Systems by Broder J. Merkel Publisher Comments 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) List Price $129.00 Your price: $124.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Regional Hydrological Response to Climate Change by J. A. A. Jones Publisher Comments 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) List Price $225.00 Your price: $216.56 Google eBooks - Electronic
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In Search of the Rain Forest by Candace Slater Publisher Comments 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) List Price $23.95 Your price: $22.15 Google eBooks - Electronic
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