A Selection of Material on the New Geography
Author : Lawrence Martin
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Atlases
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Author : Lawrence Martin
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Atlases
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Author : Lawrence Martin
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Page : pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
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Author : Enrico Moretti
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0547750110
Makes correlations between success and geography, explaining how such rising centers of innovation as San Francisco and Austin are likely to offer influential opportunities and shape the national and global economies in positive or detrimental ways.
Author : Edward Mead Earle
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Page : 23 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Atlases
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Author : Wilfred M. McClay
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1594037183
Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of “place” and community. Appreciating place is essential for building the strong local communities that cultivate civic engagement, public leadership, and many of the other goods that contribute to a flourishing human life. Do we, in losing our places, lose the crucial basis for healthy and resilient individual identity, and for the cultivation of public virtues? For one can’t be a citizen without being a citizen of some place in particular; one isn’t a citizen of a motel. And if these dangers are real and present ones, are there ways that intelligent public policy can begin to address them constructively, by means of reasonable and democratic innovations that are likely to attract wide public support? Why Place Matters takes these concerns seriously, and its contributors seek to discover how, given the American people as they are, and American economic and social life as it now exists—and not as those things can be imagined to be in some utopian scheme—we can find means of fostering a richer and more sustaining way of life. The book is an anthology of essays exploring the contemporary problems of place and placelessness in American society. The book includes contributions from distinguished scholars and writers such as poet Dana Gioia (former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts), geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, urbanist Witold Rybczynski, architect Philip Bess, essayists Christine Rosen and Ari Schulman, philosopher Roger Scruton, transportation planner Gary Toth, and historians Russell Jacoby and Joseph Amato.
Author : V. M. Hillyer
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Page : 494 pages
File Size : 32,3 MB
Release : 2021-12-13
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ISBN : 9781638232872
A Child's Geography of the World is a general course in geography for juveniles. Hillyer was headmaster at the famed Calvert School and wrote a series of books as part of the curriculum for his students. This title was the result of many years of teaching the subject to young children and of several more years in authoring it. The books is now considered in a classic in home schooling. illustrated with maps and drawings.
Author : Rediscovering Geography Committee
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 1997-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309577624
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 : Melvil Dewey
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Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Libraries
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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Author : Parker Thomas Moon
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 1925
Category : International law
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Author : Public Affairs Information Service
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Economics
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