WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY. (PRODUCT ID 23958336).
Author : CAITLIN. FINLAYSON
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File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2019
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Author : CAITLIN. FINLAYSON
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2019
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Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 1999-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0393069222
"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.
Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781574886412
By intelligence officials for intelligent people
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Page : 574 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 1876
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Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Geography
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"Wallace, together with Darwin was the founder of modern evolutionary theory, and when Darwin received Wallace's paper of 1858 (a year before the publication of the Origin of Species), he wrote to Lyell "All my originality, whatever it may amount to, will be smashed"."I never saw a more striking coincidence.Your words (referring to Lyell's earlier warnings that Darwin might be anticipated) have come true with a vengeance." In 1858 Wallace was already preparing an announcement of an importent zoogeographical discovery, which proposed a boundary line dividing the archipelago of Indo-Malayan and Australian zoological regions. The culmination of Wallace's approach was achieved in his monumental two-volume "The geographical Distribution." and it is a pioneer-work in zoogeography."--Abebooks website.
Author : Sonia Maria Vanzella Castellar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 303079847X
This book presents the distinctive theoretical and methodological approaches in geography education in South America and more specifically in Brazil, Chile and Colombia. It highlights cartography and maps as essential tools and provides a meaningful approach to learning in geographical education, thereby giving children and young people the opportunity to better understand their situations, contexts and social conditions. The book describes how South American countries organize their scholar curriculum and the ways in which they deal with geography vocabulary and developing fundamental concepts, methodologies, epistemological comprehension on categories, keywords and themes in geography. It also describes its use in teachers’ practices and learning progressions, the use of spatial representations as a potent mean to visualize and solve questions, and harnesses spatial thinking and geographical reasoning development. The book helps to improve teaching and learning practices in primary and secondary education and as such it provides an interesting read for researchers, students, and teachers of geography and social studies.
Author : Thomas T. Veblen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0190286059
The Physical Geography of South America, the eighth volume in the Oxford Regional Environments series, presents an enduring statement on the physical and biogeographic conditions of this remarkable continent and their relationships to human activity. It fills a void in recent environmental literature by assembling a team of specialists from within and beyond South America in order to provide an integrated, cross-disciplinary body of knowledge about this mostly tropical continent, together with its high mountains and temperate southern cone. The authors systematically cover the main components of the South American environment - tectonism, climate, glaciation, natural landscape changes, rivers, vegetation, animals, and soils. The book then presents more specific treatments of regions with special attributes from the tropical forests of the Amazon basin to the Atacama Desert and Patagonian steppe, and from the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific coasts to the high Andes. Additionally, the continents environments are given a human face by evaluating the roles played by people over time, from pre-European and European colonial impacts to the effects of modern agriculture and urbanization, and from interactions with El Niño events to prognoses for the future environments of the continent.
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 19,21 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Geography
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Author : Albert Perry Brigham
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Page : 438 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Geography
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Author : Ralph Stockmann Tarr
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Geography
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