Author: Roger M. Downs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884136412
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The second edition of the national geography standards for geography education.
Geography for Life
Author: Roger M. Downs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884136412
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The second edition of the national geography standards for geography education.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884136412
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The second edition of the national geography standards for geography education.
A Geography of Human Life
Author: Tsunesaburō Makiguchi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Geography and the Art of Life
Author: Edmunds Valdemārs Bunkśe
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801877223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"Offers a singularly courageous, personal account of learning how to pour the poetics of space into the art of life." -- Geografishe Annales B: Human Geography
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801877223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"Offers a singularly courageous, personal account of learning how to pour the poetics of space into the art of life." -- Geografishe Annales B: Human Geography
THE ADVENTURES OF CHATTERER THE RED SQUIRREL
Author: THORNTON W. BURGESS
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Why Place Matters
Author: Wilfred M. McClay
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594037183
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594037183
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
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.
Building Geography Skills for Life
Author: Richard Boehm
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
ISBN: 9780078257995
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
ISBN: 9780078257995
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Geography of Life and Death
Author: Laurence Dudley Stamp
Publisher: London : Collins
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher: London : Collins
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Kids Learn America!
Author: Patricia Gordon
Publisher: Williamson Books
ISBN: 9780913589588
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Surveys the geography, history, and culture of the states and territories of the United States.
Publisher: Williamson Books
ISBN: 9780913589588
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Surveys the geography, history, and culture of the states and territories of the United States.
Foundations of Biogeography
Author: Mark V. Lomolino
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226492377
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Foundations of Biogeography provides facsimile reprints of seventy-two works that have proven fundamental to the development of the field. From classics by Georges-Louis LeClerc Compte de Buffon, Alexander von Humboldt, and Charles Darwin to equally seminal contributions by Ernst Mayr, Robert MacArthur, and E. O. Wilson, these papers and book excerpts not only reveal biogeography's historical roots but also trace its theoretical and empirical development. Selected and introduced by leading biogeographers, the articles cover a wide variety of taxonomic groups, habitat types, and geographic regions. Foundations of Biogeography will be an ideal introduction to the field for beginning students and an essential reference for established scholars of biogeography, ecology, and evolution. List of Contributors John C. Briggs, James H. Brown, Vicki A. Funk, Paul S. Giller, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Lawrence R. Heaney, Robert Hengeveld, Christopher J. Humphries, Mark V. Lomolino, Alan A. Myers, Brett R. Riddle, Dov F. Sax, Geerat J. Vermeij, Robert J. Whittaker
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226492377
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Foundations of Biogeography provides facsimile reprints of seventy-two works that have proven fundamental to the development of the field. From classics by Georges-Louis LeClerc Compte de Buffon, Alexander von Humboldt, and Charles Darwin to equally seminal contributions by Ernst Mayr, Robert MacArthur, and E. O. Wilson, these papers and book excerpts not only reveal biogeography's historical roots but also trace its theoretical and empirical development. Selected and introduced by leading biogeographers, the articles cover a wide variety of taxonomic groups, habitat types, and geographic regions. Foundations of Biogeography will be an ideal introduction to the field for beginning students and an essential reference for established scholars of biogeography, ecology, and evolution. List of Contributors John C. Briggs, James H. Brown, Vicki A. Funk, Paul S. Giller, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Lawrence R. Heaney, Robert Hengeveld, Christopher J. Humphries, Mark V. Lomolino, Alan A. Myers, Brett R. Riddle, Dov F. Sax, Geerat J. Vermeij, Robert J. Whittaker
The Geography of Bliss
Author: Eric Weiner
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448168481
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between... After years of going to the world's least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and discover the nation that seemed happiest of all. ·He discovers the relationship between money and happiness in tiny and extremely wealthy Qatar (and it's not a good one) ·He goes to Thailand, and finds that not thinking is a contented way of life. ·He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness! ·He asks himself why the British don't do happiness? In Weiner's quest to find the world's happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. Full of inspired moments, The Geography of Bliss accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer achieve: to make you happier.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448168481
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between... After years of going to the world's least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and discover the nation that seemed happiest of all. ·He discovers the relationship between money and happiness in tiny and extremely wealthy Qatar (and it's not a good one) ·He goes to Thailand, and finds that not thinking is a contented way of life. ·He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness! ·He asks himself why the British don't do happiness? In Weiner's quest to find the world's happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. Full of inspired moments, The Geography of Bliss accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer achieve: to make you happier.