Author: Firefly Books
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 9781552978382
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Geographic terms defined, plus information tables, illustrations and maps.

Author: Susan Mayhew
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780199231805
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Book Description
Containing 6,400 fully revised and updated entries on all aspects of physical and human geography, this dictionary is the most comprehensive of its kind. It includes feature panels on key areas and recommended web links for many entries,

Author: Susan Mayhew
Publisher:
ISBN: 0191579599
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Book Description
[Géographie].

Author: J. B. Whittow
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140510942
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 591

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Book Description
Defines terms and concepts in archaeology, botany, geology, meteorology, earth science and geography

Author: Nundo Lal Dey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Helen S. Carlson
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874174031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 579

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Author and researcher Helen Carlson spent almost fourteen years searching for the origins of Nevada’s place names, using the maps of explorers, miners, government surveyors, and city planners and poring through historical accounts, archival documents, county records, and newspaper files. The result of her labors is Nevada Place Names, a fascinating mixture of history spiced with folklore, legend, and obscure facts. Out of print for some years, the book was reprinted in 1999.

Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher: Merriam-Webster Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1192

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A biographical dictionary which profiles over 30,000 individuals, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

Author: David S. G. Thomas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118687434
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 918

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Book Description
The third edition of this comprehensive encyclopedic dictionary covers the whole field of physical geography and provides an essential reference for all students and lecturers in this field.

Author: Christina Blackie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Author: Vladimir Mikhaĭlovich Kotli͡akov
Publisher: North Holland
ISBN: 9780444510426
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1048

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Geography is a system of highly developed sciences about the environment. Geographical science embracing the study of the Earth's physical phenomena, people and their economic activities has always been in need of an extensive terminology. Geographical terms are related to the terms of natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, geology, etc.) and humanities (history, economics, sociology, etc.) since geography is based on these fundamental subjects. Geography includes a number of disciplines and subdivisions which appeared along with the development of the science In spite of being very different geographical disciplines have some common tools of investigation which is maps, comparative method of exploration, remote sensing, geoinformation systems. Today very well developed terminologies of all the specialist fields of geography and related subjects exist in the main world languages. However, they are not always well-correlated. Nowadays geographical terminology requires unification and international correlation more than ever before. Hence the idea of compiling a multilingual polydisciplinary dictionary. The Dictionary consists of the basic table of terms arranged according to the order of the English alphabet with each term numbered. Each entry consists of the term in English and its equivalents in Russian, French, German, Spanish. Short definitions of terms are given in English and in Russian. The terms are supplied with the necessary grammar labels, such as gender of nouns, plural number, etc. The Dictionary combines two functions: that of a defining dictionary and that of a bilingual dictionary. These two functions are basically contradictory because usually the defining dictionary is aimed at giving one meaning of the word which is the main and essential one, while the bilingual dictionary tries to give different equivalents of a given word in the other language in order to supply the user with maximum possible translations, differing in the shades of meanings, thus giving him the possibility to choose the appropriate word. But in our Dictionary we intentionally decided to combine the two functions – defining and multilingual, because a short definition of the term and equivalents in other languages help to achieve our main aim which consists in showing the basic geographical terminology and harmonizing it in several languages. Having this into consideration we deliberately mixed two types of dictionaries in one. *Organized alphabetically via English *Provides short definition of geographical terms in English and Russian *Includes multilingual translation of terms from English to Russian, French, German, Spanish