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 | Building Geographic Literacy: An Interactive Approach Product# 460544349 Selling for $44 "This combined book and interactive workbook enables readers to learn place geography. Readers learn to reinforce and apply their knowledge by constructing thematic maps which convey physical, economic, cultural and political characteristics of places." |
 | Exercises in Climatology Product# 460679312 Selling for $37 "This invaluable weather and climate workbook applies exercises to the material presented in the companion volume, Climatology: An Atmospheric Science. The book is designed to make complex mathematical, statistical and spatial analytical methods more easily understood by providing essential details of the topic under discussion and straightforward quantitative problems preceded by worked example. All data are supplied to make the exercises self-contained and the volume's climate rather then meteorologic presentation enables a wider view of atmospheric sciences than is normally available. The authors examine the atmosphere, the energy balance, the seasons, temperature, central tendency and graphing, atmospheric moisture and precipitation distribution, air masses, fronts, and cyclones, winds and the global circulation, climate classification, climate types, change, indices and comfort, extreme events and statistical analysis as they apply to weather and climate. For those interested in atmospheric science." |
 | Geosystems Animation Edition Product# 460679561 Selling for $124.8 "'Geosystems' is written, organized, and illustrated to give new learners an accessible, systematic, and visually appealing start in the study of physical geography. This edition includes the brand new Geography Animations CD. A four-part organization of chapter covers the energy-atmosphere system; the water, weather, and climate systems; the earth-atmosphere interface; and soils, ecosystems, and biomes. For individuals with an interest in physical geography." |
 | Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development Product# 460679639 Selling for $82.67 "This is an issues-oriented book that tackles the geographic changes accompanying today's rapid rate of globalization. Taking a thematic approach, it gives the information needed to make critical comparisons between the various regions of the world and to understand more fully the interconnections that increasingly bind these regions together. Diversity and Globalization. The Changing Global Environment. Global Geography in the 21st Century. The Regions of the World." |
| Exercises in Climatology Product# 460684664 Selling for $37 "This invaluable weather and climate workbook applies exercises to the material presented in the companion volume, Climatology: An Atmospheric Science. The book is designed to make complex mathematical, statistical and spatial analytical methods more easily understood by providing essential details of the topic under discussion and straightforward quantitative problems preceded by worked example. All data are supplied to make the exercises self-contained and the volume's climate rather then meteorologic presentation enables a wider view of atmospheric sciences than is normally available. The authors examine the atmosphere, the energy balance, the seasons, temperature, central tendency and graphing, atmospheric moisture and precipitation distribution, air masses, fronts, and cyclones, winds and the global circulation, climate classification, climate types, change, indices and comfort, extreme events and statistical analysis as they apply to weather and climate. For those interested in atmospheric science." |
 | Physical Geography Product# 460684726 Selling for $51.6 "This manual is designed to be self-contained, making it useful for readers without access to teaching collections of maps, satellite images and stereo aerial photographs. Several of the exercises will be enhanced if users have access to simple lens stereoscopes and sling psychrometers. Chapter exercises include metric conversion, location, time, map scale, map projections, isolines, Earth-Sun relations, solar angle, insolation, temperature patterns, air pressure, wind, humidity, adiabatic processes, stability, midlatitude cyclones, weather satellite images, hurricanes, climate classification, topographic profiles, U.S. public land survey system, stereo aerial photographs, plate tectonics, volcanoes, faulting, drainage basins, floodplains, sand dunes, continental glaciation, and coastal landforms." |
| Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development Product# 460686112 Selling for $82.67 "This is an issues-oriented book that tackles the geographic changes accompanying today's rapid rate of globalization. Taking a thematic approach, it gives the information needed to make critical comparisons between the various regions of the world and to understand more fully the interconnections that increasingly bind these regions together. Diversity and Globalization. The Changing Global Environment. Global Geography in the 21st Century. The Regions of the World." |
 | Introduction to Geography: People, Places, and Environment Product# 460765665 Selling for $112.8 "More than any other, this up-to-the-minute book is dedicated to helping readers understand the world around them. The authors introduce the major tools, techniques, and methodological approaches of geography, and present a wide range of positions currently debated about provocative current issues. Weaves the theme of human-environmental interaction throughout. Demonstrates applications of GIS and GPS in physical geography--includes urban planning, registration of urban and rural landholding, farming techniques. Covers the aging of the human population, and the different ramifications of this fact in rich and poor countries. Expands discussion of Islam, church and state in Islam--includes relations between church and state in various religions. Discusses Islam in Europe and its cultural, religious, and political impact. Covers the spread of Islamic Sharia law across North Africa, the Near East, and Indonesia. An interesting reference for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of major world issues." |
 | World Regional Geography: A Development Approach Product# 460765698 Selling for $78.66 "This introduction to world geography explores our increasing interdependent world from a development perspective. This perspective provides a framework for understanding the increasing commercial, cultural, political, and economic intersection between cultures and regions, and helps students understand how these global intersections affect our local environment." |
| World Regional Geography: A Development Approach Product# 460767551 Selling for $78.66 "This introduction to world geography explores our increasing interdependent world from a development perspective. This perspective provides a framework for understanding the increasing commercial, cultural, political, and economic intersection between cultures and regions, and helps students understand how these global intersections affect our local environment." |
 | Managing Geographic Information System Projects Product# 460768216 Selling for $84.95 "Focuses on its mechanics, technology, and project-specific applications. Introduces the reader to GIS implementation from a management and organizational perspective. DLC: Geographic information systems." |
 | The Custom of the Sea Product# 460768372 Selling for $24.95 "Cast adrift in a tiny boat on a vast and desolate ocean, faced with almost certain death, what would you do to survive? This is the agonizing question that lies at the heart of the gripping true drama of The Custom of the Sea. On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from Southampton, England, bound for Sydney, Australia. Halfway through the 12,000-mile voyage, Captain Tom Dudley and his three- member crew were beset by a monstrous storm off the coast of West Africa. After four terrifying days battling towering waves and hurricane-force gales, the Mignonette was sunk by a massive forty-foot 'freak' wave. Captain Dudley and his crew were cast adrift a thousand miles from the nearest land in a leaky thirteen-foot dinghy with only two small tins of turnips for food, no water, and no shelter from the scorching sun. After nineteen days, they were all near death, and Dudley determined that they must resort to the horrifying practice well known among seamen of the time called 'the custom of the sea.' While the others watched, the captain killed the weakest of them, the seventeen-year-old cabin boy, and his body was eaten. Five days later, the survivors were picked up by a passing ship, and although such cases of survival cannibalism were usually either hushed up or condoned as terrible but justified acts of desperation, in this case the men were arrested for murder. The sensational trial that followed kept a shocked public enthralled during the following winter, from the lowliest ship?ÇÖs deckhand to Queen Victoria herself. In this riveting account, Neil Hanson re-creates with vivid detail the harrowing ordeal of the Mignonette?ÇÖs crew. Drawing from newspaper accounts, personal letters and diaries, court proceedings, and first-person accounts of the principals, he has brilliantly pieced together their tragic story, a talerife with moral twists and turns that will draw you deeper and deeper into the drama of the men?ÇÖs fate. Four shipwrecked sailors...one must die so the others might live. What should they do? A terrifying true-to-life account of peril on the high seas?Çöand of the electrifying murder trial that shocked the world. Praise for THE CUSTOM OF THE SEA 'Makes astonishing reading . . . extraordinary.' ?ÇöTimes Literary Supplement (London) 'An engrossing account.'?ÇöThe Sunday Times (London) 'A terrific story. . . . A riveting read.'?ÇöThe Spectator (London) 'Sensational.'?ÇöDaily Telegraph (London)" |