Best of
Geography

1991

The Production of Space


Henri Lefebvre - 1991
    His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields. The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space (the space of the philosophers) and real space (the physical and social spheres in which we all live). In the course of his exploration, Henri Lefebvre moves from metaphysical and ideological considerations of the meaning of space to its experience in the everyday life of home and city. He seeks, in other words, to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and practice, between the mental and the social, and between philosophy and reality. In doing so, he ranges through art, literature, architecture and economics, and further provides a powerful antidote to the sterile and obfuscatory methods and theories characteristic of much recent continental philosophy. This is a work of great vision and incisiveness. It is also characterized by its author's wit and by anecdote, as well as by a deftness of style which Donald Nicholson-Smith's sensitive translation precisely captures.

The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History


Spiro Kostof - 1991
    Widely used by both architects and students of architecture, The City Shaped won the AIA's prestigious book award in Architecture and Urbanism. With hundreds of photographs and drawings that illustrate Professor Kostof's innovative ideas, this has become one of the most important works on urbanization.

Hillerman Country: A Journey Through the Southwest with Tony Hillerman


Tony Hillerman - 1991
    With eloquent prose by bestselling author Hillerman and over full-color photographs by his brother Barney, this is a powerfully personal, visual, and literary look at the land that is central to Hillerman's bestselling novels.

Residential Landscape Architecture: Design Process for the Private Residence


Norman K. Booth - 1991
    The text provides a thorough, how-to explanation of each of the steps of the design process--from initial contact with the client to a completed master plan. The text's numerous illustrations and useful case study examples offer a rich learning experience for students. Whether you are just starting your design career or are a current practitioner, this valuable resource is sure to enhance your skills and knowledge.

The Geography Coloring Book


Wynn Kapit - 1991
    Detailed color exercises allow the "artist" to recognize countries by shape as well as location, gain a sense of the relative sizes of nations and states, and visualize the location of a nation within the context of its continent.

After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America


E.C. Pielou - 1991
    The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today.

Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds


Cynthia Rylant - 1991
    Two award-winning artists, forever touched by their experiences growing up in this unique landscape, have teamed to create a quietly powerful and beautifully crafted portrait of life in a timeless place.

Inside the Vatican


Bart McDowell - 1991
    Bart McDowell takes readers through centuries of Vatican history, describing the days of the Roman Empire, the glorious years of the Renaissance, the power struggle between Church and State that endured from the late 7th century until 1929, and much more. Since the center of the Roman Catholic Church is also the world's smallest nation, McDowell explains religious matters, such as the process of canonization, and governmental operations of the Vatican-highlighted by a visit with Pope John Paul II as he attends to his many daily duties. Photographer James L. Stanfield spent nearly a year inside the Vatican with unprecedented access to its museums, ceremonies, and people. His full-color photographs show art that few visitors to the Vatican have the chance to see-works of such masters as Michelangelo and Raphael-and provide private viewings of Pope John Paul II's quarters, the necropolis beneath St. Peter's Basilica, and world-renowned libraries. Through these beautiful and exclusive photographs and the revealing text that accompanies them, Inside the Vatican celebrates a small, dynamic community unique in the world.

Creatures of the Desert World: A National Geographic Action Book


Barbara Gibson - 1991
    Multitiered illustrations will delight young readers as well as adults. These highly involving books have from five to seven pop-up spreads and, in most cases, one or two action devices on every page.

Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland


Allen Feldman - 1991
    . . . Simply put, this book is a feast for the intellect"—Thomas M. Wilson, American Anthropologist"One of the best books to have been written on Northern Ireland. . . . A highly imagination and significant book. Formations of Violence is an important addition to the literature on political violence."—David E. Schmitt, American Political Science Review

It's a Big Big World Atlas


André Labrie - 1991
    A visual extravaganza filled with information about world geography, industry and resources, and wildlife. A 12-page giant board book (15 3/4" x 22 3/4") pictograms provide keys to each informative map maps included: The World, North and South America, the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia constructed to be easily spread out and hung for display Ages 6 and up

Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology Practice


Bruce Lincoln - 1991
    Written over fifteen years, the essays—six of them previously unpublished—fall into three parts. Part I deals with matters "Indo-European" in a relatively unproblematized way, exploring a set of haunting images that recur in descriptions of the Otherworld from many cultures. While Lincoln later rejects this methodology, these chapters remain the best available source of data for the topics they address. In Part II, Lincoln takes the data for each essay from a single culture area and shifts from the topic of dying to that of killing. Of particular interest are the chapters connecting sacrifice to physiology, a master discourse of antiquity that brought the cosmos, the human body, and human society into an ideologically charged correlation. Part III presents Lincoln's most controversial case against a hypothetical Indo-European protoculture. Reconsidering the work of the prominent Indo-Europeanist Georges Dumézil, Lincoln argues that Dumézil's writings were informed and inflected by covert political concerns characteristic of French fascism. This collection is an invaluable resource for students of myth, ritual, ancient societies, anthropology, and the history of religions. Bruce Lincoln is professor of humanities and religious studies at the University of Minnesota.

The Great Round The World Balloon Race


Sue Scullard - 1991
    The adventures of Harriet Shaw and her niece and nephew, Rebecca and William, as they set out on a round-the-world balloon race.

Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy


Philip Willan - 1991
    But the CIA's spies had few qualms when it came to cultivating terrorist organisations and interfering in the internal politics of Cold War Italy. Puppetmasters reveals how US intelligence services exploited the P2 masonic lodge to prop up friendly Christian Democrat-dominated governments and counter the growing political influence of the Italian Communist Party. It was a ruthless strategy involving coup plots, right wing terrorist bombings and the manipulation of the Red Brigades. And it gave Italy one of the bloodiest and most protracted periods of terrorist violence ever seen in a modern, industrialised society.

The Asian Mind Game: Unlocking the Hidden Agenda of the Asian Business Culture--A Westerner's Survival Manual


Chin-Ning Chu - 1991
     It is the first to reveal to Westerners the deep secrets of the Asian psyche that influence Asian behavior in business, politics, lifestyle, and battle. Ms. Chu points out that Asian mind games have become so finely tuned over the centuries that Americans seldom realize that Asians view the marketplace (and by extension, the world) as a battlefield, and act accordingly. She has extracted the principles of successful negotiations from centuries-old Chinese texts that have influenced all of Asia, and provides her readers with examples of their application in the modern world. In the Western world, the ability to formulate cunning and subtle strategies for getting your own way in business, politics, and everyday life is regarded as a matter of intuition. In Asia, however, strategic thinking is a formal discipline studied by people from all walks of life. Amazing as it may seem, contemporary Asians base their outlook and behavior on the teachings of the ancients. In China, even children are familiar with the "36 Strategies," formulated by Sun Tzu, a famous military strategist, in the fourth century B.C. Throughout Asia today, business people as well as political figures study Sun Tzu's Art of War and apply its strategies to all their activities, while Americans read The One-Minute Manager and All I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten. No wonder, Ms. Chu comments, that when it comes to business and political negotiations, the Chinese refer to Americans with a word that means "innocent children." Ms. Chu brilliantly analyses how Chinese thought and culture have affected Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and how Japanese conquest and culture have had their effect on the rest of Asia. With United States trade and political alliances shifting increasingly to the Pacific rim, it becomes ever more urgent to understand the Asian mind. Ms. Chu, born in China and educated in Taiwan, spells out the makeup of the Asian psyche as no Westerner could.

Travel Geography


Rosemary Burton - 1991
    It explains the distribution of tourism in the different regions of the world, looking at the geographical, social, political and economic circumstances that generate and control tourism. resources for tourism, transport networks and future developments. In the following chapters four main regions are identified: Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the Americas and the Pacific and Australasia. Major tourist attractions and resources of each destination are covered and an in-depth explanation of why tourism develops in certain areas and not in others is provided. and diagrams of each region discussed, and includes learning objectives and student activities to help students assess and develop skills of information location and interpretation. It is designed for students of travel and tourism.

Multicultural Folktales: Stories to Tell Young Children


Judy Sierra - 1991
    Renowned authors and storytellers Judy Sierra and Robert Kaminski have collected 25 folktales representing the peoples and cultures of North America (including Hispanic and African American stories), Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. The authors share their years of storytelling experience and techniques and recommend other helpful publications for additional information and suggestions. These distinguished and popular authors have also included full-sized traceable figures for you to use in creating flannel board characters and puppets!Introduction --pt. 1. Storytelling techniques and materials: Storytelling --Telling stories with the flannel board --Telling stories with puppets. --pt. 2. Folktales for children two-and-a-half to five: The three little kittens (United States) --Anna Mariah (Anglo-American) --The elegant rooster (El gallo elegante, Spain) --The three bears (England) --The cat and the mouse (England) --The goat in the chile patch (El cabrito en la hortaliza de los chiles, United States-Hispanic) --Anansi and the rock (West Africa) --La Hormiguita (Mexico) --Teeny-tiny (England) --The hungry cat (Norway) --See for yourself (Tibet) --The great tug-o-war (African American) --The knee-high man (African American) --In a dark, dark wood (Anglo-American) --pt. 3. Folktales for children five to seven: The lion and the mouse (Greece) --The travels of a fox (England) --Roly-poly rice ball (Japan) --The wonderful pot (Denmark) --Buchettino (Italy) --Don't let the tiger get you! (Korea) --The stonecutter (China) --Drakes-tail (France) --Lazy Jack (England) --Why do monkeys live in trees? (West Africa) --Stone soup (Belgium) --pt. 4. Resources for storytelling

Pedagogy Of The City


Paulo Freire - 1991
    Freire describes the everyday struggles, political as well as administrative, fought in the urban schools of Sao Paulo during Freire's recent 10-year tenure as minister of education.

National Trust Handbook 2013


The National Trust - 1991
    

Devils Tower: The Story Behind the Scenery


Stephen L. Norton - 1991
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Life as a Geological Force: Dynamics of the Earth


Peter Westbroek - 1991
    Since that time, the sciences have specialized into physics, chemistry, biology and geology - specialization that has brought advances, but has unfortunately obscured our view of the unique role that life and death play on our planet.

Terrain and Tactics


Patrick Michael O'Sullivan - 1991
    While political geography addresses the causes of such conflicts, military geography consists of the use of geographical knowledge to describe and analyze the deployment of armed forces. In this work, Patrick O'Sullivan offers an academic and impersonal study of military geography, weighing the balance of advantage for combatants in different geographic settings. He fully explores the effect of geographical circumstances on the outcome of violent conflict, and examines the lessons learned from recent wars about the effects of global position and environmental conditions on the interplay of geostrategy, tactical decisions, and results. The study begins with a look at the global variety of physical habitats and their human occupation, as well as a survey of the geography of war since 1945 including the current geography of conflict. A geographical analysis of selected ancient and modern battles follows, out of which O'Sullivan characterizes classical tactical ploys. A broad examination of modern weapons, tactics, and the required appreciation of the battlefield form the central portion of the book, with two particular topics--guerrilla/counterinsurgency operations and warfare on urban terrain--receiving extensive treatment. The volume concludes by drawing together political geography, strategy, and tactics in a description of the urban-based British Army/IRA conflict, and with an examination of the geographical aptitudes and attitudes of soldiers. This unique work will be an important source for courses in military geography, history, and tactics, and a valuable addition to college and university libraries.

Floridians All


George S. Fichter - 1991
    Plant, a pioneer developer; Osceola, the Seminole Indian chief; Pedro Menendez, the founder of Florida; Henry M. Flagler, whose hotels and railroads opened up Florida to tourism; Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, a writer who worked to preserve the Everglades; and others.

Kids' U.S. Road Atlas: Backseat Books


Rand McNally & Company - 1991
    The only road atlas designed for children ages six through twelve, this specially formatted guide provides a fun and educational way for children to learn about maps and geography with actual Rand McNally maps, colorful illustrations, and travel games.

The Reader's Digest Children's World Atlas


Michael Kuzal - 1991
    

Changing the Face of the Earth: Culture, Environment, History


I.G. Simmons - 1991
    The first edition has been widely adopted in universities, acclaimed both for its wide scholarship and its author's readable style. The new edition is fully revised throughout and takes account of comments and suggestions received from all over the world. It has been restructured into a form appropriate for new methods of university teaching, the diagrams have been clarified, and references and sections of further reading provided at the end of each chapter. Revised edition of a widely-used textbook. More concise, more chapters, better adapted to course use. Revised further reading. Clearly-written, well-illustrated, popular with students.

Fundamentals Of Weather And Climate


Robin McIlveen - 1991
    An introduction to the behaviour and mechanisms of the lower atmosphere which aims to fill a gap between texts describing meteorological behaviour with no account of the mechanisms, and others which tackle the theoretical framework but assume readers are already familiar with atmospheric behaviour.

The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the EXXON Valdez: North American Landscape from Disney to the EXXON Valdez


Alexander Wilson - 1991
    Extensively illustrated.

Maps - The World and United States


Karen Sevaly - 1991
    

Salt And Civilization


Samuel Adrian M. Adshead - 1991
    This book attempts to place the history of salt as a human commodity on a global perspective and focuses in particular on China.

Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World


Sharon Zukin - 1991
    In this book Sharon Zukin links our ever-expanding need to consume with two fundamental shifts: places of production have given way to spaces for services and paperwork, and the competitive edge has moved from industrial to cultural capital. From the steel mills of the Rust Belt, to the sterile malls of suburbia, to the gentrified urban centers of our largest cities, the "creative destruction" of our economy--a process by which a way of life is both lost and gained--results in a dramatically different landscape of economic power. Sharon Zukin probes the depth and diversity of this restructuring in a series of portraits of changed or changing American places. Beginning at River Rouge, Henry Ford's industrial complex in Dearborn, Michigan, and ending at Disney World, Zukin demonstrates how powerful interests shape the spaces we inhabit. Among the landscapes she examines are steeltowns in West Virginia and Michigan, affluent corporate suburbs in Westchester County, gentrified areas of lower Manhattan, and theme parks in Florida and California. In each of these case studies, new strategies of investment and employment are filtered through existing institutions, experience in both production and consumption, and represented in material products, aesthetic forms, and new perceptions of space and time. The current transformation differs from those of the past in that individuals and institutions now have far greater power to alter the course of change, making the creative destruction of landscape the most important cultural product of our time. Zukin's eclectic inquiry into the parameters of social action and the emergence of new cultural forms defines the interdisciplinary frontier where sociology, geography, economics, and urban and cultural studies meet.

Germany


Jim Hargrove - 1991
    Here also are geography, history, economics, key attractions ... and so much more. The result is a delightful mix of enchantment that is as riveting as it is informative.From the start, readers are caught up in the crisp style of the series. Whether it's a description of bustling London, or an incredibly readable explanation of the decline of ancient Egypt, 5th-grade-and-up students are right there ... visualizing ... understanding ... and remembering!Best of all, little is overlooked that will contribute to the readers' total appreciation of a culture. Be it sagas of Vikings or folktales of trolls. Or even acknowledgment of modern Vikings like Thor Heyerdahl. There's mystery such as England's Stonehenge and Egypt's Great Pyramids ... plus nature's wonders -- like Australia's egg-laying platypus and China's gentle but rare pandas. Everything is there ... to be enjoyed, relished, and learned from.Each book also includes a chapter of brief biographies of important people. And each features an 8-10 page reference section of "quick facts", perfect for students' research, about such subjects as population, government, geographical data, currency, and historical chronology. Throughout, all the books are ablaze with a generous amount of beautiful full-color photographs."Enchantment of the World" can be of equal importance in the library or social studies classroom. Either way, it's a series that students will go back to again and again.

Penturbia: Where Real Estate Will Boom After the Crash of Suburbia


Jack Lessinger - 1991
    

The Toronto Story


Claire Mackay - 1991
    We meet William Lyon Mackenzie and his desperate band of followers in the farmers' Rebellion of 1837, and Elizabeth McMaster, who, with several friends, founded the forerunner of the renowned Hospital for Sick Children in 1875. Key episodes in the city's history are described in vivid detail, such as the two fires that devastated the downtown, and life during World War II. A new chapter ends the book with a clear-eyed look at the city today and an epilogue takes a peek at the future. Throughout, the author's lively text is sprinkled with her charming humor, drawing readers in to this very colorful and personable account of Toronto's past.Each chapter contains numerous sidebars, illustrated with color drawings, that highlight intriguing facts. Key events in the city's history can be easily located in the detailed timeline at the end of the book. An extensive index is a useful tool for finding specific references within the text, and an annotated bibliography refers the reader to other sources of interest.First published in 1990, The Toronto Story was a finalist for the City of Toronto Book Award and the Mr. Christie Book Award, and was named a Canadian Library Association "Notable Book."

Look inside the Earth


Gina Inogoglia - 1991
    This important book will help young children develop an awareness of current environmental issues and understand why people must protect the earth. Full color throughout.