Geography

Don't Know Much About Geography

by Kenneth C. Davis

Who killed the Dead Sea? What can you build with BRICS? Does the World Bank have ATMs? Is all the talk of global warming just a lot of hot air?

In Don't Know Much About® Geography, Kenneth C. Davis, New York...

Seymour Simon's Extreme Earth Records

by Seymour Simon

Imagine exploring the most extreme parts of our amazing planet—trekking though the driest desert, climbing the snowiest mountaintops, and diving to the deepest regions of the ocean floor. Seymour Simon, the...

Geographers Volume 31: Biobibliographical Studies

by Hayden Lorimer & Charles W.J. Withers

Volume thirty-one of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies brings together nine essays on leading geographers and their work. With its publication, the cumulative record of geographers’ lives and works in...

Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale

by Michael K. Goodman & Maxwell T. Boykoff

The human-environment relationship is one of the most pressing concerns of the twenty-first century. Bringing together a range of global case studies to illustrate the broad range of current theories on this...

Charting the World: Geography and Maps from Cave Paintings to GPS with 21 Activities

by Richard Panchyk

Maps have been a part of human culture since the days of scratching on cave walls, and this richly illustrated history chronicles the road from simple diagrams used to avoid danger to the complex, navigational...

Geology of the Great Plains and Mountain West: Investigate How the Earth Was Formed With 15 Projects

by Cynthia Light Light Brown

Answering intriguing questions such as Why does the largest river system in North America meander across the middle of the continent? and How does such a system relate to the rugged Rocky Mountains?, this fun-filled...