Geography From A Z

Author : Jack Knowlton
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064460991
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Geography from A to Z written by Jack Knowlton and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-08-02 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what a badland is? What about a gulch? Do you wonder what an isthmus is? Or a seamount? What about the difference between a plateau and a plain, or a knob and a knoll? Well, here are the answers! The sixty-three entries from A to Z describe the earth's features -- its physical geography -- from the highest mountain peak to the deepest ocean trench, in clear, concise terms. Each entry is beautifully illustrated in full color. This is a perfect introduction to the dramatic and fascinating face of the vast world around us. The author and artist of the best-selling MAPS & GLOBES team up again, this time to prove that geography can indeed be an adventure.

Author : Andrew Wojtanik
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426309473
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The National Geographic Bee Ultimate Fact Book written by Andrew Wojtanik and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are studying for a test at school of just seeking to expand you knowledge of the world, you'll find this to be an invaluable tool.

Author : Thomas Paradis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595270352
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Theme Town written by Thomas Paradis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to interpreting everyday human landscapes focuses on Flagstaff, Arizona, exploring four urban districts: a themed historic business district, a pre-War multi-ethnic neighborhood, an expanding university campus, and a dynamic automobile commercial strip.

Author : Firefly Books
Publisher : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 : 9781552978382
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Firefly Geography Dictionary written by Firefly Books and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographic terms defined, plus information tables, illustrations and maps.

Author : Christopher R. Boyer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816502498
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Land Between Waters written by Christopher R. Boyer and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore the relationship between the people and the environment of Mexico. Featuring a dozen essays by leading scholars, it heralds the arrival of environmental history as a major area of study in the field of Mexican history and introduces a new book series: “Latin American Landscapes.”

Author : Robert H. Webb
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816515783
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Grand Canyon written by Robert H. Webb and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs made in Grand Canyon a century ago may provide us with a sense of history; photographs made today from the same vantage points give us a more precise picture of change in this seemingly timeless place. Between 1889 and 1890, Robert Brewster Stanton made photographs every one to two miles through the river corridor for the purpose of planning a water-level railroad route; he produced the largest collection of photographs of the Colorado River at one point in time. Robert Webb, a USGS hydrologist conducting research on debris flows in the Canyon, obtained the photographs, and from 1989 to 1995, he replicated all 445 of the views captured by Stanton, matching as closely as possible the original camera positions and lighting conditions. Grand Canyon, a Century of Change assembles the most dramatic of these paired photographs to demonstrate both the persistence of nature and the presence of humanity. The level of detail obtained from the photographs represent one of the most extensive long-term monitoring efforts ever conducted in a national park and the most detailed documentation effort ever performed using repeat photography. Much more than simply a picture book, Grand Canyon, a Century of Change is an environmental history of the river corridor, a fascinating book that clearly shows the impact of human influence on Grand Canyon and warns us that the Canyon's future is very much in our hands.

Author : Laura Da'
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816538964
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Instruments of the True Measure written by Laura Da' and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instruments of the True Measure charts the coordinates and intersections of land, history, and culture. Lyrical passages map the parallel lives of ancestral figures and connect dispossessions of the past to lived experiences of the present. Shawnee history informs the collection, and Da’s fascination with uncovering and recovering brings the reader deeper into the narrative of Shawnee homeland. Images of forced removal and frontier violence reveal the wrenching loss and reconfiguration of the Shawnee as a people. The body and history become lands that are measured and plotted with precise instruments. Surveying and geography underpin the collection, but even as Da’ investigates these signifiers of measurement, she pushes the reader to interrogate their function within the stark atrocities of American history. Da’ laments this harsh dichotomy, observing that America’s mathematical point of beginning is located in the heart of her tribe’s homeland: “I do not have the Shawnee words to describe this place; the notation that is available to me is 40°38 ́32.61 ́ ́ N 80°31 ́9.76 ́ ́ W.”

Author : Mitchel P. McClaran
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816553203
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Desert Grassland written by Mitchel P. McClaran and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mixed grass and shrub vegetation known to scientists as desert grassland is common to the basins and valleys that skirt the mountain ranges throughout southwestern North America, extending from Arizona, New Mexico and Texas down through thirteen Mexican states. This variegated ground cover is crucial to life in an arid environment. The Desert Grassland offers the most comprehensive study to date of these flora and the rich biotic communities they support. Leading experts in geography, biology, botany, zoology, and geoscience present new research on the desert grassland and review a vast amount of earlier work. They reveal that present-day grasses once grew in the ice-age forests that existed in these areas before the climate dried and the trees vanished and how the intensity and frequency of fire can influence the plant and animal species of the grassland. They also document how the influence of humans—from Amerindians to contemporary ranchers, public land managers, and real estate developers—has changed the relative abundance of woody and herbaceous species and how the introduction of new plants and domesticated animals to the area has also affected biodiversity. The book concludes with a review of the attempts, both failed and successful, to reestablish plants in desert grasslands affected by overgrazing, drought, and farm abandonment. Meticulously researched and copiously illustrated, The Desert Grassland is a major contribution to ecological literature. For advanced lay readers as well as students and scholars of history, geography, and ecology, it will be a standard reference work for years to come.

Author : Guy R. McPherson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521009751
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Applied Ecology and Natural Resource Management written by Guy R. McPherson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : Scholastic, Inc. Staff
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780439117616
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ready-to-go Super Book of Outline Maps written by Scholastic, Inc. Staff and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 101 Reproducible outline maps of the continents, countries of the world, the 50 states, and more.