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World Geomorphology, by E. M. Bridges New York Cambridge University Press. 260 pp. Cloth $70.00, Paperback—$24.95. ISBN 0-521-38343-9.

Land Degradation, by C. J. Barrow New York: Cambridge University Press. 295 pp. Cloth—$80.00. ISBN 0-521-35333-5.

An Outline of China's Physical Geography, by Ren Mei'e, Yang Renzhang, and Bao Haosheng, compilers, Zhang Tingquan and Hu Genkang, translators Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1985. 471 pp. Paperback—$15.00. ISBN 0-8351-1192-X.

Earth Science for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments that Really Work, by Janice VanCleave New York John Wiley &; Sons. 1991. 231 pp. $19.89.

SimEarth, by Maxis Software Orinda, CA: Maxis Software. $69.95. Black and white or color. School editions and lab packs are available at reduced prices from Broderbund Software, Novato, CA. For Macintosh and IBM compatible.

MacGlobe, by PC Globe, Inc. Tempe, AZ: PC Globe, Inc. $79.95. For Macintosh.

EARTHALERT, by Mike², Inc. Seattle, WA: Mike², Inc.

Geo-Safari, by Educational Insights Geo-Safari, Educational Insights, 19560 South Rancho Way, Dominguez, Hills, CA 90220.     

Reviews and Materials Received

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Geography and Social Justice: Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. 1994. 325 pp. $22.95, paper. ISBN 0-631-19026-0.

An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management: Washington, DC: Island Press. 1994. 210 pp. Bibliography, index. $29.95, paper. ISBN 1-55963-281-X.

Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press. 1994. Notes, bibliography, index. 352 pp. $50.00, cloth. $24.95, paper. ISBN 0-8165-1414-3.

Tourism: The State of the Art: New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1994. 867 pp. $79.95, cloth. ISBN 0-471-95092-0.

Drinking Water Quality: Problems and Solutions: New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1994. 315 pp. References, index. $59.95, cloth. ISBN 0-471-94817-9.     

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Book Reviews are in this articles.

Managing and Marketing of Urban Development and Urban Life. GERHARD O. BRAUN, ed. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1994. Abhandlungen-Anthropogeographie, Bd. 52. xv and 687 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. DM 129.00 paper (ISBN 3-496-02560-3).

Evolution of Infectious Disease. PAUL W. EWALD. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. viii, 298 pp., diags., index, glossary, and biblio. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-506058-X).

Upstate Arcadia: Landscape, Aesthetics, and the Triumph of Social Differentiation in America. PETER J. HUGILL. Lanham, MD and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995. xvi and 255 pp., maps, tables, photos, biblio, and index. $61.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8476-7855-5); $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-8476-7856-3).

Urban Land Use Planning. 4th ed. EDWARD J. KAISER, DAVID R. GODSCHALK, and F. STEWART CHAPIN, JR. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. xv and 493 pp., tables, figs., and index. $40.00 cloth (ISBN 0-252-02101-0).

The Asian Pacific Rim and Globalization: Enterprise, Governance and Territoriality. RICHARD LE HERON and SAM OCK PARK, eds. Brookfield, VT: Avebury Publishing Group, 1995. xiv and 188 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. $55.95 cloth (ISBN 1-85628-894-3).

The Global Casino: An Introduction to Environmental Issues. NICK MIDDLETON. New York and London: Edward Arnold, 1995. 332 pp., maps, figs., and biblio. $26.95 paper (ISBN 0-340-59493-4).

A Geography of Pennsylvania. E. WIL-LARD MILLER, ed. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. xviii and 406 pp., maps, photos, tables, figs., biblio., and index. $75.00 cloth (ISBN 0-271-01017-7); $25.00 paper (ISBN 0-271-01342-7).

Mountain Environments and Geographic Information Systems. MARTIN F. PRICE and D. IAN HEYWOOD, eds. Bristol, PA, and London: Taylor &; Francis, 1994. xiv and 309 pp., figs., tables, maps, plates, biblio., and index. $95.00 cloth (ISBN 0-7484-0088-5).

Geographical Data Analysis. NIGEL WAL-FORD. New York and Chichester: John Wiley &; Sons, 1995. xi and 446 pp., apps., index, and biblio. $59.95 paper (ISBN 0-471-94162-X).     

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The Human Geography of Ireland by J. H. Johnson New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1994. Bibliography, index, xi, and 221 pp. S39.95, hard. ISBN 0-47194-832-2.

Some Truth with Maps: A Primer on Symbolization & Design by Alan M. MacEachren Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers. 1994. Figures, bibliography. 129 pp. ISBN 0-89291-214-6.

Geography of China: Environment, Resources, Population and Development by Songqiao Zhao New York; John Wiley & Sons. 1994. xix and 332 pp. Appendix and index. ISBN 0-471-57758-8. S67.95, cloth.     

Boston: A Center of Industry

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European Transport and Communications Networks: Policy Evolution and Change by David Banister, Roberta Capello, and Peter Nijkamp eds. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley &; Sons. 1995. xxiii plus 348pp. Figures, tables, maps, index, list of contributors. ISBN 0-471-95737.

Geographical Excursions in London by Hugh J. Gayler, Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 1996. 186 pp. Maps, photos. ISBN 0-7618-0328-9.

Rivers: Curriculum Guide by Bob Ashley, White Plains, NY: Dale Seymour Publishing. 1997. 230 pp. Appendices, glossary. ISBN 0-201-49368-3. $23.95, paper.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews are in this article. All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions. EDWARD L. AYERS, PATRICIA NELSON LIMERICK, STEPHEN NISSENBAUM, and PETER S. ONUF. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. viii and 104 pp., notes, index. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8018–5206–4); $13.95 paper (ISBN 0–8018–5392–3). Developing the Environment: Problems and Management. C. J. BARROW. Essex, England: Longman Scientific and Technical; New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1995. xii and 313 pp.; maps, diags., ills., refs., and index. $39.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-23453-9). Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America. PAUL BOURKE and DONALD DeBATS. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xvii and 407 pp., maps, tables, apps., endnotes, and index. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8018-4950-0). Political Geography: The Discipline and Its Dimensions. 2nd ed. RAMESH DUTTA DIKSHIT. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill, 1995. xxii and 284 pp., maps, diags, and biblio. ISBN 0-07-462078-9 (paper). Geography and Air Transport. BRIAN GRAHAM. New York and Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1995. 288 pp., maps, tables, diags., index, and biblio. $74.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-95757-7). The Challenge of Geography. A Changing World: A Changing Discipline. R. J. JOHNSTON, ed. Cambridge, MA and Oxford, England: Blackwell, 1993. ix and 248 pp., diags. $64.95 cloth (ISBN 0-631-18713-8); $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-631-18714-6). Women, Work, and Place. AUDREY KOBAYASHI, ed. Buffalo, NY and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. xlv and 212 pp., index, biblios., graphs. $44.95 cloth (ISBN 0-7735-1225-X); $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-7735-1242-X). The Canadian Remote Sensing Contribution to Understanding Global Change. ELLSWORTH LeDREW, MURRAY STROME, and FRANK HEGYI, eds. Waterloo: Department of Geography, University of Waterloo, 1995. Department of Geography Publication Series, No. 38. xxviii and 434 pp., biblio., figs., glossary, images, index, and tables. $50.00 cloth (ISBN 0-921083-45-9). Historical Atlas of East Central Europe. PAUL ROBERT MAGOCSI, ed., with cartographic design by GEOFFREY J. MATTHEWS. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. xiv and 218 pp., maps, tables, appendix of map sources, biblio., and index. $39.95 paper (ISBN 0-295-97445-1). Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes, and Cultural Boundaries. DAVID MORLEY and KEVIN ROBINS. London: Routledge, 1995. 228 pp., biblio., and index. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-09596-4). Politics, Geography and “Political Geography”: A Critical Perspective. JOE PAINTER. New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Arnold, 1995. x and 206 pp., biblio., $44.95 cloth (ISBN 0-470-23544-6); $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-23543-8). Harare. Inheriting a Settler-Colonial City: Change or Continuity? CAROLE RAKODI. New York and Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1995. xiv and 298 pp., maps, photos, tables, biblio., and index. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94951-5). Introduction to Disjunctive Kriging and Non-Linear Geostatistics. JACQUES RIVOIRARD. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. 181 pp., with index. $48.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-874180-4). Multiregional Demography: Principles, Methods and Extensions. ANDREI ROGERS. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1995. xl and 236 pp., diags., and biblio., $54.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-95892-1). The Government of World Cities: The Future of the Metro Model. L. J. SHARPE, ed. New York and Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1995. 234 pp. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94982-5). Worlds of Desire, Realms of Power: A Cultural Geography. PAMELA SHURMERSMITH and KEVIN HANNAM. New York and London: Edward Arnold, 1994. vi and 250 pp. $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-340-59217-6). The Global Commons: A Regime Analysis. JOHN VOGLER. New York and Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1995. xix and 233 pp., map, diags., biblio., and index. $69.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-95716-X). The Cultural Dimension of Development: Indigenous Knowledge Systems. D. MICHAEL WARREN, L. JAN SLIKKERVEER, and DAVID BROKENSHA, eds. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1995. xviii and 582 pp., maps, figs., photos, tables, index, and biblio., $32.50 paper (ISBN 1-85339-251-0). The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920. KAREN WIGEN. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1995. xvi and 336 pp., maps, figs., tables, and index. $42.50 cloth (ISBN 0-520-08420-9). Geographic Information from Space: Processing and Applications of Geocoded Satellite Images. JONATHAN WILLIAMS. New York and Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1995. 210 pp., diags., glossary, index, and refs. $94.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-95833-6). Third World in the First: Development and Indigenous Peoples. ELSPETH A. YOUNG. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. xvii and 304 pp., maps, figs., plates, tables, index, and biblio., $79.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-05543-1); $22.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-11673-2). Exploring the Beloved Country: Geographic Forays into American Society and Culture. WILBUR ZELINSKY. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994. xiv and 604 pp., maps, figs., tables, biblio., and index. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-87745-484-1); $22.95 paper (ISBN 0-87745-483-3).     

Reviews

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Around the World Program: Malta, Japan, Australia, Madagascar, Switzerland, and Fiji, Hilary Lambert Hopper, series ed. Fort Pierce, Florida: McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company. 1996

Atlas of World Geography, Brett R. Gover and Ann T. Natunewicz, eds. Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally and Company. 1996 (revised 1999 printing). 176 pp. ISBN 0528177900 (paper).

The New Comparative World Atlas, Charles G. Lees, Jr., ed. Maplewood, New Jersey: Hammond Incorporated; 1998. 96 pp. ISBN 0843771003 (paper).

Political Geography: A New Introduction, Richard Muir, New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1997 316 pp. Maps and figures. ISBN 0470237449. $39.95 (paper)

The Southern Black Belt: A National Perspective, Ronald C. Wimberley, Libby V. Morris., Lexington, KY TVA Rural Studies, 1997. 49 pp. Illustrations, maps ISBN 0-9649746-2-2.

The Rural Landscape, John Fraser Hart, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 1998 408 pp., figures, illustrations, graphs, tables, bibliography, index. $35.95 cloth.     

Standards-Directed Education: The Good,the Bad,and the Ugly

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GIS Concepts and ArcGIS Methods, David M. Theobald Fort Collins, CO: Conservations Planning Technologies, 2003. 342 pp. ISBN 0-9679208-2-5 $55.00 (paper)

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James W. Loewen New York: A Touchstone Book, Simon &; Schuster. 1995. 383 pp. Figures, references, and index, ISBN: 0684818868. $14.00 (paper).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews are in this article. Post-Fordism: A Reader. ASH AMIN, ed. Cambridge, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. x and 435 pp., tables, biblio. $59.00 cloth (ISBN 0-631-18856-8). Travel, Gender, and Imperialism: Mary Kingsley and West Africa. ALISON BLUNT. New York and London: Guilford Press, 1994. x and 190 pp., maps, illus., biblio., app., and index. $40.00 cloth (ISBN 0-89862-347-2); $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-89862-546-7). Writing Women and Space: Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies. ALISON BLUNT and GILLIAN ROSE, eds. New York and London: Guilford Press, 1994. ix and 256 pp., notes, illus., index, and biblio. $40.00 cloth (ISBN 0-89862-497-5); $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-89862-498-3). Birmingham: A Study in Geography, History and Planning. GORDON E. CHERRY. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1994. xiv and 254 pp. $79.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94900-0). The Atlas of Apartheid. A. J. CHRISTOPHER. London: Routledge; Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1994. xii and 212 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $25.00 paper (ISBN 0-415-10268-5). Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts. HARM J. DeBLIJ and PETER O. MULLER. New York: John Wiley Sons, 1994. xix and 591 pp., maps, photos, tables, apps., refs., glossary, gazetteer, and index. $57.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-58089-9). An Historical Geography of France. XAVIER DE PLANHOL with the collaboration of PAUL CLAVAL. Translated by Janet Lloyd. New York and Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxiv and 566 pp., maps, biblio., and index. $79.95 cloth (ISBN 0-521-32208-1). Limits of Representation. FRANCO FARINELLI, GUNNAR OLSSON, and DAGMAR REICHERT, eds. Munich: Accedo, 1994. 222 pp. ISBN 3-89265-017-9 (paper). Development and Environment: Sustaining People and Nature. DHARAM GHAI, ed. Cambridge, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. 263 pp., maps, index, and biblios. $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-631-19394-4). Place Promotion: The Use of Publicity and Marketing to Sell Towns and Regions. JOHN R. GOLD and STEPHEN V. WARD, eds. New York and Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1994. x and 268 pp., diags., tables, photos, biblio., and index. $54.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94834-9). Tourism and Politics: Policy, Power and Place. COLIN MICHAEL HALL. New York and Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1994. ix and 238 pp., diags., tables, and biblio. $54.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94919-1). Cultural Economies Past aand Present. RHODA H. HALPERIN. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. viii and 309 pp., diags., biblio., and index. $40.00 cloth (ISBN 0-292-73089-6); $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-292-73090-X). The History of Cartography. Vol. 2, Book 2: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies. J. B. HARLEY and DAVID WOODWARD, eds. Chicago and London: Univerity of Chicago Press, 1994. xxvii and 970 pp., illus., maps, biblio., and index. $150.00 cloth (ISBN 0-226-31637-8). Geography and National Identity. DAVID HOOSON, ed. Cambridge, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1994. x and 391 pp., maps and diags. $64.95 cloth (ISBN 0-631-18935-1); $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-631-18936-X). Who Pays the Price? The Sociocultural Context of Environmental Crisis. BARBARA ROSE JOHNSTON, ed. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1994. xvi and 249 pp., endnotes, and index. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 1-55963-302-6); $19.00 paper (ISBN 1-55963-303-4). SOME Truth with Maps: A Primer on Symbolization and Design. ALAN M. MacEACHREN. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 1994. iv and 129 pp., maps, diags, color insert, biblio., and suggestions for additional reading. $12.00 (AAG members) $15.00 (nonmembers), paper (ISBN 0-89291-214-6). Visualization in Modern Cartography. ALAN M. MacEACHREN and D. R. FRASER TAYLOR, eds. New York and Oxford: Elsevier Science, 1994. Modern Cartography Series, Vol. 2. xviii and 345 pp., biblio., figs., tables, and index. $110.00 cloth (ISBN 0-08-042416-3); $43.00 paper (ISBN 0-08-042415-5). Saving Nature's Legacy: Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity. REED F. NOSS and ALLEN Y. COOPERRIDER. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1994. xxvii + 416 pp., maps, diags., index, glossary, and biblio. $48.00 cloth (ISBN 1-55963-247-X); $27.50 paper (ISBN 1-55963-248-8). Poetry of the Universe: A Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos. ROBERT OSSERMAN. New York and London: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1995. xiv and 210 pp., maps, diags., notes, and index. $18.95 cloth (ISBN 0-385-47340-0). The Developing World: An Introduction. E.S. SIMPSON. Essex, England: Longman Scientific and Technical, 1994 (second ed.). xvii and 348 pp., maps, figs., tables, and biblio. $34.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-23387-7). Geography and Social Justice. DAVID M. SMITH. Cambridge, MA and Oxford: Blackwell. xvi and 325 pp. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-631-19025-2); $22.95 paper (ISBN 0-631-19026-0). Africa South of the Sahara: A Geogrphical Interpretation. ROBERT STOCK. New York and London: Guilford Press, 1995. x and 435 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. Cloth $46.75 (ISBN 0-89862-406-1). Geomorphology in the Tropics: A Study of Weathering and Denudation in Low Latitudes. MICHAEL F. THOMAS. New York and Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1994. xix and 460 pp., maps, diags., photos, biblio., and index. $150.00 cloth (ISBN 0-471-93035-0).     

Excursions in and Around Boston

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Erick Berry. The Land and People of Iceland. J. B. Lippincott Company, East Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Pennsylvania, 1959. 126 pages with photographs, index and table of contents. $2.95.

Patricia H. Suttles and John Guy Fowlkes. Elementary Teachers' Guide to Free Curriculum Materials. Educators' Progress Service, Randolph, Wisconsin, 1960. xiv and 313 pages including three indexes and 31 pages of units. $6.50.

Arnold Toynbee and Edward D. Myers. Historical Atlas and Gazetteer. Oxford, London, 1959. 257 pages. $12.50.

Earl B. Shaw. Anglo-America: A Regional Geography. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1959. vii and 452 pages with maps, graphs, tables, photography and index. $7.75.

Peter Goullart. Land of the Lamas: Adventures in Secret Tibet. E. P. Dutton &; Co., New York, 1959. 221 pages with photographs and a map. $4.00. (The British edition of this book is entitled: Princes of the Black Bone.)

Bertha S. Dodge. Plants That Changed the World. Little, Brown, &; Co., Boston and Toronto, 1959. 190 pages. $8.50.

F. J. Monkhouse. A Regional Geography of Western Europe. Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., London, 1959. xx and 726 pp. $9.75 (50s.).

Joseph Wharton Lippincott. Old Bill, the Whooping Crane. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1958. 176 pp. Illustrated. $3.00.

Herbert Kaufman. The Forest Ranger. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Md., 1960. xv and 259 pages and index. $5.00.

Arthur H. Robinson. Elements of Cartography. John Wiley &; Sons, Inc., New York, 2nd Ed., 1960. 282 pages plus appendix (mainly of useful mathematical tables), bibliography, and index. Original illustrations drawn by James T. Flannery. $8.75.

John C. Caldwell. Let's Visit India. The John Day Company, Inc., 210 Madison Avenue, New York, 1960. 96 pages with index and table of contents. Illustrated. $2.95. Ages 8-12.

Horace R. Byers. General Meteorology. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. New York, 1959. 540 pages with 223 figures. $9.50.

C. B. Colby. Mapping the World. Coward-McCann, Inc., 210 Madison Ave., New York City, 1959. 48 pages with 60 black and white photographs. $2.00.

John C. Caldwell. Let's Visit Pakistan. The John Day Company, Inc., New York, 1960. 96 pages with table of contents, index, map, and black and white photographs. $2.95.

Perry L. Norton, editor. Urban Problems and Techniques. Chandler-Davis Publishing House, West Trenton, New Jersey, 1959. 249 pages. $4.50.

John C. Caldwell. Let's Visit Japan. The John Day Company, Inc., 210 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, 1959. 96 pages with illustrations, index, and table of contents. $2.95.     

Biogeography: Introduction to Space,Time, and Life

Glen MacDonald. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2003. x and 518 pp., maps, diags., photos., glossary, and index. $86.95 cloth (ISBN 0‐471‐24193‐8). Reviewed by Janet Franklin, Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.     

Slide-Projection Techniques in the Geography Class

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The Thrifty Geographer

The Soviet Scene: A Geographical Perspective, by James H. Bater New York, London: Edward Arnold. 1989. 45 maps, 16 diagrams, 24 tables, bibliographies at ends of chapters, index. xv,304pp.ISBNO-7131-6420-4$17.95paper.ISBN 0-7131-6613-4 $49.50 cloth.

Directions in Geography: A Guide for Teachers, by Gail S. Ludwig, Alan Backler, Sarah W. Bednarz, Judith K. Bock, Mark H, Bockenhauer, JosephP. Stoltman and Frederick H. Walk Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society. 1991. $29.95. Three ring binder.

Historic Illinois from the Air, by David Buisseret University of Chicago Press. 1990. xviii, 232. (Illustrations and cartography by Tom Wilcockson)

New World New Mind, by Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich New York: Simon &; Schuster Inc. A Touchstone Book, 1989. Paperback—$9.95. ISBN 0-671-69606-8 Pbk.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews in this Article Rural Development in the United States: Connecting Theory, Practice, and Possibilities. WILLIAM A. GALSTON and KAREN J. BAEHLER. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1995. xiii and 353 pp., biblio. and index. $32.00 paper (ISBN 1-55963-326-3). Progress in Rural Policy and Planning, Volume 4. Edited by ANDREW W. GILG and Robert S. Dilley, Owen Furuseth, Geoff McDonald & Jonathan Murdoch. Chichester and New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994. xvi and 317 pp., maps, and diags. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94911-6). Postmodern Semiotics: Material Culture and the Forms of Postmodern Life. MARK GOTTDIENER. Cambridge, MA/Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. viii and 262 pp., photos, figs., and biblio. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-631-19215-8). Human Geography: Society, Space, and Social Science. DEREK GREGORY, RON MARTIN, and GRAHAM SMITH, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. x and 294 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-8166-2619-7). Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain. NICKY GREGSON and MICHELLE LOWE. London: Routledge, 1994. x and 327 pp., figs., tables, and biblio. $79.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-08530-6); $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-08531-4). Geography: History and Concepts: A Student's Guide. (2nd ed.) ARILD HOLTJENSEN. English adaptation and translation by Brian Fullerton. London: Paul Chapman Publishing Ltd.,1988. xii and 186 pages, diags., biblio., and index. ISBN 1-85396-011-x (paper). World Trade since 1431: Geography, Technology, and Capitalism. PETER J. HUGILL. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press,1993. xiii and 376 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-8018-5126-2). The Encyclopedia of New York City. KENNETH T. JACKSON, ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. xxi and 1,350 pp., illus., maps, tables, and index. $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-300-05536-6). Nations and States: A Geographic Background to World Affairs. THOMAS M. POULSON. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995. xv and 399 pp., maps, tables, and biblio. $64.00 cloth (ISBN 0–13–678913–7). Dividing the Land: Early American Beginnings of Our Private Property Mosaic. EDWARD T. PRICE. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Geography Research Paper No. 238. xvii and 428 pp., maps, diags., photos, tables, glossary, biblio., and index. $26.00 paper (ISBN 0-226-68065-7). Archaeology, Volcanism, and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica. PAYSON D. SHEETS and BRIAN R. McKEE, eds. Austin: University of Texas Press,1994. viii, 350 pp., photos, maps, diags., index, and biblio. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-292-77667-5). Beijing: The Nature and Planning of a Chinese Capital City. VICTOR F. S. SIT. New York and Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, xvi and 389 pp., maps, diags., tables, and biblio. $54.95 cloth (ISBN 0–471–94983–3). Innovations in GIS 1. MICHAEL F. WORBOYS, ed. Bristol, PA and London: Taylor & Francis, 1994. xiii and 267 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $95.00 cloth (ISBN 0-7484-0140-7); $44.00 paper (ISBN 0-7484-0141-5).     

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North American Exploration: A Continent Defined, Volume 2, John Logan Allen, editor, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. 1997. 480 pp. Illustrations, maps. ISBN 080321023x. $75.00 (Cloth).

North American Exploration: A Continent Defined, Volume 3, John Logan Allen, editor, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. 1997. 656 pp. Illustrations, maps. ISBN 0803210434. $75.00 (Cloth).

Space, Gender, and Knowledge, Linda McDowell and Joanne P. Sharp, editors, New York, NY John Wiley & Sons. 1997. 468 pp. ISBN 0470236698. $34.95 (paper).

The Japanese City, P.P. Karan and Kristin Stapleton, editors, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. 1997. 264 pp. ISBN 0813120357. $31.95 (cloth).

Education, Environment and Economy: Reporting Research in a New Academic Grouping, Frances Slater, David Lambert, and David Lines, editors, London, England: Institute of Education, University of London. 1997. 210 pp. Figures., ISBN 0854734996. £11.99 (paper).

The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation, James L. Newman New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. 1997., 252 pp. Maps., ISBN 0300072805. $15.00 (paper).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews are in this articles. Managing and Marketing of Urban Development and Urban Life. GERHARD O. BRAUN, ed. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1994. Abhandlungen-Anthropogeographie, Bd. 52. xv and 687 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. DM 129.00 paper (ISBN 3-496-02560-3). Evolution of Infectious Disease. PAUL W. EWALD. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. viii, 298 pp., diags., index, glossary, and biblio. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-506058-X). Upstate Arcadia: Landscape, Aesthetics, and the Triumph of Social Differentiation in America. PETER J. HUGILL. Lanham, MD and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995. xvi and 255 pp., maps, tables, photos, biblio, and index. $61.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8476-7855-5); $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-8476-7856-3). Urban Land Use Planning. 4th ed. EDWARD J. KAISER, DAVID R. GODSCHALK, and F. STEWART CHAPIN, JR. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. xv and 493 pp., tables, figs., and index. $40.00 cloth (ISBN 0-252-02101-0). The Asian Pacific Rim and Globalization: Enterprise, Governance and Territoriality. RICHARD LE HERON and SAM OCK PARK, eds. Brookfield, VT: Avebury Publishing Group, 1995. xiv and 188 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. $55.95 cloth (ISBN 1-85628-894-3). The Global Casino: An Introduction to Environmental Issues. NICK MIDDLETON. New York and London: Edward Arnold, 1995. 332 pp., maps, figs., and biblio. $26.95 paper (ISBN 0-340-59493-4). A Geography of Pennsylvania. E. WIL-LARD MILLER, ed. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. xviii and 406 pp., maps, photos, tables, figs., biblio., and index. $75.00 cloth (ISBN 0-271-01017-7); $25.00 paper (ISBN 0-271-01342-7). Mountain Environments and Geographic Information Systems. MARTIN F. PRICE and D. IAN HEYWOOD, eds. Bristol, PA, and London: Taylor & Francis, 1994. xiv and 309 pp., figs., tables, maps, plates, biblio., and index. $95.00 cloth (ISBN 0-7484-0088-5). Geographical Data Analysis. NIGEL WAL-FORD. New York and Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1995. xi and 446 pp., apps., index, and biblio. $59.95 paper (ISBN 0-471-94162-X).     

Reviews and Materials Received

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Railroad Postcards in the Age of Steam, by H. Roger Grant Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994. Index. 208 pp. ISBN 0-87745-465-5.

Corporate Networks, International Telecommunications and Interdependence: Perspectives from Geography and Information Systems, by Henry Bakis, Ronald Abler, and Edward M. Roche, eds. London: Belhaven Press. 1993.232 pp. ISBN 1-85293-142-6.

A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time, by John Brinckerhoff Jackson New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1994. Index. 212 pp. ISBN 0-300-06002-5.

Interpretations on Behalf of Place: Environmentals Displacements and Alternative Responses, by Robert Mugerauer. New York: State university of New York Press, 1994.237 pp. Illustrations. $18.95, cloth.     

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Rural Communities under Stress: Peasant Farmers and the State in Africa Jonathan Barker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. ix and 228 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $44.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-30867-4); $13.95 paper (ISBN 0-521-31358-9).

Atop the Urban Hierarchy. Robert A. Beauregard, ED. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1989. xx and 304 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $33.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8476-7554- 8).

Commonplaces. Essays on the Nature of Place. David W. Black, Donald Kunze, AND John Pickles, EDS. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989. iv and 140 pp., biblio. $18.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8191-7387-8).

The Behavioural Environment: Essays in Reflection, Application, and Re-evaluation. Frederick W. Boal AND David N. Livingstone, EDS. London and New York: Routledge, 1989. xx and 337 pp., maps, diags., photos, index. $62.50 cloth uation. (ISBN 0-415-00454-3).

The Road to Botany Bay. Paul Carter. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. xxv and 384 pp., maps, illus., notes, and index. $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-226-09516-9).

Research in Human Geography. John Eyles, ED. London and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. x and 210 pp., figs., tables, index, and biblio. $55.00 cloth (ISBN 0-631-15009-9).

Soil: Morphology, Genesis, and Classification. Delvin S. Faning AND Mary C.B. Faning. New York: Wiley, 1989, xx and 395 PP., diags. photos tables, maps, app., gloss., index, and biblio. $57.50 cloth (ISBN 0471-89248-3).

Development in Marginal Areas. Gerhard Gustafsson, ED. Karlstad, Sweden: University of Karlstad, 1989. ii and 168 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. N.p. paper (ISSN 0282-5309).

The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon.Susanna Hecht AND Alexander Cockburn. London and New York: Verso, 1989. x and 266 pp., maps, apps., one diag., index, gloss., and biblio. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0-86091-261-2).

Understanding Leisure and Recreation: Mapping the Past, Charting the Future. Edgar L. Jackson AND Thomas L. Burton, EDS. State College, PA: Venture Publishing, Inc. 1989. xiv and 653 pp. $31.95 cloth (ISBN 0-910251-34-7).

Maps of Meaning: An Introduction to Cultural Geography. Peter Jackson. London: Unwin and Hyman, 1989. xvii and 213 pp., maps, figs., photos, biblio, and index. $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-04-445365-5) and $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-040445366-3).

Remaking Human Geography. Audrey Koboyashi AND Suzanne Mackensie, EDS. Boston: Unwin and Hyman, 1989. xii and 273 pp., map, illus., tables, index, and biblio. $55.00 cloth (ISBN 0-04- 445324-8); $21.95 paper (ISBN 0-04- 445325-6).

Adapting to Drought: Farmers, Famines and Desertification in West Africa. Michael Mortimore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xxii and 299 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $59.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-32312-6).

Native American Architecture. Peter Nabokov AND Robert Easton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 431 pp., maps, photos, sketches, gloss., index, refs. $36.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-503781-2).

Explorations in the Understanding of Landscape: A Cultural Geography. William Norton. Contributions in Sociology, No. 77. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. xii and 201 pp., illus., tables, biblio., index. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 0-313-26494-5).

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. Francis Robinson, ED. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 520 pp., maps, diags., photos, gloss., biblio., index. $49.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-33451-9).

The Contemporary Atlas of China. Nathan Sivin, ED. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988. 200 pp, maps, diags., tables, and index. $39.95 (ISBN 0-395-47329-2).

Planned Development in the Socialist World. Graham Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. vi and 106 pp., maps, tables, figs., gloss., index, and biblio. $19.95 cloth (ISBN 0-521-30546-2).

The Evolution of Regional Economies: Entrepreneurship and Macroeconomic Change. Luis Suarez-Villa. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1989. xvii and 263 pp., tables, figs., apps., notes, biblio., and index. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-275-93 198-6).

Migrants in the Mexican North: Mobility, Economy, and Society in a Colonial World. Michael M. Swann. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, Dellplain Latin American Studies No. 24, 1989. xv and 202 pp., maps, tables, figs., biblio., app., and index. $28.50 (ISBN 0-8 133-7782-X).

Population and Resources in Western Intellectual Traditions. Michael S. Teitelbaum AND Jay M. Winter, EDS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. vii and 310 pp., $49.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-37538-X).

Ground Subsidence. A. C. Waltham. Glasgow and London: Blackie and Son; New York: Chapman and Hall, 1989. ix and 202 pp., maps, diags., photos, refs., and index. $95.00 (ISBN 0-412-01801-2).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews are in this Articles. Mountain Environments in Changing Climates. MARTIN BENISTON, ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. xxxi and 461 pp., figs., tables, biblio., and index. $125.00 cloth (ISBN 0-415-10224-3). Law, Space, and the Geographies of Power. NICHOLAS K. BLOMLEY. New York and London: Guilford Press, 1994. xviii and 259 pp., maps, photos, index, and biblio. $27.95 cloth (ISBN 0-89862-496-7). Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990. MARTIN B. BRADLEY, NORMAN M. GREEN, JR., DALE E. JONES, MAC LYNN, and LOU McNEIL. Atlanta: Glenmary Research Center, 1992. xx and 456 pp., foldout map. $36 paper (ISBN 0-914422-22-7). Atlas of Religious Change in America, 1952–1990. PETER L. HALVORSON and WILLIAM M. NEWMAN. Atlanta: Glenmary Research Center, 1994. x and 226 pp., maps and biblio. $49.99 paper (ISBN 0-914422-23-5). Looking for the Last Percent: The Controversy over Census Undercounts. HARVEY CHOLDIN. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. x and 264 pp. $48.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8135-2039-8); $16.00 paper (ISBN 0-8135-2040-1). Beyond the Basilica: Christians and Muslims in Nazareth. CHAD F. EMMETT. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. xix and 303 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $22.00 paper (ISBN 0-226-20711-0). The Family, the Market, and the State in Ageing Societies. JOHN ERMISCH and NAOHIRO OGAWA, eds. New York and Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. xiv and 239 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $42.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-828818-2). The Channel Tunnel: A Geographical Perspective. RICHARD GIBB, ed. New York and Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1994. xvi and 204 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $69.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94908-6). Geography and Empire. ANNE GODLEWSKA and NEIL SMITH, eds. Institute of British Geographers, Special Publication No. 30. Cambridge, Massachusetts and Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. xi and 402 pp., illus., index, and biblio. $64.95 cloth (ISBN 0-631-19384-7); $24.95 paper (0-631-19385-5). The Social Production of Urban Space. MARK GOTTDIENER. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994 (2nd ed.). xviii and 320 pp., index, and biblio. $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-292-72772-0). Global Environmental Issues: A Climatological Approach. DAVID D. KEMP. London and New York: Routledge, 1994 (2nd ed.). xvi and 224 pp., maps, diags., index, glossary, and biblio. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-10309-6); $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-10310-X). Urban Social Geography: An Introduction. PAUL KNOX. Harlow and New York: Longman, 1995 (3rd ed.). x and 350 pp., maps, diags., tables, index. $36.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-23414-8). Environment and Housing in Third World Cities. HAMISH MAIN and STEPHEN WYN WILLIAMS, eds. Chichester and New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1994. vii and 259 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94831-4). Geographic Information Systems and Their Socioeconomic Applications. DAVID MARTIN. New York and London: Routledge, 1991. xvii and 182 pp., biblio., diags., maps, glossary, and index. $19.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-05698-5). The Historical Atlas of the Congresses of the Confederate States of America: 1861-1865. KENNETH C. MARTIS. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994. xii and 157 pp., maps, tables, biblio., and index. $75.00 cloth (ISBN 0-13-389115-1). Space, Place, and Gender. DOREEN MASSEY. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. vii and 280 pp., tables, index, and biblio. $44.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8166-2616-2); $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-8166-2617-0). Oceania: The Geography of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. TOM L. McKNIGHT. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995. xi and 212 pp., maps, photos, tables, diags, index, biblio. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-13-123639-3). Sahel Visions: Planned Settlement and River Blindness Control in Burkina Faso. DELLA E. McMILLAN. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995. xxxi and 223 pp., photos, maps, figs., tables, apps., and biblio. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8165-1487-9); $14.95 paper (ISBN 0-8165-1489-5). Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective. WILLIAM B. MEYER and B. L. TURNER II, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xi and 537 pp., color plates, diags., apps., and index. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-521-47085-4). Managing Geographic Information Systems. NANCY J. OBERMEYER and JEFFREY K. PINTO. New York: Guilford Press, 1994. xiii and 226 pp., diags., index, and biblio. $30.00 cloth (ISBN 0-89862-005-8). Interactive and Animated Cartography. MICHAEL P. PETERSON. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995. xiii and 257 pp., maps, figs., tables, b/w photos and images, diags., exercises, biblio., apps., and index $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-13-079104-0). Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems. JOHN PICKLES, ed. New York and London: Guilford Press, 1995. xiv and 248 pp., maps, diags., pictures, and biblios. $40.00 cloth (ISBN 0-89862-294-8); $18.95 paper (ISBN 0-89862-295-6). Canada's Vegetation: A World Perspective. GEOFFREY A. J. SCOTT. Montreal and Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. xviii and 361 pp., maps, diags., figs., app., biblio., and index. $65.00 cloth (ISBN 0-7735-1240-3); $29.95 paper (ISBN 0-7735-1241-1).     

Current Material for the Geography Teacher: Substitution of Other Materials for Wood Increasing

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Geography And Man's Environment. By Arthur N. Strahler and Alan H. Strahler. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, 1977. Pp. xi + 525.

Order Upon the Land: The U.S. Rectangular Land Survey and the Upper Mississippi Country. By Hildegard Binder Johnson. The Andrew H. Clark Series in the Historical Geography of North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. 268, $9.00 and $5.00.

The Earth in Profile: A Physical Geography. By David Greenland and Harm J. de Blij. New York: Canfield Press, Harper &; Row, 1977. Pp. xi + 468.

Global Perspectives on Ecology. Edited by Thomas C. Emmel. Palo Alto, Calif.: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1977. Pp. viii + 522, $6.95.

Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. By Yi-Fu Tuan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977. Pp. vi + 235, $12.95.

African Survey. By Alan C. G. Best and Harm J. de Blij. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, 1977. Pp. xi + 626, $17.95.     

Geography: An Essential School Subject—Five Reasons Why

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Mapping the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation, Steve Pile, Nigel Thrift, eds., New York: Routledge. 1995. Bibliography, index. 414 pp. ISBN 0-415-10226-X. $25.00, paper.

Sonora: An Intimate Geography, David Yetman, Albuquerque, NM: The University of New Mexico Press. 1996. 248 pp. Bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8263-1701-4.

A Geography of Pennsylvania, E. Willard Miller, ed., University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1995. 406 pp. Tables, charts, index. ISBN 0-271-01342-7. $25.00, paperback.