National Council at Work

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Remote Sensing for Resource Management by C.J. Johannsen and J.L. Sanders, eds. Ankeny, Iowa: Soil Conservation Society of America, 1982. xx and 665 pp., figs., graphs, tables, photos, apps., refs., glossary, and index. $45.00 cloth.

Where the Grass Is Greener: Living in an Unequal World 2d ed. by David M. Smith Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.386 pp., figs., graphs, tables, maps, app., biblio., and index. $7.50 paper.

Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845 by John R. Stilgoe New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1982. xi and 429 pp., illus., photos, refs., biblio., and index. $29.95 cloth.

The Design of Suburbia: A Critical Study in Environmental History by Arthur M. Edwards London: Pembridge Press, 1981. viii and 281 pp., figs., il-lus., photos, refs., biblio., and index. $32.50 cloth.

The Soviet Union: A Systematic Geography by Leslie Symons, ed. Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes &; Noble, 1983.266 pp., figs., graphs, tables, photos, maps, and index. $28.75 cloth; $18.75 paper.

Living Under Apartheid: Aspects of Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa by David M. Smith, ed. Winchester, Massachusetts: Allen &; Unwin, 1982. The London Research Series in Geography 2. xiii and 256 pp., figs., graphs, tables, maps, biblio., and index. $35.00 cloth.     

And the Question Shall Determine the Method

Book Reviews are in this Articles.

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).     

Notes on a Program of Field Mapping for Undergraduates

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Atop the Urban Hierarchy by Robert A. Beauregard, ed. Totowa, NJ: Rowman &; Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 1989. xx and 304 pp., graphs, tables, maps, refs., and index. $36.50, cloth.

The Pageant of World History by Gerald Leinwand Needham Heights, MA: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1990. Text Book. 827 pp. ISBN 013–647975–8.

The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon by Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn New York, NY: Verso. 1989. Maps, glossary, biblio., index. 266 pp. ISBN 0–86091–2. $24.95, cloth.

A Place of Sense: Essays in Search of the Midwest by Michael Martone, ed. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press. 1988. Illustrations. 170 pp. ISBN 0–87745–217–2.

On Assignment National Geographic Society. 1990. Boardgame. $33.20.     

Green Costs,Red Ink: Determinants of Municipal Defensive Expenditures inOntario

Book reviews are in these Articles.

Understanding Peasant Agriculture: An Integrated Land-Use Model for the Punjab Joseph H. Astroth, Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago, Committee on Geographical Studies, 1990. (Geography Research Paper No. 223). ix and 173 pp., maps, photos, figs., apps., biblio., and index; $12.00 paper (ISBN 0-89065-127-2).

National Integration in Indonesia: Patterns and Policies Christine Drake. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. xvi and 354 pp., maps, diags., tables, index, and biblio. $35.00 cloth ISBN 0-8248- 1229-8).

Urban Economic Theory: Land Use and City Size. Masahisa Fujita. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. x and 366 pp., diag., graphs, biblio. notes, append, biblio., index. $65.00 cloth (ISBN 0-521-34662-2).

The Sugar Cane Industry: An Historical Geography from Its Origins to 1914. J. H. Galloway. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiii and 266 pp., maps, tables, diags., index, and biblio. $44.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-24853-1).

Government Policy and Industrial Change. David Gibbs, ED. New York: Routledge, 1989. xvi and 317 pp., 15 figs., 53 tables, index, and biblio. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-01032-2).

English Agriculture: An Historical Perspective. David Grigg. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989. vii and 256 pp. $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-631-16033-7).

London 2001. Peter Hall. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. xii and 226 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 0-04-4451 61 -X).

The Land that Became Israel: Studies in Historical Geography. Ruth Kark, ED. Translated from the Hebrew by Michael Gordon. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University and New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. x and 332 pp., maps, diags., plates. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-300- 04718-5).

Die Farmer-Genossenschaften in den USA – Eine agrargeographie Untersuchung. Werner Klohn. Vechta, Federal Republic of Germany: Vechtaer Druckerei, 1990. Vechtaer Arbeiten zur Geographie und Regionalwissenschaft, Band 9. 285 pp., maps, photos, diags., and biblio. 39.80 DM paper (ISBN 3-88441-083-0).

Agricultural Development in Japan: The Land Improvement District in Concept and Practice. Gil Latz. Chicago, IL University of Chicago Press, 1989. vii and 135 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $12.00 paper (ISBN 0-89065-129-9).

Land Use Planning Made Plain. Hok Lin Leung. Kingston, Ontario: Ronald P. Frye &; Company, 1989. xv and 237 pp., maps, diags., tables, append., index, and refs. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-919741-98-3).

Computers in Geography. David J. Maguire. New York: Halsted Press, 1989. xv and 248 pp., maps, photos, diags., index, and biblio. $31.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-21 194-6).

Maps with the News: The Development of American Journalistic Cartography. Mark Monmonier. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. xii and 331 pp., maps, illus., index, and biblio. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0-226-53411-1).

Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling. C. Dana Tomlin. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990. xviii and 249 pp., maps, diags., review questions, selected readings, appendix, index, $44.20 cloth (ISBN 0-13-350927-3).     

Nomad Schools and a School in the Desert

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Strengthening Geography in the Social Studies Salvatore J. Natoli. editor National Council for the Social Studies Bulletin, No. 81, Contributors, pref., index. $6.95, paper.

Glencoe World Geography: A physical and cultural approach by Richard G. Boehm and James L. Swanson Missions Hills, California: Glencoe Publishing Company 1989. T144, figs., illus., graphs, tables, photos, maps, gloss., gazetteer and index. 672 pp. No $, cloth.

Refugees: A Third World Dilemma John R. Rogge, editor Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield 1987. xi and 370 pp, tables, figs., ackn., biblio., index, contributors. $43.50, cloth.

Medicine &; Culture by Lynn Payer New York: Henry Holt &; Company, Inc. 1988. Index, ack., notes, 204 pp. $18.95, cloth.

Global Studies: China. Second Edition edited by W. A. Joseph Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing 1987. xii and 244 pp, illus., charts, maps, gloss., sources, index, and biblio. $9.25, paper.     

Editorials: New Associate Editors

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The Earth and How it Works: A Lab Manual and Workbook with Teaching Ideas, Projects, and Activities in Environmental Science by Philip R. Holzinger Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985. x and 150 pp., figs., illus., photos, maps, app., biblio., and index. $12.95 paper.

Wild Horses and Sacred Cows by Richard Symanski Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1985. xv and 223 pp., photos, and map. $14.95 cloth; $9.95 paper.

The Making of the Dutch Landscape: An Historical Geography of the Netherlands, 2d ed. by Audrey M. Lambert Orlando, FL: Academic Press, 1985. xiii and 372 pp., figs., tables, photos, maps, refs., and index. $55.00 cloth.

Rating Places: A Geographer's View on Quality of Life by Susan L. Cutter Resource Publications in Geography. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 1985. vi and 76 pp., figs., tables, maps, and biblio. $5.00 paper.

A Strategic Atlas: A Comparative Geopolitics of the World's Powers, 2d Rev. ed. by Gerard Chaliand and Jean-Pierre Rageau Trans. Tony Berrett. New York: Harper &; Row, 1985. 224 pp., graphs, tables, maps, and biblio. $26.95 cloth; $14.95 paper.

The Surveillant Science: Remote Sensing of the Environment, 2d ed. by Robert K. Holz New York: John Wiley, 1985. xvi and 413 pp., figs., illus., tables, photos, maps, refs., and index. $21.95 paper.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews are in this Article Elementary Statistics for Geographers. Gerald M. Barber New York: The Guilford Press, 1988. xi and 513 pp., diags., tables, problems, refs., appendices, index. $37.50 cloth (ISBN 0-89862- 777-X). Introduction to World Vegetation. 2nd ed. Allan S. Collinson London: Un-win Hyman, 1988. x and 325 pp., maps, diags., photos, glossary, and indices. $21.95 paper (ISBN 0-04-581-031-1). $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-04-581-030-3); The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments. Denis Cosgrove and Stephen Daniels , EDS. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ix and 318 pp., maps, illus., index. $49.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521- 32437-8). Asian Urbanization: Problems and Processes. F. J. Costa , A. K. Dutt , L. J. C. Ma , AND A. G. Noble Berlin: Gebruder Borntraeger, 1988. XI and 165 pp., maps, diagrams, and index. N.p. cloth (ISBN 3-443-37007-1). Geographical Perspectives on the Maritime Provinces. Douglas Day , ED. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Saint Mary's University, 1988. ix and 218 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. $17.50 paper (ISBN 0-9693487-0-3). Neighborhoods in Transition: The Making of San Francisco's Ethnic and Nonconformist Communities. Brian J. Godfrey Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. xvii and 233 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. $13.95 paper (ISBN 0-520-09718-2). The Reenchantment of Science: Postmodern Proposals. David Ray Griffin , ED. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1988.173 pp. $34.50 cloth (ISBN 0-88706-784-0); $10.95 paper (ISBN 0-88706-785-9). The Urbanization of the Third World. Josef Gugler , ED. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xi and 421 pp., maps, diags., tables, and notes. $18.95 paper (ISBN 0-19-823249-4). The Carrier Wave. New Information Technology and the Geography of Innovation, 1846–2003. Peter Hall and Paschall Preston London and Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1988. xii and 305 pp., maps, diags., index and biblio. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 0-04-445081- 8). The Lincoln Highway: Main Street Across America. Drake Hokanson Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988. xvi and 147 pp., maps, photos, index, biblio. $32.50 hardbound (ISBN 0-87745-197-4). Route 66: The Highway and Its People. Quinta Scott and Susan Croce Kelly Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. xiv and 189 pp., photos, index, and biblio. $24.95 hardbound (ISBN 0-8061-2133-5). Zimbabwe: Industrial and Commercial Energy Use. R. H. Hosier , ED. Energy Environment and Development in Africa. Vol. 10. Stockholm: The Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Uppsala: The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies. 1988. 142 pp., tables, index, and references. N.P. cloth (ISBN 91-7106-277-7). Ownership and Productivity of Marine Fishery Resources. Elmer A. Keen Blacksburg, VA: The McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company, 1988. xii and 122 pp., maps, diags., glossary and suggested readings. $10.95 paper (ISBN 0-939923-05-X). Chinatowns: Towns within Cities in Canada. David Chuenyan Lai Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1988. xvii and 347 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $37.95 cloth (ISBN 0-7748-0309-6). Migration and Residential Mobility in the United States. Larry Long New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1988. xviii and 397 pp., maps, tables, apps., index, and biblio. $42.50 cloth (ISBN 0-87154-555-1). The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Volume I: Atlantic America, 1492–1800. D. W. Meinig New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1988. xxii and 500 pp., maps, illus., index, and biblio. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-300-03882-8). The Biogeography of Fire in the San Bernardino Mountains of California. Richard A. Minnich Berkeley: University of California Press (University of California Publications in Geography, Volume 28), 1988. v and 161 pp., maps, diags., apps., and biblio. $21.00 paper (ISBN 0-520-09728-9). Building Databases for Global Science. Helen Mounsey AND Roger F. Tomlinson , EDS. London and Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis, 1988. xv and 419 pp., maps, diags. £35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-85066-485-3). The Regional Dynamics of Language Differentiation in Belgium: A Study in Cultural-Political Geography. Alexander B. Murphy. Chicago: University of Chicago, Committee on Geographical Studies, 1988. (Geography Research Paper No. 227). xiv and 249 pp., maps, tables, chronology, index, and biblio. $12.00 paper (ISBN 0-89065- 132-9). Methods and Models in Demography. Colin Newell New York: Guilford,1988. xi and 217 pp., figs., tables, answers, refs. and index. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-89862-783-4). The Third World: States of Mind and Being. Jim Norwine AND Alfonso Gonzalez , EDS. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988. xi and 275 pp. $17.95 paper (ISBN 004-910121-8). Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649–1571. John H. Pryor Cambridge and New York:Cambridge University Press, 1988. xviii and 237 pp., tables, figures, index, and biblio. $39.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-34424-7). The Mbeere in Kenya. II. Botanical Identities and Uses. Bernard W. Riley and David Brokensha Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 1988. xxviii and 348 pp., maps, indices, biblio. $32.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8191-6999-4). Atlas of Wintering North American Birds. Terry Root Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. xxiv and 312 pp., maps, overlays, index, and biblio. $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-226-72539- 1); $35.00 paper (ISBN 0-226-72540-5). Kaw Valley Landscape. James R. Shortridge Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1988. xi and 240 pp., maps, line drawings, and index. $22.50 cloth (ISBN 0-7006-0382-2); $7.95 paper (ISBN 0-7006-0382-4). Public Problems: The Management of Urban Distress Christopher J. Smith New York: The Guilford Press, 1988. 238 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-89862-924-1). $40.00 cloth (ISBN 0-89862-782-6); Perspectives on Water: Uses and Abuses David H. Speidel , Lon C. Ruedisili , AND Allen F. Agnew , EDS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. x and 388 pp., maps, diags., tables, app. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 0-19-504247-6); $23.95 pa- per (ISBN 0-19-504248-4). Region and Regionalism in the United States: A Source Book for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Michael Steiner and Clarence Mondale New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988. xvii and 495 pp., index. $69.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8240-9048-9). Enhancing Agriculture in Africa: A Role for U.S. Development Assistance. US CONGRESS, OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY OF ASSESSMENT. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1988. vii and 328 pp., diags., index, and biblio. $14.00 paper (OTA-F-356).     

Using the Definition of Geography to Develop Teaching Strategies

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Climatic Change, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Education, 1981. v and 34 pp., figs., tables, maps, refs., and index. $2.50 paper.

Vanishing Roadside America, Warren H. Anderson, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1981. 142 pp. and illus. $14.95 paper.

USSR in Maps, J.C. Dewdney, New York: Holmes &; Meier, 1982. vi and 117 pp., diags., maps, tables, graphs, biblio., and index. $29.50.     

Economic Change in Africa

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The Geographer at Work by Peter Gould Boston: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1985. x and 351 pp., figs., photos, maps, and index. $39.95 cloth; $16.95 paper.

Recollections of a Revolution: Geography as Spatial Science by Mark Billinge, Derek Gregory and Ron Martin, eds. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. viii and 235 pp., figs., tables, refs., and index. $25.00 cloth.

The Role of Place in Literature by Leonard Lutwack Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1984. viii and 274 pp., refs., and index. $24.95 cloth.

The Essential Landscape: The New Mexico Photographic Survey with Essays by J.B. Jackson. by Steven A. Yates, ed. New Mexico: The University of New Mexico Press, 1985. vii and 147 pp., and photos. $45.00 cloth.

Latin America: Case Studies by Richard G. Boehm and Sent Visser, eds. NCGE Pacesetter Series. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1984. x and 300 pp., figs., tables, photos, maps, apps., refs., and index. $24.95 paper.     

The Decennial Census: More Than Numbers Lesson Plan: Grades Nine through Twelve

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The Nine Nations of North America, Joel Garreau, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. xvii and 427 pp., maps, refs., and index. $14.95 cloth, $7.95 paper.

This Remarkable Continent: An Atlas of United States and Canadian Society and Cultures, John F. Rooney, Jr., Wilbur Zelinsky, Dean Ft. Louder, eds., College Station, Texas: Texas A &; M University Press, 1982. viii and 316 pp., figs., tables, maps, refs., and index. $45.00 cloth.

The American Urban System: A Geographical Perspective, R.J. Johnston, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. xii and 348 pp., figs., tables, maps, refs., and index. $16.95 cloth, $8.95 paper.

New Themes in Instruction for Latin American Geography, Oscar H. Horst, Joseph P. Stoltman, eds., Muncie, Indiana: Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, 1982.116 pp. tables, maps, refs., and index. $7.50 paper.     

Transmogrifying Regions

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Teacher Education Models in Geography: An International Comparison by William Marsden, ed. Kalamazoo, Ml: Commission on Geographical Education, 1984. v and 155 pp., figs., tables, and refs. NP

Principles of Thematic Map Design by D.B. Dent Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1984. xv and 398 pp., figs., tables, photos, maps, refs., and index. $29.95 cloth.

Health Care in Developing Countries by Wilbert M. Gesler Resource Publication in Geography, edited by C.G. Knight. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 1984.88 pp., figs., graphs, tables, maps, and biblio. $5.00 paper.

Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865–1980 by Gilbert C. Fite Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984. xiv and 273 pp., tables, photos, app., refs., and index. $28.00 cloth; $10.00 paper.

Population: Patterns, Dynamics, and Prospects by James Newman and Gordon Matzke Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984. xi and 306 pp., figs., graphs, tables, maps, biblio., and index. $27.95 cloth.     

National Council at Work: Report of the Secretary

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Geography and Air Transport, by Brian Graham, New York: John Wiley &; Sons, Inc. 1995. 288 pp. Maps, diagrams, tables. ISBN 0-471-95757-7.

Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World in the Late Twentieth Century, by R. J. Johnson, Peter J. Taylor, and Michael J. Watts, eds., Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Inc. 1995. 462 pp. Bibliography, further reading, index. ISBN 0-631-19327-8. $19.95. paper.

Political Geography, by Martin Ira Glassner, New York: John Wiley &; Sons, Inc. 1996.2nd edition. 716 pp. Bibliographies, index. ISBN 0-471-11496-0. $64.95, hardcover.     

A Project Study of Climate

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Atlas of American Women by Barbara Gimla Shortridge New York: Macmillan, 1987. xi and 164 pp., figs., tables, maps, biblio., and index. $85.00 cloth.

The Geography of Defence by Michael Bateman and Raymond Riley, eds. Totowa, NJ: Barnes &; Noble, 1987. xi and 237 pp., figs., tables, photos, maps, refs., and index. $33.50 cloth.

Zones of Conflict: An Atlas of Future Wars by John Keegan and Andrew Wheatcroft New York: Simon &; Schuster, 1986. xvii, 158 pp., and maps. $10.95 paper.

From Peasant to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway to the Upper Middle Wets by Jon Gjerde Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History Series, eds. R. Fogel and S. Thernstrom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xiv and 319 pp., illus., figs., tables, photos, maps, refs., and index. $32.50 cloth.

Power and Place: Canadian Urban Development in the North American Context by Gilbert A. Stelter and Alan F.J. Artibise, eds. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986. iv and 398 pp., figs., tables, photos, maps, and refs. $24.50     

The Role of the Geography Teacher in Democracy Fulfillment

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Economic Restructuring and Political Response by Robert A. Beauregard, ed. Newbury Park, 1989. 245 pp. ISBN 0-8039-3184-0. $16.95, paper.

Exploring Your World: The Adventure of Geography The Special Publications Division, The National Geographic Society, 1989.

The Incredible Adventures of Daniel Boone's Kid Brother, Squire by Fred Conway New Albany, IN: FBH Publishers. 1992. 110 pp. ISBN 0-9925165-08-5. $9.95, paper.

Wine and the Vine: A Historical Geography of Viticulture and the Wine Trade by Tim Unwin New York,NY: Routledge. 1991.Index. 409 pp. ISBN 0-415-03 120-6.     

Reply to “Comments on Climatology: The Challenge for the Eighties Revisited”

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The Heated Debate: Greenhouse Predictions Versus Climate Reality. ROBERT C. BALLING JR. San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1992. xxxvi and 195 pp., diags., tables, index, and biblio. $21.95 cloth (ISBN 0-936488-47-6).

Mountain Weather and Climate, 2nd edition. ROGER G. BARRY. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1992. xx and 402 pp., maps. diags., photos, index, and biblio. $89.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-07112-7); $29.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-07113-5).

Late Quaternary Environmental Change: Physical and Human Perspectives. MARTIN BELL and MICHAEL J. C. WALKER. Essex, England: Longman Group, 1992. xiv and 273 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $39.95 paper (ISBN 0-582-04514-2).

Planning for Earthquakes. PHILIP R. BERKE and TIMOTHY BEATLEY. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xv and 210 pp., maps, diags., photos, tables, app., acronyms, index, and biblio. $38.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8018-4255-7).

Industrialization and Development in the Third World. RAJESH CHANDRA. London: Routledge, 1992. xvii and 124 pp., maps, figs., photos, and index. $14.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-01380-1).

Waste Location: Spatial Aspects of Waste Management, Hazards and Disposal. MICHAEL CLARK, DENIS SMITH, and ANDREW BLOWERS, eds. London: Routledge, 1992. xv and 257 pp., maps, diags., index, and refs. $85.00 cloth (ISBN 0-415-04824-9).

Water Diversion and Export: Learning from Canadian Experience. J. C. DAY and FRANK QUINN. Waterloo, Ontario: Department of Geography, University of Waterloo, 1992. xx and 215 pp., 14 maps, 4 diags., 17 tables, 12 photos, glossary, and biblio. $25.00 (Can.) paper (ISBN 0-921083-42-4).

The Native Population of the Americas in 1492, 2nd edition. WILLIAM M. DENEVAN, ed. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. xxxviii and 353 pp., maps, figs., tables, index, biblio. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-299-134-30-X); $14.95 paper (ISBN 0-299-13434-2).

Touring North America (series). ANTHONY R. DE SOUZA, ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. 13 volumes; pages varying from approximately 100 to approximately 300 each; maps, diags., indices, and biblios. $9.95 each paperback; $25.00 each volume in cloth; boxed gift set of all 13 volumes in paperback $129.95. (ISBNs for cloth and paperback editions range from 0-8135-1870-9 to 0-8135-1895-4 inclusive).

Urban Transport Planning: A Developmental Approach. HARRY T. DIMITRIOU. New York: Routledge, 1992. xviii and 346 pp., diags., index, and biblio. $92.50 cloth (ISBN 0-415-03857-X).

Colonialism and Development in the Contemporary World. CHRIS DIXON and MICHAEL HEFFERNAN, eds. Rutherford, NJ: Mansell, 1991. viii and 232 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $70.00 cloth (ISBN 0-7201-2072-1).

The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity. J. NICHOLAS ENTRIKIN. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xii and 196 pp., notes, and indices. $38.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8018-4083-X); $13.95 paper (ISBN 0-8018-4084-8).

The Women Outside: Meanings and Myths of Homelessness. STEPHANIE GOLDEN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. ix and 265 pp., index and biblio. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-520-07158-1).

The Transformation of Agriculture in the West. DAVID GRIGG. Oxford, England, and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1992. xiv and 141 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-631-17094-4).

Derelict Landscapes: The Wasting of America's Built Environment. JOHN A. JAKLE and DAVID WILSON. Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1992. xviii and 342 pp., illus., index, biblio. $65.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8476-7735-4); $23.50 paper (ISBN 0-8476-7736-2).

Iranian Cities: Formation and Development. MASOUD KHEIRABADI. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. xiv and 132 pp., maps, diags., photos, appendices, notes, glossary, biblio., and index. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-292-72468-3).

The Pentagon and the Cities. ANDREW KIRBY, ed. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1991. Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, vol. 40. x and 207 pp., tables, maps, index, and biblio. $43.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8039-3845-4); $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-8039-3846-2).

Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asia. ROBERT A. LEWIS, ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. xv and 323 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $69.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-07592-0).

Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatan Highlands, 1500–1821. W. GEORGE LOVELL. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. xxxviii and 279 pp., maps, diags., glossary, notes, index, and biblio. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-7735-0903-8).

Contested Lands: Conflict and Compromise in New Jersey's Pine Barrens. ROBERT J. MASON. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. xii and 257 pp., maps, tables, index, and biblio. $44.95 cloth (ISBN 0-87722-925-2).

Making Sense of Place: Children's Understanding of Large-Scale Environments. M. H. MATTHEWS. Savage, MD: Harvester Wheatsheaf, Barnes and Noble Books, 1992. xiv and 271 pp., maps, diags, tables, index, and biblio. $54.50 cloth (ISBN 0-389-20987-2).

Sources of Metropolitan Growth. EDWIN S. MILLS and JOHN F. MCDONALD, eds. New Brunswick: Center for Urban Policy Research Press, 1992. xxvii and 306 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 0-88285-135-7).

Resource Management in Developing Countries. PETER H. OMARAOJUNGU. Harlow, England: Longman, 1992. xvi and 213 pp., maps, diags., tables, index, and biblio. $39.95 paper (ISBN 0-582-30102-5).

A Moveable Shore: The Fate of the Connecticut Coast. PETER C. PATTON and JAMES M. KENT. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992. viii and 143 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8223-1128-3); $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-8223-1147-X).

Agricultural Reform in China: From Communes to Commodity Economy 1978–1990. SIMON G. POWELL. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1992. viii and 231 pp., maps, diags., tables, and biblio. $69.95 cloth (ISBN 0-7190-3382-9).

The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492–1992: A Regional Geography. BONHAM C. RICHARDSON. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xvi and 235 pp., maps, tables, index, and biblio. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-521-35186-3); $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-521-35977-5).

Scavengers, Recyclers, and Solutions for Solid Waste Management in Indonesia. DANIEL T. SICULAR. Berkeley: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1992. xii and 197 pp., maps, tables, photos, glossary, biblio., and index. $16.50 paper (ISBN 0-944613-13-6).

The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women. ELIZABETH WILSON. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. 191 pp., plates, index, and biblio. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-520-07850); $14.00 paper (ISBN 0-520-07864-0).

The Cultural Geography of the United States: A Revised Edition. WILBUR ZELINSKY. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1992. ix and 226 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $21.95 paper (ISBN 0-13-194424-X).     

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Jobs, Land, and Urban Development: The Economic Success of Small Manufacturers in East Delhi, India. SOLOMON J. BENJAMIN. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1991. vii and 130 pp., maps, diags., apps., and biblio. $24.00 paper (ISBN 1-55844-1 10-7).

The Economics of Travel and Tourism ADRIAN BULL. Melbourne, Australia: Pitman Publishing, 1991. xiv and 246 pp., figs., tables, app., name index, subj. index, and biblio. $27.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-2 1827-4).

Elections in Chile: The Road Toward Redemocratization. CESAR N. CAVIEDES. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1991. xi and 156 pp., maps, tables, index, and biblio. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 1-55587-2 18-2).

The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Asia and the Pacific ests: Asia and the Pacific. N. MARK COLLINS, JEFFREY A. SAYER, and TIMOTHY C. WHITMORE, eds. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. 256 pp., maps, photos, glossary, index, and biblio. $95.00 cloth (ISBN 0-13-179227-X).

Tokyo–The Changing Profile of an Urban Giant. ROMAN CYBRIWSKY. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1991. xx and 236 pp., 85 figs., 24 tables, and biblio. $38.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8 1 6 1-7 3 29-X).

In the Shadows of the Sun: Caribbean Development Alternatives and U.S. Policy CARMEN D. DEERE: et al. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990. xiii and 246 pp., map, tables, notes, and index. $38.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8133-1029-6); $12.85 paper (ISBN 0-8 13 3-1028-8).

Housing the North American City. MICHAEL DOUCET and JOHN WEAVER. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991, xviii and 572 pp., figs., photos, and index. $50.00 cloth (ISBN 0-77 35-082 5-2).

Reconstructing Large-Scale Climatic Patterns from Tree-Ring Data: A Diagnostic Analysis. HAROLD C. FRITTS. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1991. xxiii and 286 pp., maps, figs., tables, apps., biblio., and index. $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8165-12 18-3).

Planning Issues in Marginal Areas. O. GADE, V. P. MILLER, and L. M. SOMMERS, eds. Boone, NC: Appalachian State University. Occasional Papers in Geogra-phy and Planning, Vol. 3, Spring 1991. xv and 192 pages of text. $7.50.

Historical Geography: A Methodological Portrayal. D. BROOKS GREEN, ed. Savage, MD: Rowman and Iittlefield Publishers, 1991. xxiii and 391 pp., diags., and index. $39.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8476-7666-8).

Industrial Transformation and Challenge in Australia and Canada. ROGER HAYTER and PETER D. WILDE, eds. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1990. x and 340 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 0-88629-129-1); $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-88629-128-3).

Turning the Tide: Saving The Chesapeake Bay. TOM HORTON and WILLIAM M. EICHBAUM. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1991. xxiv and 324 pp., maps, diags., tables, apps., glossary, refs., and index. paper (ISBN 1-55963-100-7). $22.95 cloth (ISBN 1-55963-101-5); $14.95

Andean Ecology: Adaptive Dynamics in Ecuador. GREGORY KNAPP. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991. xv and 220 pp., maps, diags., photos, index, and biblio. $34.00 paper (ISBN 0-8133-8189-4).

PrairyErth (A Deep Map) WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON. Boston: Hough-ton Mifflin Company, 1991. x and 624 pp., maps, and diags. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0-395-48602-5).

Geographic Information Systems and Their Socioeconomic Applications DAVID MARTIN. London: Routledge, 1991. xvii and 182 pp., 56 maps and figs., index, glossary, and biblio. $74.50 cloth (ISBN 0-415-05697-7); $23.50 paper (ISBN 0-415-05698-5).

Terrain Evaluation: An Introductory Handbook to the History, Principles, and Methods of Practical Terrain Assessment. COLIN W. MITCHELL. England: Longman Scientific and Technical, 1991. and 441 pp., maps, graphs, diags., index, and biblio. $39.95 paper (ISBN 0-582-30 122-X).

Women and Development in the Third World. JANET HENSHALL MOMSEN. London: Routledge, 1991. xi and 111 pp., maps, diags., index, and refs. $12.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-01695-9).

Western Europe: Challenge and Change DAVID PINDER, ed. New York: The Guilford Press, 1991. xvi and 290 pp., maps, diags., photos, index, and refs. $30.00 paper (ISBN 0-89862-489-4).

Land Use Control: Geography, Law and Public Policy. RUTHERFORD H. PLATT. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1991. x and 390 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $42.00 cloth (ISBN 0-13-523457-3).

Global Geomorphology. MICHAEL A. SUMMERFIELD. Essex, England: Long-man, 1991. xxii and 537 pp., maps, diags., photos, index, apps., and biblio. $17.99 paper (ISBN 0-582-30156-4).     

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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).     

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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).