The Direction of Settlement in the Prairie Provinces of Canada

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Norman J. G. Pounds, Editor, Geographical Essays on Eastern Europe. Indiana University Publications (Russian and East European Series, Vol. 24), Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., 1961. 159 pages with table of contents, maps and diagrams. $4.00.

Clyde F. Kohn (ed.). Urban Responses to Agricultural Change. Department of Publications, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1961. viii and 207 pages with table of contents, 58 tables, 11 maps, and 9 charts and graphs. No index. $4.00.

Clyde F. Kohn and Dorothy W. Drummond. The World Today: Its Patterns and Cultures. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 330 West 42nd Street, New York 36, N.Y. 1963. 626 pages with table of contents, maps, photographs, graphs, glossary and index. $6.88.

William E. Carter. The First Book of Bolivia. Franklin Watts, Inc., New York 22, N.Y., 1963. 82 pages with table of contents, map, photographs, glossary of Bolivian terms and index. $2.50.

Bryan H. Farrell. Power in New Zealand, A. H. &; A. W. Reed, Wellington, New Zealand, 1962. (North American agents: W. S. Heinman, 400 East 72nd St., New York 21.) 197 pages with table of contents, maps, photographs, appendix, glossary, reference notes, bibliography and index. $5.95.

Donald N. Wilbur. The Land and People of Ceylon, J. B. Lippincott Co., N.Y., 1963. 157 pages with table of contents, map, index, and photographs. $3.25.

Edward Madden Ainsworth. Beckoning Desert. Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1962. 264 pages, sketches. $5.95.

Edward C. Tabler, editor. Trade and Travel in Early Barotseland. University of California Press, Berkeley 4, Calif., 1963. 125 pages. $5.00.

L. Kellner. Alexander yon Humboldt. Oxford University Press, Inc., Fair Lawn, N.J., 1963. 247 pages. $5.75.

Lewis M. Alexander. Offshore Geography of Northwestern Europe. Rand McNally &; Co., Chicago, Ill., 1963. 162 pages. $5.00.

Patricia H. Suttles, editor. Elementary Teachers Guide to Free Curriculum Materials. Edncators Progress Service, Randolph, Wis., 1963. 342 pages with table of contents with index and illustrative units. $7.50.

Ruth Warren. The First Book of the Arab World. Franklin Watts, Inc., 575 Lexington Ave., New York 22, N.Y., 19G3. 65 pages with table of contents, pictures and index. $2.50.     

Geographic Influences in the Atlanta Campaign

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The growing importance of law in American society and the potential contribution that geographers can make in implementing America's legal system point to rewarding future linkages between law and geography. This paper suggests the need for a course on Law and Geography to cultivate these linkages. The proposed course outline draws examples from water law and criminal justice law and other legal bodies that suggest significant avenues for future geographical research.     

Geographic Influences in the Development of St. Louis

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Ralph and Mollie Izzard. A Walk in the Mountains, A Family's Trip Through the High Lebanon.

Wesley Calef. Private Grazing and Public Lands, Studies of the Local Management of the Taylor Grazing Act.

S. H. Steinberg (editor). The Statesman's Yearbook, 1960-1961.

E. Joseph Dreany. Alaska.

John C. and Elsie F. Caldwell. Our Neighbors in Japan.

R. J. Harrison Church. West Africa: A Study of the Environment and of Man's Use of it.

Alex Somme, editor. A Geography of Norden.     

福建历代藏书家籍贵地的地理分布

本文对福建历代有籍可查的藏书家籍贯地分布进行统计分析，系统地阐述了福建历代藏书家在中国历代藏书家中的地位、地理分布、藏书中心形成和转移特点及其原因，特别是与社会经济发展、社会动乱、政治文化中心的关系，与造纸、印刷技术的发明和普及应用、藏书传统继承性及其他文化因素的关系。     

Foreign‐Born Status and Geographic Patterns of Tuberculosis Genotypes in Tarrant County,Texas

Regardless of destination, immigrants arrive with health profiles typical of people in their previous surroundings. Thus, immigrants change the epidemiological profile of destination communities, and immigrant neighborhoods may represent islands of infectious disease. Genotyping has emerged as a useful surveillance tool to track the spread of disease at the molecular level. Yet the spatial distribution of infectious disease at the molecular level associated with migration and immigrant neighborhoods has received little attention. Using molecular genotyping to characterize M. tuberculosis isolated from tuberculosis cases, this article analyzes spatial variations of unique molecular M. tuberculosis strains by zip code in Tarrant County, Texas. The results suggest that immigrant neighborhoods have higher rates of unique isolates of tuberculosis (suggestive of remote transmission) compared to neighborhoods occupied by the native‐born. Neighborhoods dominated by the native‐born have higher rates of clustered isolates (suggestive of recent transmission). Therefore, in addition to being culturally distinct, immigrant neighborhoods may also be pathogenically distinct from surrounding neighborhoods.     

Geographic Information Technologies and the History of a Shoreline: The Case of Chapter 91 in New Bedford,Massachusetts

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This article discusses the use of geographic information technologies to assist researchers in the exploration of historical databases. The case study is a pilot project in which we used geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) to study the history of the Public Waterfront Act (the “Chapter 91” program), a policy designed to balance private property rights, public interest, and environmental protection in the Massachusetts tidelands. The issues discussed range from the role of GIS in society and its limitations as a representational tool to the ability of current GIS to deal with historical data and to manage temporal attributes.

     

Evaluating the Geographic in GIS

Despite several decades of discussion and debate around the role of GIS in the discipline of Geography, it would be a stretch to argue that GIS has not irreversibly altered the discipline, both in the scope of research and teaching as well as in the wider imagination of a general public. However, it remains a challenge to incorporate the range of geographic knowledge, born of a diversity of modalities, into operational insights and analytical pre‐conditions in a GIS. To be certain, some irreconcilability between GIS and geographical inquiry is to be expected, epistemologically speaking. In what follows, we consider what might be meant by a shift to geographic analysis as scholars from disciplines in the humanities and social sciences turn to GIS as a method of observation, interpretation, analysis, and representation. In this context, we engage in a thought experiment and offer some commentary, fixing the notion of information system, while opening the geographic in GIS to more variable understanding. The point is to pursue greater development of GIS theory and method, encompassing, while not reducing, scientific, social scientific, and humanities research.     

Geographic Information Technologies and the History of a Shoreline: The Case of Chapter 91 in New Bedford,Massachusetts*

This article discusses the use of geographic information technologies to assist researchers in the exploration of historical databases. The case study is a pilot project in which we used geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) to study the history of the Public Waterfront Act (the “Chapter 91” program), a policy designed to balance private property rights, public interest, and environmental protection in the Massachusetts tidelands. The issues discussed range from the role of GIS in society and its limitations as a representational tool to the ability of current GIS to deal with historical data and to manage temporal attributes.