Conservation and the Nature of Social Problems: A Proposed Shift in Emphasis

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Ronald Freedman (ed.). POPULATION: THE VITAL REVOLUTION. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1964. 274 pages. $5.00.

Efraim Orni and Elisha Efrat. GEOGRAPHY OF ISRAEL. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1964. 335 pages. $7.50.

SOURCE BOOK FOR GEOGRAPHY TEACHING. London: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1965. Distributed by UNESCO. xvi + 254 pages. $4.50.

T. W. Birch. MAPS TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL. (Second ed.). London: Oxford University Press, 1964. xiv + 240 pages, illustrated. $4.00.

Harry D. Berg, editor. EVALUATION IN SOCIAL STUDIES. 35th Yearbook of the National Council for the Social Studies. Washington, D.C.: the Council, 1965. 250 pages. Paper $4.00. Cloth $5.00.

Farrington Daniels. DIRECT USE OF THE SUN'S ENERGY. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1964. 374 pages, maps, illustrations, bibliographies, index. Paperback, $2.45.     

Books,Atlases & Maps Received

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Derek Thompson and Joseph W. Wiedel and associates. AN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ATLAS OF MARYLAND. University of Maryland, Occasional Papers in Geography, Number 3, Department of Geography, College Park, Maryland, 1974. 126 pages, paper cover. $5.00.

Peter Gould and Rodney White. MENTAL MAPS. Penguin Books Ltd., Baltimore, Maryland 1974. 204 pages, paper, $2.95.     

Media Review

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Gerald Manners. THE CHANGING WORLD MARKET FOR IRON ORE, 1950-1980 An ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY. Baltimore, Md.: Published for the Resources for the Future, Inc., by the Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. 384 pages. Cloth, $1 4.00.

William H. Eddy, Jr., Gonzalo S. Leon, and Robert C. Milne. CONSIDER THE PROCESS OF LIVING. Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation, 1972. 130 pp. Paper, $5.95.

Maurice E. McGaugh. A GEOGRAPHY OF POPULATION AND SETTLEMENT. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown Company Publishers, 1970. 131 pages. Paper, $1.95.     

Notes On Penguins

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Richard Dillon. MERIWETHER LEWIS: A BIOGRAPHY. Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, 1965 xvii + 364 pages, illustrations, index. $6.95.

James W. Simmons. THE CHANGING PATTERN OF RETAIL LOCATION. Department of Geography Research Paper No. 92. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1964. x + 193 pages with table of contents, 48 illustrations and selected bibliography. $4.00.

Sam and Beryle Epstein. THE FIRST BOOK OF SWITZERLAND. Franklin Watts, Inc., 575 Lexington Ave., New York 22, N.Y., 1964. 85 pages including index and 68 pictures. $2.50.

George F. Carter. MAN AND THE LAND: A CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY. Holt, Rine-hard and Winston, Inc., New York, 1964. xiv + 496 pages with table of contents, maps, photographs, bibliography, and index. $9.95.

Zoe A. Thralls, Edward L. Biller, and William H. Hartley. THE WORLD AROUND US, REVISED EDITION. Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., New York, 1965. 512 pages with table of contents, list of maps, pictures, reference section, glossary, and index. $5.80.     

Books in Brief

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Norman J. G. Pounds. EUROPE AND THE SOVIET UNION. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. 528 pages. $9.95.

T. R. Tregear. A GEOGRAPHY OF CHINA. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1965. 342 pages, bibliography, index. $7.95.

Michael Chisholm. GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1966. ix + 230 pages, 8 maps and diagrams, references. $6.50.

Charles H. Cotter. THE ASTRONOMICAL AND MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF GEOGRAPHY. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, 1966. 244 pages, 52 figures. $7.00.     

People—Holland's Most Important Export

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Lena Stuart Minugh and Nancy Keochakian Cory. JAPAN. Franklin Publications, Inc., Pasadena, 1963. 135 pages, maps and illustrations. $5.25. Teachers Guide, 56 pages, $2.44.

Russell Lord. THE CARE OF THE EARTH. Signet, a Mentor book, New York, 1963. 384 pages. $0.95 (paperback).

Tim Weeks and Ramona Maher. ICE ISLAND. Polar Science and the Arctic Research Laboratory. John Day. 220 pages, maps and photographs. $4.95.     

Geographical Classics

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THE GEOGRAPHY OF CRIME AND VIOLENCE: A SPATIAL AND ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. By Daniel E. Georges. Resource Papers for College Geography, Resource Paper No. 78-1. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers, 1978. Pp. vii + 28, $2.50.

SOURCEBOOK ON THE ENVIRONMENT: A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE. Edited by Kenneth A. Hammond, George Macinko, and Wilma 6. Fairchild. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. Pp. x + 613, $20.00.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF MAP PROJECTION. By James Mainwaring
MAP PROJECTIONS. By George P. Kellaway
GLOBES, MAPS, AND SKYWAYS. By Hubert A. Bauer
WORLD MAPS AND GLOBES. By Irving Fisher and O. M. Miller     

Preview of Films

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MEKONG… A RIVER OF ASIA, Public Relations Dept., 50 West 50th Street, New York, New York, 30 minutes, 16mm, sound, color, no date. Free loan.

DAIRY—FARM TO DOOR, Charles Cahill and Associates, 5746 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California 90046, 10 minutes, 16mm, sound, color and black and white, 1965. $120 and $65.

NORTH AMERICA: THE CONTINENT, Coronet Films, 65 East South Water Street, Chicago 1, Illinois, 14 minutes, 16mm, sound, color and black and white, 1965. Collaborator: Earl B. Shaw.

MODERN FRANCE: THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE (Second Edition) Coronet Films, 65 East South Water Street, Chicago 1, Illinois, 14 minutes, 16mm, sound, color and black and white, 1965. $120 and $60. Collaborator: Clyde F. Kohn.

LIFE ZONES OF THE CENTRAL ROCKIES, International Film Bureau, Inc., 332 South Michigan Ave., Chicago 4, Illinois, 21 minutes, 16mm, sound, color, 1965. $195. Produced by Walter H. Berlet.

WATER HARVESTING, LeMont Films, P.O. Box 63, Northridge, California 91323, 15 1/2 minutes, 16mm, sound, color, no date. $168.     

Books in Brief

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Edgar T. Thompson and Everett C. Hughes, Editors. RACE—INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR. Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1958. Also London: Collier-Macmillan, Ltd., 619 pages, bibliography, index of contributors. $7.50

THE WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. Chicago, III.: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, 1966. 20 volumes.

John C. Bollens and Henry J. Schmandt. THE METROPOLIS: ITS PEOPLE, POLITICS, AND ECONOMIC LIFE. New York: Harper and Row, Inc., 1965. xvi + 643 pages, with table of contents, maps, bibliography and indexes. $7.50.

Kirtley F. Mather. THE EARTH BENEATH US. New York: Random House, 1964. 320 large pages (8 1/2 × 11 inches), 240 photographic illustrations (116 in color), index. ($12.95) $15.00.

J. R. V. Prescott. THE GEOGRAPHY OF FRONTIERS AND BOUNDARIES. New York: Hillary House Publishers, Ltd., 1965. 190 pages. $3.00.

Virginia M. Rowley. J. RUSSELL SMITH, GEOGRAPHER, EDUCATOR, CONSERVATIONIST. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964. 247 pages. $6.00.     

Books in Brief

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Herman Friis, ed. THE PACIFIC BASIN, A HISTORY OF ITS GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATION. Special Publication No. 38. New York: The American Geographical Society under support of National Science Foundation, 1967. 457 pages, maps, illus., bibliography, index. $12.00.

J. Wreford Watson, J. Oliver and C. H. Foggo. A GEOGRAPHY OF BERMUDA. London: Collins, 1965. 128 pages, 41 maps and diagrams, 27 photographs. $3.00.

Glenn T. Trewartha, Arthur H. Robinson, Edwin H. Hammond. ELEMENTS OF GEOGRAPHY. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967. 660 pages. $9.95.     

Book reviews

WETLANDS: a threatened landscape (Institute of British Geographers Special Publication Series No.25) edited by M. Williams. 17 × 24 cm, x + 419 pp. Blackwell, Oxford 1993 (first published 1990) (ISBN 0 631 19199 2) $65.00 (soft).

GUIDE TO MAPS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS 1852–1971 (Historical Geography Monograph No.7) edited by J. McQuilton. 21 × 29 cm, 178 pp. Australian Reference Publications, Melbourne 1994 (ISBN 0 9587876 4 6).

THE EMERGENCE OF BIOREGIONALISM IN THE MURRAY‐DARLING BASIN by J.M. Powell. 21 × 30 cm, 105 pp. Murray‐Darling Basin Commission, Canberra 1993. (ISBN 1 875209 212) $20.00 (soft).     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: SEEING THROUGH MAPS: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View. By Ward L. Kaiser and Denis Wood . LANDSCAPE, NATURE, AND THE BODY POLITIC: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World. By Kenneth Olwig . OPENING THE OZARKS: A Historical Geography of Missouri's Ste. Genevieve District, 1760–1830. By Walter A. Schroeder . WETLANDS DRAINAGE, RIVER MODIFICATION, AND SECTORAL CONFLICT IN THE LOWER ILLINOIS VALLEY, 1890–1930. By John Thompson . ON THE BORDER: An Environmental History of San Antonio. Edited by Char Miller . WESTERN PLACES, AMERICAN MYTHS: How We Think about the West. Edited by Gary J. Hausladen . RANCHING WEST OF THE 100^TM MERIDIAN: Culture, Ecology, and Economics. Edited by Richard L. Knight , Wendell C. Gilgert , and Ed Marston .     

Geographic j Materials Received

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Paul F. Griffin, editor. GEOGRAPHY OF POPULATION. A TEACHER'S MANUAL. The 1970 Yearbook of The National Council for Geographic Education. Palo Alto, Calif.: Fearon Publishers, 1969. xiv + 370 pages, maps and charts. $9.50.

George W. Goddard (with DeWitt S. Copp). OVERVIEW, A LIFELONG ADVENTURE IN AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY. Garden City, New York: Doubleday &; Company, 1969. Photographs, index. 402 pages. $8.95.

Ronald U. Cooke and James H. Johnson, editors. TRENDS IN GEOGRAPHY, AN INTRODUCTORY SURVEY. Oxford and New York. The Pergamon Press, Ltd., 1969. xi + 287 pages. $6.25; flexicover, $4.00.

Robert E. Dickinson. THE MAKERS OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1969. Preface, indexes, photographs. 305 pages. $7.50.     

Geographical Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: YOUR PRIVATE SKY: R. Buckminster Fuller, The Art of Design Science. Edited by Joachim Krausse and Claude Lichtenstein . Translated by Steven Lindberg and Julia Thorson . PRINCE HENRY ‘THE NAVIGATOR’: A Life. By Peter Russell SPEAKING THROUGH THE ASPENS: Basque Tree Carvings in California and Nevada. By J. Mallea ‐Olaetxe . PETROLIA: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom. By Brian Black CRAFTING THE CULTURE AND HISTORY OF FRENCH CHOCOLATE. By Susan J. Terrio . VIRGINIA IN MAPS: Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development. Edited by Richard W. Stephenson and Marianne M. Mc Kee . THE ATLAS OF EXPERIENCE. By Louise van Swaaij and Jean Klare .     

The Areal Distribution of Manufacturing in India

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Vincent H. Malmstrom. NORDEN: CROSSROADS OF DESTINY AND PROGRESS.: Searchlight Book No. 25. Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand, 1965. 129 pages. Paper. $1.45.

SOVIET ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.: New York: Elsevier Publishing Co., 1965. xii + 377 pages, photographs, maps, graphs. $15.00.

G. Etzel Pearcy. THE WEST INDIAN SCENE.: Searchlight Book No. 26. Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1965. 136 pages with table of contents, appendix, bibliography, and index of places. Paper, $1.45.     

Cartography and the Face of the Earth

MAP AND LANDSCAPE. By Dorothy Sylvester.
MAPS AND DIAGRAMS. By F. J. Monkhouse and H. R. Wilkinson.
THE LOOK OF MAPS. By Arthur H. Robinson.
ELEMENTS OF CARTOGRAPHY. By Arthur H. Robinson.
GEOGRAPHY FROM THE AIR. By F. Walker.
OUR WORLD FROM THE AIR. By E. A. Gutkind. London: Chatto and Windus, 1952, pp. 250.     

Reviews

WEATHER AND WEATHER MAPS. Edited by Gosta H. Liljequist
THE TIME OF DARKNESS. By R. J. Blong
BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS IN GEOGRAPHY REVISITED. Edited by Kevin R. Cox and Reginald G. Golledge
GOVERNMENT AND CAPITALISM: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CHOICE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AUSTRALIA. By N. G. Butlin, A. Barnard and J. J. Pincus.
CINDERELLAS OF THE EMPIRE. By Barrie Macdonald     

Preview of Films

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BULLDOZED AMERICA, Carousel Films, Inc., 1501 Broadway, New York, New York, 10036, 24 minutes, 16mm, sound black and white, 1965. For prices inquire of distributor.

THE COMMUNITY AIRPORT, Sigma Educational Films, P.O. Box 1235, Studio City, California 91604, 11 minutes, 16mm, sound, color and black and white, 1966. $125 and $75.

MODERN EGYPT, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Text-Film Department, 330 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036, 18 minutes, 16mm, sound, color and black and white, 1965. For price inquire of distributor. Produced by Audio Productions. Curriculum Consultant: Kate P. Miamo.

TERRA NOVA, Sterling Educational Films, Inc., 241 East 34th Street, New York, New York 10016, 19 minutes, 16mm, sound, black and white, 1963. $100. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

THE GREAT CENTRAL VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA, Cypress Films, P.O. Box 4872, Carmel, California 93921, 17 minutes, 16 mm, sound, color, no date. For price inquire of distributor. Collaborator: Howard McGregor.

A COUNTRY CALLED EUROPE, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Text-Film Department, 330 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036, 21 minutes, 16mm, sound, color and black and white, no date. $260 and $1 20.     

Books in Brief

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A. M. O'Connor. An Economic Geography Of East Africa. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966. ix % 292 pages, maps, tables, and index. $8.00.

Robert C. West and John P. Augelli. Middle America: Its Lands and Peoples. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. 482 pages, 277 illustrations, index. $11.95.

Lowdon Wingo, Jr., ed. CITIES AND SPACE, THE FUTURE USE OF URBAN LAND. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. 261 pages. Paperback, $2.45.