CONSTITUTION OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS

The Geography of Economic Activity: An Introductory World Survey. Richard S. Thoman.

Urban Responses to Agricultural Change. Clyde F. Kohn, ed.

Learn Geography the Easy Way, revised edition. Raymond P. Dollinger, ed.

The Tropical World: Its Social and Economic Conditions and Its Future Status, 3rd edition. Pierre Gourou.

Outdoor Recreation for America: A Report to the President and to the Congress by the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission.

Francois Matthes and the Marks of Time: Yosemite and the High Sierra. Fritiof Fryxell, ed.

Hammod's Ambassador World Atlas, 2nd edition. C.S. Hammond and Co.

The Wew Rand McNally Pocket World Atlas, Cardinal Edition.

The Golden Khersonese: Studies in the Historical Geography of the Malay Peninsula before A.D. 1500. Paul Wheatley.

Plant Life of Palestine, Israel and Jordon. Michael Zohary.

Europe's Needs and Resources. J. Frederic Dewhurst, John O. Coppock, P. Lamartine Yates AND Associates.

Problems of Applied Geography. Kazimierz Dziewonski, ET AL., eds.

Problems of Dynamic Meteorology and Climatic Theory.

Questions of Physics of the Atmosphere.

Mapuche Social Structure: Institutional Reintegration in a Patrilineal Society of Central Chile. L.C. Faron.

The Statesman's Yearbook, 1961–1962. S. H. Steinberg, ed.

A Regional Geography of South Australia. D.D. Harris AND D.A.M. Lea.

Volcanoes: In History, In Theory, In Eruption. Fred M. Bullard.     

REPORT OF THE EDITOR OF THE PROFESSIONAL GEOGRAPHER

Attas of Finland. Geographical Society of Finland and the Department of Geography of Helsinki University. Leo Aario, ed.

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland. A. C. Odell, Kenneth Walton.

Soviet Power. Jordan A. Hodgkins.

Problèmes de Gdologie Sous-Marzha. Le Précontinent, Le Littoral et sa Protection, La Stratigraphie Sow-Marine. Jacques Bourcart.

Life World Librury.

The Geography of California in Essays and Readings. R. W. Durrenbenger.

Sources of Ivzfomzrrtion about Californid. R. W. Durrenberger.

Festschrift: Clarence F. Jones. Merlb C. Prunty, Jr., ed.

India's Urban Future.

Schuieizerischer Mittelschulatlas. Eduard Imhof, ed.

Pacific Island Bastions of the United States. Herold J. Wiens.

New Forces in Africa. William H. Lewis, ed.

The World of Ice. Jamb L. Dyson.

Dictionery of Geological Terms

Physical Oceanography. Albert Depant.

A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida. Bernard Romans.

Coal Traffic on the Ohio River System. Fred A. Carlson and Frank Seawall.

The Morfihology of the Earth: A Study and Synthesis of World Scenery. Lester C. King.

Guide to Photocopied Historical Materials in the United States and Canada. Richard W. Hale, Jr., (ed.)

Research Opportunities in American Cultural History. John Francis Mc-Dermott, (editor)     

VIEWS OF THE AAG: RESULTS OF THE LONG RANGE PLANNING MEMBERSHIP SURVEY

In this issue THE PROFESSIONAL GEOGRAPHER presents the first two reports in a series on the Association's long-range planning process, which was described by Past President Marcus in May. David Morgan outlines here the results of a survey of members' attitudes on a number of important questions.     

ON THE SENSITIVITY OF CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE BASES OF COGNITIVE DISTANCE

The “ecological fallacy’ inherent in two studies of the correlation of cognitive distance with objective distance and travel time is considered. The studies reach opposite conclusions using similar types of data, but both involve different types of aggregation of cognitive-distance judgments. It is shown that, under certain circumstances, correlations based on aggregate data can lead to reverse conclusions to those based on more behaviorally valid disaggregate data. Hence such aggregation is unjustifiable and, as a result, neither study's conclusions can be relied upon.     

SUGGESTIONS FROM THE AAG PLACEMENT COMMITTEE

Perspective on the Nature of Geography. Richard Hartshorne

The Statesman's Year-Book 1959. Ed. S. H. Steinberg

Microclimatic and Vegetational Studies in a Cold-Wet Deciduous Forest. Philip Ross

Urban Problems and Techniques, Ed. Perry L. Norton

Statistisk Sentralbyra, Bosettningkart over Norge (Settlement Map of Norway

Mapa General de Cuba. Edited by P. Fernandez y Cia

Water for the Future. John R. Stockton, Stanley A. Arbingast, Richard C. Henshaw, Jr., and Alfred G. Dale

America's Natural Resources. Ed. Charles H. Callison

Everydav Meteorology. A. Austin Miller &; M. Parry

Geography of the Soviet Union: Electric Power

Thailand–An Outline. Edwin F. Stanton

Historical Atlas and Gazetteer. A Study of History, Volume XI. Arnold J. Toynbee &; Edward D . Myers

New Viewpoints in Geography. Preston E. James, Ed.

Man In Malaya. B. W. Holler

The Location of the Synthetic-fiber Industry, A Case Study in Regional Analysis. Joseph Airov

General Meteorology. 3rd Ed. Horace R. Byers

Man's Journey Through Time. L. S. Palmer

Anglo-America: A Regional Geography. Earl B. Shaw

Proceedings of IGU Regional Conference in Japan 1957.     

A PUBLIC INFORMATION PROGRAM FOR THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS

Advances in Earth Science. P. M. Hurley (ed.).

Climates of the World aed their Agricultural Potentialities. J(uan) Papadakis.

Rebuilding Cities. Percy Johnson Marshall.

The Alliance for Progress: Key t o Latin America's Development. J. Warren Nystrom and Nathan A. Haverstock.

Market Potential and Economic Shadow. D. Michael Ray.

Soils, An Introduction to Soils and Plant Growth. Roy L. Donahue.

Guide to Russian Reference Books: Volume 11: History, Historical Sciences, Ethnography, Geography. Karol Maichel, (ed.) J. S. G. Simmons.

Middle America: Its Lands and Peoples. Robert C. West and John P. Augelli.

California's Many Climates. Ernest L. Felton.

The Soviet Union, People and Regions. David Hooson.

Planning in the Soviet Union. Philippe J. Bernard. Translated by I. Nove.

Human Nature in Geography. John K. Wright.

Military Geography. Louis C. Peltier and G. Etzel Pearcy.

The Philififiines: Nation of Islands. Alden Cutshall.

The Journals Of ZebuLon Montgomery Pibe with Letters and Related Documents. Donald Jackson (ed.).

The Sabi Valley Irrigation Projects. Wolf Roder.

How to Identify Old Maps and Globes. Raymond Lister.

The Seigneurial System in Early Canada: A Geographical Study. Richard Colebrook Harris.

North Atlantic Arena: Water Transport in the World Order. Charles C. Colby.

Continental Drift. G. B. Garland (ed.).

Land Use in Sudan. J. H. G. Lebon.

Uboma: A Socio-Economic and Nutritional Suruey of a Rural Community in Eastern Nigeria. H. A. Oluwasanmi, I. S. Dema, and others.

City and Region. R. E. Dickinson.

An Introduction to Geography. Rhoads Murphey.

A Reporter in Micronesia. Ely Jacques Kahn

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives Water Management and Floods in the Fraser River Basin. W. R. Derrick Sewell.

Human Geografihy. Aime Vincent Perpillou (Tr. by E. D. Laborde).

Dictionary of Geography. Dudley Stamp (ed.).

The Roman City of London. Ralph Merrifield.

Land Behind Baghdad. Robert McC. Adams.

The Evolution of Urban Society: Early Mesopotamia and Prehispanic Mexico. Robert McC. Adams.

A Preface to Economic Geography. Harold H. McCarty and James B. Lindberg.

Scandinauian Lands, Roy Millward.

The Great American Desert. W. Eugene Hollon.

City and Regional Planning in Poland. Jack C. Fisher (ed.).

Luftbildatlas Schleswig-Holstein. Christian Degn and Uwe Muuss.     

THE MOST PERFECT EXAMPLE OF AN ALIEN ECOLOGY EVER CONSTRUCTED

Much science-fiction literature is based upon the creation and exploration of alternative environments. Stanley G. Weinbaum's short story, “Parasite Planet,”introduces an unusual environment that may be wrong in the light of recent evidence on Venus but still stimulates the geographical imagination.     

APPRAISAL OF GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH AND TRAINING PROGRAMS IN THE SOVIET UNION

Global distributions are commonly described by maps and tables which emphasize the dispersion of a distribution. The Mean Spheroidal Center (M.S.C.) defines the average location of a world distribution. It is an objectively determined point within the sphere's surface. The M.S.C. calculations are demonstrated using the world's 25 largest cities in each of four time periods.     

THE GEOGRAPHY OF MASTODON EXTINCTION

Geographic Software Reviewed in this article:

LIFE TABLES and the LESLIE MATRIX. CONDUIT

MENTMAP2. Lawrence W. Carstensen Jr.

PC-MATLAB, Version 1.0. The Math Works, Inc.

QUICKMAP, version 1.0. Sammamish Data Systems, Inc.

SYSTAT: THE SYSTEM FOR STATISTICS, Version 2.1, Systat Inc.

USA DISPLAY. Instant Tecall     

AN ESTIMATE OF ANNUAL GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANT EMISSIONS FROM GRASSLAND FIRES AND AGRICULTURAL BURNING IN THE TROPICS

Faculty development in the fullest sense depends largely on the faculty member's learning environment. This article suggests ways in which departments can provide a context for professional growth through management of faculty assignments, professional rewards, departmental activities, and internal support. Leadership, consistency, and patience are discussed as the keys to a departmental approach to faculty development. The professional growth and productivity of its faculty members are obviously important determinants of a department's stature and hence its ability to remain viable in a period of academic retrenchment. Other elements of departmental policy that affect a unit's survival capabilities will be the subject of another article by these same authors to appear in the February issue.     

SPATIAL VARIATION OF HILLSLOPE PROFILES IN THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU,KENTUCKY

Contemporary Metropolitan America. John S. Adams (ed.)

The Climate of the Great American Desert: Reconstruction of the Climate of Western Interior United States, 1800–1850. Merlin P. Lawson.

Geomorphology from the Earth. Karl W. Butzer.

Glaciers and Landscape: A Geomorphological Approach. David E. Sugden and Brian S. John.

Experiencing the Environment. Seymour Wapner, Saul B. Cohen and Bernard Kaplan (eds.).

Folk Housing in Middle Virginia. Henry Glassie.

Place and Placelessness. Edward Relph.

The Changing Face of Tibet: The Impact of Chinese Communist Ideology on the Landscape. Pradyumna P. Karan.

Imperial Russia in Frontier America. James R. Gibson.

Immigrants in the Ozarks: A Study in Ethnic Geography. Russel L. Gerlach.

Urban Social Segregation. Ceri Peach (ed.).

Urban Modelling: Algorithms, Calibrations, Predictions. Michael Batty.

Strategies for Human Settlements: Habitat and Environment. Gwen Bell (ed.).

Spatial Components of Manufacturing Change. Yehoshua S. Cohen and Brian J. L. Berry.

Income Distribution in Latin America. Alejandro Foxley (ed.).

The Netherlands. David Pinder.

Social Issues in Regional Policy and Regional Planning. Antoni Kuklinski (ed.).

Periodic Markets, Urbanization, and Regional Planning: A Case Study from Western Kenya. Robert A. Obudho and Peter P. Waller.

Atlas of Oregon. William G. Loy (director and cartographer), Stuart Allan, Clyde P. Patton and Robert D. Plank.

Papua New Guinea Resource Atlus. Edgar Ford (ed.) and John S. Feodoroff

Landmarks of Mapmaking: An Illustrated Survey of Maps and Mapmakers. Text by Charles Bricker and maps selected by R. V. Tooley.     

MIGRAT: A COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM FOR THE SIMULATION OF MIGRATION

Primary individuals and the households that they head now compose a significant proportion of US households. This paper examines the regional and intraurban distribution of primary households. Macro-scale data from the 1960 and 1970 Censuses are used to examine the evolving regional patterns of primary individuals and households. Using intraurban data for the 1970's, the paper also examines the impact of recent rapid growth in the number of primary individuals on the spatial distribution of primary households within urban areas. Inferences are drawn with respect to the macro- and micro-scale distributions of primary individuals and households and the impact of continued growth of this subpopulation on urban form and population distribution.     

ON THE LETTERING OF MAPS

This is one of a series of guest articles written on invitation by senior members of the geographic profession.     

THE IMPACT OF FEDERAL LOCAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE UPON TRAVEL BEHAVIOR

Despite substantial amounts of federal assistance to local public transportation, ridership has declined considerably in the country as a whole since 1964, suggesting an ineffective government program. A city-by-city comparison of assistance received with changes in transit ridership shows that declines in transit usage were least in cities receiving the most federal aid, and greatest in cities receiving the least aid. This demonstrates that federal aid has had an impact upon travel behavior. Indeed, it is the single most important factor explaining differences between cities in travel behavior changes in the 1970's.     

THE MORPHOLOGY AND VITALITY OF BUSINESS DISTRICTS IN UPSTATE NEW YORK VILLAGES 1

Testing the theoretical notion that differences in entrepreneurial skill can enhance the viability of a poor location or detract from the qualities of a good location, this study reviews the historical experience of a number of retailing establishments operated by different firms at the same sites. The ultimate success of stores that had done poorly under previous management tends to confirm that a location is “good'’only so long as the retailer employs effective merchandising and operating policies.     

A review of A Teacher's Handbook on Energy

Abstract

A Teacher's Handbook on Energy, prepared under the direction of the Governor's Energy Advisory Council in consultation with the Texas Education Agency, January 1977.     

REVISITING THE TOPIA ROAD: WALKING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF WEST AND PARSONS*

ABSTRACT. In 1940, Berkeley graduate‐student geographers Robert West and James Parsons traveled to Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidental to retrace the Topia Road, colonial Mexico's main trans‐Sierran trail linking isolated mountain mining hamlets with the Pacific Coast and the world beyond, a journey chronicled in a 1941 Geographical Review article. Almost sixty years later, we document an attempt to retrace West and Parsons's route. Based on field observations, interviews with local informants, replication of Parsons's photographs, and his field notes, we evaluate landscape alteration in what West and Parsons referred to as some of the most isolated settlements in Mexico. We assess changes in the still‐remote communities along the route in terms of three influences: mining, migration, and drug trafficking.     

THE DEPENDENCE OF THE ANNUAL TOTAL ON THE NUMBER OF RAIN‐SPELLS AND THEIR YIELD IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

Rain‐spells are a key parameter for examining the variation in rainfall amounts, especially in arid and semi‐arid areas. A rain‐spell is defined as a period of consecutive days with rainfall above a certain determined Daily Rainfall Threshold (DRT). Two different seasons or two stations may have the same average TOTAL, but different synoptic conditions are the cause for the differences in their Number of Rain‐Spells (NRS) their Rain‐Spells Yield (RSY) or both. The present study examines whether a season is drier/wetter according to its length, or whether it depends on the NRS in 41 Mediterranean stations. It analyses the relationships between dry/wet seasons and various elements of the rain‐spells. These objectives are analysed both at a basin level of the entire Mediterranean, and at a station level. The main conclusions at the basin level are that precipitation amounts are not related to the length of the seasons, and therefore, a Short or a Long season can be either Dry or Wet. The significant positive correlation between the TOTAL and the annual NRS that was found indicates that a Dry season tends to have Few rain‐spells and a Wet season tends to have Many rain‐spells. At the station level of most stations, a Dry or Wet season is caused mainly by changes in the RSY and less so by changes in the NRS. This tendency is more evident in the southern Mediterranean. Furthermore, Wet seasons are characterized by an increase in the number of Long rain‐spells (longer than three days) and mainly in the RSY of these spells. These conclusions may serve to characterize the rainfall regime under any scenario due to a climatic change.     

THE ARCHIVES OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS

Although numerous courses in geographic information systems (GIS) have been introduced into the geography curriculum over the past few years, there has been remarkably little debate over the issues involved. This paper first discusses the arguments for geography as an appropriate disciplinary setting for GIS teaching at the undergraduate level. This is followed by a discussion of the nature of GIS courses and their appropriate place in the undergraduate geography curriculum. The final section of the paper describes the NCGIA Core Curriculum project and examines its significance in this broader context.