Harm de Blij's geography book : a leading geographer's fresh look at our changing world / Harm de Blij.
| Uniform Title: | Geography book
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Wiley,
[1995], ©1995.
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| Local Note: |
MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection. |
| Physical Description: | 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Variant Title: |
Geography book. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Geography means wider worlds
- Maps: the language of geography
- The geography behind landscape
- Doing something about the weather
- Cities
- Capital geography
- Boundaries: neighbors good and bad
- People, people everywhere
- Dividing up the oceans
- State of irrelevance?
- Russia's failing federation
- The coming challenge of China
- A United States of Europe?
- Shaping the new world order
- Appendices: Nations in the world, UN member states, and US diplomatic relations, as of Nov. 1, 1994 ; Area and demographic data for the world's states ; Earth's extremes ; The ten largest lakes ; The ten deepest lakes ; The ten largest seas ; The ten largest islands ; The ten longest rivers ; The ten greatest waterfalls (volume of water) ; The ten highest mountains ; The highest elevations by continent ; The ten largest deserts ; The coldest cities ; The hottest cities ; The wettest cities ; The driest cities ; Outstanding U.S. geographic facts.