Examines the crucial issues facing society in the 1990s and how geography can contribute to their understanding and management.
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AARP Digital Editions offer you practical tips, proven solutions, and expert guidance. Free full-color, foldout mapCompletely updated every yearInsider advice on avoiding the crowds as you explore some of San Diego's most popular attractions, from the world-famous animal parks t…
For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth--Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It's rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the mos…
For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth--Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It's rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the mos…
Documents developments in standard-based systems for processing, archiving, managing and distributing Earth Observation data and derived information products. This book presents standards efforts that influence how these data and information systems operate. It discusses some de…
Includes both nonfiction and fiction reading recommendations for armchair or "real" travelers. This librarian famous for reader's advisory covers places as diverse as Afghanistan, Appalachia, Arizona, Baltimore, Boston, Burma, Congo, Corfu, Detroit, England, Finland, the Galapag…
"Producing the Pacific offers the reader an interdisciplinary reading of the maps, narratives and rituals related to the three Spanish voyages to the South Pacific that took place between 1567 and 1606. These journeys were led by Alvaro de Mendana, Pedro Fernandez de Quiros and …
In today's highly competitive and global economy, understanding tourist behavior is imperative to success. Tourist behavior has become a cornerstone of any marketing strategy and action. This book provides an overview of such processes and influences and explains the concepts an…
San Francisco & Northern California
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Presents area-by-area information for travelers to San Francisco, including details on its history, landscape, sights to see, things to do, lodgings, and restaurants; provides color photos, maps, and cutaway illustrations of significant architecture; and covers other places of i…
Before the days of photography and TV, and when travelling abroad was for the very few, people learned about foreign countries, other peoples, and intrepid adventurers through the works of travel writers. This book sketches the lives of explorers, novelists and poets from 1450 t…
Originally published in 1995, soon after Death Valley National Park became the fifty-third park in the U.S. park system, The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park was the first complete guidebook available for this spectacular area. Now in its second edition, this is st…
<B><i>Frommer's Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks,</i></b> <b><i>5th Edition</i></b> includes all the up-to-date practical information and candid insider advice that you need to have the perfect park vacation, in an easy-to-carry size and at an unbeatable price:<ul><li>The be…
Frommer's Arizona & the Grand Canyon 2011
by Samson, Karl
fromFrommer's Colour Complete Guides
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Completely updated every year, Frommer's Arizona features hundreds of gorgeous color photos of the sights and experiences that await you.; Our expert author has researched the best hotels, restaurants, shops, and nightlife spots in Scottsdale and Phoenix, and takes you to every …
What is Geography? Geography is a fundamental fascination with, and a crucial method for, understanding the way the world works. This text offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography. Drawing out the key themes that defin…