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World Geography/ Alan Backler, Stuart Lazarus

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Chicago Science Research Associates c1980Description: xi,596p.: ill.; 26cmISBN:
  • 0574010653
DDC classification:
  • 21 910
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Book Closed Access Book Closed Access Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences Library 910BAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 10021
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Contents

How to use World Geography xi

Unit One: Where in the World xii

1. What is Geography? 2


2. Understanding Where things Are 26

3. Regions 52

4. Anglo- America 70

Unit Two: Human and their Habitat 112

5. Environmental Control 114

6. Environmental Decision Making 136

7. North Africa/ Southwest Asia 156

8.Resources and Hazards 182

9. Sub-Saharan Africa 198

Unit Three: Interdependence 230

10. Interaction 232

11. Australia 254

12. Transportation and Communications 278

13. Europe 302

14. Connections to the World 330

15. Japan 338

Unit Four: Migration and the Spread of Ideas 360

16. Spreading the World 362

17. China 386

18. Migration 410

19. Southeast Asia 428

Unit Five: Locating Human Activities 448

20. This must be the Place 450

21. Soviet Union 466

22. Central Palaces 490

23. Latin America 506

24. Conflict Over Land Use 528

25. India 542

26. Geography and the Future 562

Glossary 565

Index 570

Atlas 581

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