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Through easy-to-read questions and answers, readers learn about maps of the world, and what they reveal about earth's people and resources. Includes charts, diagrams, and an activity section.
The trivia lover's guide to the world
Gary Fuller’s entertaining and engaging guide enhances geographic know-how with good, old-fashioned fun, using trivia to open up new worlds of knowledge for all readers. Often dismissed as unimportant, trivia here highlights issues that are far from trivial, pondering, for example, what peaceful country requires citizens to keep guns in their homes? what continent contains at least 75 percent of the world’s fresh water? and why aren't New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia the capitals of their respective states? An inveterate traveler and geographer extraordinaire, Fuller provides extensive background, clear illustrations, and thorough explanations for each intriguing question, carefully grounding the text in practical geographic concepts. Both enjoyable and enlightening, this book challenges today’s global generation to truly get to know their world.
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Strange maps : an atlas of cartographic curiosities
\"Spanning many centuries, all continents and the realms of outer space and the imagination, this unique book of maps combines beautiful full-color illustrations with quirky statistics and smart social commentary, resulting in an illustrated guide to just about everything. Brimming with trivia, deadpan humor and idiosyncratic lore, Strange Maps is a fascinating tour of all things weird and wonderful in the world of cartography.\"--Jacket.
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The trivia lover's guide to even more of the world
Gary Fuller's entertaining guide uses geographic trivia questions as a springboard to learning about non-trivial aspects of our globe. He defines geography as the science of survival and challenges today's global generation to truly get to know their world. A delight to read, this book is an essential antidote to our lack of geographical knowledge.
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The handy geography answer book
\"Geography is more than just maps and finding your destination. It is about the land, the people on that land, the delicate balance of nature, and our very interdependence upon it, despite the miracles of technology and grocery stores. It's about the effects of nature on places and people, as well as how politics, borders, cities, and towns affect our lives. The Handy Geography Answer Book traces the history of geography from Eratosthenes and Alexander von Humboldt to latitude and longitude, and the latest advances in the Global Positioning System (GPS). It provides insights into economic, social, historic, culture, religious, political, and climate geography, plus oceanography, demographics, and more. Completely revised and updated, it tours the world, its natural features, and the ever-changing mark humans make on our planet, answering 1,200 questions from the trivia (longest, hottest, tallest) to how geography has influenced history, religion, architecture, and the location of cities, including Who first had the idea that there is a magnetic North Pole? What is interesting about Google's \"Streetview\"? How many people are projected to live on the planet in 2050? Which state has the highest annual divorce rate? What are the largest and smallest counties in the U.S.?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The point is to change it : geographies of hope and survival in an age of crisis
Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography , this book evaluates the role of the critical social scientist and how the point of their work is not simply to interpret the world but to change it Brings together leading critical social scientists to consider the major challenges of our time and what is to be.
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Ordinary Christology
Ordinary Christology is defined as the account of who Jesus was/is and what he did/does that is given by Christian believers who have received no formal theological education. In this fascinating study Ann Christie analyses, and offers a theological appraisal, of the main christologies and soteriologies operating in a sample of ordinary churchgoers. Christie highlights the formal characteristics of ordinary Christology and raises questions about how we should respond to the beliefs about Jesus held by ordinary churchgoers. Empirical findings have important pastoral, theological, and missiological implications, and raise important questions about the importance (or otherwise) of 'right' belief for being Christian. This book presents a model for how the study of ordinary theology can be conducted, with the in-depth theological analysis and critique which it both requires and deserves.
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Beyond the map : unruly enclaves, ghostly places, emerging lands and our search for new utopias
\"In Beyond the Map, Bonnett presents stories of the world's most extraordinary spaces--many unmarked on any official map--all of which challenge our assumptions about what we know--or think we know--about our world\"--Book jacket.
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An Errant Eye
An Errant Eye studies how topography developed literary and visual form in early modern France. Arguing for a ‘new poetics of space’ ranging throughout French Renaissance poetry, prose, and cartography, Tom Conley performs dazzling readings of maps, woodcuts, and poems to plot a topographical shift in the late Renaissance in which space, subjectivity, and politics fall into crisis.
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