Product Description: This book examines the works of the outstanding makers of modern geography and demonstrates the consistency of idea and purpose in their work. Geography as an explicitly defined field of knowledge is more than two thousand years old, but as a university subject, geography is only 150 years old, and in this period it has developed hugely...read more

Product Description:   This book was first published in 1947.

Product Description: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century. For further information on this collection please email info.research@routledge.co.uk.

Product Description: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Looks at the most important processes linking climate and vegetation in the tropics in general and in the Amazon in particular. Through individual reviews by some of the world's leading scientists, it covers such subjects as modeling tropical meteorology and climate, tropical microclimatology, connections of vegetation to climate, and impacts of tropical deforestation on regional and global climate...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)