Product Description: Leadership in American Academic Geography: The Twentieth Century examines the practice of leadership in the most influential geography departments in the United States. Throughout the twentieth century, transformational leaders often emerged as inspirational department chairs, shaping the content and nature of the discipline and establishing models of leadership, often fueling the success of programs and sparking shifts in paradigms...read more

Product Description: Gilbert White- father of floodplain management and the national flood insurance program, and founder of the interdisciplinary science of natural hazards- has educated the nation and the world on how to change the ways we manage water resources and mitigate natural hazards...read more

Product Description:  Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science is the first book-length study of the man who served a Harvard’s Professor of Geology and Paleontology during the Darwinian era. Shaler was a student of Louis Agassiz and went on to a successful, multifaceted career as a geologist, geographer, educator, humanist, and poet...read more

Profiles the writers, surveyors, cartographers, and others who became the earliest geographers of the United States. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A collection of 23 essays that reflect the eclectic and provocative thinking of geographer Peter Gould. They discuss topics such as AIDS, game theory, development themes in Africa, and the efficiency of the private postal service at Penn State University. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. Hardcover.

Product Description: Book by Barton, Thomas Frank, Karan, Pradyumna P.

Product Description: Book by James, Preston E.