The trivia lover's guide to the world : geography for the lost and found /
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Author / Creator: | Fuller, Gary, 1941- |
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Imprint: | Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., ©2012. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11403856 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Effects of Geographic Ignorance on the Modern World
- Chapter 2: We Think Big, Sometimes Too Big
- Chapter 3: Maps Are Flat, the World Isn't
- Chapter 4: Africa Bashing? What's That?
- Chapter 5: Places Aren't Always Where You Think They Should Be
- Chapter 6: State Capitals and American Politics
- Chapter 7: The Exception to Everything
- Chapter 8: Married to a Stranger
- Chapter 9: Why Old Maps Look Funny
- Chapter 10: Military Uses of Geography
- Chapter 11: Really Big Cities
- Chapter 12: Agriculture and Tourism
- Chapter 13: Geography and Religion
- Chapter 14: Geographic Pockets of Isolation
- Chapter 15: Geographic Incoherence
- Chapter 16: Countries Breaking Apart
- Chapter 17: Unity in Disunity
- Chapter 18: Maps Fool Us Again!
- Chapter 19: Culture Hearths
- Chapter 20: Population Decline
- Chapter 21: Geographic Differences and Civil War
- Chapter 22: New Agricultural Crops
- Chapter 23: Domestications
- Chapter 24: Continental Tidbits
- Chapter 25: Islands Divided
- Chapter 26: Oceans and Seas
- Chapter 27: Bridges
- Chapter 28: Rivers
- Chapter 29: Medical Geography
- Chapter 30: Border Issues
- Chapter 31: Geography of Sports
- Chapter 32: Geography and Religion Revisited
- Chapter 33: The North
- Chapter 34: Prison Islands
- Chapter 35: Canals
- Chapter 36: Land and Sea Battles
- Chapter 37: Buildings
- Chapter 38: Mountain Peaks
- Chapter 39: Lakes
- Chapter 40: Outliers
- Chapter 41: Cities
- Chapter 42: Whatever Happened to ...?
- Chapter 43: The Wild West
- Chapter 44: Spatial Diffusion
- Chapter 45: Parks
- Chapter 46: Climate and Weather
- About the Author.