Esri Press, 2024. — 430 p. — ISBN: 9781589487420 From Prague to Berkeley to Nairobi to Kyiv, The Geography of Hope tells the stories of optimists who map the world to a better future. The Geography of Hope introduces readers to people who are changing the world, using "the most important technology you've probably never heard of." Nine topical stories include radical AI-driven...
Riverhead Books, 2017. — 776 p. — ISBN 978-159-4634284 To Westerners, the name “Timbuktu” long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for “discovery” tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 245 с. Исследование географа о невидимых границах мира - границах, которые мы создаем, находим или ощущаем. Наш мир имеет бесчисленное множество границ - от очевидных, таких как океан, до тонких различий в языке или климате. Большинство из нас постоянно пересекают невидимые границы, но не...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2024. — 419 p. — ISBN 978-1-394-20829-6. Your map to understanding human geography Human Geography For Dummies introduces you to the ideas and perspectives encompassed by the field of human geography, and makes a great supplement to human geography courses in high school or college. So what is human geography? It’s not about drawing maps all over your...
HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023. — 176 p. The joys of the world, one terrible map at a time – this is the ultimate gift book for the budding geographer or anyone who wants to have a laugh. Ever wondered about the average jean colour across the United States? Or what ‘pedestrians’ look like in Denmark? What unites Brokenwind, Upton Snodsbury and Crackpot? And have you ever tried...
М.: Географгиз, 1963. — 254 с. — (Путешествия. Приключения. Фантастика). Эта книга будет интересна всем, кто хочет побольше узнать о жизни молодых африканских государств, сбросивших иго колониализма и ставших на путь самостоятельного развития. Каждая из этих стран отличается неповторимым своеобразием не только внешнего облика, но и исторической судьбы и особым подходом к...
UCL Press, 2018. — 276 p. — ISBN 978-1-78735-247-6, 978-1-78735-246-9,978-1–7 8735–245-2, 978-1-78735-248-3. The Arctic was long imagined as an otherworldly place, thousands of miles from the warmth and familiarity of home, and nineteenth-century Britons were fascinated by the notion of the heroic explorer voyaging through harsh terrain in pursuit of the Northwest Passage. But...
Bloomsbury, 2022. — 432 p. History has not been kind to Himalaya. Empires have collided here, cultures have clashed. Buddhist India claimed it from the south, Islam put down roots in its western approaches, Mongols and Manchus rode in from the north, and, from the east, China continues to absorb what it prefers not to call Tibet. Hunters have decimated its wildlife and...
2nd edition. — Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022. — 419 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-86712-8. The whole world in the palm of your hand Ever wonder how you can have a rainforest on one side of a mountain and a desert on the other? Or zoom around the globe with Google Maps and wonder how everything got to where it is now? The answer is…geography. In Geography For...
Wiley, 2011. — 386 p. Geography is more than just trivia, it can help you understand why we import or export certain products, predict climate change, and even show you where to place fire and police stations when planning a city. If you're curious about the world and want to know more about this fascinating place, Geography For Dummies is a great place to start. Whether you're...
Harper, 2021. — 304 p. The most admired travel writer of our time—author of Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet—recounts an eye-opening, often perilous journey along a little known Far East Asian river that for over a thousand miles forms the highly contested border between Russia and China. The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in...
Москва: Перо, 2019. — 186 с. — ISBN 978-5-00150-011-7. Через Венесуэлу, вдоль берегов Ориноко и Карони, мимо величественных Тепуи и через бескрайнюю Великую Саванну, мимо лагерей старателей, занятых поиском золота и алмазов, на острова Санто-Доминго и Пуэрто-Рико, затем в предгорья Анд на поиски таинственной «Долины Пирамид» и в джунгли Эквадора, вдоль берегов Напо, и, наконец,...
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Walker Books, 2006. — 208 p. — ISBN 978-0-802-71827-3. In Walking Zero, Chet Raymo uses the Prime Meridian-the line of zero longitude and the standard for all the world's maps and clocks-to tell the story of humandkind's intellectual journey from a cosmos not much larger than ourselves to the universe of the galaxies and geologic eons. As in his...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2013. ― 168 p. ― ISBN: 978-1-61530-881-1. The allure of far-off lands, the promise of untapped resources, and a hunger for building global empires prompted Renaissance explorers to journey into the unknown. Battling harsh seafaring conditions, disease, and any number of unknown threats to their health and safety, the individuals profiled in...
Harper Paperbacks, 2013. – 366 p. — (Don't Know Much About Series). — ISBN10: 0062043560. — ISBN13: 978-0062043566. Don't Know Much About Geography by New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis is a fascinating and fun exploration of our planet. Who killed the Dead Sea? What can you build with BRICS? Does the World Bank have ATMs? Is all the talk of global warming just...
Vertebrate Publishing, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1911342717 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1911342700 (ebook). Quest for Adventure is a collection of stories written by Sir Chris Bonington looking at the adventurous impulse which has driven men and women to achieve the impossible in the face of Earth's elements: crossing its oceans, deserts and poles; canoeing its rivers; climbing its...
BBC Books, 2020. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1785944123. Welcome home. A place 200 million years in the making. Long ago, our planet had only one gigantic land mass. Then something monumental happened. That supercontinent ruptured and seven different worlds were born. Each of those worlds - or continents - evolved, and continues to evolve, its own way of life. From the jungle of the...
Algonquin Books, 1999. — 324 p. What happens when a woman and her husband move their family from New Hampshire to Alaska to train a team of purebred Siberian Huskies for the world's toughest dogsled race, the Yukon Quest? They endure thousands of miles of lonely training in the Yukon trying to avoid thin ice, wolves, and rogue moose; they put up with the amused skepticism of...
Харків: Клуб Сімейного Дозвіля, 2018. — 240 с. Хочете дізнатися якомога більше про країну, яку плануєте відвідати? Любите підкорювати нові горизонти і розширювати географію власних подорожей? Ця книга — кращий путівник, завдяки якому ви сплануєте подорож до дрібниць, зробивши її максимально цікавою. Особливості клімату та географічне положення, місцева валюта, основні визначні...
Ten Speed Press, 2019. — 320 р. — ISBN: 9780399581540. With a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, breathtakingly beautiful still photography, specially commissioned maps and graphics, and compelling text expanding on the remarkable TV stories and giving the reader a depth of information that is impossible on screen, this companion to the groundbreaking NETFLIX series presents a...
Vues sur la science, 2017. — 56 p. Depuis quelques années, un des acquis fondamentaux de la science commence à être remis en question : la forme de la Terre et sa place dans l'Univers. Elle serait comme l'imaginaient comme les anciens mythes, plate et recouverte d'un dôme tenant lieu de ciel. Comment est-ce possible en 2017 ? Il semble bien que le fanatisme religieux soit...
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