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Book Synopsis Twenty-six leading American geographers meditate on the themes that unify contemporary geography. They emphasize the concepts and methods that run through all geography's sub-disciplines and give it a distinctive place among both the natural and social sciences.
Table of ContentsContemporary American geography
Geography's worlds / C. Gregory Knight
Places and regions / Bonham C. Richardson
Representations of the world / David Woodward
Observation / Philip J. Gersmehl, Dwight A. Brown
Visualization / Alan M. MacEachren in collaboration with Barbara P. Buttenfield [and others]
Analysis / Michael F. Goodchild
Modeling / Cort J. Willmott, Gary L. Gaile
Communication / David A. Lanegran
Location, place, region, and space / Helen Couclelis
Movements, cycles, and systems / William L. Graf, Patricia Gober
The local-global continuum / William B. Meyer [and others]
Scale in space and time / John C. Hudson
Paradigms for inquiry? / John Pickles, Michael J. Watts
Humanism and science in geography / Melvin G. Marcus in collaboration with Judy M. Olson and Ronald F. Abler
Applications of geographic concepts and methods / Risa I. Palm, Anthony J. Brazel
The peopling of American geography / Donald G. Janelle
