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PART 1 GETTING GROUNDED: THE GEOGRAPHIC BASICS |
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Chapter 1 Geography: The Why of Where and Why You Should Care |
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Geography: Making Sense of it All |
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Exposing Misconceptions: More Than Maps and Trivia |
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What is the capital city of Indonesia? |
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Why is Jakarta the capital of Indonesia? |
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Getting to the Essentials |
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Where things are in the world: The world in spatial terms |
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What locations are like: Places and regions |
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Why things are the way they are: Physical systems |
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Giving that human touch: Human systems |
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Interacting with the world around us: Environment and society |
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Putting geography to use: Uses of geography |
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Chapter 2 Thinking Like a Geographer |
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Changing the Way You Think --- Geographically |
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Case Study #1 Where Something is Located |
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A fraction of its former self |
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What gives with grasslands? |
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Case Study #2 Where Something Should be Located |
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Chapter 3 Lining Up Locations |
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Telling Someone Where to Go |
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The Global Grid: Hip, Hip, Hipparchus! |
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Minutes and seconds that don't tick away |
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Chapter 4 Truthiness in Mapping |
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Seeing the Light: Map Projections |
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Realizing Exactly How Flat Maps Lie |
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Singapore, please. And step on it! |
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Wading through lies in search of the truth |
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Isn't there a truthful map anywhere? |
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The one and only honest map: The globe! |
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Honesty is the best policy, except |
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Telling the truth, but telling it skewed |
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Different Strokes for Different Folks: A World of Projections |
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Mapping a Cartographic Controversy! |
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Chapter 5 Telling a Spatial Story |
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Comparing Earth at different scales |
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Showing the Ups and Downs: Topography |
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Using Symbols to Tell the Story |
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New Ways of Seeing: How Technology has Changed How we Make and Use Maps |
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Geographic Information Systems |
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Global Positioning Systems |
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PART 2 LET'S GET PHYSICAL: LAND, WATER, AND AIR |
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Chapter 6 Shape-shifting Earth |
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Starting at the Bottom: Inside Earth |
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Moving Continents: Big Pieces of a Big Puzzle |
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Where have you gone, Gondwanaland? |
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Alfred Wegener, mover and shaker |
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Making Mountains Out of Molehills |
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Plate tectonics: A four-letter word! |
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Experiencing Earthquakes: Shake, Rattle and Roll! |
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Splitsville in California |
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How earthquakes kill and maim |
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Subducting Plates: Volcano Makers |
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Subduction: Another four-letter word? |
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Categorizing Tectonic Processes |
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Chapter 7 A Nip and a Tuck: Giving Earth a Facelift |
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Staying grounded: Gravity transfer |
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Going with the flow: Water |
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The chill factor: Glaciers |
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Chapter 8 Making a Splash on Earth |
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Taking the Plunge: Global Water Supply |
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Those ice caps are really cool! |
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Getting out: Oceans, seas, gulfs, and bays |
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Shaping Our World: Oceans |
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Going where the action is: The continental shelves |
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Getting a rise out of oceans |
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The stages of the water cycle |
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Run-off: Going with the flow |
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Infiltration: Out of sight, not out of mind |
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Good to the very last drop |
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Chapter 9 Warming Up and Chilling Out: Why Climates Happen |
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Getting a Grip on Climate |
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Tilt-a-World: The Reasons for the Seasons |
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Special lines of latitude |
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Special lines of latitude revisited |
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Hot or Cold? Adjust Your Altitude |
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Seeing (and feeling) is believing |
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Windward slope, leeward slope |
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Gaining Heat, Losing Heat |
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Going with the Flow: Ocean Currents |
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Warm currents, cold currents |
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Going against the norm: El Nino and La Nina |
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Chapter 10 Connecting Climates and Vegetation |
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Mixing Sun and Rain: Humid Tropical Climates |
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Savanna (tropical wet and dry) |
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Going to Extremes: Dry Climates |
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Enjoying the In-between: Humid Mesothermal Climates |
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Cooling Off: Humid Microthermal Climates |
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Dropping Below Freezing: Polar Climates |
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PART 3 PEOPLING THE PLANET |
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Chapter 11 Nobody Here But A Few Billion Friends |
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Opportunity for livelihood |
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Going Ballistic: Population Growth |
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Checking Behind the Curve: Population Change |
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Dealing with births and deaths: Natural increase |
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Increasing for a reason: The demographic transition model |
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Considering "Overpopulation" |
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Chapter 12 Shift Happens: Migration |
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Making colonial connections |
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Forcing involuntary migration |
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Relocating within America |
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Getting an image adjustment |
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Putting your best image forward |
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Chapter 13 Culture: The Way We Live |
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Being Different Thousands of Times Over |
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Counting cultural diversity |
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Adapting to new surroundings |
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Spreading the Word on Culture |
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Doing what the big boys do |
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Calling a Halt: Barrier Effects |
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Getting Religion: How It Moves and Grows |
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Putting diffusion to work |
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Getting effects into action |
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Getting in a Word about Language |
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Checking the physical effects |
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Playing the landscape naming game |
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Creating a Single Global Culture |
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Promoting cultural divergence |
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Promoting cultural convergence |
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Chapter 14 Good Fences Make Good Neighbors |
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Drawing and Re-Drawing the Boundaries of the World |
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Typecasting Boundary Lines |
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Natural (physical) boundaries |
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Living with the Consequences |
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Questions of size and shape |
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Drawing Electoral District Boundaries |
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Gerrymandering: Rigging the outcome |
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Meeting the letter and spirit of the law |
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PART 4 PUTTING THE PLANET TO USE |
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Chapter 15 Takin' Care of Business |
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Categorizing Economic Activity |
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Activity distribution around the world |
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Putting Economic Systems into Place |
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Understanding Location Factors |
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Proximity to raw material(s) |
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Chapter 16 Earth's Resources: Always Hungry for More |
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Defining Resources and Assessing Their Importance |
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The central role of culture |
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Culture change, resource change |
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Differing Life Spans: Which Resources Are Here Today or Gone Tomorrow |
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Trading-off Resources: The Consequences of Resource Use |
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Chapter 17 Downtown to the Burbs: Urban Geography |
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Getting a Global Perspective |
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Getting Started: Urban Hearths |
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Getting Big: Urban Growth |
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Changing means of transportation |
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Home mortgage deductibility |
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The central business district (CBD) |
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314 | (3) |
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Leaving Downtown, Living Downtown |
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317 | (3) |
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Facing up to Environmental Issues |
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Chapter 18 Only One Home: Impacts on the Environment |
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Grasping the Basics --- Environmentally Speaking |
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325 | (1) |
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Contributing Factors: Pollution on the Move |
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326 | (1) |
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326 | (3) |
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Going Global: Environmental Issues Affecting Us All |
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332 | (10) |
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333 | (1) |
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333 | (1) |
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Taking on the Challenges of Tomorrow |
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Chapter 19 Ten Organizations for Geography in Action |
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American Association of Geographers (AAG) |
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345 | (1) |
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American Geographical Society (AGS) |
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346 | (1) |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
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346 | (1) |
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National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) |
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347 | (1) |
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National Geographic Society (NGS) |
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347 | (1) |
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
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348 | (1) |
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Population Reference Bureau (PRB) |
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348 | (1) |
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Royal Geographical Society (RGS) |
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United States Census Bureau |
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United States Geological Survey (USGS) |
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Chapter 20 Ten Interesting Career Paths for Geographers |
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351 | (1) |
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Chapter 21 Ten Things You Can Forget |
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357 | (8) |
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357 | (1) |
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358 | (1) |
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359 | (1) |
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The Democratic Republic of |
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360 | (1) |
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360 | (1) |
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361 | (1) |
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"The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly on the Plain" |
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361 | (1) |
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362 | (1) |
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362 | (3) |
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Chapter 22 Ten Great Places for Online Geography |
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365 | (6) |
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Any County/Local GIS Department |
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365 | (1) |
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366 | (1) |
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Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection |
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368 | (1) |
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Your State's Geographic Alliance |
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