Why geography matters three challenges facing America : climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism
Demonstrates how geography's perspectives yield unique and penetrating insights into the interconnections that mark our shrinking world. This book shows how and why the US has become the world's most geographically illiterate society of consequence - and demonstrates that this geographic i...
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New York, N.Y.
Oxford University Press
2007
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