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Massey, Donald; Connors, Bryan – 1986
Eight units which depict the people and geography of Canada are featured in this document. Learning is facilitated through the use of maps, case studies, charts, graphs, sketches, photographs, and drawings which appear throughout the units. To help organize the information four symbols are used to indicate the concepts being explained. The symbol…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Case Studies, Community, Elementary Education
Download full textInformation and Documentation Centre for the Geography of the Netherlands, Utrecht. – 1974
This short booklet on the geography of the Netherlands, designed for use at the upper elementary and secondary levels, contains 17 short descriptive analyses of Dutch physical and human geography. Each section is well illustrated with diagrams and maps. Titles of the sections include (1) High Netherlands--Low Netherlands, (2) Land Reclamation, (3)…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions
Brewer, J. Gordon – 1978
This book provides an introduction to basic sources of selected information about geography for both student and librarian. The objective is to identify the most useful, significant, and authoritative sources of general geography and within each branch of the subject. Written in a narrative style, the book emphasizes recently published reference…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Area Studies, Atlases, Bibliographies
Winters, Harold A., Ed.; Winters, Marjorie K., Ed. – 1977
Eighteen essays discuss applications of geographic research covering a variety of topics and methodologies. All authors are faculty, graduates, or graduate students of the geography department at Michigan State University. The most frequently discussed themes include economic, political, social, and medical uses of geographic research. Two papers…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Cartography, Environment, Essays
Siegel, Bernard J., Ed.; And Others – 1976
Seventeen articles focus on current research interests of anthropologists. The volume is part of a five-year project designed to identify interesting directions in physical, linguistic, archaeological, social, and cultural anthropology. Covering a wide range of anthropological subjects, the articles discuss a history of physical anthropology,…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Area Studies, Behavior Patterns, Cross Cultural Studies
Sauer, Carl – 1975
Written to provide a view of the American landscape as it was before the European colonization, this book consists of 14 units which provide portraits of the American Indian tribes who occupied the land, on a bio-regional basis. The units are about the: basket makers of California, gatherers of desert and mountain, fishers of the streams, boat…
Descriptors: American History, American Indians, Area Studies, Cultural Awareness
