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Information 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
Krueger, John R. – 1977
This manual on Tuva consists of the following: (1) an area handbook; (2) a grammar; (3) a reader; (4) a Tuvan-English glossary; and (5) an annotated bibliography. Part one contains the following articles: (1) "Tuva," by M. Underdown; (2) "The Tuvinian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic," translated by W. Dougherty; (3)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Area Studies, Asian Studies, Bibliographies
Brouillette, B., Ed.; And Others – 1975
This book is the first in a series of UNESCO guide books for teaching geography on a continental scale, dealing with either land masses or vast regional groups which have common characteristics. Written by African geographers, it is intended for primary and secondary school teachers, teacher-training institutions in Africa, and also for geography…
Descriptors: African Culture, Area Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Economics
Spicer, Brian, Ed.; And Others – 1972
Part of a geography series which stresses understanding of the environment through mastery of specific skills and concepts, the secondary level textbook examines environmental systems as they exist at present. A system is defined as one of a large number of elements (people, cities, rocks, soils, air, clouds) which make up the environment.…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Area Studies, Design Requirements, Earth Science