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050			_aGF 503 .D4 2012
100			_ade Blij, Harm _eauthor
245		0	_aWhy geography matters: _bMore than ever / _cHarm de Blij
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _cc2012
300			_ax, 354 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
365			_bUSD207.37
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aWhy geography matter ... more than ever -- Reading maps and facing threats -- Geography and demography -- Geography and climate change -- Climate, place and fate -- The Geography behind war and terror -- Interpreting terrorism's geographic manifestations -- Red star rising : China's geopolitical gauntlet -- Europe : superpower in the making or paper tiger of the future -- Russia : trouble on the Eastern front -- Africa in globalizing world
520			_aDespite increasing global interconnectivity and an accelerated pace of change, we are less informed and less knowledgeable about geography than ever. Most of us go from kindergarten through college without taking a single geography class. As Harm de Blij argues persuasively, such geographic illiteracy poses a huge risk. In this second edition of his now-classic book, de Blij shows just how much geography does matter -- illuminating topics from the burgeoning power of China to the troubling disarray of the European Union, from the dangerous nuclear ambitions of North Korea to the revolutionary hopes of the Arab Spring.
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