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Geography

This guide helps college students explore geographic topics by providing access to reliable resources, including maps, databases, journals, and tools for studying physical, human, and environmental geography

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Getting Started

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Research Paper Icons - Free SVG & PNG Research Paper Images - Noun Project Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Learn how to read and write a scientific paper. 

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Recent Geography Texts at Boreham

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Ending Plastic Waste: Community Actions Around the World

Ending Plastic Waste: Community Actions Around the World presents a collection of stories, advice and information from experts in the fields of waste management, plastic pollution and environmental finance to give a broad outlook on how 19 programs from 15 different countries are protecting our planet.

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Lines Drawn Across the Globe : Reading Richard Hakluyt’s “Principal Navigations”

Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to its voyages and trade beyond the boundaries of Europe. The resulting collection of travel narratives, royal letters, ships'logs, maps, lists, and commentaries was published as Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation.

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World Regional Geography

Equipping you with a real-world understanding of geography-related concepts, Hobbs' WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY, 7th Edition, introduces you to the eight world regions by providing the historical, cultural, economic, political and physical context that makes each unique, while MindTap empowers you with anywhere, anytime digital learning tools and interactive ArcGIS-powered mapping activities.

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Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire

By examining the multilayered liaison between imperial pedagogy and geopolitical literacy across a wide range of archival evidence, Mayar delivers a careful microhistorical study of U.S. empire.

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To the Ends of the Earth: How the Greatest Maps Were Made

This lavishly illustrated book provides a unique insight into the evolution of mapmaking and the science behind it, from the stone age to the digital age.  Britain's leading cartographic author takes us on a historical journey through how the greatest maps were created.