Přehledný a ilustrovaný Almanach geografie je naplněn fascinujícími informacemi o celém světě i jeho obyvatelích. Obsahuje stovky fotografií, ilustrativních náčrtků, grafů, tabulek a map. Tato kniha přináší odpovědi na všechny otázky týkající se Země: užitečné informace o světové populaci, rozšíření náboženství, růst měst, globální ekonomie, využívání přírodních zdrojů. Kniha zahrnuje také přehlednou část s podrobnými fakty o jednotlivých státech.
Almanach geografie z edice National Geographic přináší nejnovější informace, které potřebujete, abyste porozuměli našemu světu a všemu, co je v něm.
Derived from a conference honoring the legacy of Joachim Wohlwill, this volume is designed to reflect as many facets of the late scholar's wide-ranging work as possible. As its title indicates, the book identifies three broad areas in which Wohlwill made significant contributions: art and aesthetics, human-environment interaction, and concepts of development. In each of these areas Wohlwill made seminal contributions, helping to shape, maintain, and even change the direction of research and thought. Specific topics addressed here by his colleagues, students, and contemporaries include: the shape of development, the intermingling of perception and cognition, the balance between innate and acquired processes, the relation between environmental and ecological psychology, the development of the ability to use external representations of the physical environment, and the way world views underpin beliefs about the nature of development.
„Die große National Geographic Enzyklopädie Geographie“ - das Standardwerk der Geographie - zeigt die Erde in all ihren Facetten und zeichnet so ein lebendiges, aktuelles Porträt der Welt, in der wir leben. Die Enzyklopädie macht deutlich, dass Geographie mehr ist als die bloße Beschreibung von Städten, Flüssen, Bergen und Meeren. Geographie zeigt auch, wie der Mensch durch seine Umbebung geprägt wird und wie er andererseits seine Umgebung formt. Sie erklärt, wie die Erde und die für sie typischen Phänomene entstanden sind, wie Meeresströmungen unser Klima beeinflussen, wo die Bevölkerung wächst und wo sie abnimmt. Die rund 4000-jährige Geschichte der Wissenschaft von der Geographie wird ebenso beschrieben wie der Bereich der physischen Geographie: von der Plattentektonik über das Erdklima bis zu den verschiedenen Landschaftsformen. Dem Leser wird klar, dass sich heute kaum eine Wissenschaft isoliert betrachten lässt - und dass alles, was der Mensch tut, Folgen hat.
Cognitive mapping is a construct that encompasses those processes that enable people to acquire, code, store, recall, and manipulate information about the nature of their spatial environment. It refers to the attributes and relative locations of people and objects in the environment, and is an essential component in the adaptive process of spatial decision-making--such as finding a safe and quick route to from work, locating potential sites for a new house or business, and deciding where to travel on a vacation trip. Cognitive processes are not constant, but undergo change with age or development and use or learning. Image and Environment, now in paperback, is a pioneer study. It brings a new academic discipline to a wide audience. The volume is divided into six sections, which represent a comprehensive breakdown of cognitive mapping studies: "Theory"; "Cognitive Representations"; "Spatial Preferences"; "The Development of Spatial Cognition"; "Geographical and Spatial Orientation"; and "Cognitive Distance." Contributors include Edward Tolman, James Blaut, Stephen Kaplan, Terence Lee, Donald Appleyard, Peter Orleans, Thomas Saarinen, Kevin Cox, Georgia Zannaras, Peter Gould, Roger Hart, Gary Moore, Donald Griffin, Kevin Lynch, Ulf Lundberg, Ronald Lowrey, and Ronald Briggs. Roger M. Downs is head of the Department of Geography at Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Bristol in 1970 and has also taught geography and environmental engineering at Johns Hopkins University. David Stea is professor of geography and planning at Southwest Texas State University and Enrique A. Aragon Distinguished Professor at Universidad Nacional Aut¾noma de MÚxico. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University in 1964 and has also taught at the U.S. International University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UCLA, Clark University, Brown University, and Stanford University. Kenneth E. Boulding (1910-1993) was an internationally known economist. He was the author of several works, including Beasts, Ballads, and Bouldingisms, and the editor of Peace and the War Industry, both available from Transaction.
