A comprehensive guide to the processes operating in arid environments and the landforms and sediments they produce. Covers slope and pediment systems, alluvial fans, wind erosion forms, and environmental change in deserts. Also includes evidence from extraterrestrial arid environments. Contains numerous illustrations, examples, and international reviews.

Arid Zone Geomorphology

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Belhaven Press

All contributors have first-hand current Soviet experience. Adopts the approach of the new regional geography. Examines the USSR's transformed geographics as well as contemporary problems and their likely future course. Considers ways in which current regional geography of the Soviet Union contains the progress of reform and the extent to which the spatial dimensions of reform are changing the character and role of various regions.

The Soviet Union: A New Regional Geography?

Progress in Tourism, Recreation and Hospitality Management, Volume 1

Business & Money

Industries

The second annual review of major research areas and trends in practice and management in tourism, recreation, and hospitality industries. This volume covers developments in catering and restaurants, and features case studies on Bermuda and China.

Progress in Tourism, Recreation and Hospitality Management, Volume 2

The annual publication is a hardback review of research in tourism, recreation, hospitality-management, hotel and catering and related fields, with an emphasis on fields of rapid advance, international importance and major academic or professional concern. Each volume consists of 6-8 major reviews of a substantive field by a leading figure, and a number of shorter papers dealing with topics of current importance or reviewing "state of the art" development. There are also occassional invited contributions from relevant cognate fields, like economics, food science, communications and geography. Although the focus is on research , contributions are invited to tie their papers to the needs of professionals in the appropriate fields. This is the third volume in the series.

Progress in Tourism, Recreation and Hospitality Management, Volume 3

<p>Bridging the gap between geographical theory and contemporary changes and issues, this basic text gives you an up-to-date examination of modern transport geography. Each chapter uses examples from a variety of environments such as urban/rural, national/regional/, local/global, advanced countries/less developed countries and capitalist/communist/third world countries. Considerable emphasis is placed on multimodal and intermodal questions.</p>

Modern Transport Geography

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Using both a historical and contemporary approach, it opens with a broad analysis of the nature of Western urbanization between AD 1800-2000, charting the key forces which shaped cities during this period. Individual chapters, by distinguished scholars, examine the changing nature of the urban fact, delving into such areas as economy, planning, commercial structures, population, health, housing, attitudes toward urban life and the future role of cities as hubs of a global information network.

The Rise and Fall of Great Cities: Aspects of Urbanization in the Western World

Poverty in Africa: A Geographical Approach

O'Connor, Anthony

Progress in Tourism, Recreation and Hospitality Management (Volume 4)

European Port Cities in Transition

Sociology

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