Geography

"Earthbound humans are unable to embrace more than a tiny part of the planetary surface. But in their imagination they can grasp the whole of the e...

A lavishly illustrated and long-overdue guidebook to the rich natural history of Long Island Sound and its coastlines, a region beloved by millions...

Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this fi...

The definitive guide to the underwater life of the Red Sea region, home to the richest and most varied dive sites in the world. Visited b...

Upon publication in the late 1970s this book was the first major historical analysis of twentieth-century Cuba. Focusing on the way Cuba has been g...

During the 1991 Gulf War, pundits and experts scrambled unsuccessfully to explain Iraq's “claim” to Kuwait. In a lucid and measured account of a co...

Part armchair travelogue, part guide book, this projected three-volume series - divided into the western, central, and eastern United States - will...

On New Year's Day 1908, the ship Nimrod set off for the mysterious regions of the Antarctic. The leader of the small expedition was Ernest Shacklet...

Monitoring changes in the intertidal zone of rocky shores has never been more critical. This sensitive habitat at the interface of land and ocean m...

A pioneer in American social history, Jackson Turner Main presents the first continuous and detailed picture of the economic and social structure o...

Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original...

In 1909, two men laid rival claims to this crown jewel of exploration. A century later, the battle rages still. This book is about one of the most ...

Part armchair travelogue, part guide book, this projected three-volume series - divided into the western, central, and eastern United States - will...

How is it that, in the course of everyday life, people are drawn away from greenspace experiences that are often good for them? By attending to the...

Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are ...

Tanga Region, Tanzania, is an area of persistent rural poverty with a long history of drought, floods, food shortages, famine, and social and econo...

This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically l...

The negotiation of the Canada–U.S. Free Trade agreement in 1985–88 initiated a period of substantially increased North American, and later, global ...

Crowded into the beautiful, narrow strip at the edge of the ocean, the large number of people who live near California's dynamic coastline often ha...

Rethinking settlement and integration argues that concepts well-established in migration studies such as ‘settlement’ and ‘integration’ do not suff...

How is it that, in the course of everyday life, people are drawn away from greenspace experiences that are often good for them? By attending to the...

The gripping first-hand story of the disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and is the basis for a major new feature film, In the Heart of the...