Becoming a Geographer

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ISBN: 9780815606673 | 0815606672
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Copyright: 8/1/2000

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A collection of witty and engaging essays that reflect the eclectic and provocative thinking of this prominent, award-winning geographer.

Figures

vii

Maps

Colorplates

Preface

xiii

Introduction

(36)

African Beginnings

(20)

Place Preferences in Ghana and Tanzania

(6)

Wheat on Kilimanjaro: the Perception of Choice within Game and Learning Model Frameworks

(11)

Mental Maps

(22)

Acquiring Spatial Information

(15)

Maps as Memory

(5)

Against the Grain

(74)

Geography 1957--1977: The Augean Period

(17)

A Critique of Dissipative Sturctures in the Human Realm

101

(17)

Sharing a Tradition: Geographies from the Enlightenment

118

(21)

Cathartic Geography

139

(14)

The Structure of Spaces

153

(32)

Microgeographic and Behavioral Space: The Game of the ``Green Revolution''

156

(11)

Penn State in Postal Space(s)

167

(9)

Skiing with Euler at Beaver Creek

176

(9)

Pro Bono Publico

185

(20)

Sources of Error in a Map Series, or Science as a Socially Negotiated Enterprise

187

(8)

As People Go, So Do the Viruses

195

(10)

Trying to Be Honest

205

(30)

Expose Yourself to Geographic Research

208

(12)

Thinking like a Geographer

220

(15)

Thinking about Teaching

235

(34)

What Is Worth Teaching in Geography?

238

(16)

Perspectives and Sensitivities: Teaching as the Creation of Conditions of Possibility for Geographic Thinking

254

(13)

A Petition to Judas Gould/Judas Gould Replies

267

(2)

Thinking about Learning

269

(18)

August Losch as a Child of His Time

273

(10)

A Lasting Legacy

283

(4)

Thinking about Thinking

287

(26)

Do Foraminifera Assemblages Exist---At Least in the Persian Gulf?

289

(11)

Thinks That Machine

300

(7)

Think What You Like, but Think for Yourself

307

(6)

Epilogue: The Arrival of a Spatial Century

313

(6)

Notes

319

(28)

Index

347

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Becoming a Geographer

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