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| Objectives and Tools of World Regional Geography | |
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| Welcome to World Regional Geography | |
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| The Language of Maps | |
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| Scale | |
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| Coordinate Systems | |
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| Projections | |
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| Symbolization | |
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| World Regions and Other Mental Maps | |
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| More Key Concepts of Geography | |
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| Geography, Geographers, and You | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Core Location and Peripheral Location | |
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| Physical and Human Processes That Shape World Regions | |
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| Patterns of Climate and Vegetation | |
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| Precipitation | |
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| Temperature | |
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| Climate and Vegetation Types | |
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| Biodiversity | |
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| Global Environmental Change | |
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| The Revolutions That Have Changed the Earth | |
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| Hunting and Gathering | |
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| The Agricultural Revolution | |
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| The Industrial Revolution | |
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| The Geography of Development | |
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| Measures of Development | |
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| Causes of Disparities | |
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| Environmental Impacts of Underdevelopment | |
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| Two Types of Overpopulation | |
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| Population Geography | |
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| Population Concepts and Characteristics | |
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| The Demographic Transition: Will the LDCs Complete It? | |
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| Where to from Here? | |
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| Geography of Energy: The Kyoto Protocol | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Globalization: The Process and the Backlash | |
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| Definitions and Insights: The Fuelwood Crisis | |
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| Definitions and Insights: The Second Law of Thermodynamics | |
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| Definitions and Insights: The Language of Human Migration | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Lifeboat Ethics | |
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| Europe | |
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| Area and Population | |
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| Physical Geography and Human Adaptation | |
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| Distinguishing Physical Characteristics | |
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| Europe's Varied Landscapes | |
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| Climate and Vegetation Patterns | |
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| Rivers and Waterways | |
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| Cultural and Historical Geographies | |
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| Language and Ethnicity | |
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| Belief Systems | |
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| European Impacts Abroad | |
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| Economic Geography | |
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| Supremacy and Decline | |
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| Postindustrial Europe | |
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| Land and Sea in the European Economies | |
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| Geopolitical Issues | |
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| East Versus West | |
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| The European Union | |
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| Houses Divided? | |
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| Regional Issues and Landscapes | |
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| The European Core | |
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| Northern Europe | |
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| Eastern Europe | |
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| Southern Europe | |
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| Regional Perspective: Europe's Immigration Issues | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Devolution | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Genetically Modified (GM) Foods and "Food Fights" | |
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| Russia and the Near Abroad | |
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| Area and Population | |
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| Physical Geography and Human Adaptations | |
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| The Roles of the Climates and Vegetation | |
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| The Role of Rivers | |
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| The Role of Topography | |
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| Cultural and Historical Geographies | |
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| A Babel of Languages | |
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| Vikings, Byzantines and Tatars | |
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| The Empire of the Russians | |
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| Russia and the Soviet Union: Tempered by Revolution and War | |
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| Economic Geography | |
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| The Communist Economic System | |
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| Economic Roots of the Second Russian Revolution | |
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| Russia: A Misdeveloped Country? | |
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| Geopolitical Issues | |
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| Within Russia | |
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| Russia and the Near Abroad | |
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| The Far Abroad | |
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| Regional Issues and Landscapes | |
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| The Slavic Coreland | |
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| Russia's Northern Lands | |
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| The Caucasus | |
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| Central Asia | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Regional Names of Russia and the Near Abroad | |
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| Definitions and Insights: The Russian Cross | |
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| The World's Great Rivers: The Volga | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Russia and Other Land Empires | |
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| Geography of the Sacred: Stalingrad | |
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| Problem Landscape Chechnya | |
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| Geography of Terrorism: Georgia's Pankisi Gorge | |
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| Geography of Energy: Oil in the Caspian Basin | |
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| The Middle East and North Africa | |
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| Area and Population | |
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| Physical Geography and Human Adaptations | |
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| Hot, Dry and Barren, but, in Places Damp and Forested | |
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| The Middle Eastern Ecological Trilogy: Villager, Pastoral Nomad and Urbanite | |
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| The Village Way of Life | |
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| The Pastoral Nomadic Way of Life | |
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| The Urban Way of Life | |
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| Cultural and Historical Geographies | |
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| The Promised Land of the Jews | |
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| Christianity: Death and Resurrection in Jerusalem | |
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| The Message of Islam | |
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| Economic Geography | |
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| Geopolitical Issues | |
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| Chokepoints | |
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| Access to Oil | |
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| Access to Fresh Water | |
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| Terrorism | |
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| Regional Issues and Landscapes | |
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| Israel and Palestine | |
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| Egypt and the Sudan | |
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| The Gulf Oil Region | |
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| Turkey: Where East Meets West | |
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| Afghanistan: Rugged, Strategic, Devastated | |
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| Perspectives From the Field: Way-Finding in the Desert | |
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| Geography of the Sacred: Jerusalem | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims | |
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| Geography of Energy: Middle Eastern Oil Pipelines | |
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| Geography of Terrorism: What Does al-Qa'ida Want? | |
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| Monsoon Asia | |
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| Area and Population | |
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| Physical Geography and Human Adaptations | |
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| Climate and Vegetation | |
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| Agricultural Adaptations | |
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| Settlement Patterns | |
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| Cultural and Historical Geographies | |
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| Religions | |
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| European Colonization and Contemporary Asia | |
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| Economic Geography | |
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| The Dragon Rises | |
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| The Green Revolution | |
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| Geopolitical Issues | |
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| Nationalism and Nukes on the Subcontinent | |
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| East on the "Axis of Evil" | |
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| Islands, Sea Lanes and Islamists | |
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| Regional Issues and Landscapes | |
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| South Asia | |
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| Southeast Asia | |
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| China | |
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| Japan and the Koreas | |
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| Geographic Spotlight: China's One Child Policy | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Shifting Cultivation | |
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| Geography of the Sacred: The Korean Village | |
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| Geography of the Sacred: The Sacred Cow | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Outsourcing | |
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| Geography of Energy: The Spratly Islands | |
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| The Pacific World | |
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| Area and Population | |
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| Physical Geography and Human Adaptation | |
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| High Islands | |
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| Low Islands | |
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| The Vulnerable Island Ecosystem | |
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| Cultural and Historical Geographies | |
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| Indigenous Peoples | |
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| The Europeans | |
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| Economic Geography | |
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| Geopolitical Issues | |
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| Regional Issues and Landscapes | |
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| Australia and New Zealand | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Deforestation and the Decline of Easter Island | |
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| Perspectives from the Field: With Aborigines and Missionaries in Northwestern Australia | |
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| Regional Perspective: Foreign Militaries in the Pacific: A Mixed Blessing | |
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| Africa South of the Sahara | |
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| Area and Population | |
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| Physical Geography and Human Adaptation | |
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| A Land of Plateaus and Rivers | |
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| Climate, Vegetation, and Water | |
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| Subsistence Agriculture and Pastoralism | |
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| Wildlife | |
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| Cultural and Historical Geographies | |
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| Some Common Culture Traits | |
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| Languages | |
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| Religions | |
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| The Geographic Impact of Slavery | |
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| Colonialism | |
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| Economic Geography | |
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| Cash Crops | |
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| Minerals | |
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| Communications and Transportaion Infrastructure | |
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| Trade, Debt, and Aid | |
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| Costly Political Leadership | |
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| Geopolitical Issues | |
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| Regional Issues and Landscapes | |
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| The Sahel | |
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| West Africa | |
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| The Horn of Africa | |
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| Southern Africa | |
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| The Indian Ocean Islands | |
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| Medical Geography: HIV and AIDS in South Africa | |
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| Regional Perspective: The Great Rift Valley | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Africa's Greatest Conservationist | |
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| Regional Perspective: Managing the Great Herbivores | |
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| Perspectives from the Field: Under Madagascar | |
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| Biogeography: Crop and Livestock Introductions as "The Curse of Africa" | |
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| Problem Landscape: The Trade in Dirty Diamonds | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Microcredit | |
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| Latin America | |
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| Area and Population | |
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| Physical Geography and Human Adaptation | |
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| Climates and Vegetation | |
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| Elevation and Land Use | |
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| Nature's Furies | |
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| Cultural and Historical Geographies | |
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| Languages | |
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| The Conquest | |
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| Non-Native American Ethnic Patterns | |
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| Economic Geography | |
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| Commercial Agriculture | |
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| Types of Farms | |
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| Minerals and Mining | |
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| Free Trade Agreements | |
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| Sending Money Home | |
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| The Tourism Business | |
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| Geopolitical Issues | |
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| Regional Issues and Landscapes | |
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| Middle America | |
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| Central America | |
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| South America | |
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| Antarctica: The White Continent | |
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| Natural Hazards: El Nino | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Fair Trade Fruits | |
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| Problem Landscape: The Troubled Fields of Land Reform | |
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| Geography of Drug Trafficking: The War on Drugs | |
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| The United States and Canada | |
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| Area and Population | |
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| Physical Geography and Human Adaptation | |
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| Landforms, Vegetation, and Land Uses | |
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| Climatic Regions | |
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| Cultural and Historical Geographies | |
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| Native American Civilizations | |
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| Indigenous Languages and Life Ways | |
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| Settlement or Conquest | |
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| The New Lands, The Migrations, and the Immigrants | |
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| Nonindigenous Languages and Faiths | |
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| U.S.-Canada Historic Relations | |
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| Economic Geography | |
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| Agricultural, Forest, and Mineral Resources | |
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| Mechanization, Services, and Information Technology | |
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| U.S.-Canada Economic Relations | |
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| Transportation Infrastructure | |
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| Geopolitical Issues | |
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| Regional Issues and Landscapes | |
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| Canada | |
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| The United States | |
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| Geographic Spotlight: The Modern-Day Slave Trade | |
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| Natural Hazards: Nature's Wrath in the United States | |
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| Geography of Energy: Nuclear Power and Other Energy Alternatives in the United States | |
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| Definitions and Insights: Trade Barriers and Subsidies | |