Texts & Readings
GEOG 111
   
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Textbooks
Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context,
updated 5th ed.  Paul Knox & Sallie Marston. Prentice Hall, 2009.
Goode's World Atlas, 21st ed.  Howard Veregin, ed. Rand McNally, 2005.
 
Articles/Chapters

Axioms for reading the landscape:  some guides to the American scene. Pierce Lewis. In D.W. Meinig, ed.  The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes, pp. 11-32. NY & Oxford:  Oxford University Press,1979.

Above readings for GEOG 111 are required.  Some of their content will be covered in class and necessary for homework assignments.  All assigned readings (in addition to the materials presented in lecture) are testable material.  Additional articles and excerpts from the print and radio media will be used and identified in lecture.
 
Other Links for your interest
Media Resources
New Internationalist
Toronto Globe and Mail
New York Times

National Public Radio
Miscellaneous
Gallery of map projections
Excerpt from The Coffee Book.  Dicum & Luttinger, 1999, The New Press: NY, adapted from Stuff: the Secret Lives of Everyday Things, Ryan and Durning, 1997.
Our Earth as Art -- A NASA view of the Earth