Readings
GEOG 111
   
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Textbooks
Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context,
updated 3rd ed.  Paul Knox & Sallie Marston. Prentice Hall, 2004.
Goode's World Atlas, 20th ed.  John Hudson, ed. Rand McNally, 2000.
 
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.

Global Trade = Global Warming, by Kumar Venkat, Published on Thursday, December 11, 2003 by Salon.com
The Scramble for Africa, by Katherine Ainger, New Internationalist 367, May 2004
The Looting of the Congo, by Colette Braeckman, New Internationalist 367, May 2004
IMF/World Bank: The Facts, New Internationalist 365, March 2004
The Geography of Poverty and Wealth, by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Andrew D. Mellinger, and John L. Gallup, Harvard Center for International Development, originally published by Scientific American. (See Map)
 
 
 
 
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