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This three-level listening series is designed for young, beginner to low level intermediate students. Each book in the Listening Time series contains listening passages and conversations followed by a variety of activities designed to reinforce the vocabulary, grammar, themes, and concepts being introduced in each unit. Various dialogs and passages are used within each unit to enhance variations on each new theme, and each unit concludes with a quiz section to summarize the main objectives being taught. The goal of the Listening Time series is to improve listening comprehension while providing learners with a fun and rewarding learning experience.

Exotic, modern, exuberant: Thailand has many faces. Gleaming Bangkok offers irresistible cuisine and a devout Buddhist culture; ancient Chiang Mai is spa central. Cloudy mountains and pearlescent sandy beaches provide the tropical bliss.
* Special expanded chapter on travelling responsibly sustainably
* Specialist-authored chapters for the History, Food & Drink and Environment chapters
* New Deep South chapter
* Interviews with locals give you the insider edge
820 pp / 20 pp colour / 150 maps

Paul A. Tucci, Mathew T. Rosenberg, "The Handy Geography Answer Book"
Visible Ink | 2009 | ISBN: 1578592151 | 450 pages | PDF | 6,1 MB

From discovering why every map is distorted to why Rhode Island is called an island even though it's not, this comprehensive reference simplifies geography in an approachable question-and-answer format. All aspects of the discipline are covered, including physical, economic, political, and cultural geography. Questions answered include Who carved Mount Rushmore? What is the average life expectancy in Japan? and What were the seven wonders of the ancient world? Ideal for students and teachers, this resource is for all those curious about our world.

Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies By Kurt A. Raaflaub, Richard J.A. Talbert
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell 2010 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 1405191465 | PDF | 5 MB

This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies.
Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of Discovery
Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the Greeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India
Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Hachette Audio | ISBN: 1600244343 | 2009-01-05 | MP3 | 360 Mb

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the listener from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is.

Noel Castree, David Demeritt, Diana Liverman, Bruce Rhoads, "A Companion to Environmental Geography (Blackwell Companions to Geography)"
Wiley-Blackwell (March 9, 2009) | English | 1405156228 | 608 pages | PDF | 6.06 MB

A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of 'human-environment geography' in an accessible and comprehensive way.

David S. G. Thomas, Andrew S. Goudie , The Dictionary of Physical Geography, Third Edition
Blackwell | ISBN: 0631204733 | 2000 | PDF | 624 pages | 17 Mb

This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then known, Eratosthenes of Kyrene (ca. 285-205 BC) invented the discipline of geography as we understand it.

R. W. Mccoll, "Encyclopedia of World Geography"
Facts on File | 2005 | ISBN: 0816057869 | 1216 pages | PDF | 179 MB

World geography is an important topic for everyone. It can be used to study the past but is also crucial to understanding the events and current political conditions of the modern world. "Encyclopedia of World Geography" is an authoritative three-volume set profiling everything from the Fulda Gap to the Hudson River. Approximately 750 entries describe pioneers in geography and mapmaking; regions, boundaries, and places; and tools and terminology of geography and cartography.

David Armentrout, Patricia Armentrout - Tsunamis
Publisher: Rourke Publishing | 2007-01-31 | ISBN: 160044234X | PDF |
32 pages | 5.95 MB

Describes what tsunamis are, how they form, their causes, famous tsunamis of the past, and how scientists study and predict them.