Key Themes include: Conceptual Foundations, Cartography and Visualization, Design Aspects, Data Manipulation, Data Modeling, Geocomputation, Geospatial Data, Societal Issues, Spatial Analysis, and Organizational and Institutional Aspects.

In general, there are four kinds of entries, differentiated by their length. Long entries define the domain of GISci and its major subdomains, such as cartography and geodesy, and reflect on core themes, such as spatial analysis, ontology, and data modeling. Medium-length entries address significant topics, such as network analysis, spatialization, and polygon operations. Short entries summarize relatively specialized concepts and techniques, such as the ecological fallacy, spatial weights, and open standards. Very short entries offer brief descriptions of some of the key organizations in GIS and definitions of fundamental topics, such as legend and extent.

Following most entries, a Further Readings section is included containing references to seminal works by scientists and/or others mentioned in the entries.

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Key Features of this resources include a concise historical sketch of geography’s long history, including human geography, physical geography, and GIS. It includes succinct summaries of trends such as globalization, environmental destruction, new geospatial technologies, and cyberspace, a decomposition of geography into the six broad subject areas: physical geography; human geography; nature and society; methods, models, and GIS; history of geography; and geographer biographies, geographic organizations, and important social movements, hundreds of color illustrations and images that lend depth and realism to the text as well as including a special map section.

The Key Themes are: Physical Geography; Human Geography; Nature and Society; Methods, Models, and GIS; People, Organizations, and Movements; and the History of Geography.

The encyclopedia encapsulates an enor¬mous diversity of topics in all subdisciplines. Cross-references at the end of each entry and suggestions for further readings unite the innumerable connections. Because a picture is worth a thousand words, many entries are accompanied by art and graphics. Also included is an atlas with maps, found in the last volume.

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Key Features include a comprehensive introduction to the complexities of global warming; coverage of the science and history of climate change, the polarizing controversies over climate-change theories, the role of societies, the industrial and economic factors, and the sociological aspects of climate change; emphasizing the importance of the effects, responsibilities, and ethics of climate change; contributions from leading scholars and institutional experts in the geosciences; and serving as a general resource for geography, oceanography, biology, climatology, history, and many other subjects.

Key themes include: Atmospheric Sciences; Climate - climate and Society; Climate Change – Effects; Climate Feedbacks; Climate Models; Countries: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Pacific; Glaciology; Government and International Agencies; Institutions Studying Climate Change; Oceanography; Paleo-Climates; People; and Programs And Conventions.

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Key themes include surveying historical thought about time, including those ideas that emerged in ancient Greece, early Christianity, the Italian Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, and other periods; covering the original and lasting insights of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin, physicist Albert Einstein, philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, and theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; and discussing the significance of time in the writings of Isaac Asimov, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Francesco Petrarch, H. G. Wells, and numerous other authors. It contains the contributions of naturalists and religionists, including astronomers, cosmologists, physicists, chemists, geologists, paleontologists, anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, and theologians; includes artists’ portrayals of the fluidity of time, including painter Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory and The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, and writers Gustave Flaubert’s The Temptation of Saint Anthony and Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis; and provides an interdisciplinary approach, with discussions of Aztec, Buddhist, Christian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Hindu, Islamic, Navajo, and many other cultures’ conceptions of time.

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• The Chemical Abstracts database contains documents from journals, patents, conference proceedings, dissertations, technical papers, and books going back to 1967 and covering all fields of chemistry, including physical, analytical, inorganic, applied, macromolecular, organic, and biochemistry.
  
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• ProQuest Statistical Insight consists of,

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