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  • WATER, EARTH, AND MAN
    RICHARD J. CHORLEY
    First published in 1969, Water, Earth, and Man, was written to demonstrate the advantages of adopting a unified view of the earth and social sciences. The book considers the connection between an understanding of physical environments and an understanding of social environments. It explores the hydrologic cycle and highlights the significance of the relationship between natural...

    $1,240.00

  • COLLECTED WORKS OF RICHARD J. CHORLEY
    RICHARD J. CHORLEY
    Richard John Chorley was known as a leading figure in quantitative geography in the late 20th Century and played an instrumental role in bringing the use of systems theory to geography. This set of 7 reissued works either edited by or written by Chorley offers a great wealth of scholarship on geography and geomorphology. ...

    $9,500.00

  • DIRECTIONS IN GEOGRAPHY
    RICHARD J. CHORLEY
    Originally published in 1973. This collection of essays looks at the ‘quantitative revolution’ and the ‘new geography’ by some of the geographers who had a significant part in those innovations and looks ahead to further developments. The views in the chapters are diverse and offer a fascinating glimpse of the discipline of geography as the subject was undergoing such change an...

    $1,000.00

  • GEOMORPHOLOGY
    RICHARD J. CHORLEY / STANLEY A. SCHUMM / DAVID E. SUGDEN
    Originally published in 1984. This major text covers the whole discipline of geomorphology, presenting a clear and comprehensive overview of the field, drawing on the full range of modern research. Landforms and their formative processes are treated on a broad spectrum of spatial scales, and examples are drawn from the major geological, climatic and biotic environments. The boo...

    $1,360.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHICAL HYDROLOGY
    RICHARD J. CHORLEY
    Originally published in this form in 1971, the content of this book was originally part of a larger composite volume ‘Water, Earth and Man’ (1969) which provided a synthesis of hydrology, geomorphology and socio-economic geography. This volume brings together the systematic theme of spatial aspects of the interactions between water occurrence and human activity. ...

    $1,000.00

  • SOCIO-ECONOMIC MODELS IN GEOGRAPHY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    CHORLEY, RICHARD J. / HAGGETT, PETER
    First published in 1968, this book explores the theme of geographical generalization, or model building. It is composed of seven of the chapters from the original Models in Geography, published in 1967. The first chapter broadly outlines this theme and examines the nature and function of generalized statements, ranging from conceptual models to scale models, in a geographical c...

    $1,120.00

  • ATMOSPHERE, WEATHER AND CLIMATE
    ROGER G. BARRY / RICHARD J CHORLEY
    This book presents a comprehensive introduction to weather processes and climatic conditions around the world, their observed variability and changes, and projected future trends. Extensively revised and updated, this ninth edition retains its tried and tested structure while incorporating recent advances in the field. From clear explanations of the basic physical and chemical ...

    $1,940.00

  • THE HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF LANDFORMS: VOLUME 1 - GEOMORPHOLOGY BEFORE DAVIS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    RICHARD J. CHORLEY / ANTONY J. DUNN / ROBERT P. BECKINSALE
    This re-issue, first published in 1964, is the first of a seminal series analysing the development of the study of landforms, from both the geographical and geological point of view, with especial emphasis upon fluvial geomorphology. Volume 1 treats the subject up to the first important statement of the cycle of erosion by W. M. Davis in 1889, and attempts to identify the most ...

    $1,540.00

  • THE HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF LANDFORMS - VOLUME 3
    ROBERT P. BECKINSALE / RICHARD J. CHORLEY
    This volume provides a global treatment of historical and regional geomorphic work as it developed from the end of the nineteenth century to the hiatus of the Second World War. The book deals with the burgeoning of the eustatic theory, the concepts of isostasy and epeirogeny, and the first complete statements of the cycle of erosion and of polycyclic denudation chronology. ...

    $860.00