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		<title>Concept Caching: European Imprints on the Streets of Mumbai, India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From our Concept Caching image cache that hopes to promote student spatial awareness by relating specific features on the Earth’s surface with their visual character and GPS coordinates. Through the site photographs and GPS coordinates demonstrate core concepts in geography.  Images are “cached” for viewing by core concept and by region.  Images are certainly useful for introducing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geography Directions: The British Impact on Indian Geography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From our Geography Directions site reviewing Wiley-Blackwell’s Geography Compass review journal covering the entire discipline.  Keep up with cutting edge academic geography.  These articles may be useful for introducing students to the discipline or may be appropriate for upper division Geography classes. This past week, the Prime Minister completed an official visit to India, leading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wileygeohottopics.com/2010/09/04/geography-directions-the-british-impact-on-indian-geography/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Map?  The Agnostic Cartographer.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What goes into making a map?  And who gets to decide what is on the map?  Writer John Gravois explores those questions in relation to Google&#8217;s mapping services &#8211; Google Earth &#8482; and Google Maps &#8482;.  For Geographers the making, manipulation, and interpretation of maps is not a new discussion.  But does the popularity of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wileygeohottopics.com/2010/09/02/whats-in-a-map-the-agnostic-cartographer/</link>
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		<title>Concept Caching: Shennong River, China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From our Concept Caching image cache that hopes to promote student spatial awareness by relating specific features on the Earth’s surface with their visual character and GPS coordinates. Through the site photographs and GPS coordinates demonstrate core concepts in geography.  Images are “cached” for viewing by core concept and by region.  Images are certainly useful for introducing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wileygeohottopics.com/2010/08/29/concept-caching-shennong-river-china/</link>
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		<title>Chinese Environmental Problems and the Potential for Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past month there has been much in the news about catastrophic natural disasters and anthropogenic environmental woes plaguing the vast Chinese landscape.  This is certainly not “news” for its novel or exceptional nature.  Yet, the extent of these events does raise questions about the future of China’s environment and of the choices that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wileygeohottopics.com/2010/08/29/chinese-environmental-problems-and-the-potential-for-change/</link>
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		<title>Mapping Your State and Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lesson, by Joseph Kerski, entitled &#8220;Mapping Your State and Community&#8221; is on PUMAS&#8211;The Practical Uses of Math and Science &#8211; The Online Journal of Math and Science, at NASA. This is a collection of examples (&#8220;lessons&#8221; or &#8220;activities&#8221;) showing how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes can be used in interesting settings, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wileygeohottopics.com/2010/08/23/mapping-your-state-and-community/</link>
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		<title>Geography Directions: Islamic Finance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From our Geography Directions site reviewing Wiley-Blackwell’s Geography Compass review journal covering the entire discipline.  Keep up with cutting edge academic geography.  These articles may be useful for introducing students to the discipline or may be appropriate for upper division Geography classes. Public confidence in the banking sector has been significantly shaken over recent years.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wileygeohottopics.com/2010/08/21/geography-directions-islamic-finance/</link>
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		<title>Concept Caching: Dubai, UAE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From our Concept Caching image cache that hopes to promote student spatial awareness by relating specific features on the Earth’s surface with their visual character and GPS coordinates. Through the site photographs and GPS coordinates demonstrate core concepts in geography.  Images are “cached” for viewing by core concept and by region.  Images are certainly useful for introducing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wileygeohottopics.com/2010/08/21/concept-cache-dubai-uae/</link>
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		<title>No Impact Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No Impact Man is about one family spending one year trying to reduce their human impact to zero. The experiment provides some important lessons about spatial dimensions of the human impact.]]></description>
		<link>http://wileygeohottopics.com/2010/08/20/no-impact-man/</link>
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		<title>Geography through Art, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the student of Geography music and movies are often times the most economical and efficient way to see examples of the concepts, places, regions, and environments they are studying.  Recent posts have looked at music playlists for Natural Disasters and we wanted to know what other Geography topics lend themselves to using music or movies to teach the content.  We asked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wileygeohottopics.com/2010/08/19/geography-through-art-part-1/</link>
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