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Afghanistan: a Regional Geography. INSTITUTION Military Academy, West Point, NY DOCUMENT RESUME ED 476 014 SO 034 832 AUTHOR Palka, Eugene J., Ed. TITLE Afghanistan: A Regional Geography. INSTITUTION Military Academy, West Point, NY. Dept. of Geography and Environmental Engineering. PUB DATE 2001-00-00 NOTE 60p.; Foreword by Wendell C. King. Color figures/maps may not reproduce adequately and contain small print. AVAILABLE FROM United States Military Academy, West Point Department of Geography & Environmental Engineering, Building 600, West Point, New York 10996. Tel: 845-938-3128; Fax: 845-938-3339; Web site: http://www.dean.usma.edu/geo/gene.htm. PUB TYPE Guides Non-Classroom (055) Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Area Studies; *Educational Resources; Foreign Countries; Geographic Concepts; Geographic Location; Higher Education; Secondary Education; *World Geography; *World Problems IDENTIFIERS *Afghanistan ABSTRACT Afghanistan and its people are not well known or understood by the United States, yet many U.S. people now consider the U.S. and Afghanistan to be at war. How is it possible to know the enemy? This book offers a complete, but not exhaustive source of information about Afghanistan, the land and its people. The book is intended as a guide for anyone wanting to know more about Afghanistan, and as a resource with references to detailed descriptions of the many physical and human sub- disciplines of geography. An approach to doing geography, the regional method is best described as a synthesis of all the pertinent subfields of the discipline applied to a specific region. Following a "Foreword" (Wendell C. King), chapters in the book are: (1) "Introduction" (Eugene J. Palka); (2) "Location" (Wiley C. Thompson); (3) "Geomorpholgy" (Matthew R. Sampson); (4) "Climatology" (Richard P. R. Pannell); (5) "Biogeography" (Peter G. Anderson); (6) "Historical Geography" (James B. Dalton); (7) "Cultural Geography" (Jon C. Malinowski); (8) "Political Geography" (Andrew D. Lohman); (9) "Economic Geography" (Albert A. Lahood);(10) "Urban Geography" (Brandon K. Herl);(11) "Population Geography" (Dennis D. Cowher); (12) "Medical Geography" (Patrick E. Mangin); and (13) "Conclusion" (Eugene J. Palka). (Contains 71 references and 32 figures/maps/tables.)(BT) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Afghanistanaregional4,#{ geography 8-13(,) ND mr--CO Doortmenc:01C:ograplo.Wr frellstricdicate Fact:We it>. 5r of Poinc,Mloli'ork die.1i1irary C.octrapliv Az:micro,. 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