Reseña de G.P. Marsh (1864) "Man & Nature or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action"

Religious nature of man as a standard for ethical action and everlasting of ethical proposition

In Islamic theological system there can be found a view supporting innate abilities directing him toward Divinity. This view has known human nature with an innate tendency to knowledge, specially to knowledge on God. This kind of knowledge affect human ethical states. This paper has argued the view as a standard for ethical action and proposition.

Nature of Geography as a Discipline

The proposed course aims at explaining the nature of the subject. It throws light on the importance of geography and describes the nature of geography as a subject. It attempts to enrich knowledge and illustrate basic concepts as well as technical terms which are building blocks of geographic knowledge. Effort, however, has been made to develop the concepts in a graded and sequencial manner and...

Crete: Endowed by Nature, Privileged by Geography, Threatened by Tourism?

Crete, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean and the largest Greek island, is a highly heterogeneous region which has experiencedrapid tourism development since the midto late 1960s when the growth in international tourism and broader socioeconomic changes disturbed past equilibrium patterns. Tourism has become a leading economic sector but has also caused several unwanted economic, env...

Centrosymmetric or Noncentrosymmetric?* BY RICHARD E. MARSH

In cases where diffraction data do not provide a clear choice between a centrosymmetric and a noncentrosymmetric space group, it is better to opt for the centrosymmetric description even though disorder may result. The disorder model implies that the crystal is a composite of two or more molecular structures that cannot be distinguished from one another. On the other hand, attempts to refine a ...

Progress in Physical Geography