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1946; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 62; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00369224608735333

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Urbanization and City Planning

British Weather. By Stephen Bone. 9 × 6 1/2 inches. Pp. 48. 8 plates in colour. 29 illustrations in black and white. Britain in Pictures. London: William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd., 1946. Price 4s. 6d. The Population of Great Britain: Current Trends and Future Problems. By Mark Abrams. 9×6 inches. Pp. 51. Diagram. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., for The London Press Exchange Ltd., 1945. Price 3s. 6d. Scotland's Record. Edited by W. M. Ballantine. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches. Pp. 184. 30 photographs. Edinburgh: The Albyn Press, 1946. Price 12s. 6d. Scotland Arise ! By Duncan Ferguson. Crown 8vo. Pp.82. Glasgow: Scottish Secretariat Ltd., 1945. Price 3s. 6d. Old London Illustrated: London in the XVIth Century. Drawings by H. W. Brewer. Descriptive articles by Herbert A. Cox. 9 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches. Pp. viii+53. 26 illustrations. London: The Builder Ltd., 8th edition, n.d. Price 10s. 6d. Gower Caves. Survey by E. E. Allen and J. G. Rutter. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches. Pp. 28. 11 figs. 28 photographs. Swansea: Vaughan Thomas, 1946. Price 5s. The Scheldt Question to 1839. By S. T. Bindofp. Foreword by Professor G. J. Renier. Demy 8vo. Pp. ix+238. 3 sketch‐maps. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1945. Price 10s. 6d. Poland: The Struggle for Power, 1772–1939. By Henryk Frankel. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches. Pp. 192. 5 sketch‐maps. London: Lindsay Drummond Ltd., 1946. Price 12s. 6d. East is West. By Freya Stark. 8 × 5 1/4 inches. Pp. xxii+218. 84 photographs. Sketch‐map. London: John Murray, 1945. Price 12s. 6d. Iran. By William S. Haas. 9×6 inches. Pp. xi+273. 11 illustrations. Map. New York: Columbia University Press. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1946. Price 23s. 6d. Britain and Ceylon. By Lennox A. Mills, D.Phil.(Oxon.). Crown 8vo. Pp. 72. 19 photographs. 2 maps. Longmans’ Pamphlets on the British Commonwealth, No. 3. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1945. Price 1s. História de Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gué (Agadir), 1505–1541. By Joaquim Figanier. 8 3/4 × 6 1/4 inches. Pp. 403. 13 illustrations. 2 sketch‐maps. Lisbon: Agência Geral das Colónias, 1945. Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somaliland. By Norman Bentwich. Demy 8vo. Pp. 24. End‐paper map. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1945. Price 1s. 6d. A Short History of Eritrea. By Stephen H. Longrigg. Crown 8vo. Pp. viii+188. 6 photographs. 4 sketch‐maps. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1945. Price 10s. 6d. Ethiopia under Hailé Selassié. By Christine Sandford. Demy 8vo. Pp. viii+149. 16 photographs. Map. London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1946. Price 10s. 6d. Bibliografia Geral de Moçambique. By Mário Costa. 9 × 6 1/4 inches. Pp.359. Lisbon: Agência Geral das Colonias, 1946. The Discovery of Canada. By Lawrence J. Burpee. 8 × 5 1/2 inches. Pp. x+280. End‐paper maps. Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd., 1944. Price $3.00 or 12s. 6d. The Pacific World. Edited by Fairfield Osborn. Demy 8vo. Pp.218. Illustrations and sketch‐maps. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1945. Price 12s. 6d. From a South Seas Diary, 1938–1942. By Sir Harry Luke, K.C.M.G., D.Litt., LL.D. Crown 8vo. Pp. 255. Frontispiece. 84 plates. London: Nicholson and Watson, 1945. Price 12s. 6d. World's End: Life and Laughter in the South Seas. By Capt. J. R. Grey, F.R.G.S. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches. Pp. 167. 13 photographs. End‐paper sketch‐maps (Vanuambalavu and Tetiarah Atoll). Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens Ltd., n.d. Price 9s. Alone over the Tasman Sea. By Francis Chichester. Introduction by Group Captain Frank D. Tredrey. Crown 8vo. Pp. 314. 24 photographs. 4 charts. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1945. Price 10s. The Geography of World Air Transport. By J. Parker van Zandt. 9×6 inches. Pp. viii+67. 19 figs. End‐paper maps. America Faces the Air Age, Vol. 1. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1944. Price $1.00. Air Transport. By E. D. Weiss, Ph.D., D.Sc. Crown 8vo. Pp.59. 17 illustrations. The New Era Books, No. 1. Glasgow and London: Art and Educational Publishers Ltd., 1946. Price 2s. 6d. Principles of Agricultural Botany. By Alexander Nelson, B.Sc., Ph.D., N.D.A. Demy 8vo. Pp. xvii+556. 182 figs. 17 colour plates. 128 half‐tone plates. Edinburgh and London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1946. Price 35s. Patrick Geddes: Maker of the Future. By Philip Boardman. Introduction by Lewis Mumford. Med. 8vo. Pp. xix+504. Illustrated. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1944. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. Price $5.00 or 30s. Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race. By M. F. Ashley Montagu. Foreword by Aldous Huxley. Demy 8vo. Pp. xvi+304. New York: Columbia University Press. Second edition, 1945. Price $3.25. Geographical Essays. By Vaughan Cornish, D.Sc. Demy 8vo. Pp.82, a maps. London: Sifton, Praed and Co. Ltd., n.d. Price 10s. Geology in the Life of Man: A Brief History of Its Influence on Thought and the Development of Modern Civilization. By Duncan Leitch, D.Sc., F.G.S. Fcap.8vo. Pp.x+118. 31 figs. The Thinker's Library, No. 108. London: C. A. Watts and Co. Ltd., 1945. Price 2s. 6d. Natural Principles of Land Use. By Edward H. Graham. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches. Pp. xiii+274. 32 plates. New York: Oxford University Press, 1944 (Second Printing, 1946). Price $3.50 or 16s. Maps for the National Plan. Prepared by The Association for Planning and Regional Reconstruction. Fcap. folio. Pp. 119. 41 maps. 5 diagrams. London: Lund Humphries and Co. Ltd., 1945. Price 15s. Tectonic Map of the United States. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on Tectonics, Division of Geology ‘and Geography, National Research Council, Chester R. Longwell, Chairman. 80×50 inches. Printed in 7 colours, on 2 sheets. Scale 1: 2, 500,000. Tulsa, Oklahoma: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1944. Price $2.00 (rolled in mailing tube); $1.75 (folded in manila envelope); $1.50 (in lots of 25 or more, rolled or folded).