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The Geographical Review January 1996 Vol. 86, No. 1, pp. 1-160. Table of Contents EDITOR'S NOTE By Paul F. Starrs Articles SPEAKING WITH PEOPLE IN EGYPT'S ST. KATHERINE NATIONAL PARK By Joseph J. Hobbs "MR. SAUER" AND THE WRITERS By James J. Parsons (15 October 1915 - 19 February 1997) SOCIOECONOMIC TRANSITION AND GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS FROM BULGARIA By Brent Yarnal SACRED LANDSCAPES AND THE PHENOMENON OF LIGHT By Barbara A. Weightman FLOOD-HAZARD RESPONSE IN ARGENTINA By E. C. Penning-Rowsell STATE FORMATION, GEOGRAPHY, AND A GENTLEMAN'S EDUCATION By Jonathan M. Smith GEOGRAPHICAL RECORD NOTES A Path Throught Recent GIS Literature By Sandra Lach Arlinghaus The Kamaran Islands By Alexander Melamid REMINDERS 1996 GEOGRAPHICAL FIELD NOTES Introduction Place Meaning and Neoliberalism in Sonoran Copper-Mining Towns By John Harner GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS CITIES AND BUILDINGS: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs. By Larry Ford..........Reviewed by Lay James Gibson THE POWER OF PLACE: Urban Landscapes as Public History. By Dolores Hayden..........Reviewed by William Wyckoff THE AMERICAN MOSAIC: The Impact of Space, Time and Culture on American Politics By Daniel J. Elazar..........Reviewed by Gerald R. Webster THE GAS STATION IN AMERICA By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle..........Reviewed by Ary J. Lamme III DESERTIFICATION: Exploding the Myth By David S. G. Thomas and Nicholas J. Middleton..........Reviewed by William B. Meyer REORDERING THE WORLD: Geopolitical Perspectives on the Twenty-First Century Edited by George J. Demko and William B. Wood...........Reviewed by Marie D. Price LAND USE AND THE CAUSES OF GLOBAL WARMING By Katrina Brown..........Reviewed by Amy Tetlow Smith CONTINENTAL TRADING BLOCS: The Growth of Regionalism in the World Economy Edited by Richard Gibb and Wieslaw Michalak..........Reviewed by Barney Warf THE CAUSES OF TROPICAL DEFORESTATION: The Economic and Statistical Analysis of Factors Giving Rise to the Loss of the Tropical Forests Edited by Katrina Brown and David W. Pearce..........Reviewed by Martin W. Lewis COLONIAL GREEN REVOLUTION? Food, Irrigation and the State in Colonial Maya By J. Overton..........Reviewed by Christopher A. Airriess RISKY RIVERS: The Economics and Politics of Floodplain Farming in Amazonia By Michael Chibnik..........Reviewed by Oliver T. Coomes THE GEOGRAPHY OF NATIONALISM IN RUSSIA AND THE USSR By Robert J. Kaiser..........Reviewed by Chauncy D. Harris THE CHANNEL TUNNEL: A Geographical Perspective Edited by Richard Gibb..........Reviewed by Sean M. McDonald THE WET AND THE DRY: Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in Polynesia By Patrick Vinton Kirch..........Reviewed by Deborah D. Paulson THE NEW EUROPEAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY By Peter Wells and Michael Rawlinson..........Reviewed by James M. Rubenstein ROCK WEATHERING AND LANDFORM EVOLUTION Edited by D. A. Robinson and R. B. G. Williams.............Reviewed by Randall Schaetzl THE PARTITION OF PALESTINE: Decision Crossroads in the Zionist Movement By Itzak Galnoor..........Reviewed by Alexander Melamid MOUNT SINAI By Joseph J. Hobbs..........Reviewed by Mildred Berman SERVICE INDUSTRIES IN THE WORLD ECONOMY By P. W. Daniels.............Reviewed by C. Murray Austin THE SRI LANKAN TAMILS: Ethnicity and Identity Edited by Chelvadurai Managaran and Bryan Pfaffenberger.........Reviewed by Surinder M. Bhardwaj WATER IN THE ARAB WORLD: Perspectives and Prognoses Edited by Peter Rogers and Peter Lydon.............Reviewed by Chad F. Emmett HYDROPOLITICS ALONG THE JORDAN RIVER: Scarce Water and Its Impact on the Arab­Israeli Conflict By Aaron T. Wolf.............Reviewed by Chad F. Emmett THE MAKING OF A JAPANESE PERIPHERY, 1750­1920 By Karen Wigen..........Reviewed by Roman Cybriwsky