Tag: geography

Book of the Month: Prisoners of Geography The Quiz Book

What a great year in Books of the Month we’ve had. It seemed fitting that our final Book of the Month for 2024 was one of our favourite authors with a book that would make a great gift. Our Book of the Month for December is Tim Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography The Quiz Book.

Do you know your continents from your countries, your landmarks from your latitudes, your mountain ranges from your rivers? Put your geographical and political knowledge to the test and discover your geography IQ with bestselling geopolitical author Tim Marshall. 

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Book of the Month: Myths of Geography

Our Book of the Month for October is Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong by Paul Richardson.

Is geography really destiny? Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped by geographic myths. Myths like Europe being the centre of the world. Or that border walls are the solution to migration. Or that Russia is predestined to threaten its neighbours. 

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Book Launch: A History of the World in 47 Borders by Jonn Elledge

Last night we hosted the launch of a very “Stanfords’ book; A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge.

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An extract from ‘The Power of Geography’ by Tim Marshall

Tim Marshall’s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed. But the world has.

In this revelatory new book The Power of Geography, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age of great-power rivalry: Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece, Turkey, the Sahel, Ethiopia, Spain and Space.

Delivered with Marshall’s trademark wit and insight, this is a lucid and gripping exploration of the power of geography to shape humanity’s past, present – and future.

We are honoured to have an extract from the Australia chapter to share with you:

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A Brief Guide to the World with Nicholas Crane: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2019

One word binds us all: geography. We are all geographers, human beings who care about the places we think of as ‘home’ – our habitat. Continue reading A Brief Guide to the World with Nicholas Crane: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2019

Our favourite games and puzzles this Christmas

It’s time for some festive fun.

Christmas is a great excuse to get family and friends together and play a board game or a puzzle. So clear the table and settle down to one of our favourites: Continue reading Our favourite games and puzzles this Christmas

Stanfords sponsors free ‘Earth Photo’ exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

Image: Rosamund Macfarlane. Eagle Huntress Receiving– Altai Mountains, Mongolia

A shortlist of 50 exceptional photographs and films that document the earth in all its diversity, will be presented at the Royal Geographical Society in London from 23 July to 21 September 2018 for the inaugural Earth Photo exhibition. Continue reading Stanfords sponsors free ‘Earth Photo’ exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

The Politics of Geography – Tim Marshall, Nick Middleton and Anna Reid with Julia Wheeler

Tim Marshall, Nick Middleton and Anna Reid speak to Julia Wheeler about the role that maps play in our sense of national identity, the historical significance of state boundaries, and whether there really is such a thing as a country anyway.

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