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An overview of Bolivia's geography and history, along with an exploration of the political, economic, and cultural landscape of this South American nation. As part of the new, completely revised and redesigned second edition of the highly acclaimed Visual Geography Series®, Bolivia in Pictures takes readers across this landlocked nation, known for its Andean peaks and world famous Lake Titicaca. Learn more about the rise of Leftist populism in Bolivia, where voters elected Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, in 2005. ... Read more

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Ignore other review!
I am a 27 year old who enjoys geography, history, sociology, etc.This series of geography books is very informative for both kids and adults.BUT, it is actually a 5th grade social studies type book.That's exactly what it is.Don't give it a bad review because you thought it was something else.I am a college graduate who enjoys this series.

Big disappointment
This book was a big disappointment. I bought it thinking that my daughter who just returned from Bolivia would enjoy having it as a coffee table book. It is more like a 5th grade social studies book and not worth the $29.00 at all!! I do not reccommend this book. ... Read more

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An introduction to the geography, history, government, people, and economy of the landlocked country of Bolivia. ... Read more

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Chapters: Geography of Argentina, Geography of Bolivia, Geography of Brazil, Geography of Chile, Geography of Colombia, Geography of Ecuador, Geography of French Guiana, Geography of Guyana, Geography of Paraguay, Geography of Peru, Geography of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Geography of Suriname, Geography of Trinidad and Tobago, Geography of Uruguay, Geography of Venezuela, Geography of the Falkland Islands, Demographics of French Guiana, Guiana Shield, Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos, Paisa Region, Nova Iguaçu Volcano, Geology of the Falkland Islands, List of Rivers of Chile, List of Islands of Argentina, Zona Austral, El Carrizal El Salvador, Piarco International Airport, San Jose Ojos de Agua, El Salvador, Geography of Rosario, Climate of Peru, Yungas, Aldea San Antonio, International Rankings of Uruguay, Orinoco Belt, Sumapaz Paramo, Caatinga, Protected Areas of Peru, Waller Air Force Base, List of Falkland Islands Placenames, La Frontera, Chile, Magellanic Subpolar Forests, Extreme Points of Brazil, Peruvian Amazon, Ischigualasto, List of Islands of the Falkland Islands, Zona Central, Chile, Norte Grande, Serras de Sudeste, Laguna Blanca, Aburrá Valley, Guajira Peninsula, Atlantic Forest, Triple Frontier, Ypacaraí Lake, Time in Brazil, Quilombo, Pampa, Ecotourism and Wild Areas of Paraguay, Catatumbo Lightning, Zona Sur, List of Brazilian States by Population Density, Natural Regions of Colombia, Carlsen Air Force Base, Ñu Guasú Park, Norte Chico, Chile, List of Islands of Chile, San Juan Bautista, Paraguay, Raposa Serra Do Sol, Yaguarón, Sertão, San Carlos, Paraguay, Domaine Al Este, Argentine Northwest, Puerto Hambre, Cerro Catedral, Cedros, Trinidad and Tobago, Ventana System, El Mutún, Beni Savanna, Brokopondo Reservoir, Mesopotamia, Argentina, Cuyo, Triângulo Mineiro, Time in Argentina, List of Extreme Points of Chile, Cordillera de La Costa Montane Forests, Extreme Points of Argentina, Mameria...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19727558 ... Read more

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Chapters: Geography of La Paz Department, Geography of Oruro Department, Geography of Potosí Department, Lake Titicaca, Salar de Uyuni, Poopó Lake, Desaguadero, Chacaltaya, Illimani, Nevado Sajama, Parinacota, Illampu, Laguna Colorada, Ancohuma, Lago Uru Uru, Valle de La Luna, Zapaleri, Laguna Blanca, Laguna Coruto, Laguna Pastos Grandes, Laguna Guayaques, Laguna Zapaleri, Laguna Coranto, Laguna Hedionda, Laguna Cacha, Laguna Sajama, Chungara-tambo Quemado, Incahuasi Island. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Salar de Uyuni viewed from space, with Salar de Coipasa in the top left corner.Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa) is the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi). It is located in the Potosí and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes, and is elevated 3,656 meters (11,995 ft) above the mean sea level. The Salar was formed as a result of transformations between several prehistoric lakes. It is covered by a few meters of salt crust, which has an extraordinary flatness with the average altitude variations within one meter over the entire area of the Salar. The crust serves as a source of salt and covers a pool of brine, which is exceptionally rich in lithium. It contains 50 to 70% of the world's lithium reserves, which has yet to be extracted. The large area, clear skies and exceptional surface flatness make the Salar an ideal object for calibrating the altimeters of the Earth observation satellites. The Salar serves as the major transport route across the Bolivian Altiplano and is a major breeding ground for several species of pink flamingos. The salar is composed of various layers of salt and waterSalar de Uyuni is part of the Altiplano of Bolivia in South America. The Altiplano is a hig...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=199529 ... Read more

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This article analyses ethnic identity making in contemporary Bolivia by combining insights from constructivist political science, human geography, and other disciplines. It shows how transnational discursive frameworks and spatial imageries shape local ethnic identities through the practices of mixed actor networks that operate at local, national, regional, and international scales. Focusing on indigenous peoples in the Bolivian highlands who mobilise around the Andean ayllu (community), we argue that redefinition of indigenous identities includes the representation and validation of subjects and actors within transnational discourses cohering neoliberalism and multiculturalism. As indigenous movement platforms and concepts are increasingly institutionalised in official agencies and policy frameworks, their demands for culturally appropriate government and development are in practice implemented as governmentally and developmentally appropriate culture. These changes have therefore enabled and constrained the ayllu movement's ability to define its own identity and its access to political and economic resources. This case is emblematic of increasingly common transnational processes where multi-scalar changes in political visions, language, policies, and funding flows converge to reconstruct identities. ... Read more

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Chapters: Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 69. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos are in the Santa Cruz department of eastern Bolivia. Six of the missions have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The missions are distinguished by the fusion of European and American Indian cultural influences. The missions were founded as reductions or reducciones de indios by Jesuits in the 17th and 18th centuries to convert the Indians to Christianity. The interior region bordering Spanish and Portuguese territories in South America was largely unexplored at the end of the 17th century. Dispatched by the Spanish Crown, Jesuits explored and founded eleven settlements over 70 years in the Chiquitos region of Spanish America. They built churches in a unique and distinct style that combined elements of Indian and European architecture. The indigenous inhabitants of the missions were taught European music as a means of conversion. The missions were self-sufficient, with thriving economies, and virtually autonomous from the Spanish crown. After the expulsion of the Jesuit order in the mid-18th century most of the Jesuit reductions in South America were abandoned and fell into ruins. The Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos are unique because the settlements and the associated culture have survived largely intact; and they are the last remaining Jesuit settlements in Bolivia. A large restoration project of the missionary churches began in the second half of the 20th century. The Jesuit Missions continue to experience growing popularity, and have become a tourist destination. A government sponsored biennial international musical festival and cultural activities within the missions contribute to the popularity of the World Heritag...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19727558 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The geography of Bolivia is unique among the nations of South America. Bolivia is one of two landlocked countries on the continent, and also has the highest average altitude. The main features of Bolivia's geography include the Altiplano, a highland plateau of the Andes, and Lake Titicaca, the largest lake in South America and the highest commercially navigable lake on Earth. ... Read more

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A comprehensive account of a South American region concentrating on the Andean countries of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. This is one of series which focuses on different regions around the world, providing up-to-date information, facts and figures. ... Read more

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Beautiful book, not enough images
This is a beautiful book with great information.It is very expensive and I wished it had more images of the wildlife.Unless you need all of the extra morphological and evolutionary info, I would say just buy a field guide instead

Fine addition, but you still need the other two volumes!
This volume provides a synthesis of knowledge and individual species accounts for the more than 650 species of land and marine mammals found in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. It is the third and final part of a trilogy that now runs to over 1400 pages. The series began with the publication of the first volume in 1989 (The northern Neotropics: Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana), authored by Eisenberg alone. He was then joined by Redford for both the second volume (1992. The southern cone: Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay) and now the third. The general aim of this collection is to summarize in a single source what is known about the identity, distribution, history, and ecology of the mammalian fauna of the Neotropics. To this end, every genus and species of mammal known to occur in this biogeographic realm has been given a concise description, together with distributional maps of both known occurrences and estimated ranges. In some cases, figures of mammal parts, such as crania, and sketches and drawings of whole animals have been provided.

Although the third volume features Eisenberg and Redford as the principal authors, it also includes seven stand-alone contributions. Four are from Brazilian mammalogists, on paleontology and biogeography, chiefly of Brazil. Eisenberg himself contributes two extra essays (one on mammalian biodiversity and another on distribution and history of this fauna). Webb contributes a short essay on the history of the mammalian fauna in South America (which renders it somehat redundant with Eisenberg's account). The book starts with a short introduction that inevitably has to repeat some information in earlier volumes, and makes it clear that this volume is to be used in conjunction with the others in the series. This may be a disappointment for some readers, because many mammal species found in the central Neotropics are also found in either the northern or southern regions already covered by the previous two volumes.Therefore, the authors have chosen to give more concise descriptions of"redundant" mammal species, for which finer details have to be located in the other volumes.

The book itself is divided into three parts, with stand-alone contributions concentrated in Parts 1 and 3, and Part 2 being the material written by Eisenberg and Redford together. Here, 13 chapters deal separately with marsupials, edentates, insectivores, bats, primates, terrestrial carnivores, marine carnivores, whales and relatives, sea cows, odd-toed ungulates, even-toad ungulates, rodents, and rabbits. These chapters present not only taxonomic information but also ecological and behavioral characteristics, and distribution maps for most of the species. Indeed, for each species the following topics are generally addressed: Description (morphological), Range and Habitat (or Distribution), and Natural History.In some cases, there are separate sections dealing with Life History, Ecology, and miscellaneous Comments.Several tables of measurements are also found throughout the book and for some species rich groups such as bats and rodents, keys to families and genera are provided.Illustrations of crania, tooth rows, feet, and a few sketches are provided when deemed necessary by the authors, presumably as an aid in field and laboratory identification. A small number of color and black-and-white plates are grouped mid-way through the book. Each chapter and essay comes with its own bibliography, which leads to some redundancy in citations. Overall, the bibliographies are extensive, and the coverage seems exhaustive, with references updated to 1997 (it appears that the book went to press in 1998).

For such an encyclopedic effort, there are remarkably few errors of fact, as far as I can judge. There are, however, some presentation problems. The most common is that of making statements and attributing them to sources that surely did not contribute such statements. Indeed, this lack of precision in citation may be an artifact resulting from Eisenberg and Redford making separate statements without specific references, and then citing a wholesale sequel of authors. Another mistake I noticed is that of citations in the bibliographies that are not found in the text. The opposite also happens, but less frequently. I also found it awkward that among the 19 plates depicting mammals, only one has a scale to gauge their absolute size. Nowhere are we told, either, if mammals grouped in a single plate are proportionally sized.I hope that this omission will be corrected in future editions. Inevitably for a work of this length and complexity, there are typographic errors.Many are found in the literature cited, more commonly in citations made in languages other than English. I did not detect taxonomic errors, but I am not a systematist. Some scientific names are misspelled (e.g., culpeus instead of culpaeus in p. 280; jabcobita instead of jacobita in Map 10.26), and some genera passed to synonymy are sometimes referred to by their old name (e.g. Dusicyon instead of Pseudalopex in p. 283).

All of the above may be considered nit-picking in light of the tremendous contribution toward organizing in a trilogy all that is known on Neotropical mammals. I looked hard for weaknesses in the volume but I could only find strengths. Indeed, this volume is a first-rate capitulation and synthesis of hundreds of papers written in Spanish and Portuguese, thus rendering this wealth of information to the English-speaking readership for the first time. In addition, by treating comprehensively a wide swath of South America along both sides of the Equatorial line, east to west, this book provides a better understanding of the distribution of species that trespass national borders without even noticing them. In this sense, the compilation here reviewed is much more than the summation of separate national books on "The Mammals of X." It gives an overview on the way mammals "perceive" this part of the world and face threats posed by national policies on the exploitation of natural resources. I think this book (together with the two preceding volumes) fully meets its intended aim of gathering and synthesizing disperse information, and delivers even more in the sense of giving a broad-picture of Neotropical mammal biodiversity and biogeography.

The primary readership for this book is supposed to be one of professional mammalogists worldwide. It is also a great resource for graduate students in mammalogy, and, I would add, for conservation biologists and wildlife managersin general. I think this book belongs in the personal libraries of all mammalogists interested in the Neotropics, and also in institutional libraries where students can consult it.

Of limited value if you don't buy the other two volumes ...
I bought this volume first and should have thought of it but I didn't ... since the central neotropics have many of the animals of the northern and the southern areas of the continent, many animals are only covered in shorthand style in this volume, as they've already been described in the other two volumes.

The relatively small number of color-plates was also a bit disappointing. Finally the size of the book (height & breadth) makes it a real challenge to take with you on a field trip. The information on species that *are* described in detail in this volume, however, is excellent. Distribution maps, behavior, detailed measurements, anatomical details and lots of references to source literature make it a joy to read and browse through.

In summary I'd say that, provided you purchase the whole series, it's an excellent reference and clearly deserves 5 stars. As a field guide it's of limited use, because it's so bulky, so that's 3 stars. ... makes 4 stars on average. ... Read more

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One of a series which aims to introduce children to the diversity of countries and cultures to be found in the Americas. Each book provides a detailed map of the country, a text with the relevant geographical details and a system of running and margin headings to aid swift information access. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on July 1, 1997. The length of the article is 5553 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: KEY WORDS: Bolivia, floods, soil erosion, livelihoods, environmental change.

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Title: Fewer people, less erosion: the twentieth century in southern Bolivia.
Author: David Preston
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1997
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: v163Issue: n2Page: p198(8)

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Bolivia. History of Bolivia, Geography of Bolivia, Economy of Bolivia, Demographics of Bolivia, Politics of Bolivia, Culture of Bolivia, Departments of Bolivia, Music of Bolivia, Provinces in bolivia, List of bolivia-related topics. ... Read more