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It's easy to relegate geography to elective status, or to think one or two semesters is enough to cover the world and the United States. What we seldom remember is that the study of the land and people of Earth is necessary for a proper understanding of many other subjects, and that any hope of current events knowledge is pretty much a pipe dream without a good knowledge of (at least) countries and regions.

In the old days, geography was considered one of the most important topics. It was studied seriously along with history, geometry, music and rhetoric, and a person proficient in it was considered valuable in an advisory capacity to politicians and rulers. These days, it seems like most politicians don't know the difference between Georgia the state and Georgia the country.

Why is geography so important to know, especially when we have Wikipedia to tell us everything? For one thing, Wikipedia could black out at any second and leave us fact-less. For another, trying to learn history without any sense of its geographical settings is like learning to read without knowing what any of the letters represent.

For Christians, there's a more compelling reason. Of course, we need a sense of the terrain of the Near East to understand a lot of the events and imagery of Scripture, but more immediately we need to understand the physical and cultural characteristics of the world as it is now in order to develop efficient and plausible strategies for evangelism and outreach.

History is an integral part of this equation. The cultures of today were shaped by their past forms, and both ancient and modern societies are largely the product of the land and climate in which they exist. We can't hope to properly understand the present without first understanding what has gone before, and we can't really understand the past unless we have a feel for its geographical context.

Geography study isn't simply cyclical, however. Knowing more about God's world is one of the ways we can glorify and worship Him, and geography helps us do just that. Whether we're appreciating the diversity among cultures,learning to connect capitals with their countries, or absorbing the beauty of Mongolian deserts and Brazilian jungle, it isn't God's creation we're celebrating, it's God Himself.

We're doing our best to carry a wide range of products, from atlases and maps, to country-specific guidebooks and coloring books, to manipulatives and games. Whether you want to study the Bible, history, science, culture, or literature, you need to study geography as well. What we offer is designed to help make doing so fun and relatively painless.

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Adam of the Road
Puffin Newbery Library
by Elizabeth Gray
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1943 Newbery Medal winner
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Aeneid Of Virgil
by Virgil, translated by Allan Mandelbaum
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C. T. Studd
Christian Heroes: Then & Now
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by Rachel Field
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1932 Newbery Honor Book
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Christian Heroes: Then & Now
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by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
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Heroes of History
by Geoff & Janet Benge
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Christian Heroes: Then & Now
by Geoff & Janet Benge
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Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Signet Classics
by Oscar Wilde
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Corn Grows Ripe
Puffin Newbery Library
by Dorothy Rhoads
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1957 Newbery Honor Book
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Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
by Sarah Orne Jewett
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by Janet & Geoff Benge
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by Geoff & Janet Benge
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
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Dracula
Puffin Classics
by Bram Stoker
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Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1903
by Laurence Yep
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1976 Newbery Honor Book
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Eclogues and Georgics
Dover Thrift Editions
by Virgil
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Endless Steppe
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Christian Heroes: Then & Now
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by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler
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Christian Heroes: Then & Now
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Grain of Rice
by Helena Clare Pittman
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Habibi
by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Hill of Fire
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by Thomas Lewis & Joan Sandin
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Homeless Bird
by Gloria Whelan
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House of Sixty Fathers
by Meindert DeJong & Maurice Sendak
from Inheritance Publications
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1957 Newbery Honor Book
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Hudson Taylor
Christian Heroes: Then & Now
by Geoff & Janet Benge
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Humble Leader
by Julia Cameron
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Ida Scudder
Christian Heroes: Then & Now
by Geoff & Janet Benge
from YWAM Publishing
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Ideal Husband
Dover Thrift Editions
by Oscar Wilde
from Dover Publications
Drama for 9th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$2.50
Importance of Being Earnest
Dover Thrift Editions
by Oscar Wilde
from Dover Publications
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$3.00
Importance of Being Earnest
Dover Thrift Editions
by Oscar Wilde
from Signet Classics
Drama/Comedy for 9th-Adult
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$4.95
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
Anv from Sandpiper Books
Realistic Fiction for 5th-8th grade
1961 Newbery Medal winner
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Jacob DeShazer
Christian Heroes: Then and Now
by Geoff Benge, Janet Benge
from YWAM Publishing
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Christian Heroes: Then & Now
by Geoff & Janet Benge
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Jonathan Goforth
by Geoff & Janet Benge
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Journey to Jo'Burg
by Beverley Naidoo
from HarperCollins
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Journey to Jo'Burg
by Beverley Naidoo
from HarperCollins
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Kidnapped
Puffin Classics
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Kidnapped Prince
by Olaudah Equiano
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Kim
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by Rudyard Kipling
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$7.99
Kite Rider
by Geraldine McCaughrean
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Klaus-Dieter John
Christian Heroes: Then & Now
by Geoff & Janet Benge
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$11.99
Land I Lost
by Quang Nhuong Huynh
from HarperTrophy
Memoir for 4th-6th grade
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$6.99
Les Miserables
Signet Classics
by Victor Hugo, translated by Lee Fahnestock & Norman MacAfee
from Signet Classics
Realistic Fiction for 9th-Adult
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$11.99
Lillian Trasher
Christian Heroes: Then & Now
by Geoff & Janet Benge
from YWAM Publishing
Biography for 4th-7th grade
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$11.99
Lion to Guard Us
by Clyde Robert Bulla
from HarperCollins
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$9.99
Lost in the Barrens
by Farley Mowat
from Starfire
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$6.99
Lottie Moon
Christian Heroes: Then & Now
by Geoff & Janet Benge
from YWAM Publishing
Biography for 4th-7th grade
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$11.99
Macbeth
Dover Thrift Editions
by William Shakespeare
from Dover Publications
for 10th-adult
in Renaissance & Reformation Literature (Location: LIT3-REN)
$5.00
Mary Slessor
Christian Heroes: Then & Now
by Geoff & Janet Benge
from YWAM Publishing
Biography for 4th-7th grade
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$11.99
Moorchild
by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
from Aladdin Paperbacks
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$8.99
Nate Saint
Christian Heroes: Then & Now
by Geoff & Janet Benge
from YWAM Publishing
Biography for 4th-7th grade
in Christian Heroes: Then and Now (Location: BIO-BENGE)
$11.99
New Trip Around the World
by Leland Graham
from Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company
for 4th-8th grades
in Geography Activities & Games (Location: GEO-ACT)
$12.00
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Signet Classics
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
from Signet Classics
Classic Literature for 10th-Adult
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$5.95
One Morning in Maine
by Robert McCloskey
from Puffin Books
Realistic Family Stories for Kindergarten-3rd grade
1953 Caldecott Honor Book
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$8.99
Paul Brand
Christian Heroes: Then and Now
by Geoff & Janet Benge
from YWAM Publishing
for 4th-8th grade
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$11.99
Picture of Dorian Gray
Dover Thrift Editions
by Oscar Wilde
from Dover Publications
Mystery and Suspense for 10th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$5.00
Pompeii
Step Into Reading Level 4
by Edith Kunhardt & Michael Eagle
from Random House
Non-Fiction for 2nd-3rd grade
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Red Scarf Girl
by Ji-li Jiang
from HarperCollins
Autobiography for 7th-10th grade
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$10.99
Rob Roy
Penguin Classics
by Sir Walter Scott
from Penguin Classics
Historical Fiction for 10th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$15.00
Rowland Bingham
Christian Heroes: Then & Now
by Geoff & Janet Benge
from YWAM Publishing
Biography for 4th-7th grade
in Christian Heroes: Then and Now (Location: BIO-BENGE)
$11.99
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Eleanor Coerr
from Puffin Books
Historical Fiction for 4th-6th grade
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Puffin Modern Classics
by Eleanor Coerr
from Puffin Books
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Secret of the Andes
Puffin Newbery Library
by Ann Nolan Clark
from Puffin Books
Realistic Fiction for 4th-7th grade
1953 Newbery Medal winner
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$7.99 $4.00 (2 in stock)
Shanghaied to China
Trailblazer Books
by Dave & Neta Jackson
from Castle Rock Creative
for 3rd-7th grade
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$8.99
She Stoops to Conquer
Dover Thrift Editions
by Oliver Goldsmith
from Dover Publications
Comedic Drama for 10th-Adult
in 18th Century Literature (Location: LIT5-18)
$5.00
Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park
from Sandpiper Books
Realistic fiction for 5th-8th grade
2002 Newbery Medal winner
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$8.99
Snowshoe Thompson
An I Can Read Book Level 3
by Nancy Smiler Levinson & Joan Sandin
from HarperCollins
Historical Fiction for 2nd-4th grade
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$4.99
So Far From the Bamboo Grove
by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
from Beech Tree Books
Historical fiction for 4th-8th grade
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$5.99 $4.00 (2 in stock)
Story About Ping
by Marjorie Flack
from Grosset & Dunlap
Animal Realistic for Kindergarten-2nd grade
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$5.99
Strawberry Girl
by Lois Lenski
from HarperCollins
Realistic fiction for 4th-6th grade
1946 Newbery Medal winner
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$9.99
Sundar Singh
Christian Heroes: Then & Now
by Geoff & Janet Benge
from YWAM Publishing
Biography for 4th-7th grade
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$11.99
Through Gates of Splendor
by Elisabeth Elliot
40th Anniversary from Tyndale House
Missionary Biography for 8th-Adult
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$7.99
Trip Around the World
by Leland Graham
from Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company
for 4th-8th grades
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$12.00 $9.00 (1 in stock)
Twenty and Ten
by Claire Huchet Bishop
from Puffin Books
Historical Fiction for 4th-6th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
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Walking Drum
by Louis L'amour
from Bantam Books
for 9th-Adult
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$6.99
Where is the Great Barrier Reef?
by Nico Medina, illustrated by John Hinderliter
from Penguin Workshop
for 3rd-6th grade
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William Booth
Christian Heroes: Then & Now
by Geoff & Janet Benge
from YWAM Publishing
Biography for 4th-7th grade
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$11.99
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