Multicultural Studies

Our view of the world is shaped by what we see in front of us, and what we see in front of us depends largely on how we've been taught to look. By calling geography a science, experts give the impression that it's also objective, as though we can investigate foreign regions apart from our own perspective and presuppositions.

While the world would be much more peaceful if this was true, the divisions caused by man's selfishness and rebellion preclude such a possibility. This doesn't mean by any stretch that studying geography is therefore useless, however. Far from it: the only way to reach across the walls of suspicion, fear, and prejudice is to truly understand other cultures, societies, and peoples.

Geography is, of course, more than the study of people and cultures. It involves the study of the earth itself, weather patterns and climate, habitability, etc. Yet, without an understanding of the human factor such information, while interesting, hardly constitutes a discipline of much interest to anyone but specialists and professionals.

As our world gets smaller and bold lines are blurred, the need for average citizens to be educated about geography increases. Not only are we confronted with intercultural relationships on a personal level, our jobs, education, and religious life now depend on our ability and willingness to interact sympathetically with those from backgrounds different from our own.

Studying geography by its various regions gives us the opportunity to see behind our neighbors' and coworkers' behavior, to look into their context and respond to them accordingly. As we look at regions and the peoples who inhabit them, we see more clearly the interplay of the land itself and the cultures of which it is the home.

Looking into other regions of the globe—whether by continent, country, or ecosystem—is also fun, and a bit like traveling. Books and maps are no substitute for getting the dust of Morocco on your boots or standing on a frozen fjord, but they will broaden your borders far more substantially than watching TV or playing video games.

The books you'll find here are of the resource variety; geography curriculum is found elsewhere. This is probably one of the most important but most overlooked areas of study for many homeschool families, and we'd like to encourage you with the availability and affordability of materials. Plus, this is one subject a lot of kids are drawn into by sheer curiosity, so simply providing the books for them may be all you need to do.

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Other Stories
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
from Canterbury Classics
for 7th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Atlas of the Islamic World
by Francis Robinson
from Facts On File
for 9th-Adult
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Australia
by Gary Lewis
from Peter Antill-Rose
for 6th-12th grade
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$4.80 (1 in stock)
Australia: Beyond the Black Stump
by Gary Lewis
from Peter Antill-Rose
for 3rd-Adult
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Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
by Benvenuto Cellini
from International Collectors Library
for 9th-Adult
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Black Man in America
from Franklin Watts
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Brave Bulls
by Tom Lea
First Edition, Second Printing from Little, Brown & Company
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Chief Joseph Country
by Bill Gulick
3rd Printing 1994 from Caxton Press
for 8th-Adult
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$16.00 (1 in stock)
Children of the River
by Linda Crew
from Delacorte Press
for 9th-12th grade
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$4.80 (2 in stock)
Clive Staples Lewis
by William Griffin
from Harper & Row
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Colonial Wars Source Book
by Philip J. Haythornthwaite
from Cassell
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$16.00 (1 in stock)
Colosseum
by Peter Quennell
from Newsweek Books
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
Comes the Comrade!
by Alexandra Orme, translated from the Polish by M.A. Michael and L. Meyer
from William Morrow & Company
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$3.20 (1 in stock)
Diedrich Knickerbocker's A History of New York
by Washington Irving, illustrated by F.O.C. Darley, introduction by Andrew B. Myers
Facsimile, First Printing from Sleepy Hollow Press
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Earth is the Lord's
by Taylor Caldwell
from Literary Guild of America
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Edinburgh
by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by William Wilson
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Edwardian Lady
by Ina Taylor
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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$12.80 (1 in stock)
Egg and I
by Betty MacDonald
from J.B. Lippincott Co.
Biography for 8th-Adult
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Elizabeth of York
by Nancy Lenz Harvey
from Macmillan
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$9.60 (1 in stock)
English Weapons & Warfare 449-1660
by A.V.B. Norman and Don Pottinger
from Barnes & Noble
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Eugenie Grandet
by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage, introduction by Richard Aldington, illustrations by Rene ben Sussan
from Heritage Press
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Everyday Life Through the Ages
by Robert Dolezal
from Reader's Digest
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Exile
by Pearl S. Buck
from The John Day Company
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Fighting Angel
by Pearl S. Buck
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Forbidden Land
by Geoffrey T. Bull
from Moody Press
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$7.60 (1 in stock)
Forts of Canada
by Leslie F. Hannon
from McClelland & Stewart
for 6th-12th grade
in Canada (Location: HISMC-CAN)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Gifts of the Jews
by Thomas Cahill
from Nan A. Talese
for 9th-Adult
in Church History (Location: XCH-HIS)
$9.60 (1 in stock)
Gods of Sun & Sacrifice
Time-Life Myth & Mankind
from Time-Life Books
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Grand Canal of China
from South China Morning Post Ltd.
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$5.60 (1 in stock)
Great Lion of God
by Taylor Caldwell
Book Club from Doubleday & Company
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Half-Crown House
by Helen Ashton
Book Club Edition from Dodd, Mead & Co.
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House of Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
from The John Day Company
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$18.00 (1 in stock)
Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission Volume 2
by Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor
from OMF
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Hudson Taylor In Early Years Volume 1
by Howard Taylor
from OMF
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Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
Fifth Printing, 1967 from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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$48.00 (1 in stock)
Illuminated Page
by Janet Backhouse
from University of Toronto Press
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$9.60 (1 in stock)
Illustrated Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes
by William Wordsworth, Edited by Peter Bicknell
from Congdon & Weed Inc.
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$11.20 (1 in stock)
In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal
by Richard Nixon
1st edition from Simon & Schuster Macmillan
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Ireland
from Crescent Books
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$6.40 (1 in stock)
James Fenimore Cooper, the American Scott
by George Dekker
from Routledge
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James Herriot's Yorkshire Revisited
from Michael Joseph
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Countries of Today
by Richard Storry
from David White
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John Brown Russwurm
by Mary Sagarin, Introduction by Ernest Kaiser
1st edition from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
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Justinian & Theodora
by Robert Browning
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Kings and Queens of Scotland
by R. L. Mackie, J. Ross
from Geddes & Grosset
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$4.40 (1 in stock)
Life & Times of Napoleon
by Mario Rivoire
from Curtis Publishing Co.
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$4.00 (2 in stock)
Life & Times of Peter the Great
by Giancarlo Buzzi
from Curtis Publishing Co.
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Life World Library: Australia and New Zealand
by Colin McInnes
from Time Inc.
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Life World Library: Switzerland
by Herbert Kubly
from Time Inc.
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Life World Library: Tropical Africa
by Robert Coughlan
from Time Inc.
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$2.00 (3 in stock)
Lonely but Not Alone
by HRH Wilhelmina, Princess of the Netherlands
from McGraw-Hill
for 10th-Adult
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$9.60 (1 in stock)
Lost Realms of Gold
from Time-Life Books
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$3.20 (1 in stock)
Mammals of Grand Canyon
by Donald F. Hoffmeister, illustrated by James Gordon Irving
from University of Illinois Press
for 8th-12th grade
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$4.80 (1 in stock)
Map That Changed the World
by Simon Winchester
1st edition from HarperCollins
for 9th-Adult
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$10.00 (2 in stock)
Maria
by Maria von Trapp
from Creation House
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Mecca
by Desmond Stewart
from Newsweek Books
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
Napoleon
Penguin Lives
by Paul Johnson
from Viking Press
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$4.80 (1 in stock)
Natural Wonders of Australia
from Colour Library Books
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Never Dies the Dream
by Margaret Landon
from Doubleday & Company
for 7th-12th grade
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Origins of Political Stability
by J.H. Plumb
from Houghton Mifflin
for 11th-Adult
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Outlaws of Halfaday Creek
by James B. Hendryx
from A. L. Burt Company
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Paddle-Wheel Days in California
from Stanford University Press
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Paris: 20 Centuries of History - Timeline
from Editions TSH
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$7.20 (1 in stock)
Pavilion of Women
by Pearl S. Buck
from The John Day Company
for 10th-Adult
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$4.80 (1 in stock)
Peony
by Pearl S. Buck
Book Club Edition from The John Day Company
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$9.60 (2 in stock)
Plutarch's Lives Volume I
by Plutarch, translated by John Dryden
from Modern Library
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Portland Then and Now
by Linda Dodds & Carolyn Buan
from Thunder Bay Press
for 9th-Adult
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$9.60 (1 in stock)
Ramona
by Helen Jackson
from Little, Brown & Company
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$14.00 (1 in stock)
Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind, and His Music
by Robert W. Gutman
from Time-Life Books
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$3.20 (1 in stock)
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich/ Berlin Diary
by William L. Shirer
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Rudyard Kipling
by Lord Birkenhead
from Random House
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Saint Jean-Marie Vianney
by Margaret Trouncer
from Sheed & Ward
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$9.60 (1 in stock)
Samuel De Champlain
by Samuel Eliot Morison
from Little, Brown & Company
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
San Francisco Bay
by John Haskell Kemble
from Cornell Maritime Press
for 7th-12th grade
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
San Francisco Bay
by John Haskell Kemble
1978 Reissue from Bonanza Books
for 7th-12th grade
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
School at Thrush Green
by Miss Read (Mrs. Dora Saint), illustrated by John S. Goodall
First American Edition from Houghton Mifflin
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Shropshire Lad
The Living Library
by A. E. Housman, Illustrated by Jeanne Edwards
from World Publishing Company
for 7th-12th grade
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Spirit of Australia
by Ken Duncan
from Ken Duncan Panographs
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$3.20 (1 in stock)
Sun the Moon and the Stars
by Richard Whelan, designed by Arnold Skolnik
from First Glance Books
for 10th-Adult
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$3.20 (1 in stock)
Sybil
by Benjamin Disraeli
from The Folio Society
for 10th-12th grade
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
from Parents Magazine Press
for 9th-Adult
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$3.20 (1 in stock)
Tales and Traditions of Scottish Castles
by Nigel Tranter
from Barnes & Noble
for 8th-12th grade
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
The Robe
by Lloyd C. Douglas, illustrated by Dean Cornwell
from Houghton Mifflin
for 8th-Adult
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$5.20 (1 in stock)
Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
First Ed from Riverhead Books
for 10th-Adult
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
TimeFrame #03: Age of God-Kings
from Time-Life Books
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$3.00 (2 in stock)
TimeFrame #04: Barbarian Tides
from Time-Life Books
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
TimeFrame #05: A Soaring Spirit
from Time-Life Books
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
TimeFrame #06: Empires Ascendant
from Time-Life Books
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
TimeFrame #07: Empires Besieged
from Time-Life Books
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
TimeFrame #08: March of Islam
from Time-Life Books
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
Translations from the Chinese
by Arthur Waley
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 6th-Adult
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Twilight Struggle
by Barbara Harrison, Daniel Terris
1st edition from HarperCollins
for 7th-12th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Watcher in the Shadows
by Geoffrey Household
from Atlantic Monthly Press
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$4.80 (1 in stock)
West Coast Windjammers in Story and Pictures
by Jim Gibbs
from Superior Publishing Company
for 8th-Adult
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
White Nile
by Alan Moorehead
Revised Edition from Harper & Row
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Williams-Sonoma Risotto
by Pamela Sheldon Johns, photography by Noel Barnhurst
from Simon and Schuster
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$4.80 (1 in stock)
Windsor Castle
by Sir Owen Morshead
Second Edition from Phaidon Press
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Works of Flaubert
by Gustave Flaubert
from Walter J. Black, Inc.
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Wurmbrand: Tortured for Christ
by Voice of the Martyrs
from David C. Cook
for 9th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$11.20 (1 in stock)