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"Which One Are You?" Short Stories This is a book that contains 19 different short stories that relate to people of all ages. These short stories talk about a variety of different situations ranging from churches to other short stories talking about gangs and youth. Then there are other short stories ranging from teenage peer pressure to another one of short stories talking about a mother trying to battle abuse, fathers making poor choices, doctors not setting good examples, preachers focused too much on the wrong thing, athletes only focused on sports, people making success the only thing...

By re-examining French geographer Pierre Gourou's work, this book highlights the significant (yet only partially understood) role he played in shaping how the tropical world was viewed during the 20th century. It does so by connecting Gourou to the idea of 'tropicality' - a discourse which constructs 'the tropics' as the West's environmental Other (in both positive and negative terms - as exotic, Edenic and bounteous, but also as backward, debilitating and pestilential). While Gourou had a towering influence over French geography, this is the first book-length study of him, as well as being...