Includes major geographically significant world events through the Spring of Each chapter has been thoroughly revised to reflect the changing cultural, political, and physical landscape of our world. Increased coverage of environmental change and the risks that the planet faces with 6. This new eleventh edition places more emphasis on critical thinking, human geography and environmental issues. The seventh edition continues to bring readers geographic perspectives on a fast-changing world through the regional view.
Restructured chapters provide a macro review of important physical, cultural, and political characteristics, drawing upon up-to-date significant world events and crises. The cartographically superior maps have been updated for the seventh edition to offer an accurate and vast picture of the world--multi-layer, interactive, GIA maps have been added to WileyPLUS Learning Space. To complement the extensive map program, the majority of the photos have been taken by our authors during their field research, allowing the student to experience an authentic geographical viewpoint of our world.
Skip to content. Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts. Introduction to Geography Author : Carl H. The authors emphasize the integration of various aspects of geographic processes and systems by discussing what happens in one set of geographic processes and how that affects others.
For example, what happens in economic systems affects environmental conditions; what happens to climate affects political dynamics. In this text, the major tools, techniques, and methodological approaches of the discipline of geography are introduced. Introduction to Geography Author : Fred E. Score: 5. Each chapter is written by an expert in the given field. Popular Books.
Twelve Days of Christmas by Debbie Macomber. Our hope, of course, was that the book would so persuasively identify and satisfy a disciplinary instructional need that more departments would begin to offer a general introductory course to the discipline, a dream that has been realized.
Our purpose is to convey concisely and clearly the nature of thefield of geography, its intellectual challenges, and the logical interconnections of its parts. Even if students take no further work in geography, we are satisfi ed that they will have come into contact with the richness and breadth of our discipline and have at their command new insights and understandings for their present and future roles as informed adults.
Other students may have the opportunity and interest to pursue further work in geography. For them, we believe, this text will make apparent the content and scope of the subfields of geography, emphasize its unifying themes, and provide the foundation for further work in their areas of interest.
A useful textbook must be flexible enough in its organization to permit an instructor to adapt it to the time and subject matter constraints of a particular course. Although designed with a one-quarter or one-semester course in mind, this text may be used in a full-year introduction to geography when employed as a point of departure for special topics and amplifi cations introduced by the instructor or when supplemented by additional readings and class projects.
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