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For courses in Human Geography
This package includes MasteringGeography™
Eye-catching learning modules get students straight to the important concepts
Contemporary Human Geography is a beautifully crafted, modular springboard into essential human and cultural geography concepts, designed for the contemporary geography student. This brief, innovative text explores current human geography in the bold visual style that distinguishes Dorling Kindersley (DK) publications. Topics within each chapter are organized into modular, self-contained, two-page spreads. Together with the graphics, Rubenstein’s efficient writing presents information clearly without sacrificing the high-quality geography content essential to students and instructors. The Third Edition offers an updated cartography program, new pedagogical tools to help guide students, and the latest data and applications.
Personalize learning with MasteringGeography
MasteringGeography is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with Contemporary Human Geography to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced coaching activities provide individualized coaching to keep students on track. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts.
0321994302 / 9780321994301 Contemporary Human Geography Plus MasteringGeography with eText -- Access Card Package, 3/e
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- 0321999010 / 9780321999016 Contemporary Human Geography
- 0134007956 / 9780134007953 MasteringGeography™ with Pearson eText – ValuePack Access Card -- for Contemporary Human Geography
Synopsis
For courses in Human Geography Eye-catching learning modules get students straight to the important concepts
Contemporary Human Geography is a beautifully crafted, modular springboard into essential human and cultural geography concepts, designed for the contemporary geography student. This brief, innovative text explores current human geography in the bold visual style that distinguishes Dorling Kindersley (DK) publications. Topics within each chapter are organized into modular, self-contained, two-page spreads. Together with the graphics, Rubenstein s efficient writing presents information clearly without sacrificing the high-quality geography content essential to students and instructors. The
Third Edition offers an updated cartography program, new pedagogical tools to help guide students, and the latest data and applications.
Also Available with MasteringGeography This title is also available with MasteringGeography -- an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with
Contemporary Human Geography to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced coaching activities provide individualized coaching to keep students on track. With a wide range of visual and media-rich activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts.
NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product;
MasteringGeography does not come packaged with this content. If you would
like to purchase both the physical text and
MasteringGeography search for ISBN-10:
0321994302/ISBN-13:
9780321994301. That package includes ISBN-10: 0321999010/ISBN-13: 9780321999016 and ISBN-10: 0134007956/ISBN-13: 9780134007953.
MasteringGeography should only be purchased when required by an instructor.
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About the Author
James M. Rubenstein received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1975. He was Professor of Geography at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where he taught urban and human geography, and where he helped develop the new Sustainability co-major in the Institute for the Environment & Sustainability.
He is also the author of Pearson’s The Cultural Landscape and Introduction to Contemporary Geography. He is often invited to give talks and presentations at colleges, high schools, and professional meetings.
Rubenstein works as a regional consultant for the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank and he conducts research in the automotive industry. He is often interviewed by the media on automotive and economic issues, and has published three books on the subject: The Changing U.S. Auto Industry: A Geographical Analysis (Routledge); Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Auto Industry (The Johns Hopkins University Press); and Who Really Made Your Car? Restructuring and Geographic Change in the Auto Industry (W.E. Upjohn Institute, with Thomas Klier).
He is a semi-amateur, semi-professional painter, and displays his work at galleries in Maryland and Ohio.
Table of Contents
1. This Is Geography
2. Population & Health
3. Migration
4. Folk & Popular Culture
5. Languages
6. Religions
7. Ethnicities
8. Political Geography
9. Development
10. Food & Agriculture
11. Industry
12. Services & Settlements
13. Urban Patterns
14. Resource Issues