Synopses & Reviews
Regions, as this comprehensive Geography text is generally known, combines a broad overview of the discipline of Geography with a penetrating assessment of developments in our fast-changing world. Geography links the study of human societies and their natural-environmental settings through a revealing, spatial approach, aided in this book by a unique series of thematic maps at various levels of scale. Thus the focus shifts seamlessly from the global to the regional to the local, yielding insights into the forces that shape the human mosiac of our planet.
From glaciation to globalization, desertification to devolution, Mexico to Madagascar, Regions puts processes and places in spatial context. Inside this cover lies an information highway to geographic literacy, a key to understanding the global map.
Synopsis
Physical geography is presented more consistently from chapter to chapter with major revisions to several chapters.
* A foldout map of the world in 1900 is included so that comparisons can be made from the beginning to the end of the 20th century.
* Website highlights approximately 13 Virtual Field Trips which provide the opportunity for readers to travel (virtually) to other areas of the world, while also developing analytical skills.
Table of Contents
1. Resilient Europe: Confronting New Challenges.
2. Russia's Fractious Federation.
3. North America: The Postindustrial Transformation.
4. Middle America: Collision of Cultures.
5. South America: Continent of Contrasts.
6. North Africa/Southwest Asia: The Energy of Islam.
7. Subsaharan Africa: Realm of Reversals.
8. South Asia: Resurgent Regionalism.
9. East Asia: Realm of Titans
10. Southeast Asia: Between the Giants.
11. Australia: Dilemmas Downunder.
12. The Pacific Realm.