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This system allows students to compare and contrast concepts and data both within and between regions. Additionally, this system reinforces the book's emphasis on the global effect on local issues. Concepts of World Geography. Pearson offers affordable and accessible purchase options to meet the needs of your students.

Connect with us to learn more. Les Rowntree is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, where he researches and writes about environmental issues.

As an environmental geographer, Dr. He sees world regional geography as a way to engage and inform students by giving them the conceptual tools needed to critically assess global issues. He has conducted extensive research on environmental geography in the Philippines and on the intellectual history of global geography. Lewis has traveled extensively in East, South, and Southeast Asia. His current research focuses on the geographical dimensions of globalization. In April , Dr. Lewis was recognized by Time Magazine , as a favorite lecturer.

Her studies have explored human migration, natural resource use, environmental conservation, and regional development. She is a non-resident fellow of the Migration Policy Institute, a non-partisan think tank that focuses on immigration. Price brings to Globalization and Diversity a special interest in regions as dynamic spatial constructs that are shaped over time through both global and local forces. Her publications include the co-edited book, Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities , Syracuse University Press and numerous academic articles and book chapters.

A World Regional Geography instructor for 27 years, Dr. Wyckoff emphasizes the connections between the everyday lives of his students and the larger global geographies that surround them and increasingly shape their future.

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But wait, there's more Find out if this is the right title for you by digging deeper into its content and features. Description For courses in world regional geography. Also Available with MasteringGeography This title is also available with MasteringGeography—an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results.

Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. Geographers Work short sidebar features look at how geography is practiced in the real world, profiling active geographers working around the globe in a variety of careers using the tools and methods of geography.

These features emphasize the diverse issues and places that geographers explore, emphasizing the diverse career and research opportunities of geography, and the interesting and relevant real-world problems that contemporary geography addresses. Everyday Globalization short sidebar features explore everyday products and commodities that people commonly use and consume, tracing their global links and the implications of consumption, including tensions between global and local communities, and pose questions that ask students to reflect on their experience and interaction with these products and commodities.

This active-review section emphasizes the impacts of globalization on the region and shows multiple spatial scales, asks students to perform critical visual analysis and includes a new higher-level capstone activity, as well as QR links to author blogs.

Exploring Global Connections features explore the often surprising connection between places and regions around the world, leveraging recent events and more coverage of cultural and environmental topics. Working Toward Sustainability features explore how the theme of sustainability plays out across world regions, looking at initiatives and positive outcomes of environmental and cultural sustainability.

Brief Chapter Opening Vignettes work directly with chapter opening images to give an engaging introduction to the region, with focus on local lives. New and Updated Cartography as per new data, cartography best practices, and the latest world events. The two regional data tables from each chapter have been ported to the back of the book to reduce text density within chapters.

Solid Pedagogical Features The structure within each chapter is thematic, while the overarching chapter structure of the book is regional and organized around the generally accepted major world regions.

This approach fosters a structured and penetrating treatment of geographic themes and concepts, facilitates comparisons of specific topics between regions, and allows the authors to more effectively highlight concepts important to today's globalized world. Visual Questions within each chapter section give students more opportunity to stop and practice visual analysis and critical thinking.

Two Review Questions at the end of each section help students check their comprehension as they read, and are followed by a listing of the key terms from each section, reinforcing the key concepts from each chapter section. A Focus on Fundamentals section now includes the most up-to-date information on energy,map interpretation and modern geospatial tools Chapter 1 , and plate tectonics Chapter 2.

Chapter openers include a panoramic photo linked to major topics within the chapter. A highly graphical presentation of the material includes a large-format map or photo on almost every page. A superior, pedagogically-oriented cartography program features standardized maps for all regional chapters. Regional chapters contain approximately 12 maps, with almost all regional chapters containing maps on the same themes to enable cross-regional comparisons.

A climate map, with climographs displaying temperature and precipitation data for specific cities. An environmental issues map with callouts to environmental problems and solutions within the region. A population map for the region leveraging the latest world population data. A map of regional languages. A map of religions. A geopolitical map of current issues and tensions. Powerful tracking tools in MasteringGeography allow instructors to see how an individual student is progressing through the course compared to the class and the national average.

Instructors can tackle areas where students are struggling right away, ensuring that every student has a chance to succeed. Instructor Resource DVD provides instructors with everything they need to prepare for lecture, including PowerPoints with embedded media, electronic Test Bank, images from the text and much more to support their course electronically.

Specific digital features include: NEW! In-context glossary offers students instant access to definitions by simply hovering over key terms.

Seamlessly integrated videos and activities allow students to watch and practice key concepts within the eText learning experience. Accessible screen-reader ready. Helping Readers Understand the Tension Between Globalization and Local Diversity This contemporary approach to World Regional Geography introduces the latest ideas, concepts, and theories in geography while also developing a strong foundation in the fundamentals of world regions.

It conveys a strong sense of place and an understanding of the connections within and between world regions. Globalization and Diversity focuses on the core materials that readers need to know. The Fifth Edition features new content on everyday globalization, and the tools, skills, and applied approach of contemporary geography, along with MasteringGeographyTM with MapMaster TM NextGen interactive maps, new video resources, animations, and author blogs.

Also Available with MasteringGeography TM This title is available with MasteringGeography-an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results.