World Regional Geography: Global Patterns, Local Lives

7th Auflage 2090
ISBN: 978-1-319-04804-4
Verlag: W H FREEMAN & CO

Buch, Englisch, 625 Seiten, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 1482 g

Pulsipher’s textbook shows the diversity of human life and demystifies global issues by representing the daily lives of men, women, and children in the various regions around the world. The seventh edition uses a new thematic framework to organize information and help students think critically about the local and global impacts of environment; gender and population; urbanization; globalization and development; and power and politics.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Pulsipher, Lydia Mihelic

Pulsipher, Alex

Johansson, Ola

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regionalgeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

BRIEF CONTENTS.- PREFACE.- Chapter 1Geography: An Exploration of Connections.- Chapter 2 North America.- Chapter 3 Middle and South America.- Chapter 4 Europe.- Chapter 5 Russia and the Post-Soviet States.- Chapter 6 North Africa and Southwest Asia.- Chapter 7 Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 8 South Asia.- Chapter 9 East Asia.- Chapter 10 Southeast Asia.- Chapter 11          Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, and The Pacific.- EPILOGUE 1: Polar Regions.- EPILOGUE 2: Outer Space.- Glossary G-1.- Text Sources and Credits TC-1.- Index I-1.

Über Autor(innen)

Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher is a cultural-historical geographer who studies the landscapes and lifeways of ordinary people through the lenses of archaeology, geography, and ethnography. She has contributed to several geography-related exhibits at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Alex A. Pulsipher is an independent scholar in Knoxville, Tennessee, who has conducted research on vulnerability to climate change, sustainable communities, and the diffusion of green technologies in the United States.