World Regional Geography Concepts plus LaunchPad

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-56880-9
Verlag: WH Freeman

Medienkombination, Englisch, Book + Access Card, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

This version includes textbook and LaunchPad Access.

Filled with the rich diversity of human life, yet exceptionally concise, World Regional Geography Concepts humanizes geographic issues by representing the daily lives of women, men, and children in the various regions of the globe. In their more comprehensive text, World Regional Geography, Lydia and Alex Pulsipher make global patterns of trade and consumption meaningful for students by showing how these patterns affect environments and people at the local level.

The pack comes with LaunchPad, containing resources for you and your students; it combines an interactive e-book with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. Curated pre-built units are easy to assign or adapt with your own material, such as video, animations, simulations, readings, quizzes, discussion groups and more.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pulsipher, Lydia Mihelic

Pulsipher, Alex

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- 1. Geography: An Exploration of Connections.- 2. North America.- 3. Middle and South America.- 4. Europe.- 5. Russia and the Post-Soviet States.- 6. North Africa and Southwest Asia.- 7. Sub-Saharan Africa.- 8. South Asia.- 9. East Asia.- 10. Southeast Asia.- 11. Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific.- Epilogue: Antarctica

Über Autor(innen)

Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher is a cultural-historical geographer who studies the landscapes of ordinary people through the lens of geography. She has contributed to several geography-related exhibits at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., including "Seeds of Change," which featured her research in the eastern Caribbean on human adaptation to the Neo-troics in the post-Columbian period, including the present. She and her graduate students have also looked at cultural geography and national/ethnic identity issues in the new Central European members of the European Union, and at the impact of tourism development on traditional landscapes in these countries. In January, 2009, Dr. Pulsipher was awarded the Preston E. James Eminent Latin Americanist Career Award, by the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, for work on the cultural and environmental geography of the Eastern Caribbean and Latin America, and public outreach through collaborations with the Smithsonian Institution and the Seeds of Change exhibit.

Alex A. Pulsipher is an independent scholar in Knoxville, TN, focusing on urban development, sustainability, and global environmental change. In the early 1990s, Alex spent some time in South Asia working for a development research center and then went on to do an undergraduate thesis on the history of Hindu nationalism at Wesleyan University. Beginning in 1995, Alex worked full time on the research and writing of the first edition of World Regional Geography. In 1999 and 2000, he traveled to South America, Southeast Asia, and South Asia, where he collected information for the second edition of World Regional Geography and for the website. In 2000 and 2001, he returned to writing material and designing maps for the second edition. In 2010, he earned a masters degree in Geography from Clark University, where he studied the diffusion of green technologies in the context of environmental change.