Geography For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119867128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 416 str.

Jerry T. Mitchell

Spis treści

Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Grounded: The Geographic Basics 5Chapter 1: Geography: The Why of Where and Why You Should Care 7Chapter 2: Thinking Like a Geographer 19Chapter 3: Lining Up Locations 29Chapter 4: Truthiness in Mapping 41Chapter 5: Telling a Spatial Story 59Part 2: Let's Get Physical: Land, Water, and Air 79Chapter 6: Shape-shifting Earth 81Chapter 7: A Nip and a Tuck: Giving Earth a Facelift 103Chapter 8: Making a Splash on Earth 119Chapter 9: Warming Up and Chilling Out: Why Climates Happen 137Chapter 10: Connecting Climates and Vegetation 159Part 3: Peopling the Planet 179Chapter 11: Nobody Here But A Few Billion Friends 181Chapter 12: Shift Happens: Migration 203Chapter 13: Culture: The Way We Live 219Chapter 14: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors 239Part 4: Putting the Planet to Use 261Chapter 15: Takin' Care of Business 263Chapter 16: Earth's Resources: Always Hungry for More 283Chapter 17: Downtown to the 'Burbs: Urban Geography 301Chapter 18: Only One Home: Impacts on the Environment 323Part 5: The Part of Tens 343Chapter 19: Ten Organizations for Geography in Action 345Chapter 20: Ten Interesting Career Paths for Geographers 351Chapter 21: Ten Things You Can Forget 357Chapter 22: Ten Great Places for Online Geography 365Index 371

O autorze

Jerry T. Mitchell, PhD, is Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina and an avid world traveler.