Essentials of World Regional Geography Review

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(More customer reviews)Used this for a class in college, its a good book, very informative, was an easy resource and easy to go back and read on the subject.

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This shorter version of the highly successful Contemporary World Regional Geography, 3e gives readers a fresh new approach that combines fundamental geographical elements, internal regional diversity, and contemporary issues.This approach allows serious discussion of cultural and environmental issues, as well as political and economic issues.The main innovation in this completely rewritten text is in the ordering of the material covered.While other texts cut photos, illustrations, and boxed material from their WRG books, this essentials version is a completely rewritten text by the authors of Contemporary World Regional Geography, 3e.
Each of the nine regional chapters opens with a one- or two-page map of the region, short accounts of people or events to provide a personal flavor of the region, an outline of the chapter contents, and a short section placing the region in its wider global context.Each regional chapter is consistently organized by three sections.The first section summarizes the distinctive physical and human geographies of the region; the second section explores the internal diversity of the region at subregional, selected country, and local levels.The third section focuses on a selection of contemporary issues that are important to the people of each region and frequently have implications for the rest of the world.Each regional chapter follows the same framework, allowing students to easily make comparisons from one world region to the next.
Students are encouraged to consider what it means to be part of a global community and to develop their geographical understandings of world events.The authors have created a text that is readable, with a consistent structure within chapters, containing superior maps and illustrations, and finally – to offer a concise and more affordable text.

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McGraw-Hill's GED Social Studies Workbook Review

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(More customer reviews)If you need Social Studies review, this will help a bit with taking the Social Studies test portion of the GED and I do recommend it for that...but it will not help you gain the background knowledge you need. For that I recommend studying a good world atlas, watching historical documentaries by Ken Burns and/or on the History Channel, watching movies based on historical events, and reading books on the presidents, congress, etc. My kids have also studied with the book, "An Incomplete Education" by Judy Jones and William Wilson, which we've found is an okay Reader's Digest format for helping to bolster their educational gaps, though I'm not a fan of the writing.
Good luck getting your GED. And good for you!
(By the way, I was a teacher's assistant in a GED prep class while an undergraduate. Two years ago I mentored my then 15-year-old son to successful completion of the GED when he turned 16 so he could head off to art school early. [He scored so high he earned a large academic scholarship!] Now I'm mentoring my daughter so she can also begin college early. It can be done. And with today's public schools, it's a viable option for those who are willing to take the Robert Frost path to college: the road less traveled.)

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Addresses the key change in the GED requiring both reading passages and analyzing related graphics.

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Practice makes perfect with McGraw-Hill's updated GED Workbook series, which reflects the 2002 test guidelines. These workbooks provide invaluable hands-on experience for students as they tackle hundreds of GED format questions and check results against an answer key. Simulated test-taking situations boost not only content retention but also confidence for the big day. Ideal study guides for a student weak in a particular subject area or sitting for one GED test at a time, these activity books function as a companion to McGraw-Hill's GED Test titles and McGraw-Hill's GED.

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Map Use & Analysis Review

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(More customer reviews)When you've been working in a field for 30 years it's really difficult to drag yourself backwards and review data you already know, so when I signed up for a GPS (Global Positioning Sattelite) software course I looked at "Map Use & Analysis" by John Campbell as something I could just skip over, but since it was required reading I finally got it out. I was really pleased with the depth of material and the extremely clear explanations of all those mystifying cartography words. Anyone who has no idea about mapping or is a begining student will be able to use this book. The format is excellent with terms higligted and the index and dictionary are well coordinated. I feel that this book is such an excellent reference that I am buying a copy for myself. The only negative thing I have to say is that the illustrations, which are plentiful seem to wander several pages ahead of text, but they are carefully numbered and correspond exactly to the descriptions. Well done! Les L. Johnson

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This book is designed to serve as an introduction to the fascinating world of maps. It explains how to use maps to obtain information about a wide variety of topics. Throughout the book, maps are viewed in a broad framework. Thus, the discussion includes mental maps, aerial photographs, remotely sensed images, computer-assisted cartography, and geographical information systems, in addition to traditional printed maps. The writing style is neither formalistic nor casual, with an emphasis on clarity of explanation. The discussions assume that the reader has no specific prior knowledge of the topic, so that even novice map users can understand and use the information and techniques presented.

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Introduction to Geography Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is an easy read, slightly rough in the first few chapters but after that, its smooth. This edition is exactly the same as the US edition except for the cover. Just throw on a book sleeve and no one will know you bought the cheaper version. All of the chapters and pages are exactly the same.

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This market-leading book introduces college students to the breadth and spatial insights of the field of geography. The authors' approach allows the major research traditions of geography to dictate the principal themes. Chapter 1 introduces students to the four organizing traditions that have emerged through the long history of geographical thought and writing: earth science, culture-environment, location, and area analysis. Each of the four parts of this book centers on one of these geographic perspectives.

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Student Atlas of World Geography Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a very good Atlas with many different views of the world. However my copy arrived with a bad bend in the lower right hand cornor that goes all the way to page 67. I would advise Amazon.com to change the way this book is shipped so that this does not happen to anyone else.

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The Student Atlas series combines full-color maps and data sets to introduce students to the importance of the connections between geography and other areas of study such as world politics, environmental issues, and economic development. These thematic atlases will give students a clear picture of the recent agricultural, industrial, demographic, environmental, economic, and political changes in every world region.

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National Geographic World Atlas, Spanish (Spanish Edition) Review

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DESCRIPTION
The first two pages have a very quick introduction, a couple of pictures, some statistical bars and text.
Then, two pages for a political map of the world and then another couple of pages for a physical map.
In the following pages, for evey continent (North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania and Antarctica), they include a two page introduction (photos and text), and following that are the maps for each continent: 1)physical, 2)political, 3)population density and 4)vegetation - one page for every map.
At the end, a section with flags of every country in the world.
NOTES
-Asia may look a little tight in one page, but it fulfills the expectations anyway.
-In political maps, they include mostly 2 or 3 cities by country (not for North America: it shows many more cities).
-North America has a little more detail: it includes an extra page showing the states which make up every country (Canada, U.S. and Mexico) so there we have 3 additional pages.
- It is published by Mc Graw Hill, but it clearly has National Geographic maps.
- And dont' forget: It is in well-written Spanish.
WHY I BOUGHT IT
I was looking for a very simple, but also an "adult" atlas for one of my kids, not an atlas with pictures like eskimos in the arctic, elephants in Africa or funny pictures around. This is because I wanted him to understand what a political, physical, demographical map is, without the overwhelming information of larger atlases (like The Times 11th, National Geographic 8th etc.) which made him lost the point over each map intention.
And I was thrilled when I found this atlas to be exactly what I was looking for, I really did't expect to find with such precision what I was looking for. My kid was able to see the whole picture over each continent general data, without browsing pages and pages of information. And he really loved the flags section.


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