geography

"This is a must read for all 11-18 geography educators. It argues for a new geography curriculum founded on a set of major concepts that are profoundly relevant to 21st century life. For years, books on 11-18 geography education have focussed on classroom techniques, new pedagogic technologies and alternative modes of student assessment. Not this one. 'Teaching Geography 11-18' digs deep. It asks not only what geography is for, but bases its answer on a set of key concepts able to sustain an exciting and relevant curriculum. It also grounds its many arguments in the latest geographical research, thus re-establishing the broken connection between geography teaching in schools and that in higher education". 

How to do your Essays, Exams and Coursework in Geography and Related Disciplines is written for students who need help doing their coursework and exams. The book focuses on the skills and techniques that apply to essay writing and also covers other types of assignment such as posters, talks, PowerPoint presentations and web pages. The basis of the book is that all of these different types of work are based on clear communication of well-supported responses to the questions or tasks that have been set.

For thousands of years, astronomers have worked to unlock the mysteries of the heavens. As they observed the stars and planets that parade majestically across the sky, one great source of wonder was a huge faint trail of light that was called the Milky Way Galaxy because it looked like milk, spilled across the darkness of night. When scientists started using telescopes in the 1600s, they began to understand more about the Milky Way. But it wasn’t until the 20th century that new technology allowed scientists to take the full measure of this galaxy and others scattered across the universe. What they have uncovered is richly detailed in the pages of this book.

This is an excellent required text for any undergraduate tourism geography course and an essential reference for tourism geographers at the graduate level. The structure of the text allows for those new to tourism studies, geography or tourism geography to quickly survey essential concepts before moving onto the regional tourism geography section.

Economic Geography is the most complete, up-to-date textbook available on the important new field of spatial economics. This book fills a gap by providing advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the latest research and methodologies in an accessible and comprehensive way. It is an indispensable reference for researchers in economic geography, regional and urban economics, international trade, and applied econometrics, and can serve as a resource for economists in government.

Learn physical geography at your own pace

What is atmospheric pressure? How does latitude indicate the type of climate a specific place will have? Where are volcanic eruptions or strong earthquakes most likely to occur? With Physical Geography: A Self-Teaching Guide, you’ll discover the answers to these questions and many more about the basics of how our planet operates.

We are now confronted with the challenge of change. This challenge is the result of a revolution of our world economy and society and the growing impact of human activity on the environment. Global Change and Challenge examines some of the crucial challenges facing society in the 1990s and how geography can contribute to their understanding and management.

As everything from global warming to GM foods becomes headline news, the use and abuse of nature is on the agenda as never before. Is geography just one of several disciplines whose task is to reveal the "truths" of nature so that governments, businesses and the public can know what threats and opportunities it presents for human well-being?

World Cultures and Geography gives students an appreciation and understanding of cultures around the world. Basic physical geography skills are balanced with an exploration of the traditions, cultures, and daily lives of people from across the globe.
Using the Five Themes of Geography as a basis for developing geography skills, World Cultures and Geography helps students understand geography's effect on history and culture.

Our world of increasing and varied conflicts is confusing and threatening to citizens of all countries, as they try to understand its causes and consequences. However, how and why war occurs, and peace is sustained, cannot be understood without realizing that those who make war and peace must negotiate a complex world political map of sovereign spaces, borders, networks of communication, access to nested geographic scales, and patterns of resource distribution. This book takes advantage of a diversity of geographic perspectives as it analyzes the political processes of war and their spatial expression.

How do geographers do economic geography? This is the first sustained discussion of methodological issues in economic geography in the last twenty years. It comprises an extended discussion of qualitative and ethnographic methods; an assessment of quantitative and numerical methods; an examination of post-structuralist and feminist methodologies; an overview of case-study approaches; and an inquiry into the relation between economic geography and other disciplines.

This landmark book offers a truly integrated perspective for understanding the formation of Jewish and Palestinian Arab identities and relations in Palestine before 1948. Beginning with the late Ottoman period Mark LeVine explores the evolving history and geography of two cities: Jaffa, one of the oldest ports in the world, and Tel Aviv, which was born alongside Jaffa and by 1948 had annexed it as well as its surrounding Arab villages.