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Annual Editions: Geography, 23/e
by Pitzl, GeraldEdition:
23rd
ISBN13:
9780073515519
ISBN10:
0073515515
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
8/28/2009
Publisher(s):
McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
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Annual Editions is a series of over 65 volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. The Annual Editions volumes have a number of common organizational features designed to make them particularly useful in the classroom: a general introduction; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; and a brief overview for each section. Each volume also offers an online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing materials. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is the general instructor's guide for our popular Annual Editions series and is available in print (0073301906) or online. Visit www.mhcls.com for more details..
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Correlation Guide | |
| Topic Guide | |
| Internet References | |
| World Map | |
| Geography in a Changing World | |
| Unit Overview | |
| The Big Questions in Geography | |
| Rediscovering the Importance of Geography | |
| The Four Traditions of Geography | |
| The Changing Landscape of Fear | |
| The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism , 2003) | |
| The Geography of Ecosystem Services | |
| The Agricultural Impact of Global Climate Change: How Can Developing-Country Farmers Cope? | |
| When Diversity Vanishes | |
| Classic Map Revisited: The Growth of Megalopolis | |
| Human-Environment Relations | |
| Unit Overview | |
| A Great Wall of Waste, The Economist , August 21, 2004 | |
| In Niger, Trees and Crops Turn Back the Desert: A Poor African Nation Uses a Simple Mix to Grow Greener | |
| Whither the World's Last Forest? | |
| Why It's Time for a "Green New Deal" | |
| Study Finds Humans' Effect on Oceans Comprehensive | |
| Polar Distress | |
| What China Can Learn from Japan on Cleaning up the Environment | |
| The Region | |
| Unit Overview | |
| The Rise of India | |
| Hints of a Comeback for Nation's First Superhighway | |
| The Short End of the Longer Life | |
| Never Too Late to Scramble: China in Africa, The Economist , October 28, 2006 | |
| Where Business Meets Geopolitics, The Economist , May 25, 2005 | |
| Half-Way from Rags to Riches, The Economist , April 26, 2008 | |
| Malaria: It's Not Neglected Any More (But It's Not Gone, Either) | |
| Tsunamis: How Safe Is the United States? | |
| Spatial Interaction and Mapping | |
| Unit Overview | |
| The World Is Spiky | |
| Hurricane Hot Spots: Most Vulnerable Cities, USA Today Newspaper , June 1, 2006 | |
| Sea Change: The Transformation of the Arctic | |
| Shaping the World to Illustrate Inequalities in Health | |
| Deaths Outnumber Births in Third of Counties | |
| How Much Is Your Vote Worth? | |
| Fortune Teller | |
| Teaching Note: The U.S. Ethanol Industry with Comments on the Great Plains, Sparks Company, Inc. and Kansas State University | |
| Clogged Arteries | |
| Manifest Destinations | |
| AIDS Infects Education Systems in Africa | |
| Population, Resources, and Socioeconomic Development | |
| Unit Overview | |
| Wonderful World? The Way We Live Now | |
| What Lies Beneath | |
| Cloud, or Silver Linings?, The Economist , July 28, 2007 | |
| Troubled Waters | |
| Turning Oceans into Tap Water | |
| Malthus Redux: Is Doomsday upon Us, Again? | |
| Global Response Required: Stopping the Spread of Nuclear Weapons | |
| A World Enslaved | |
| Test-Your-Knowledge Form | |
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