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World Regional Geography Concepts

Third Edition ©2015 Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher; Alex Pulsipher

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. As in their more comprehensive text, World Regional Geogra...
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Look Inside Look Inside World Regional Geography Concepts by Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher; Alex Pulsipher - Third Edition, 2015 from Macmillan Student Store

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. As 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. And at around 450 pages, it remains the ideal length for covering all of the world’s regions in one semester.

The new edition offers more streamlined and consistent chapter structure, a wealth of new information and images, and its own dedicated version of LaunchPad, W.H. Freeman’s new online course space featuring a fully integrated e-Book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, a rich collection of student media resources, and easy setup, assessment, and course management options for instructors. To order this book packaged with LaunchPad please order package isbn 978-1-319-01720-0.  

Features

New to This Edition

Restructured Chapters Organized Around Five Themes
For this edition, Lydia and Alex Pulsipher streamlined the thematic framework of their chapters. Students now navigate the complexities of the world’s regions by focusing on five essential themes:

  •  Environment
  • Globalization and Development
  • Power and Politics
  • Urbanization
  • Population and Gender

Each chapter addresses these themes in a consistent order.

New! Geographic Insights
Chapters now begin with five learning objectives called Geographic Insights, each tied to a specific theme as it unfolds within the chapter. Geographic Insights are reviewed in “Things to Remember” sections throughout the chapter, as well as in “Geographic Insights Review and Self-Test” sections at the end of each chapter. 

New! On the Bright Side
These new commentaries offer relief from the often dispiriting view of the world today by highlighting hopeful patterns and opportunities emerging within each region.

New! Local Lives Photo Feature
This entirely new photo feature focuses on the interaction between people and animals, festivals, and foodways in particular areas, further emphasizing the book’s focus on the connections between peoples’ lives and larger global patterns.

New Photos and Coverage of Photo Interpretation

  • Every photo in the text, including those in the Photo Essays and other features have been updated to help students understand the circumstances of people around the world.
  • Thinking Geographically questions ask students to analyze all photos for insights into peoples’ lives.
  • Chapter 1 now includes a short lesson on photo interpretation. Students are encouraged to use these skills as they look at every photo in the text, and instructors are encouraged to use the photos as lecture themes and to help generate analytical class discussions.

Up-to-Date Content, including:

  • Climate change and its environmental, political, and economic implications
  • The global economic recession that began in 2008 and its effect on migrants, labor outsourcing, and job security in importing and exporting countries
  • The role of terrorism in the realignment of power globally and locally
  • Growing disparity in wealth in North America
  • Domestic and global implications of the U.S. political, economic, and military stances
  • Conflict over oil pollution in the Amazon
  • Immigration and the ways it is changing countries economically and culturally
  • Changing gender roles, particularly in developing countries
  • Recent economic crises in the European Union and the consequences for the original EU members, new and potential member states, and the global community
  • Growing tensions between Russia, its neighbors, the European Union, and the United States
  • Political revolutions and conflict (the Arab Spring) in North Africa and Southwest Asia (often referred to as the Middle East)
  • The new influence of Arabic media outlets, such as Al Jazeera
  • Maps reflecting the new country of South Sudan (some data remain based on Sudan as a whole because South Sudan has not yet begun reporting statistics)
  • Growing tensions over water in South Asia
  • Disputes in East Asia over the Senkaku Islands
  • Civil unrest in Thailand
  • The consequences of global climate change on Pacific Island nations

Consistent Base Maps
To help students make conceptual connections and comparisons across regions, every chapter contains:

  • Regional map with landscape photos at the beginning of each chapter
  • Political map
  • Climate map with photos of different climate zones
  • Map of the human impacts on the biosphere, with photo essay
  • Map of the region’s vulnerability to climate change, with photo essay
  • Map of regional trends in power and politics, with photo essay
  • Urbanization map, with photo essay
  • Map of population density

An unprecedented, fully integrated print/media resource
LaunchPad
World Regional Geography Concepts, Third Edition is accompanied by its own dedicated version of W.H. Freeman’s breakthrough online course space, which offers:

  • Pre-built Units for each chapter, curated by experienced educators, with media for that chapter organized and ready to assign or customize to suit your course.
  • All online resources for the text in one location, including an interactive e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing (see below), and an expanded number of videos (over 400 total — about 35 per chapter).
  • Intuitive and useful analytics, with a Gradebook that lets you see how your class is doing individually and as a whole.
  • A streamlined and intuitive interface that lets instructors build an entire course in minutes.

LearningCurve
In a game-like format, LearningCurve adaptive and formative quizzing helps get students more deeply involved in the coursework. It offers:

  • A unique learning path for each student, with quizzes shaped by each individual’s correct and incorrect answers.
  • A Personalized Study Plan, to guide students’ preparation for class and for exams.
  • Feedback for each question with live links to relevant e-book pages, guiding students to the reading they need to do to improve their areas of weakness.

More Videos
LaunchPad features 400 brief videos clips for the new edition—about 35 per chapter. Icons in the text alert students to available, relevant clips. Each video includes assessments that feed into LaunchPad’s gradebook.

Digital Options

Table of Contents

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 Asia11. Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
Epilogue: Antarctica

Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher

Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher is a cultural-historical geographer who studies the landscapes and lifeways of ordinary people through the lenses of archaeology, geography, and ethnography. 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 the research she and Conrad Goodwin did in the eastern Caribbean. Lydia Pulsipher has ongoing research projects in the eastern Caribbean (historical archaeology) and in central Europe, where she is interested in various aspects of the post-Communist transition and social inclusion policies in the European Union. Her graduate students have studied human ecology issues in the Caribbean and border issues and issues of national identity and exclusion in several central European countries. She has taught cultural, gender, European, North American, and Mesoamerican geography at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville since 1980; through her research, she has given many students their first experience in fieldwork abroad. Previously she taught at Hunter College and Dartmouth College. She received her B.A. from Macalester College, her M.A. from Tulane University, and her Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University. For personal enjoyment, she works in her gardens, cans the produce, bakes rhubarb pies, and encourages the musical talents of her grandchildren.

Alex Pulsipher

Alex A. Pulsipher is an independent scholar in Knoxville, Tennessee, who has conducted research on vulnerability to climate change, sustainable communities, and the diffusion of green technologies in the United States. In the early 1990s, Alex spent time in South Asia working for a sustainable development research center. He then completed a B.A. at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, writing his undergraduate thesis on the history of Hindu nationalism. Beginning in 1995, Alex contributed to the research and writing of the first edition of World Regional Geography with Lydia Pulsipher. Since then he has continued to write and restructure content for subsequent editions, and has created innumerable maps and over 120 photo essays.   He has also traveled to South America, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Europe to collect information in support of the text and for the Web site.  In addition to his work on World Regional Geography, Alex developed the first, second, and third editions of World Regional Geography Concepts. He has a master’s degree in geography from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.