Key Features
A chapter-opening page Focus Preview alerts students to the three, four, or five main themes of the chapters.
A Focus Follow-up section included in the end-of-chapter segments restates those Preview points and summarizes the main concepts and facts the students should have garnered from the chapter content.
A chapter outline is found at the beginning of each chapter. Students and professors can see at a glance what topics are covered in the chapter.
Chapter opening vignettes capture the reader's interest and attention in preparation for the subject matter that follows.
On-Line boxed features located in each chapter point your geography students to the phenomenal Internet resources available to them. For every major concept in the book, your students will have lists of on-line resources to help them explore and research topics.
Geography and Public Policy boxed readings in every chapter spotlight and foster critical thinking about controversial or important issues. These readings, which include Questions to Consider, help students form educated opinions they can express in classroom discussion or examine in research assignments.
Additional boxed readings appear in every chapter to provide further development of points or ideas discussed in the chapter with material intended to peak student interest in the subject.
Chapter summaries at the end of each chapter review key ideas and help the reader pull the material from the chapter together.
A list of Key Words at the end of the chapter provides the reader with terminology essential to the understanding of the chapter material.
For Review questions provide the opportunity for the reader to test his or her understanding of the material.
Selected References of important recent or classic considerations of the chapter's subject matter are provided. The lists include both relatively widely available recent titles and more specialized articles useful to students who are motivated by interest or assignment to delve more deeply into particular subfields of geography.
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