ALL chapters have the following new material:

* On-line box

* "Focus Themes" chapter outline

* "Focus Follow-up" summary

* Revised "Selected Readings"

Chapter 1

Only standard (all chapters) material new: On-line, Focus, etc.

Chapter 2

* Figure 2.10 (Settlement of Americas and Pacific Basin) redone to reflect current information on prehistoric European and Asian migration to Western Hemisphere

* "Cities Brought Low" box replaced with new version

Chapter 3

* Figure 3.27 (Westward shift of U.S. population) revised and updated

Chapter 4

* Population data in text and tables updated to 1999

* Essentially all world maps of population data have been redone and replaced.

Chapter 5

* Revised Table 5.1 (Languages spoken worldwide)

* Revised Fig. 5.33 (Diffusion of Buddhism)

Chapter 6

* Tables 6.1, 6.4, 6.7 (ethnicity data) updated to reflect latest available U.S. and Canadian census data.

* New box "Matter of Race" added

Chapter 7

No substantive changes in this chapter except changes common to all chapters

Chapter 8

* Revised and updated Fig. 8.6 (Share of Agriculture in GDP)

* Revised and updated Fig. 8.26 (Graph: Annual fish harvests)

* New material on fisheries

* New (1999) data on world energy reserves

Chapter 9

* Extensively revised: World Manufacturing Regions section much reduced and tightened to retain main points but minimize regional detail deemed by users as not appropriate in a systematic text.

* Greatly expanded "High-Tech," "Transnational Corporation," and tertiary, quaternary, and quinary service industries discussion.

* New section on "World Trade in Services" section added.

* Reflecting those changes in content and emphasis: New maps, diagrams, and tables.

Chapter 10

* 5 world maps new or revised for this edition

Chapter 11

No substantive changes in this chapter except changes common to all chapters

Chapter 12

* Revised "Legislative Women" box

* Revised "Disintegration of Yugoslavia" box

* Minor updates in text, figures, and figure legends.

Chapter 13

* Revised "Climate Change Summits" box

* Revised "Depleting the Ozone Layer" box

* Updated "exporting waste" section

* Minor additonal updates in text, figures, legends

Appendix B

The modified World Population Data Sheet has been updated to 1999.

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