World Regional Geography (with Subregions)Like no other textbook, Pulsipher and Pulsipher’s World Regional Geography humanizes geographical issues by representing the lives of women, men, and children in various regions of the globe. It makes global patterns of trade and consumption meaningful for students by gauging their affect on all regions of the world and the daily lives of ordinary people. NEW! MAP BUILDERClick Preview Materials for a demo. Also available World Regional Geography, Fourth Edition without Subregions September 2007 (©2008), paper, 475 pages, 0-7167-8522-6 |
Contents
WORLD VIGNETTE INDIA Hole in the Wall | 11 |
Material Culture and Technology | 17 |
An Exploration of Connections 1 | 42 |
North America | 53 |
Population Patterns | 64 |
WORLD | 86 |
Environmental Issues | 92 |
Middle and South America | 115 |
SubSaharan Africa | 353 |
Current Geographic Issues | 369 |
At the Local Scale Big Changes Come to Myeka High School | 371 |
Environmental Issues | 392 |
Subregions of SubSaharan Africa | 400 |
The Islands | 406 |
South Asia | 413 |
Themes to Explore in South Asia | 414 |
Current Geographic Issues | 134 |
WORLD VIGNETTE GUATEMALAMEXICO Coffee Country | 142 |
Mexico | 162 |
The Central Andes | 171 |
At the Local Scale AfricanDerived Religions Help | 179 |
Europe | 183 |
158 | 188 |
Current Geographic Issues | 198 |
Subregions of Europe | 222 |
Russia and the Newly Independent States | 245 |
VIDEO | 262 |
Degradation | 275 |
Belarus Moldova and Ukraine | 286 |
North Africa and Southwest Asia | 297 |
Current Geographic Issues | 314 |
Agriculture | 323 |
The Tension Between Religion | 329 |
Subregions of North Africa and Southeast | 337 |
Language and Ethnicity | 430 |
Economic Issues | 438 |
Political Issues | 444 |
Subregions of South Asia | 454 |
Northeastern South Asia | 461 |
Southern South Asia | 467 |
East Asia | 473 |
and Polluted | 505 |
Beijing and Tianjin | 511 |
Southeast Asia | 533 |
Themes to Explore in Southeast Asia | 535 |
Current Geographic Issues | 546 |
Religious Pluralism | 558 |
Environmental Issues | 564 |
Australia New Zealand | 583 |
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Other editions - View all
World Regional Geography: Global Patterns, Local Lives Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher,Alex A. Pulsipher No preview available - 2009 |
World Regional Geography: Global Patterns, Local Lives Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher,Alex Pulsipher,Conrad M. Goodwin No preview available - 2008 |
Common terms and phrases
Adapted Africa agriculture ARCTIC OCEAN areas Asian ATLANTIC OCEAN Basin Belarus Canada capital Caribbean Central century China Chinese cities climate coastal colonial countries crops cultural Desert eastern economic environmental ethnic Europe European European Union example export farmers farms female Figure forest GDP per capita gender geographic global groups growth Gulf human immigrants income increased India indigenous Indonesia industrial investment Iraq Islam Islands Japan Korea labor Lake land living located major Malaysia maquiladoras ment Mexico Middle and South migration million mountains Muslim North America northern PACIFIC OCEAN Pakistan patterns percent political pollution population Population pyramids production rates republics result River role rural Russia social South Asia South Korea Southeast Asia southern Soviet Union subregion tion trade tropical United Nations University urban wealth West western women workers zones
References to this book
Theme Town: A Geography of Landscape and Community in Flagstaff, Arizona Thomas Paradis No preview available - 2003 |