The World Today: Concepts and Regions in Geography 6th Edition by Harm de Blij, Peter O. Muller and Jan Nijman presents authoritative content material, currency, and excellent cartography and continues to construct on its strength for understanding maps with the assistance of extra question types. New coauthor Jan Nijman also helps present a present view of the field.
With its up-to-date info and accessible introduction, this text is engaging for any student. Anyone considering learning about geographic concepts will respect this concise text that highlights very powerful concepts.
This text reflects our continuing dedication to deliver to readers our geographic views on a fast-altering world and its dynamic regional components. For the reason that previous edition, the author crew has spent a lot time traveling, researching, and lecturing in all 12 realms as well as in dozens of countries around the globe, allowing first-hand contact with essentially the most present developments.
Author specializes in geopolitical and environmental issues, and has held named chairs at Georgetown University, Marshall University, and the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. de Blij currently is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Michigan State University, where he also taught throughout the decade of the 1960s. In the interim, he chaired the Geography Department at the University of Miami and served as editor at the National Geographic Society.
Peter O. Muller is Professor of Geography at the University of Miami. Dr. Muller is a nationally recognized expert on suburbanization in the U.S. His primary research interest involves the changing geography of employment within large U.S. metropolitan areas. Jobs are steadily suburbanizing as cities continue their restructuring. It is commonly believed that employment is heavily concentrating in suburban downtowns or "edge cities" but the evidence he has gathered so far suggests that the dispersion of commercial-office-based activity is the more important force.
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