Tuesday, August 27, 2013


World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments 5th Edition by Sallie A. Marston, Paul L. Knox, Diana M. Liverman and Vincent Del Casino Jr. presents a powerful global sensibility and an emphasis on current concerns, with models of interdependent growth, spatial and social inequality, and questions of spatial justice.

The authors preserve that areas are the outcomes of a set of dual forces of globalization and regionalization. Therefore, every regional chapter stresses the global techniques of connection that drive distinctive regional processes, making regions different. By studying areas, college students not solely be taught the vital elements of different locations, but additionally come to understand the fundamental processes that drive change.

The text discusses geographies of emerging areas, incorporates reducing-edge data visualizations and infographics, including Quick Response codes linking to on-line media, features a completely modernized cartography program, and much more. The International Geographies framework throughout the book emphasizes the interdependence of locations and processes at completely different scales. Thus, one of the chief organizing ideas within the book is how globalization frames the social and cultural building of specific places and regions.

This approach allows the authors to focus on a number of important concepts such as the links between global and local, the unevenness of political and economic development, and links between society and nature. A focus on process addresses the actions that produce the spatial patterns evident in today's world. Rather than presenting a regional snapshot in time, the authors choose to present these patterns as continually evolving entities, each with a past, a present, and a future.

An emphasis on fundamentals explores the basics of geography: the principles, concepts, theoretical frameworks, and basic knowledge necessary to build a geographic understanding of today’s world, and to sustain a lifelong geographic imagination. Superior cartography and photography offer a rich, diverse visual program with hundreds of maps and photos that help professors better teach their students the important spatial elements inherent to geography.

Geographies of Indulgence, Desire, and Addiction highlight interesting regional connections and serve as an example of the book’s overall global approach. These features link people in one world region to people throughout the world through a discussion of the local production and global consumption of one of the region's primary commodities. End of Chapter Thinking Geographically Questions offer higher-level writing questions to help students apply and synthesize their understanding of chapter concepts and themes.

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