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Auteur(s) : CollectifEditeur : Macmillan LearningLangue : Anglais Parution : 01/12/2014Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kgNombre de pages : 544Expédition : 1216Dimensions : 27.7 x 23.4 x 1.9
ISBN : 1464133441
Résumé :
This textbook actually shows your students what real life geographers do. How they are able to conduct different types of research, develop new insights and teach us more about the world through a geographer's viewpoint. These are all skills that can then be applied in a wide range of academic and professional areas.
With chapters organised into 5 different themes, you can choose which areas of the text you wish to focus on, including (mobility, region, globalization, nature-culture, cultural landscape). You can also introduce your students to a number of fascinating contemporary topics, such as vampire tourism, the rise of the LBGT districts, texting and language modification. Contemporary Human Geography is available with LaunchPad. LaunchPad combines an interactive ebook with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing.? See 'Instructor Resources' and 'Student Resources' for further information.
Biographie:
?Mona Domash??is the Joan P. and Edward J. Foley, Jr. 1933 professor of geography at Dartmouth College. She earned her Ph.D. at Clark University. Her research has examined the links between gender ideologies and the cultural and material formation of large American cities in the nineteenth century, and the role that gender and whiteness played in the selling of American products overseas in the early twentieth century. ?She is currently engaged in research that focuses on the material practices and everyday encounters of United States-based corporations in four different sites outside the United States.
Roderick P. Neumann is a professor of geography in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies the complex interactions of culture and nature through a specific focus on national parks and natural resources. In his research, he combines the analytical tools of cultural and political ecology with landscape studies. He has pursued these investigations through historical and ethnographic research mostly in East Africa, with some comparative work in North America and Central America. His current research explores interwoven narratives of nature, landscape, and identity in the European Union, with a particular emphasis on Spain.?
Patricia L. Price is associate professor of geography at Florida International University. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Connecting the long-standing theme of humanistic scholarship in geography to more recent critical approaches best describes her ongoing intellectual project. From her initial field research in Mexico, she has extended her focus to the border between Mexico and the United States and, most recently, to south Florida as a borderland of sorts. Recent field research is on comparative ethnic neighborhoods, conducted with colleagues and graduate students in Phoenix, Chicago, and Miami, and funded by the National Science Foundation. She is using this work to discuss the Latinos/as, neighborhood change, civic engagement, immigrant and exile landscapes, and critical geographies of race.?
Sommaire:
1. Human Geography: A Cultural Approach.-?2. Many Worlds: Geographies of Cultural Difference.-?3. Population Geography: Shaping the Human Mosaic.-?4. The Geography of Language: Building the Spoken Word.-?5. Geographies of Race and Ethnicity: Mosaic or Tapestry?.-?6. Political Geography: A Divided World.-?7. The Geography of Religion: Space and Places of Sacredness.-?8. Agriculture: The Geography of the Global Food System.-?9. Development Geography: Growth, Transformation, and Exchange.-?10. The Geography of Cities: A World of Cities.-?11. One World or Many? The Cultural Geography of the Future
