Contemporary Human Geography
Culture, Globalization, LandscapeSecond Edition| ©2019 Roderick P. Neumann; Patricia L. Price
Contemporary Human Geography is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for Geography students. It houses all of our renowned as...
Contemporary Human Geography is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for Geography students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-books, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.
With each chapter organized by five themes (region, mobility, globalization, nature-culture, cultural landscape), Contemporary Human Geography introduces students to geography concepts through fascinating topics such as the distribution of college sports, the relationship of beauty pageants and cultural identity, texting and language modification, and more, continually reinforcing geographers’ contributions to our understanding of how we live in a globalized, modern world. The authors frame this coverage using specific learning objectives to help students focus on essential concepts and prepare for class discussions, assignments, and exams.
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More than any other book for the introductory human geography course, Contemporary Human Geography shows what geographers actually do—how they conduct research, develop new insights, teach us about the world from a geographer’s perspective, and apply their skills in a wide range of academic and professional pursuits.
Contemporary Human Geography is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for Geography students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-books, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.
With each chapter organized by five themes (region, mobility, globalization, nature-culture, cultural landscape), Contemporary Human Geography introduces students to geography concepts through fascinating topics such as the distribution of college sports, the relationship of beauty pageants and cultural identity, texting and language modification, and more, continually reinforcing geographers’ contributions to our understanding of how we live in a globalized, modern world. The authors frame this coverage using specific learning objectives to help students focus on essential concepts and prepare for class discussions, assignments, and exams.
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Contemporary Human Geography is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for Geography students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-book, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.
Achieve highlights include:
- Story Maps, powered by ArcGIS provide an interactive summary of each region using clickable maps with data, narrative, and images to highlight key ideas tied to the five geographic themes in the chapter. Pre-built Story Map Quizzes for each chapter are ready to assign in Achieve.
- Web Maps, powered by ArcGIS are part of the pre-built homework. Students use zoom and search tools, a legend, basemaps, and layers to answer questions and deepen their regional understanding.
- Video Quizzes - each chapter includes a variety of brief videos to expand on topics and geographic themes covered in the chapters. Each video has three to five assessments, making it easy to assign videos and check students’ understanding.
- LearningCurve adaptive quizzing helps students prepare for class and drives them back to the text to reinforce their learning.
- Achieve expands upon the popular active and experiential learning activities found in the text.
Content features include:
Emphasis on Evidence-based Critical Thinking
Contemporary Human Geography presents its field as a dynamic academic pursuit based on observation and evidence, helping students develop informed ideas about geographic issues based on observation and scientific evidence.
Fascinating Contemporary Topics, including how Google maps works, refugees fleeing Syria, the Sudan, and Myanmar, barriers to the global movement of digital information, the purchasing of place names, driving while black, urban agriculture, and celebrities’ role in development.
New York Times Video Connection
Available and assignable in SaplingPlus, the text includes links to relevant New York Times videos, giving students a fresh way to observe and think about human geographic phenomena. Discussion questions accompany each Video Connection in addition to the questions in SaplingPlus.
Doing Geography Experiential Learning
These activities at the end of each chapter put students in the role of a working geographer, giving them the information and resources they need to tackle a specific geographic exercise.
Doing Geography Active Learning
These new activities provide instructors with ways to engage students in the classroom. With 3-5 activities per chapter, instructors can choose what works best for their classroom. These are available in SaplingPlus as an instructor supplement.
Subject to Debate
This feature highlights a current controversy, asking students to think critically about both sides of the issue.
World Heritage Sites
These spectacular two-page features help students analyze the landscapes of some stunning UNESCO World Heritage Sites from a geographer’s point of view.
Geographers @ Work
These interviews offer firsthand accounts of the working lives of professional geographers—what they do, where they work, and how they apply their study of geography to their work.
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Contemporary Human Geography, 2e is now supported in Achieve. Automatically graded homework problems contain hints, answer-specific feedback, and solutions to ensure that students find the help they need. Fully loaded with our interactive e-book and all student and instructor resources, Achieve has a variety of assessments, videos, and animations aligned with each chapter of the text. LearningCurve adaptive quizzing helps students prepare for class and drives them back to the text to reinforce their learning.
Updated: Subject to Debate This feature highlights a current controversy, asking students to think critically about both sides of the issue.
Updated: Maps Every map used throughout the text has been edited or updated.
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Doing Geography Experiential Learning
These activities at the end of each chapter put students in the role of a working geographer, giving them the information and resources they need to tackle a specific geographic exercise.
Doing Geography Active Learning
These activities provide instructors with ways to engage students in the classroom. With 3-5 activities per chapter, instructors can choose what works best for their classroom. Available in Achieve as an instructor supplement.
- Curated Learning Path: Each chapter has a pre-built unit in Achieve. The authors have carefully selected each media type to guide students through all of the learning objectives.
- 30 new video activities provide a brief video related to key concepts from each chapter.
- Powered by ArcGIS Web Maps: Students use zoom and search tools, basemaps, and layers to answer questions and deepen their geographic understanding of key topics.
- Powered by ArcGIS story Maps: One story map per chapter has been designed as an extension activity for students on a key topic.
- Learning Curve: LearningCurve adaptive quizzing is individualized for each student, selecting questions—by difficulty and topic—according to their performance.
- Pre-Built Homework tutorials: Homework for each chapter is designed to guide students to comprehension with wrong-answer-specific feedback, hints, and solutions.
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Contemporary Human Geography
Second Edition| 2019
Roderick P. Neumann; Patricia L. Price
Table of Contents
Contents
- Human Geography: A Cultural Approach
- Geographies of Cultural Difference: One World or Many?
- Population Geography: Shaping the Human Mosaic
- The Geography of Language: Locating the Spoken Word
- Geographies of Race and Ethnicity: Melting Pot or Salad Bowl?
- Political Geography: A Divided World
- The Geography of Religion: Space and Places of Sacredness
- The Geography of Agriculture and Food: Shaping the Land, Feeding the World
- Development Geography: Transforming Landscapes of Well-Being
- Urban Geography: A World of Cities
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