World Regional Geography

Global Patterns, Local Lives

Eighth Edition

Publication Date: September 16, 2020

Paperback ISBN: 9781319324858

Pages: 752

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Pulsipher’s World Regional Geography shows the rich diversity of human life and demystifies global issues by representing the daily lives of different people in the various regions of our globe. A thematic framework and consistent end of chapter support helps students think critically...

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1. Geography: An Exploration of Connections

2. North America

3. Middle and South America

4. Europe

5. Russia and the Post-Soviet States

6. North Africa and Southwest Asia

7. Sub-Saharan Africa

8. South Asia

9. East Asia

10. Southeast Asia

11. Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific

Epilogue 1: Polar Regions

Epilogue 2: Space

Chapters introduce students to each region through a case study designed to spark curiosity and highlight the relevance of World Regional Geography to students’ lives.
Thematic Framework provides focus and structure for both students and instructors concentrating on the five major themes of environment, globalization and development, power and politics, urbanisation, population and gender.
Each chapter ends includes visual concept maps and detailed questions to solidify the students understanding and encourage them to think critically about the material covered.
Interesting visual elements such as photo essays, historical timelines and maps help students visualise the regions and geographical concepts they are exploring throughout the text.

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Learning Objectives make it clear to students the important concepts they should understand after reading each chapter.
The epilogue discussing Antarctica now includes the Arctic for comparative coverage in the context of climate change as well as discussions of Space an increasingly important geographical topic.
Revised coverage of climate change, global economic recession, and many more current events ensures students are up-to-date with even the most fast-moving subfields of world geography.

Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher

Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher is a cultural-historical geographer who studies the landscapes and lifeways of ordinary people through the lenses of archaeology, geography, and ethnography. She has contributed to several geography-related exhibits at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., including “Seeds of Change,” which featured the research she and Conrad Goodwin did in the eastern Caribbean. Lydia Pulsipher has ongoing research projects in the eastern Caribbean (historical archaeology) and in central Europe, where she is interested in various aspects of the post-Communist transition and social inclusion policies in the European Union. Her graduate students have studied human ecology issues in the Caribbean and border issues and issues of national identity and exclusion in several central European countries. She has taught cultural, gender, European, North American, and Mesoamerican geography at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville since 1980; through her research, she has given many students their first experience in fieldwork abroad. Previously she taught at Hunter College and Dartmouth College. She received her B.A. from Macalester College, her M.A. from Tulane University, and her Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University. For personal enjoyment, she works in her gardens, cans the produce, bakes rhubarb pies, and encourages the musical talents of her grandchildren.

Alex Pulsipher

Alex A. Pulsipher is an independent scholar in Knoxville, Tennessee, who has conducted research on vulnerability to climate change, sustainable communities, and the diffusion of green technologies in the United States. In the early 1990s, Alex spent time in South Asia working for a sustainable development research center. He then completed a B.A. at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, writing his undergraduate thesis on the history of Hindu nationalism. Beginning in 1995, Alex contributed to the research and writing of the first edition of World Regional Geography with Lydia Pulsipher. Since then he has continued to write and restructure content for subsequent editions, and has created innumerable maps and over 120 photo essays.   He has also traveled to South America, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Europe to collect information in support of the text and for the Web site.  In addition to his work on World Regional Geography, Alex developed the first, second, and third editions of World Regional Geography Concepts. He has a master’s degree in geography from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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