Physical Geography: An Earth-System Approach

Science & Math

De Blij, Harm J.

Müller, Peter O.

Williams, Richard S.

Earth Sciences

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Fully revised and presented in fifty-two short, easy-to-teach units, the third edition of Physical Geography: The Global Environment covers complex topics including long-distance weather linkages, biodiversity, and global change in a manner easily accessible to first- and second-year undergraduates. Set against a backdrop of human interaction with the environment, the text offers comprehensive treatments of Earth's five major components: the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the lithosphere, the cryosphere, and the biosphere. FEATURES OF THE THIRD EDITION ·Unit Approach: Flexible, self-contained units make the material in the text easier for students to understand and instructors to navigate. ·From the Field Notes: This thought-provoking collection of on-the-scene geographical photographs and writings is taken from the travels of Professor de Blij, who was the Geography Editor on ABC's Good Morning America for seven years and subsequently the Geography Analyst for NBC News. This compelling feature includes new photographs with expanded captions and accompanying locator maps that pinpoint each picture's global position. ·Perspectives on the Human Environment: These revised boxed essays in each unit highlight humanity's relationships with the environment. ·New and Improved Art Program: More than 90% of the photographs, 4-color maps, illustrations, and line art that appear throughout the text are new to this edition. ·Systems Approach Part Openers: These stunning, full-page illustrations graphically display and interrelate each Earth system. ·Web Resources: Included at the end of each unit, these links give students an interactive way to find out more about concepts discussed in the unit. NEW-STUDENT ANCILLARIES ·Study Guide-packaged with each copy of the text-includes unit outlines, glossaries, activities for reinforcement, and review tests with answer keys Hazards Website: provides supplemental information about earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and other geological, meteorological and biological hazards. Access it at Natural Hazards http://www.oup-usa.org/naturalhazards. NEW-INSTRUCTOR ANCILLARIES ·Instructor's Manual with Test Bank: contains unit summaries, lecture guides, lists of additional references, and a test bank with approximately 1500 multiple choice, short answer, and short essay questions ·Instructor's CD-ROM: includes a computerized version of the test bank and PowerPointRB slides of all line art and selected photography from the text ·Overhead Transparencies: 200 color acetates of selected line art from the text are available upon request

Physical Geography: The Global EnvironmentText Book & Study Guide

Williams Jr., Richard S.

Oxford University Press

This package includes Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Third Edition, and the New Concise World Atlas--an ideal companion to this popular textbook, featuring hundreds of dramatic, large-format maps produced by Europe's finest team of cartographers. It offers full-color renderings of every region from the Arctic Ocean to the Volga Basin, revealing detailed political and topographical information about each of the 191 countries recognized by the United Nations. The atlas opens with six pages of compiled statistics on world population, climate, and geography. In addition, a highly-illustrated "Earth in Space" thematic section provides twenty-two essays on the Earth's human and natural processes as well as numerous photographs, maps, charts, and graphs. The body of the New Concise consists of fully digitized, computer-generated maps that provide detailed political and topographical information. It includes "Regions in the News" sections that highlight areas that have undergone significant change or upheaval in the last year. These thematic maps illustrate local ethnic populations and occupied territories, helping to decode some of the issues plaguing Colombia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, and other areas.  Atlas Features · Covers changes in political geography, including revised province names and boundaries in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Czech Republic, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Paraguay and Venezuela, as well as the introduction of the Euro to the European economy · Offers star charts, satellite images, and a tour through the solar system and the universe · Includes a 55,000-entry index with historical cross-references · Provides page number indicators and locator windows that allow for easy identification of adjacent map pages

Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Third Edition and New Concise World Atlas, College Edition

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Physical Geography The Global Environment

De Blij, H. J.

Conrad, Cathy T.

LONG

Build the course you want to teach. Well known for its flexibility, clarity of presentation, and graphic excellence, Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Fourth Edition, provides a thorough, scientifically authoritative, accessible, and geographic view into Earth's physical systems. DISTINCTIVE FEATURES Flexible structure: Fifty short, self-contained units make the material in the text easier for students to understand and provide instructors with maximum flexibility in assigning readings, rearranging the order in which materials are taught, and customizing content. Accessible presentation: Written by four scholars--each with decades of successful teaching and writing experience--the book presents complex topics in clear, student-friendly language. Affordable price: Oxford University Press USA, a department of the University of Oxford, is a not-for-profit publisher devoted to furthering the university's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Since accessible materials clearly support this mission, OUP USA uses a combination of not-for-profit status and financial discipline to offer course materials that generally cost students significantly less than those offered by commercial publishers. SUPPORT PACKAGE (www.oup.com/us/deblij) Physical Geography, Fourth Edition, is supported by an extensive and carefully produced supplements program, providing everything instructors need to prepare, present, and assess progress in their course in one easy-to-use package. The package includes: Oxford University Press Animation Series: The authors have worked with leading animators to produce clear, dramatic, and illustrative animations and visualizations of some of the most important concepts in physical geography. Digital Images and PowerPoint Presentations: All of the animations from the Oxford University Press Animation Series, all of the images from the text, and several animations and visualizations from other sources are available to instructors, pre-inserted into PowerPoint. In addition, our ancillary author team has created lecture outlines, arranged by unit, in PowerPoint. Test Questions and Testing Software: Written by experienced professors and answerable directly from the text, these test questions provide instructors with a useful tool for creating and administering tests. Animation and Visualization Exercises: Fun and interactive, these computer-graded exercises allow students to explore physical geography through a series of engaging, hands-on activities. Review Questions: Available for each unitof the book, these computer-graded review questions can be assigned as homework--or used by students for self-review. Lab Manual: Specifically designed to accompany the textbook, this affordable resource includes twenty concise labs. (978-0-19-985962-7) Oxford Homework Online: Simple, intuitive, and mobile, this online resource puts the entire teaching and learning package in one place.* With assignment and assessment results flowing into a straightforward, interactive gradebook, the nationally hosted online learning course gives instructors a clear view into students' progress. And the system works on every major platform and device--including mobile devices! (www.oup.com/us/deblij) * Website does not include the Lab Manual.

Physical Geography: The Global Environment

Burt, James E.

Mason, Joseph A.

As its new, elaborated title suggests, The World Today: Concepts and Regions in Geography focuses on the geography of the world toward the close of the first decade of the twenty-first century and serves as a guide to geographic ideas and perspectives, past and present. Authors H. J. de Blij and Peter Muller continue in their tradition of providing authoritative content, currency, and outstanding cartography in a concise, technology-rich package with the third edition of The World Today: Concepts and Regions in Geography. Thoroughly updated, the third edition includes a new, engaging and currency-driven photo program, expanded data, and a new chapter feature--What's Driving Geographic Change in the Realm.

The World Today: Concepts and Regions in Geography

wiley

The World Today, Study Guide: Concepts and Regions in Geography

Now substantially revised and updated, the Thirteenth Edition of de Blij and Muller's Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts continues to deliver the authors' authoritative content, outstanding cartography, currency, and comprehensive coverage, in a technology-rich package. The text reflects major developments in the world as well as in the discipline, ranging from the collapse of Russia's Post-Soviet transformation to the impact of globalization and from the rise of Asia's Pacific Rim to the war in Iraq. Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts, 13e is available in 3 versions: 
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<li>ISBN 978-0-470-25134-8: Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts, 13e, WileyPLUS Stand-alone version of de Blij 13e.</li> <li>ISBN 978-0-470-28080-5: Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts, 13e, de Blij 13e with WileyPLUS.</li> <li>ISBN 978-0-470-89665-5: Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts, 13e, Binder Ready Version of de Blij 13e.</li> </ul>

Realms, Regions and Concepts, 13th Edition

Travel

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Anyone interested in learning about geographic concepts will appreciate this concise book. The fourth edition presents authoritative content, currency, and outstanding cartography in a technology-rich package. Readers will learn about the most important concepts through a streamlined pedagogy. New coauthor Antoinette WinklerPrins also helps create a seamless integration of multimedia with traditional narrative. An engaging photo program and updated data help make The World Today an exciting book for any reader.

WinklerPrins, Antoinette M. G. A.

Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts

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