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The World Today: Concepts and Regions in Geography, 5th Edition

Harm de Blij, Peter O. Muller, Jan Nijman, Antoinette M. G. A. WinklerPrins
October 2010, ©2011
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.

WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES.

CHAPTER 1A EUROPE: DEFINING THE REALM.

CHAPTER 1B EUROPE: REGIONS OF THE REALM.

CHAPTER 2A RUSSIA: DEFINING THE REALM.

CHAPTER 2B RUSSIA: REGIONS OF THE REALM.

CHAPTER 3A NORTH AMERICA: DEFINING THE REALM.

CHAPTER 3B NORTH AMERICA: REGIONS OF THE REALM.

CHAPTER 4A MIDDLE AMERICA: DEFINING THE REALM.

CHAPTER 4B MIDDLE AMERICA: REGIONS OF THE REALM.

CHAPTER 5A SOUTH AMERICA: DEFINING THE REALM.

CHAPTER 5B SOUTH AMERICA: REGIONS OF THE REALM.

CHAPTER 6A SUBSAHARAN AFRICA: DEFINING THE REALM.

CHAPTER 6B SUBSAHARAN AFRICA: REGIONS OF THE REALM.

CHAPTER 7A NORTH AFRICA/SOUTHWEST ASIA: DEFINING THE REALM.

CHAPTER 7B NORTH AFRICA/SOUTHWEST ASIA: REGIONS OF THE REALM.

CHAPTER 8A SOUTH ASIA: DEFINING THE REALM.

CHAPTER 8B SOUTH ASIA: REGIONS OF THE REALM.

CHAPTER 9A EAST ASIA: DEFINING THE REALM.

CHAPTER 9B EAST ASIA: REGIONS OF THE REALM.

CHAPTER 10A SOUTHEAST ASIA: DEFINING THE REALM.

CHAPTER 10B SOUTHEAST ASIA: REGIONS OF THE REALM.

CHAPTER 11 THE AUSTRAL REALM.

CHAPTER 12 PACIFIC REALM AND POLAR FUTURES.

APPENDIX A METRIC STANDARD INTERNATIONAL (SI) AND CUSTOMARY UNITS AND THEIR CONVERSIONS.

APPENDIX B AREA AND DEMOGRAPHIC DATA FOR THE WORLD'S STATES.

GLOSSARY.

INDEX.

New To This Edition
  • Innovative new two-part chapter structure allows for instructor customization 
  • Updated coverage of globalization in the introductory chapter and throughout the text
  • Stronger emphasis on environmental and demographic changes throughout
  • New and updated content in Chapter 8 (South Asia), revised by new co-author Jan Nijman, a specialist on this geographic realm
  • Revised content in Chapter 5 (South America), including new material on its political, cultural, and economic geography as well as its ongoing development
  • Expanded and updated content in Chapter 12 (Pacific Realm and Polar Futures)
  • All quantitative information and data updated to 2010 throughout the text and appendices
Hallmark Features
  • The most authoritative, accurate, and current brief World Regional Geography text available
  • Major Geographic Qualities of Each Realm
  • What’s Driving Geographic Change in the Realm

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The World Today: Concepts and Regions in Geography, 5th Edition
by Harm de Blij, Peter O. Muller, Jan Nijman, Antoinette M. G. A. WinklerPrins
ISBN 978-0-470-64638-0
October 2010, ©2011
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