By Alastair Bonnett
ISBN-10: 1412918685
ISBN-13: 9781412918688
ISBN-10: 1412918693
ISBN-13: 9781412918695
- Alisdair Rogers, collage of Oxford
"A attractive little e-book that is helping to introduce the center strategies of geography and gives an excellent framework for touching on different fields of information and academia."
- Stefan Zimmermann, college of Osnabruck
What is Geography? Geography is a primary fascination with, and a vital strategy for, realizing the way in which the area works.
This textual content deals readers a brief and hugely obtainable account of the guidelines and ideas constituting geography. Drawing out the main issues that outline the topic, what's Geography? demonstrates how and why those topics - like setting and geopolitics- are of basic value.
Including dialogue of either the human and the traditional geographical regions, the textual content seems at key topics like surroundings, house, and position - in addition to geography's equipment and the background of the discipline.
Introductory yet no longer simplified, what's Geography? will supply scholars having the ability to comprehend the heritage and context of the topic with none earlier wisdom. Designed as a key transitional textual content for college students coming into undergraduate classes, this booklet can be of curiosity to all readers attracted to and intrigued via the "geographical imagination".
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