I believe an instructor would benefit from introducing more maps, cartograms, charts, tables, etc., to supplement the book's graphics and to suit their own teaching objectives. The order of the chapters, Europe being the first chapter, is a nod to academic geography's European roots and tradition. This book is suitable for an introductory world regional geography course. I did not find any offensive language or culturally insensitive issues. The book attempts to keep a sensitive posture. I found no grammatical errors when reviewing the book. Some of the pictures were a little blurry when printed. I found no interface issues when reviewing the book. It can be rearranged easily to suit the instructor's needs. The chapter arrangement by regions, beginning with Europe, is fairly standard and an instructor can easily rearrange the order to suit the progression desired. While there are map and photo illustrations, I would prefer more maps and other graphic illustrations be provided to give visual means of identifying spatial distributions and location.įormat and content including takeaways, study questions, and chapter summaries are consistent throughout the book. The text writing is in a very straight forward style that should be welcomed by students and faculty users. Since subjects are arranged by region and country, the text should be easily updated. The book was up to date despite the constantly changing subject matter of world regional geography. On the positive side, currency of tables and charts (and maps) is always a problem in geography texts. There are, however, very few tables and charts to provide comparison data and the ones that are there can be a little old. I noted no errors in my review of the book material. The introductory chapter could go a little more into the melding of physical and human geography and the geographic approach. It covers the world in a fairly standard regionalization and provides material on different dimensions of culture in each chapter. This book is fairly comprehensive and timely. Reviewed by Richard Miller, lecturer, Kapiolani Community College on 3/29/21 Journalism, Media Studies & Communications +.
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