Jerome D. Fellmann,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Arthur Getis,
San Diego State University Judith Getis
ISBN: 0073051519 Copyright year: 2008
What's New
New in this Edition:
This tenth edition retains the basic format of its predecessors but contains significant content changes including new and revised tables, maps, and text. The world of human geography is constantly changing in response to developing cultural, economic, and political patterns.
Updated artwork, illustrations, and photos throughout. As in previous editions, artwork has been generated to accommodate colorblind readers.
Many new, expanded, and updated topics have been added throughout, including: revised material on immigration flows and ethnic groups, expanded discussion of the intensive commercial orientation of American agriculture, expanded treatment of WTO negotiations including the Doha round, information on transnational corporations and the impact of high-tech industries on national economies and world trade.
Chapter 10 includes an extensive update and the latest available data on the many social and economic indicators. In addition, there is a new section reviewing the United Nations “Millennium Development Goals” that are central to the identification of national development objectives and assessment of achievements.
Chapter 11 has been rewritten and restructured to make its content easier to understand and more accessible to students.
Revised “Getting Started” section, including new “What Is Geography?” subsection.
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