Geography

Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography, the discipline today is unique as a subject which can bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities, and between the environment and our society. Using wide-ranging examples from global warming and oil, to urbanization and ethnicity, this Very Short Introduction paints a broad picture of the current state of Geography, its subject matter, concepts and methods, and its strengths and controversies. The book>'s conclusion is no less than a manifesto for Geography>'s future.

ISBN	0199211280	Pages	160
ISBN13	9780199211289 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Oxford University Press	Weight (grammes)	172
Imprint	Oxford University Press	Published in	Oxford
Format	Paperback	Series title	Very Short Introductions
Publication date	22 May 2008	Height (mm)	174
Library of Congress	2008000176	Width (mm)	111
DEWEY	910	Spine width (mm)	11
DEWEY edition	DC22	Academic level	Undergraduate

	List of illustrations
1	Geography: the world is our stage	1
2	The physical dimension: our natural environments	21
3	The human dimension: people in their places	50
4	Geography as a whole: the common ground	82
5	How geographers work	105
6	Geography's present and future	134
	References	158
	Further reading	163
	Index	171

Matthews and Herbert's book is written- as befits the VSI series- in an accessible prose style and is peppered with attractive and understandable images, graphs and tables. geographical. The authors make an honest effort to represent the wide and diverse range of proffesional geographers' interests. Geographical,

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