Notebooks (Mona's Notebook, Rod's Notebook, Patricia's Notebook). Designed like blog entries from the authors, with photos taken during his/her travels, these essays show students how working geographers investigate the world.
New Coverage. The new edition uses the most recent Census data (2010) throughout and covers new topics such as Favelas (shantytowns in developing countries, and Internet usage and language change (“Internetisms” like LOL and emoticons).
More Emphasis on Cultural Landscape. Expanded coverage of this theme in each chapter includes more photos.
New marginal definitions. Students now have a quick way to help them master the terminology of human geography.
GeographyPortal for Human Geography. This comprehensive online resource provides a complete, easy-to-use, fully customizable solution for today's classroom. GeographyPortal combines a complete eBook (integrating the text and all student media) with rich suite of assets (videos, mapping exercises, GoogleEarth guide and exercises, articles from Focus on Geography magazine, updates from Gallup WorldWind.
New Computerized Test Bank with approx 2,500 questions.
New, colorful design