Fully updated coverage, including Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear incident; democratization protests in the Islamic world; capture and death of Osama bin Laden.
Reasons for Optimism Photo Essays in each chapter, highlighting instances in each region where solutions to problems are being found.
Historical Timelines for each region, two-page photo-rich spreads that cover the history of the region without devoting excessive pages to the subject.
Learning objectives beginning each chapter, and revisited when relevant in chapter, including in the “Things to Remember” speedbumps and the end-of-chapter questions.
Thematic Overviews of the region offering a visual introduction to the coverage that follows
Geography Portal, in a version specific to this edition, offering full suite of assets, including videos, mapping exercises, GoogleEarth guide and exercises, articles from Focus on Geography magazine, physical geography videos.
Computerized Test Bank--with approx 3,000 questions specific to this edition.
Video program integrated into text via icons. All videos found on the optional premium video Web site, Geography Videos and Map Quizzing (
www.whfreeman.com/geographyvideos)