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Geography is more than just trivia, it can help you understand why we import or export certain products, predict climate change, and even show you where to place fire and police stations when planning a city.
If you’re curious about the world and want to know more about this fascinating place, Geography For Dummies is a great place to start. Whether you’re sixteen or sixty, this fun and easy guide will help you make more sense of the world you live in.
Geography For Dummies gives you the tools to interpret the Earth’s grid, read and interpret maps, and to appreciate the importance and implications of geographical features such as volcanoes and fault lines. Plus, you’ll see how erosion and weathering have and will change the earth’s surface and how it impacts people. You’ll get a firm hold of everything from the physical features of the world to political divisions, population, culture, and economics. You’ll also discover:
- How you can have a rainforest on one side of a mountain range and a desert on the other
- How ocean currents help to determine the geography of climates
- How to choose a good location for a shopping mall
- How you can properly put the plant to good use in everything you do
- How climate affects humans and how humans have affected the climate
- How human population has spread and the impact it has had on our world
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Features key insights, easy–to–read maps, and cool facts
Expand your understanding of geography and today’s world
Mystified by Mercator projections? Mixed up by map symbols? Relax! This fun and easy guide will change your attitude toward longitude and latitude. Professor Charles Heatwole explains geography basics and helps you understand the surrounding world, from physical features and political divisions to climate, population, culture, and economics.
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- Tear–out cheat sheet
- Top ten lists
- A dash of humor and fun
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You live on a very interesting planet, a world of never-ending variety - mountains and plains, oceans and rivers, deserts and forests. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
Excellent book - both interesting and well written. I learnt many new things that I didnt know before. In fact, I didnt realize that geography was such an interesting and varied subject.
Format:Paperback
This is a superb book if you have even the slightest interest in Geography, the author manages to make everything interesting and easy to understand, and contains nuggets of humour throughout. In fact, I may even re-read this. It contains a summary of pretty much everything Geography related, and is a building block to the subject, or even a casual read for those with a quest for knowledge. Worth having on your book shelf!
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Great resource
4 Jan 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you are wanting a book to tell you WHERE things are, then buy an atlas or just use Google Earth. If you are wanting a text to explain WHY things are, then this may be your book.
I teach a Geography course at a Christian private school, and last year, selected this as our textbook. Unlike "normal" texts employed at most schools (both Christian and secular), which tend to be loaded with some sort of agenda - this one simply brings the facts forward in plain, understandable language. I have not regretted my choice. Not only does it cut through the useless crud, it also addresses almost every topic required for the TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) requirements. (I did a line-by-line comparison to justify my choice of text)
It is well organized into 4 main sections and a 5th which is filled with helpful lists. It clearly explains the six essential elements of Geography: 1) The world in spatial terms, 2) Places and regions, 3) Physical systems, 4) Human systems, 5) Environment and society, and 6) Uses of geography.
I have been very pleased with this book... it is even reasonably entertaining to read. I highly recommend it IF you want to learn about the science of Geography. If you just want to know where things are located... you should choose a more appropriate tool.
I teach a Geography course at a Christian private school, and last year, selected this as our textbook. Unlike "normal" texts employed at most schools (both Christian and secular), which tend to be loaded with some sort of agenda - this one simply brings the facts forward in plain, understandable language. I have not regretted my choice. Not only does it cut through the useless crud, it also addresses almost every topic required for the TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) requirements. (I did a line-by-line comparison to justify my choice of text)
It is well organized into 4 main sections and a 5th which is filled with helpful lists. It clearly explains the six essential elements of Geography: 1) The world in spatial terms, 2) Places and regions, 3) Physical systems, 4) Human systems, 5) Environment and society, and 6) Uses of geography.
I have been very pleased with this book... it is even reasonably entertaining to read. I highly recommend it IF you want to learn about the science of Geography. If you just want to know where things are located... you should choose a more appropriate tool.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Technical Geography not much for culture or location!
27 Jan 2012
Format:Paperback
I bought this book as a reference guide for 7th graders. It is well versed in the technical aspects of physical geography and yet has very little on cultural or human elements. I was a little disappointed that there was not more on individual places and people. A good techy reference but not a star in our classroom!
'The Idiots Guide to Geography' (I hate the name, because it just gets the students into the name calling attitude.) is more what I needed with more on the culture and history and people. Thanks!
'The Idiots Guide to Geography' (I hate the name, because it just gets the students into the name calling attitude.) is more what I needed with more on the culture and history and people. Thanks!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Inspiring
14 Oct 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This was an interesting book about a subject I had not thought about in a long time. It did a good job of covering the different subfields of Geography, and explaining the different regions of the world. It was easy to understand the whole way through.
A couple minor irritants came up for me as a Canadian reader. The distances were only ever stated in miles. Most non-fiction books will include the metric in brackets afterward, but this book didn't. I had to mentally convert the measurements from feet to meters and miles to kilometers every time, which was a little annoying.
I enjoyed the ten geographic myths at the end. It was nice to see the Bermuda Triangle get debunked, along with other widespread silly ideas.
Overall, I found Geography for Dummies to be an inspiring book, and it made me want to read more about Geography in the future.
A couple minor irritants came up for me as a Canadian reader. The distances were only ever stated in miles. Most non-fiction books will include the metric in brackets afterward, but this book didn't. I had to mentally convert the measurements from feet to meters and miles to kilometers every time, which was a little annoying.
I enjoyed the ten geographic myths at the end. It was nice to see the Bermuda Triangle get debunked, along with other widespread silly ideas.
Overall, I found Geography for Dummies to be an inspiring book, and it made me want to read more about Geography in the future.
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