Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context, 7th edition

For courses in Human Geography.

A distinctly modern look at human geography

Described as “fresh, innovative, and intelligent,” Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context is acclaimed for its global approach, conceptual rigor, engaging real-world applications, and outstanding visual program. Knox and Marston foster awareness of current issues and developing trends from a geographic perspective, and provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of human geography.
The authors integrate compelling local, regional, and global viewpoints to give meaning to people and places. By providing access to the latest ideas, concepts, and theories, the text deepens students’ understanding of the interdependence of places and regions in a globalizing world. The Seventh Edition extends Knox/Marston’s modern approach, integrating new technology as well as new visual and thematic features relevant to human geography today.

Also available as a Pearson eText or packaged with Mastering Geography

Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience that can be adopted on its own as the main course material. It lets students highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place, even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class — motivating them to keep reading, and keep learning. Learn more about Pearson eText.

• NEW! A new organizational structure now includes standalone chapters on Cultural Geographies and Language, Communication, and Belief.
• NEW! Chapter 6: Language, Communication, and Belief gives a better focus on how both language and religion reflect and influence societies, as well as how they spread around the world, and how they permeate politics and social life.
• Several important themes are woven into every chapter:
• Interdependence of people and places, especially the interactive relationships between the core and the periphery.
• Social and cultural differences that are embedded in human geographies, especially the differences that relate to race, ethnicity, gender, age, and class.
• The relationship between global processes and their local manifestations.
• The continuing transformation of the political economy of the world system and nations, regions, cities, and localities.
• UPDATED! A changing-world perspective takes a contemporary approach to human geography, reflecting many trends in the discipline. The Seventh Edition provides the most up-to-date coverage with amplified and integrated emphasis on the critical topics and themes of today:
• Sustainability
• Climate change
• Gender
• Place, space, and scale
• Knox/Marston’s hallmark global framework:
• Promotes a strong connection between topical and regional material by emphasizing how their processes are linked (e.g., technological innovation and the varying ways technology is adopted and modified by people and places).
• Facilitates meaningful comparisons between people and places in different parts of the world, such as how the core-generated industrialization of agriculture shapes gender relations in households, both in the core and in the periphery.
• Presents the relevant aspects of academic human geography (e.g., geopolitics and its role in the social construction of spaces and places).
• UPDATED! A renewed focus on fundamentals gives students access not only to the new ideas, concepts, and theories that address the changes mentioned above, but also to the fundamentals of human geography: the principles, concepts, theoretical frameworks, and basic knowledge.
• Chapter 1 focuses on basic introductory human geography content, allowing the text to be accessible to a wide range of intro courses and students.

Engaging real-world applications and graphics allow students to visualize a place or culture

• UPDATED! The Visualizing Geography features consistently incorporate edgy, modern applications and visualizations of current spatial data. Highly visual, these interesting and challenging Infographics are unique, and set apart Knox/Marston’s visual program even further from other texts of its kind.
• NEW! Spatial Inequality features highlight the growing imbalances and inequalities in today’s global society relative to the chapter’s major themes.
• UPDATED! The reimagined Geography Matters features, authored by expert contributors from the community, present contemporary research and hot topics in geography subfields. Geography Mattersshow how geographers are using their unique tools and perspectives to solve contemporary real-world problems, emphasizing how geography and the geographic method matter in the world today.
• UPDATED! The Future Geographies section at the end of each chapter emphasizes the modern, forward-looking appeal of this text, and increases “futures” content in context. Future Geographies now feature current projections and data and an Apply Your Knowledge feature so that students can put concepts into action.

• Window on the World features take a key concept and explore its application in a particular location. This feature allows students to appreciate the relevance of geographic concepts to world events and brings far-flung places closer to their comprehension.
• NEW! Data Analysis activities at the end of each chapter gives students the chance to put their understanding of key themes in the chapter into practice.

• The superior cartographic program consists of hundreds of rich, diverse, and fully updated maps to help professors better teach their students the important spatial elements inherent to human geography. In addition to the hundreds of maps that display meticulous attention to detail, the visual program includes:
• Compound Figures that combine maps with photographs and illustrations. These compound figures capture student interest by integrating spatial, visual, and conceptual information.
• Everyday-life and mental maps that feature people's perceptions of their surroundings, and highlight maps as useful tools for conducting everyday life.

Active learning tools help students master the material

• NEW! Quick Response (QR) codes placed in the Visualizing Geography  features give students instant access to data sets and media.

• A Learning Path keeps students on track as they learn, and retain, concepts:
• Learning Outcomes in each chapter opener offer students a structured learning path to guide them through the main learning goals for the chapter. The assignable content in MasteringGeography is also correlated to these learning outcomes.
• UPDATED! Simplified, conceptual Apply Your Knowledge questions are integrated throughout the chapter sections, giving students a chance to stop and practice/apply their understanding for a more active learning approach. The first of these paired questions is now a lower level knowledge-based reading question, while the second is a higher-level application question.
• NEW! Active learning assessments are now included in all boxed features so that students can check their understanding as they read.
• NEW! The end-of-chapter Data Analysis activity feature takes students beyond traditional review material. Students will remain engaged and further their understanding as they manipulate media, collect data, and use interactive mapping and GIS.
• The Learning Outcomes Revisited feature is found at the end of each chapter and summarizes chapter content correlated to the Learning Outcomes stated in each chapter opener as the final step of the structured learning path.
• Chapter-opening anecdotes relevant to the subject matter engage students with interesting and varied topics.
• Review and Discussion Questions at the end of each chapter can be easily assigned for group discussions or student essays.
• End-of-chapter Unplugged questions challenge students to go out into the field and apply the geographic knowledge acquired in the chapter to real-world situations.

Also available as a Pearson eText or packaged with Mastering Geography

Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience that can be adopted on its own as the main course material. It lets students highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place, even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class — motivating them to keep reading, and keep learning.

Mastering Geography is the leading online homework, tutorial, and assessment product designed to improve results by helping students quickly master concepts. Self-paced coaching activities feature immediate wrong-answer feedback and hints that emulate the office-hour experience.

The ideal platform for all stages of your course

• Learning Management System (LMS) Integration provides seamless access to Mastering. We’ve made it easier to link from within your LMS to Mastering and provide solutions, regardless of your LMS platform. Learn more about LMS Integration.
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• Mastering’s powerful gradebook records all scores for automatically graded assignments. Struggling students and challenging assignments are highlighted in red, giving you an at-a-glance view of potential hurdles in the course.
• Mastering’s diagnostics and insights provide unique insight into class and student performance. With a single click, you can view charts that summarize the most difficult problems, identify vulnerable students, and indicate grade distribution and score improvement over the duration of the course.
• Using data gathered from all of the students using the program, Mastering offers wrong-answer feedback that is specific to each student. Rather than simply providing feedback of the “right/wrong/try again” variety, Mastering guides students towards the correct final answer without giving the answer away.
• Mastering provides two types of hints that help students work through, and ultimately solve, problems. Declarative hints provide advice on how to approach the problem, guiding students to the final answer. Socratic hints break a problem down into smaller sub-problems, which makes it easier for students to complete the original problem.
• Mastering’s dynamic, best-in-class content is continually being improved based on data generated through classroom use, resulting in content that is driven by the performance of actual students. We make corrections to improve problems that have ambiguous answer choices, ineffectual detractors, or tricky language, and continue to strengthen each problem through ongoing review of the data generated by Mastering students.

Integrated media let students explore far-off places from their smartphone or laptop

• NEW! Geography Videos from such sources as the BBC and the Financial Times are now included in addition to the videos from Television for the Environment’s Life and Earth Report series in MasteringGeography. Over 150 new video clips for over 10 hours of new video available in MasteringGeography, all with automatically-graded assessment activities that can be assigned by teachers.
• UPDATED! MapMaster™ Interactive Map Activities use enhanced critical thinking exercises toimprove students’ geographic literacy. MapMaster is a powerful interactive map tool that includes layered thematic and place name interactive maps at world and regional scales for students to build their geographic literacy and spatial reasoning skills.
• UPDATED! Encounter Activities using Google Earth™ make Google Earth assignable and assessable. Pearson’s Encounter Activities provide rich, interactive explorations of geography concepts using the dynamic features of Google Earth.
• Map Projections Media: These  Geography interactive tutorial media help reinforce and remediate students on the basic yet challenging early semester map projection concepts.
• NEW! GeoTutors. Thesehighlyvisual coaching items with hints and specific wrong answer feedback help students master the most challenging topics in geography.
• Thinking Spatially & Data Analysis activities have students explore and connect conceptual models with real world data and applications.
• NEW! Dynamic Study Modules personalize each student’s learning experience. Created to allow students to acquire knowledge on their own and be better prepared for class discussions and assessments, this mobile app is available for iOS and Android devices.

• Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience available within Mastering Chemistry. It lets students highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place – even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class.

• Learning Catalytics™ is an interactive, classroom tool that uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more sophisticated tasks and thinking. Now included with Mastering with eText, Learning Catalytics enables you to generate classroom discussion, guide your lecture, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. Instructors, you can:

• Pose a variety of open-ended questions that help your students develop critical thinking skills
• Monitor responses to find out where students are struggling
• Use real-time data to adjust your instructional strategy and try other ways of engaging your students during class
• Manage student interactions by automatically grouping students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning

•  A new organizational structure now includes standalone chapters on Cultural Geographies and Language, Communication, and Belief.
• Chapter 6: Language, Communication, and Belief gives a better focus on how both language and religion reflect and influence societies, as well as how they spread around the world, and how they permeate politics and social life.
• UPDATED! A changing-world perspective takes a contemporary approach to human geography, reflecting many trends in the discipline. The Seventh Edition provides the most up-to-date coverage with amplified and integrated emphasis on the critical topics and themes of today:
• Sustainability
• Climate change
• Gender
• Place, space, and scale
• UPDATED! A renewed focus on fundamentals gives students access not only to the new ideas, concepts, and theories that address the changes mentioned above, but also to the fundamentals of human geography: the principles, concepts, theoretical frameworks, and basic knowledge.

Engaging real-world applications and graphics allow students to visualize a place or culture

• UPDATED! The Visualizing Geography features consistently incorporate edgy, modern applications and visualizations of current spatial data. Highly visual, these interesting and challenging Infographics are unique, and set apart Knox/Marston’s visual program even further from other texts of its kind.
• Spatial Inequality features highlight the growing imbalances and inequalities in today’s global society relative to the chapter’s major themes.
• UPDATED! The reimagined Geography Matters features, authored by expert contributors from the community, present contemporary research and hot topics in geography subfields. Geography Mattersshow how geographers are using their unique tools and perspectives to solve contemporary real-world problems, emphasizing how geography and the geographic method matter in the world today.
• UPDATED! The Future Geographies section at the end of each chapter emphasizes the modern, forward-looking appeal of this text, and increases “futures” content in context. Future Geographies now feature current projections and data and an Apply Your Knowledge feature so that students can put concepts into action.
• Data Analysis activities at the end of each chapter gives students the chance to put their understanding of key themes in the chapter into practice.

Active learning tools help students master the material

•  Quick Response (QR) codes placed in the Visualizing Geography  features give students instant access to data sets and media.

Also available as a Pearson eText or packaged with Mastering Geography

Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience that can be adopted on its own as the main course material. It lets students highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place, even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class — motivating them to keep reading, and keep learning.

Mastering Geography is the leading online homework, tutorial, and assessment product designed to improve results by helping students quickly master concepts. Self-paced coaching activities feature immediate wrong-answer feedback and hints that emulate the office-hour experience.

Integrated media let students explore far-off places from their smartphone or laptop

• Geography Videos from such sources as the BBC and the Financial Times are now included in addition to the videos from Television for the Environment’s Life and Earth Report series in MasteringGeography. Over 150 new video clips for over 10 hours of new video available in MasteringGeography, all with automatically-graded assessment activities that can be assigned by teachers.
• UPDATED! MapMaster™ Interactive Map Activities use enhanced critical thinking exercises toimprove students’ geographic literacy. MapMaster is a powerful interactive map tool that includes layered thematic and place name interactive maps at world and regional scales for students to build their geographic literacy and spatial reasoning skills.
• UPDATED! Encounter Activities using Google Earth™ make Google Earth assignable and assessable. Pearson’s Encounter Activities provide rich, interactive explorations of geography concepts using the dynamic features of Google Earth.
• GeoTutors. Thesehighlyvisual coaching items with hints and specific wrong answer feedback help students master the most challenging topics in geography.
• Dynamic Study Modules personalize each student’s learning experience. Created to allow students to acquire knowledge on their own and be better prepared for class discussions and assessments, this mobile app is available for iOS and Android devices.
• Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience available within Mastering Chemistry. It lets students highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place — even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class.