Human geography in action
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Human geography in action
John Wiley & Sons, 2002
2nd ed
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Includes a variety of research methods both quantitative and qualitative. Hands-on activities help readers experience human geography as an active, practical field of study and application.
Table of Contents
- 1. True Maps, False Impressions: Making, Manipulating, and Interpreting Maps
- 2. Layers of Tradition: Culture Regions at Different Scales
- 3. Tracking the AIDS epidemic: Diffusion Through Space and Time
- 4. Newton's First Law of Migration: The Gravity Model
- 5. India's Hidden Momentum: Population Pyramids and the Demographic Transition
- 6. Help Wanted - The Changing Geography of Jobs (No CD Component)
- 7. Rags and Riches: The Dimensions of Development (No CD Component
- 8. Your Daily Bread: Agriculture and Land Use Change in the Global Economy
- 9. Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Market Areas and the Urban Hierarchy
- 10. Reading the Urban Landscape: Census Data and Field Observation (contains a new CD-based Virtual Field Trip)
- 11. The Disappearing Front Range: The Growth of Cities
- 12. Do Orange and Green Clash? Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland
- 13. The Rise of Nationalism and the fall of Yugoslavia: Nations, States, Ethnonationalism, and Irredentism (No CD Component)
- 14. Human Impact on the Environment
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