Description
Jerry T. Mitchell, PhD, is Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina and an avid world traveler. Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Grounded: The Geographic Basics 5 Chapter 1: Geography: The Why of Where and Why You Should Care 7 Chapter 2: Thinking Like a Geographer 19 Chapter 3: Lining Up Locations 29 Chapter 4: Truthiness in Mapping 41 Chapter 5: Telling a Spatial Story 59 Part 2: Let’s Get Physical: Land, Water, and Air 79 Chapter 6: Shape-shifting Earth 81 Chapter 7: A Nip and a Tuck: Giving Earth a Facelift 103 Chapter 8: Making a Splash on Earth 119 Chapter 9: Warming Up and Chilling Out: Why Climates Happen 137 Chapter 10: Connecting Climates and Vegetation 159 Part 3: Peopling the Planet 179 Chapter 11: Nobody Here But A Few Billion Friends 181 Chapter 12: Shift Happens: Migration 203 Chapter 13: Culture: The Way We Live 219 Chapter 14: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors 239 Part 4: Putting the Planet to Use 261 Chapter 15: Takin’ Care of Business 263 Chapter 16: Earth’s Resources: Always Hungry for More 283 Chapter 17: Downtown to the ‘Burbs: Urban Geography 301 Chapter 18: Only One Home: Impacts on the Environment 323 Part 5: The Part of Tens 343 Chapter 19: Ten Organizations for Geography in Action 345 Chapter 20: Ten Interesting Career Paths for Geographers 351 Chapter 21: Ten Things You Can Forget 357 Chapter 22: Ten Great Places for Online Geography 365 Index 371
