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8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 An excellent textbook for an introductory geography class Sep 03, 2003
This is an excellent textbook for an introductory geography class. The first chapter is a general introduction with an explanation of some of the terms and vocabulary used. The second chapter covers world physical geography. The rest of the chapters each covers a different region of the world. Each chapter is divided into five sections: environment, population and settlement, culture, geopolitics, and economic and social development. This book describes the details of the different regions of the world and gives us a good idea of what life is like in these different regions. And, it ties what we learn about the different regions to the overall theme of diversity and globalization. The accompanying maps and photographs are beautiful.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Miserable Low-Res Maps, $60 I paid for? Feh. Jan 24, 2012
By Kiva Z. Offenholley
"sloper23"
Bought it obviously for geography course. Chose Kindle b/c half price of hardback, still too expensive. All the maps are miserable low-resolution scans of things which should be hi-res because They Are Detailed Maps, idiots at Prentice-Hall should know this already.
IT'S A GEOGRAPHY COURSE FOR ****'S SAKE, THE MAPS ARE IMPORTANT!!!!!! I AM 53 AND WILL HAVE TO USE A MAGNIFYING GLASS, AND EVERY TIME I DO I WILL REMEMBER WHY, AND HATE ON PRENTICE-HALL, AND AMAZON, AND THE WHOLE COLLEGE TEXTBOOK RACKET, A LITTLE MORE. THIS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MEMORIAL DAY.
I would have paid the extra $60 for maps I can actually read, but I didn't know this is what I was in for, and of course you can't return a Kindle book, you can only complain, at length, and so I am. I have never felt completely ripped off by a Kindle edition of a textbook before, but this is ridiculous. I have been buying books from Amazon since 1995 and I have never felt so completely taken in, it feels like a con job, like buying a DVD and getting some blurry pirated version someone shot in a theater with an iPod, like you get if you buy one sold on a blanket in the subway.
And no, it's not that you can't see anything involving graphics on a Kindle. You can't, of course, but I dropped mine (not from a great height) and it broke, so now that I got an iPad for Christmas I read via the Kindle app. You'd think the maps would look great. You'd be wrong.
I guess "seething with anger" sums it up, so let's just leave it there.
Ok condition Dec 14, 2011
By FAbes
i used this for my Geo class It came with a cd and it was in okay condition, i would recommend it to anyone
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
An excellent textbook for an introductory geography class Sep 03, 2003
This is an excellent textbook for an introductory geography class. The first chapter is a general introduction with an explanation of some of the terms and vocabulary used. The second chapter covers world physical geography. The rest of the chapters each covers a different region of the world. Each chapter is divided into five sections: environment, population and settlement, culture, geopolitics, and economic and social development. This book describes the details of the different regions of the world and gives us a good idea of what life is like in these different regions. And, it ties what we learn about the different regions to the overall theme of diversity and globalization. The accompanying maps and photographs are beautiful.
0 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 geography book Nov 21, 2007
By Wilma Hernandez
"wilma"
This book is so broad and not easy to understand unless you are a geography major or a graduate geography students. Not only me, but other classmates aren't enjoying the book. If you can get another geography book that uses simpler terms.
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