The study guide retains the exercises that have made it a useful pedagogical tool over three editions. Mapping exercises help the students understand and explain geographic patterns by employing the skills geographers themselves routinely use.

This study guide and book of mapping exercises was designed to hone student skills in geographic analysis in the context of the main themes of each chapter. Mapping exercises are designed to help the students understand and explain geographic patterns through the use of skills geographers would use.

Shows how individuals are affected by, and respond to, economic, social, and political forces at all levels of scale: global, regional and local. It offers an inclusive picture of people in a globalizing world - men, women, children, both mainstream and marginalized citizens - not as seen from a western perspective, but as they see themselves. Core topics of physical, economic, cultural, and political geography are examined from a contemporary perspective, based on authoritative insights from recent geographic theory and examples from countries from around the world.