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Don't Know Much About Geography
Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned
1 of 1 copy available
Geography is much more than naming countries on a map or memorizing state capitals. It's the hub from which other disciplines radiate: meteorology, ecology, geology, oceanography, demographics, cartography, agricultural studies, economics, and political science. Yet many of us don't know much about it. This fun and fascinating guide can change that!
In addition to presenting plenty of geographical trivia to impress your friends, Kenneth C. Davis explores 21st-century topics of global concern, including the role of the Internet and technology in transforming the lives of people around the world, how so-called developing nations develop, sustainability, and debates over climate change and evolutionary science. This completely revised and updated version of Don't Know Much About Geography is an illuminating grand tour of planet Earth.
"Reading [Kenneth C. Davis] is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had." —People
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Release date
August 18, 2023 -
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Kindle Book
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- ISBN: 9780062230140
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780062230140
- File size: 1535 KB
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- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 1290
- Text Difficulty: 10-12
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November 1, 1993
This entertaining, copious guide should help to remedy American readers' lack of geographical literacy. -
September 28, 1992
The author of the successful Don't Know Much About History returns to correct his countrymen's lack of knowledge about geography, a lack established when Americans aged 18 to 24 scored lowest on a 1988 test of geographic literacy given to young people of all industrialized nations. Davis writes with an entertaining, breezy touch and encompasses such interesting considerations as the origin of the belief in a race of Amazons. Besides essential geographic information, chapters cover the history of geographical studies, an overview of large cities of the past and present, the effect of climate on developing civilizations and astronomy. Helpful lists, ranging from glossaries to current and former names of countries and U.N. membership are included. Davis's eminently readable treatise should help remedy an ignorance that has even been discussed in the U.S. Senate. Author tour.
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