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Human Geography in Action, Fourth Edition
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The fourth edition of Human Geography in Action is highlighted by a robust new software platform via the Internet, enabling students to work with GIS maps, spreadsheets, simulations, and animated graphs. Additionally, instructors enjoy the option to use the WileyPLUS course management system for an enhanced learning environment. Many components from the third edition have been enhanced and updated, including data statistics. New web resources and further readings have also been added to each chapter.

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Michael Kuby received an A.B. from The University of Chicago in 1980 and a Ph.D. from Boston University in 1988, both in geography. He has taught at Arizona State University since 1988, where he is an Associate Professor. He is interested in all aspects of transportation and energy, but specializes in transport optimization models. He has developed models for network design, facility location, routing, technology choice, and cost-environment tradeoffs using operations research techniques such as linear and multiobjective programming. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Army Corps of Engineers, and NASA. Notable among these is the World Bank's China Coal Transport Study, which won a Citation Award in 1993 from the Applied Geography Specialty Group and was a Finalist in 1994 for the Franz Edelman Award for Management Science Achievement from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science. He has published on coal transportation and utilization, hazmat and solid waste systems, air package delivery networks, railway network planning, and container shipping ports in journals such as the Transportation Research, the Annals of the AAG, Energy, Geographical Analysis, Economic Geography, Annals of Management Science, Interfaces, and Location Science.
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Chapter 1.  True Maps, False Impressions:  Making Manipulating and Interpreting Maps.

Chapter 2.  Layers of Tradition:  Culture Regions at Different Scales.

Chapter 3.  Tracking the AIDS Epidemic in the United States:  Diffusion Through Space and Time.

Chapter 4.  Newton's First Law of Migration:  The Gravity Model.

Chapter 5.  One Billion and Counting:  The Hidden Momentum of Population Growth in India.

Chapter 6.  Help Wanted:  The Changing Geography of Jobs.

Chapter 7.  Rags and Riches:  The Dimensions of Development.

Chapter 8.  Food for Thought:  The Globalization of Agriculture.

Chapter 9.  Take Me Out to the Ball Game:  Market Areas and the Urban Hierarchy.

Chapter 10.  Reading the Urban Landscape:  Census Data and Field Observation.

Chapter 11.  The Disappearing Front Range:  Urban Sprawl in Colorado.

Chapter 12. Orange and Green Class?  Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland.

Chapter 13. Breaking Up is Hard to Do:  Nations, States, and Nation-States.

Chapter 14. Preserving the Planet:  Human Impact on Environmental Systems.

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