RENT TEXTBOOKS

by: Kuby, Michael; Harner, John; Gober, Patricia

ISBN: 9780471701217 | 0471701211

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.

---

The front co... MOREver photo shows a rally by Iraqi Kurds, who have their own language, homeland, and flag, but no independent country. The back cover shows Iraqi women voting on the new constitution in 2005. Collectively, these photos illustrate the geographic complexities and contradictions of the leading geopolitical crisis of the new millennium. While female political participation marks a huge change, the barbed wire hints of the human cost of armed intervention. If the United States withdraws, will Iraq stay together or break into Kurdish, Shiite, and Sunni states? In Chapter 13 of this book, you will apply key terms in political geography-such as nation, state, ethnonationalism, irredentism, and federalism-to gain a deep understanding of the crisis in Iraq. The concepts and skills mastered in this and other chapters will give you the tools for making sense of local, national, and international news.

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.