human geography

Presents an overview of Southern Africa today with information on the physical geography, religion, culture, and current problems facing Southern Africa.

Presents an overview of North Africa today along with information on the physical geography, religion, culture, and current problems facing North Africa.

Describes the places where people live, including a variety of climates and land features.

Looks at the Earth through nature, landscape, and human geography photographs.

Examines the balance between humans and their environment, explaining how mankind's transformation of land and population shifts affect and are affected by climate change.

Provides a history of islands, discussing the geology, biology, economics, politics, literature, art and psychology of different islands.

Contains twenty chapters, each of which focuses on a different country, with a story or folktale, and information on history, government, religion, education, immigrants, language, the arts and sciences, food, recreation, and customs and traditions; and includes suggested activities and reading.

Presents the stories created by various native peoples to explain such natural wonders as the Hot Springs of Arkansas, the Grand Canyon, Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls, Crater Lake, and the Hawaiian Islands.

As people, we have a huge impact on our environment, and sadly this impact is not always a positive one. This incisive volume explores concepts such as pollution, habitat loss, and climate change in age-appropriate language.