The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography AP Edition

by James M. Rubenstein

Brand new, Ships from NY

Genres: Geography, Nonfiction, School, Textbooks, Read For School, Academic, History

497 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

James M. Rubenstein is a geographer, known for his work on human geography and specifically on the U.S. automotive industry. Currently, he is Professor of Geography at Miami University in Oxford OH. He also works as consultant in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Rubenstein obtained his B.A. in public affairs from the University of Chicago, his M.Sc. in city and regional planning from the London School of Economics, and his Ph.D. in geography and human engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.

Reviews

[𑣲 ezra ೀ]

whoever made past me decide to take this ap class even though my college's acceptance rate is 76%, please go jump off a bridge. genuinely. this ap homework will be the end of me!!!

[doris · Rating 1 out of 5]

disgusting. still do not know why geography matters

[Kieranrobert · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the textbook I utilize in my AP Human Geography class. It is the best text for this course.

[Hope · Rating 1 out of 5]

I only opened this once I hated it.

[rylee]

I did infact get a 4

[audreymontii · Rating 1 out of 5]

it counts i read the entire book when we were in school.

[ashley elliott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this for school (the Human and Cultural Geography DSST, if anyone's interested), and I don't normally add "school books" to my Goodreads unless they're fiction or whatever. The only adding this one is because it was HUGE and I was SO PROUD OF MYSELF for finishing it. Weighing in at like seventy pounds and 500 pages, this one was pretty massive. I had to bribe myself with episodes of Downton Abbey to finish it. I really enjoyed learning about all of this stuff, but I would've enjoyed it more if I weren't going to be tested on it. (Drat.)

[Kaia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay so this is a good textbook.

Our teacher was... not that great for this class, but this book was really thorought and covered all the material in an interesting way. There were plenty of maps and visuals to aid understanding of the text.

I'll be honest, I didn't get a study review book for the AP Exam, I just read the textbook and took notes. And although we haven't gotten our scores yet, I feel pretty confident that I did well.

[Whitney · Rating 4 out of 5]

I know, I'm a nerd. But I love AP! I've learned so much in that class! I actually enjoy reading the textbook...
You can call me a nerd now, if you want to.

[talia! · Rating 1 out of 5]

i had to read this for school and it was terrible

ap exam grade: 2

[Mikayla Beckman]

I really don’t know how to rate a text book or write a review for it, but here we are. It never even occurred to me I could count text books as part of my reading goals, but I guess why not! Anyways, I’m not going to rate this, and this isn’t much of a review either. This was pretty much your basic ap text book, nothing too out of the ordinary or spectacular. I found the parts on agriculture rather dull, but the parts on race and ethnicity and the geopolitical sphere semi interesting.

So there you go. I write a review (a lackluster review) for a textbook.

[Cosmic Explorer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Exactly what will come up on the AP exam and interesting content tho it has a status quo bias. We used the 13 or 14E?

[Trenton Lundberg · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 on the AP Test so 4 Stars

[hoji · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a nice introduction to human geography. I will just share a few interesting points that I learned in this book. It was surprising to discover that many of the crops, including corn and potatoes, were actually from Latin America. They were spread to other parts of the world through the process of
Colombian exchange. Another interesting part of farming was pastoral nomadism. Though pastoral nomadism may sound distant to us, apparently a lot of people in Southwest Asia, North Africa, Central Asia still practice it. And although they move frequently, these people have a sense of territoriality. Anyway, I learned a lot.

[Hannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting pictures, contemporary geographic tools, world statistics..
and more...
This book is excellent. It mostly has 2/3 of what you will need to pass the DSST Human/Cultural Geography test. Read up on Barrons AP Human/Cultural Geography and you should be good to go. :)

[Nex Juice · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't find this textbook, nor its associated course I took with it (Cultural Geography) to be very interesting or informative. It's about how different cultures are impacted by their locations. I don't recommend it and I won't spend any more time, yours or mine, diving further into this subject.

[Nikhita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actually quite interesting for a textbook, not mind numbingly boring and keeps interest for passages that you may have to read in class

[Alisa Sharpe · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was very informational and I'm glad I had a chance to learn a lot from reading it.

[Kaitlyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I haven't finished this book yet, but so far for my class it's a great book and is pretty interesting, as far as textbooks go. It should set me up for success this spring during the AP Exam

[Sadie Stanger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Boring but helpful. I got a 5 on the AP Human Geography test.

[Jason Bonitatibus · Rating 5 out of 5]

10/10 Mr. Parks would recommend.

[Baylee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m going to raise this to five stars if I pass my exam lol

edit: I passed with a 4!

[evey · Rating 1 out of 5]

fought for my life for 8 months reading this

[Claire Touney · Rating 1 out of 5]

I used this book for AP human geo although it was helpful for class I still despise it deeply

[Deep Brahmbhatt · Rating 4 out of 5]

“The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography” is an introductory text that contains material used in human geography classes. The first half of this book focuses on elements of cultural geography and the second half focuses on elements of economic geography. It shows how politics, human activities, and geography are related. I myself read this book for my AP (Advanced Placement) Human Geography class. I found it to be very thorough and easy to understand. It is also very interesting for a textbook. Most textbooks are dull but this textbook is not like that. It has many interesting facts and images. Another part of what makes the book interesting is that you may actually use the material presented in the book later on in life, even if you don’t go into a career involving the geographical sciences. However, some parts of this book made me want to stop reading it. These parts were mainly in the second half of the book, economic geography. A lot of material was just rehashed. It felt like sentences were stated in three different ways. Regarding how ready this book has made me for this AP exam, I feel it has done two - thirds of the job, and the remaining third is up to me to get ready. Hopefully, I should get a 4 or 5 on the exam. I would recommend this book to any person, even if they are not planning to pursue a geographical science career, because there are some concepts that you will most likely need to know for use in normal life. My piece of advice, however, is that people using this book for a AP Human Geography class should use other sources if they want a 5 on the exam.

[Daniel Morgan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was actually a decent textbook, I was pleasantly surprised. Visually this looks like the high school textbooks that I remember from a long time ago, and yet the writing was clear, the content was in-depth, and the book covered many topics that affect people around the globe (rather than just focusing on Europe or the US). I especially appreciated the support structures such as vocab guides, review questions, and charts, diagrams, and other images. This makes it difficult to find information if you do not already know where to look for it.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I promised myself I would rate this textbook whatever my score was on the AP test. It turns out I did way better than I expected and while I wasn’t a fan of the type of notes my teacher made us write for each section in the book, it was a fairly good textbook and had lots of super useful graphics that I was able to remember on the exam. Of all the textbooks I’ve used this one was very easy to read and I didn’t hate it.

[Brenda Robbins · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've been using this book to teach my daughter a course on Human Geography. I've found it fascinating and very helpful in understanding the world and current issues. I've stretched it out over two years alongside a two-year study of world history and have found they complement each other very well.

[Landon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good information in this book was very useful and gave out good information during class.

[Mackenzie Tate · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting