Introduction to Geography With Power Web, Annual Editions Online and E-Source

by Jerome D. Fellmann

The purpose of the book is to introduce college students to the breadth and spatial insights of the field of geography. The content is organized around the four major research traditions of the discipline: those of earth-science, culture-environment, location, and area analysis. Each of the four parts of the book centers on one of these geographic perspectives. Each of the first three parts contains chapters devoted to the subfields of geography. Thus, the study of weather and climate is part of the earth-science tradition; population geography is considered under the culture-environment tradition; and natural resources are included within the locational perspective. The tradition of area analysis (regional geography) is presented in a single final chapter, "The Regional Concept", that draws upon the preceding traditions and themes and is integrated with them by cross-references. Its case studies and examples illustrate the regional geographic application of the systematic themes developed by the earlier chapters.Although the organization provides a logical clustering of the subfields of the discipline, it is not an inflexible framework. Each chapter stands substantially alone. Each contains forward and back references to supporting material elsewhere in the book. Instructors can reorder the sequence of chapters to suit their preferences.Instructors and students will have access to PowerWeb, a course-specific website developed with the help of instructors teaching the course to provide instructors and students with curriculum-based materials, updated weekly assessments, informative and timely world news, refereed web links and much more.

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About the author

Jerome Fellmann received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. Except for visiting professorships at Wayne State University, the University of British Columbia, and California State University/Northridge, his professional career has been spent at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His teaching and research interests have been concentrated in the areas of human geography in general and urban and economic geography in particular, in geographic bibliography, the geography of Russia and the CIS, and geographic education. His varied interests have been reflected in articles published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Professional Geographer, Journal of Geography, the Geographical Review, and elsewhere. He is the coauthor of McGraw-Hill’s Introduction to Geography. In addition to teaching and research, he has held administrative appointments at the University of Illinois and served as a consultant to private corporations on matters of economic and community development.