География for Dummies

by Charles A. Heatwole, Чарлс А. Хийтуол

Включва ключови прозрения, лесни за разчитане карти и страхотни факти.

Разширете вашето разбиране за географията и света днес. Объркани сте от Меркаторовите проекции? Бъркате символите по картите? Спокойно! Този забавен и лесен наръчник ще промени отношението ви към географската дължина и ширина. Професор Чарлс Хийтуол обяснява основите на географията и ви помага да разберете заобикалящия ви свят, от физическите форми на релефа, до политическите разделения, климата, населението, културите и икономиката.

Д-р Чарлс А. Хийтуол е председател на Катедрата по география в колежа "Хънтър" CUNY и преподава география от 25 години.

Genres: Nonfiction, Geography, Reference, Travel

394 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2002

Reviews

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

To be clear, the only reason I read this book in the first place is because my soon-to-be-wife is soon-to-be a professional geographer (or a PhD student but of course doing geography research, hopefully sponsored) and I wanted to make sure I at least had the basics of her profession down. ;) Oh I know how to read maps (though not everyone does apparently). And like a lot of the things in this book, I 'knew' somewhere in the back of my head or guessed or just never thought about the reason for wind, the seasons, the actual mechanics of building up and tearing down mountains, rivers, etc.

But the book (written by one of my wife's professors at Hunter!) gently leads one through everything I knew or thought I knew and made it all concrete. The book does an overview on all the sub-domains of geography: physical, economical, environmental, cultural. And that's really what geography is: the general study of the planet from a spatial perspective. So although I'm no dummy I greatly appreciated the grounding in basic geography it gave me, and I'd recommend it to anyone even mildly interested in the planet we live on.

[Elentarri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Geography for Dummies provides a brief overview of the geography you should have learned in middle-school. Topics covered in the book include Mapwork; Physical Geography (e.g. volcanoes, earthquakes, climate, etc); Population Geography (movement and distribution of people); and Economic Geography (resources, economic activities, urban geography, environmental issues, etc). The book also provides many diagrams and lists of organizations for geographic information (useless unless you live in the USA), geographical occupations, geographical websites, and a chapter on oddball topics like the Bermuda Triangle or how "Democratic Republics" are usually anything but democratic.

This book provides a basic, superficial outline of the listed topics, using simple words, a chatty writing style and many examples (most of them from the USA) - I suppose this is what one should expect from a book subtitled "for Dummies". Personally I found the chattiness rather long-winded and the simplistic explanations annoying (I wanted more information!).

In short, an informative, albeit basic, book if you know nothing about geography, rather superficial if you want something more detailed.

[Plamen Apostolov · Rating 2 out of 5]

Като цяло смисловото съдържание на книгата не е никак лошо. Със сигурност не бих я определил само като “географска”, защото се обяснава и структурата на Земята, процеси в нея и т.н. За съжаление е насочена към американския пазар и голяма част от източниците на информация са безпредметни за България.
Ниската оцека идва от превода, който на места е покъртителен. Освен това мисля, че никога не съм чел книга с толкова много технически грешки! Слети думи, пропуснати букви, дори имаше цял един абзац, който беше без интервал в него! Може би на англ. ез. ще е по-полезна.

[Adam · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a pretty easy read, and when it got into the physical aspects of geography I got really interested. Something clicked in my brain when it talked about the motion of ocean currents and their rotation per hemisphere and how that affects climate and deserts which makes the world all make a little more sense. It got more boring towards the end with population and economic stuff, but I can see why they are important to the topic.

[Becky]

Absolutely loved reading this book ❤🌍🌎🌏❤

Excellent read. Very enjoyable. I feel like I've learned a great deal. Highly recommend this book to anyone starting their college education in geography, or to anyone interested in the topic. The author has a great sense of humor, and keeps you entertained throughout the book.

[Haroun04 · Rating 4 out of 5]

an interesting non-fiction book for those who want to have some basic knowledge about geography,

realy enjoyed it.

[coffee time · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[C. Al. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Did not complete-I'm looking for a more intriguing book on Geography.

[Илиян Илиев · Rating 5 out of 5]

Многа лесно и интересно обяснине на цялата географска наука! С малко хумор ти разкрива всичко! Чудесна за чисто непрофесионално интересуващи се от география!

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great introduction to all aspects of geography from plate tectonics, glaciation through to borders, migration, population and other aspects of human geography.

[John Wyss · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good general introduction