Don't Know Much About(r) Geography: Revised and Updated Edition - Softcover

Davis, Kenneth C

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062043560 ISBN 13: 9780062043566

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 2013

Synopsis

Don't Know Much About Geography by New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis is a fascinating and fun exploration of our planet.

Geography is the hub from which other disciplines radiate: meteorology, ecology, geology, oceanography, demographics, cartography, agricultural studies, economics, and political science.

In addition to presenting geographical trivia that'll impress your friends, Davis explores 21st-century topics of global concern, including the role of the Internet and technology in transforming the lives of people around the world, how so-called developing nations develop, sustainability, and the debates over climate change and evolutionary science.

This completely revised and updated version of Don't Know Much About Geography is an entertaining and illuminating grand tour of planet Earth.

About this title

From the Author:

Geography? Fun? Can't be. It is!
From the notion that Columbus thought the world is shaped like a woman's breast to a guide to all those countries whose names keep changing, this book is my attempt to make geography more than learning state capitals. Because geography is really about human curiosity and I try to make it fun, human and memorable.

From the Back Cover:

Who killed the Dead Sea? What can you build with BRICS? Does the World Bank have ATMs? Is all the talk of global warming just a lot of hot air?

In Don't Know Much About(R) Geography, Kenneth C. Davis, New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Don't Know Much About(R) series of books, takes the reader on a fascinating, breathtaking, and hilarious grand tour of the planet Earth--opening our eyes and imaginations to a wide, wild, and wonderful world we never knew. In this newly revised, updated, and expanded edition of the classic anti-textbook, he reflects on many of the profound and important changes that have occurred on our planet in the last twenty years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062043560
• ISBN 13: 9780062043566
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368