key places flashcards, with audio pronunciations for difficult place names.
PowerWeb: Geography-articles, weblinks, and exercises related to geographic events.
Instructors, we've made your life just a little easier!
Just a sampling of the assets you will find in the Online Learning Center are:
a password-protected Instructor's Manual.
base maps.
professional resources.
PowerPoint lecture outlines for each chapter of the textbook.
PowerWeb: Geography-articles, weblinks, and exercises related to geographic events.
Access to PowerWeb: Geography
PowerWeb: Geography contains web content developed to give instructors and students:
monitored course-specific web links.
articles from well-respected, professional publications, available online in a variety of media formats, and searchable by topic.
student study tools including quizzing, time management tools, and web research.
interactive exercises.
weekly current events updates, with student assessment forms that may be completed as assignments.
informative and timely world news.
access to Northern Light Research Engine (received multiple Editor's Choice awards for superior capabilities from "PC Magazine").
material on how to conduct web research.
daily news feed of topic-specific news events.
Additional Instructor Supplements
Digital Content Manager CD-ROM
The Digital Content Manager CD-ROM is a multimedia collection of visual resources that allows you to create powerful presentations to help your students visualize difficult concepts and view images of far-away places right in your classroom.
The Digital Content Manager CD-ROM contains:
all color images, photographs, and illustrations from the text.
all data figures from the text.
chapter-specific PowerPoint outlines.
all maps from the text.
110 additional photographs.
base maps for all world regions as well as major subregions.
The digital assets on this cross-platform CD-ROM are grouped by chapter within easy-to-use folders. The Art Library contains full-color digital files of nearly all of the illustrations from the text including all data figures. The Photo Library contains digital files of instructionally significant photographs from the text. Chapter outlines in PowerPoint give an overview of the structure of each textbook chapter.
125 Transparencies
This set contains consistent figures from each chapter for easy comparison between regions.
Instructor's Testing and Resource CD-ROM
This instructor tool contains a test bank with nearly 700 test questions that are sorted by chapter and easily placed into exams. The Instructor's Manual for Contemporary World Regional Geography is also available on this CD-ROM.
Geosciences Videotape Library
Contact your McGraw-Hill Sales Representative to get more information on the many specific videos that are available to supplement your course.
Course Management Systems
Course Management Systems expand the reach of your course. Online discussion and message boards can now complement your office hours. Also, because of a sophisticated tracking system, you will know which students need more attention-even if they don't ask for help. Online testing scores are recorded and automatically placed in your grade book. You can also create special alerts to show up if a student is struggling with coursework. Should you seek advice for your course, you have access to discussion and message boards where you can collaborate and communicate with other professors across campus or around the world. Our own specialists are also ready to answer your questions.
McGraw-Hill's Online Learning Center content is compatible with a variety of course management systems including PageOut. PageOut-McGraw-Hill's exclusive course management system-allows you to create a custom course website with links to book-specific course content. Simply select a template to post course information and an interactive syllabus links to Online Learning Center content.
Online Learning Center content is also compatible with these commercially produced Course Management Systems:
Blackboard
WebCT
eCollege
Packaging Options
Package Contemporary World Regional Geography with one or more of the following outstanding resources at a discount. Contact your McGraw-Hill Sales Representative for more details.
Additional Course Supplements
Interactive World Issues CD-ROM
An exciting study tool that captures the power of videos to allow students to visit and closely examine geographic and environmental issues. This 2 CD-set is FREE with every new copy of Contemporary World Regional Geography. The case studies feature high quality videos (that can be enlarged to full screen), animations, maps, and diagrams as interactivities that students can complete as assignments or self-paced study. The program visits Oregon, South Africa, Mexico, China, and Chicago to describe events and issues in resource allocation, land reform, water rights, policy, economic conditions, population, and sustainability.
The Power of Place Video Series
McGraw-Hill is proud to be associated with the well-respected and longstanding Power of Place Video Series. For those professors offering a telecourse, or if you have realized the advantage of using videos in your classroom, you'll be pleased to know that the Power of Place Video Series is now correlated to Bradshaw et al's Contemporary World Regional Geography.
The Power of Place in the 21st Century is a revised and updated version of the World Regional Geography telecourse funded by the Annenberg/CPB Projects and McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Originally produced by scholars and educational broadcasters from six countries, the update was completed by the U.S. coordinator, Cambridge Studios, Inc. Fifty-two video case studies set in 35 countries around the world involve students in compelling issues of regional and systematic geography. Along with its coordinated McGraw-Hill text, Contemporary World Regional Geography, the updated series looks at the new tensions between global connections and local voices in many diverse places.
Through revised case studies we go to Jerusalem to review the historical geography of territorial conflicts following the breakdown of Jewish-Palestinian relations. In light of the September 11 attacks, we revisit Lanzhou, to consider the role of Islam in China's rugged and isolated northwest. In Tokyo, we observe how mass transportation serves the needs of this world mega-city. In Dikhatpura, India, we focus on a small farming village reliant upon irrigation to overcome the disadvantages of the local environment. And in Ecuador we update the work of a geographer monitoring the impending eruption of a deadly volcano. These are just a few of the 52 case studies providing insight into how place shapes our world.
This newly updated series features commentary by some of the Contemporary World Regional Geography authors as well as invited faculty guests. These tapes are a great complement to your traditional lecture and a must for institutions providing a world regional geography telecourse.
The Power of Place is available for free on the Annenberg/CPB Channel, or for purchase on videocassette. For more information, call 1-800-LEARNER, or visit www.learner.org. The Power of Place can also be licensed for distance learning by colleges and universities through the PBS Adult Learning Service (ALS). Call 1-800-257-2578, or visit PBS ALS on the web at www.pbs.org/als for licensing information.
The following supplements are available to accompany the Power of Place Video Series:
Student Study Guide to accompany The Power of Place
Organized into sections corresponding to the telecourse's 26 programs, the Study Guide includes objectives, program overviews, preview questions, regional overviews, case study themes, program summaries, review questions, and extended activities.
Instructor's Manual to accompany The Power of Place
Offering a week-by-week plan to using the videos, this Instructor's Manual includes unit overviews, summaries of the programs under review, program overviews, clarifications of the relationship between each case and the larger region, unit summaries, and test questions and answers.
Global Studies Series
The Global Studies Series is designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and countries of the world. The following are titles in the Global Studies Series:
Global Studies: Russia 007-250576-1 is available now; 10/e 007-286381-1 is due April 3, 2004
Global Studies Europe 007-286259-9
Global Studies: India and South Asia 007-285024-8
Global Studies: Japan and the Pacific Rim 007-285026-4
Global Studies: Middle East 007-250575-3 is available now; 10/e 007-286159-2 is due April 3, 2004
Global Studies: Latin America 007-250577-X is available now; 10/e 007-286382-X is due April 3, 2004
Global Studies China 007-285025-6
Global Studies: Africa 007-284713-1
Annual Editions
Completely revised each year, each Annual Editions contains articles addressing such topics as international political economy, peace and security, international trade, and global issues. These readers are complemented by a FREE student website, Dushkin Online, which provides links to related Web sites and study support tools (www.dushkin.com/online/). The following are titles in the Annual Editions anthology:
Pitzl: Annual Editions: Geography 03/04 / 007-283817-5 (007-287439-2 is
due March 4th and is the 04/05 edition)--A collection of current articles
from such sources as World Watch, Journal of Geography, Focus, and The Economist.
Topics explored include land-human relationships; the importance of the region;
and population, resources, and socioeconomic development. For links to related
sites, visit Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online).
Jackson: Annual Editions: Global Issues 03/04 / 007-283854-4 (007-286151-7 is due March 3rd and is the 04/05 edition)--This Annual Editions reader is a collection of current world press articles that examine issues relating to population and food production, natural resource utilization, the political economy, conflict, and human rights. Annual Editions titles are supported by the student Web site, Dushkin Online, and feature an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites. (www.dushkin.com/online)
Griffiths: Annual Editions: Developing World / 007-283855-8 (007-286062-6 is due Feb. 28, 2004 and is the 04/05 edition)--This Annual Edition gives students an understanding of the diversity and complexity of the developing world and acquaints them with the challenges that nations confront as the post-cold war era progresses. Some of the issues discusses are: peace and security, international trade, the debt crisis, and the environment. This title is supported by the student website, www.dushkin.com/online.
Western Civilization Volume 1
Western Civilization Volume 2
World Politics
Taking Sides
These editions contain "pro" and "con" articles that represent the arguments of world leaders, leading political scientists, and commentators on the world political scene. The readings reflect a variety of viewpoints and have been selected for their liveliness and substance, and because of their value in a debate framework. The following are titles in the Taking Sides series:
Clashing Views on Controversial Global Issues / 007-288077-5--The Taking Sides series is a debate-style reader designed to introduce students to current global controversies and world issues. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading political scientists, social commentators, and experts in the field, reflect a variety of viewpoints, and are presented in pro/con format. Dushkin Online is a student Web site designed to support Taking Sides titles. (www.dushkin.com/online/)
Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in World Politics / 007-284515-5--This edition contains "pro" and "con" articles that represent the arguments of world leaders, leading political scientists, and commentators on the world political scene. The readings reflect a variety of viewpoints and have been selected for their liveliness and substance and because of their value in a debate framework. The student web site, http://www.dushkin.com, supports this title.
Student Atlas
The Student Atlas series provides full-color maps and data sets to give your students a clear picture of the recent economic, political, and environmental demographic changes in every world region. The following are titles in the Student Atlas series:
Environmental Issues
World Geography
World Politics
Fuson: Fundamental Place Name Geography, Ninth Edition
Fuson's Fundamental Place-Name Geography is a self-tutorial manual designed to acquaint students with the place names of the world. It helps students who are geographically illiterate with the background necessary to identify the places discussed in the course.
Rand McNally Atlas
This atlas includes up-to-date, accurate regional maps and highly illustrative world information tables. World thematic maps cover topics such as climate, vegetation, environments, and population.
Atlas of World Geography
New York Times Subscription
This ten-week subscription can be packaged with Contemporary World Regional Geography for only $20. Each student receives a card containing a special code and URL for a validation site. Students will have the option of redeeming their purchase for a hardcopy or an e-subscription.
Getis: You Can Make a Difference - Be Environmentally Responsible, Second Edition
Organized around the three parts of the biosphere, You Can Make a Difference contains descriptions of the environmental problems associated with each part of the biosphere. Immediately following each problem or "challenge" are suggested ways that individuals can help solve or alleviate them.
Galgano: North Korea / 007-294011-5
North Korea is a concise, up-to-date geographical survey of North Korea in twelve chapters, each written by an expert in that geographic specialty. Chapters include: location, geomorphology, climate, vegetation and soils, historical geography, culture, politics, economy, population and urban geography, and medicine. Contains color and black and white maps, photographs, charts, and graphs.
Malinowski: Iraq / 007-294010-7
Iraq is a concise, up-to-date geographical survey of Iraq in twelve chapters, each written by an expert in that geographic specialty. Chapters include: location, geomorphology, climate, vegetation and soils, historical geography, culture, politics, economy, population and urban geography, and medicine. Contains color and black and white maps, photographs, charts, and graphs
Palka: Afghanistan / 007-294009-3
Afghanistan is a concise, up-to-date geographical survey of Afghanistan in twelve chapters, each written by an expert in that geographic specialty. Chapters include: location, geomorphology, climate, vegetation and soils, historical geography, culture, politics, economy, population and urban geography, and medicine. Contains color and black and white maps, photographs, charts, and graphs.
To obtain an instructor login to the Online Learning Centers, ask your local sales representative. If you're an instructor thinking about adopting this textbook, request a free copy for review.
To obtain an instructor login for this Online Learning Center, ask your local sales representative.
If you're an instructor thinking about adopting this textbook, request a free copy for review.
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