Provides an account of religion as a diverse, lived experience by peoples around the world. This illustrated text takes students on a voyage through doctrines, history, the religiously inspired arts, ceremonies, and everyday expressions of belief. It addresses world events and political changes, and provides insight into theory and practice.

For introductory courses in Human Geography or Cultural Geography. Trusted for its timeliness, readability, and sound pedagogy, this best-selling text introduces geography as a social science by emphasizing the relevance of geographic concepts to human problems. The relationship between globalization and cultural diversity underlies the material. Rubenstein's engaging organization and ...

Builds upon the success of Strahler geography texts while incorporating coverage of the developments in the discipline. This book focuses on both content and pedagogy. It also includes examples of environmental phenomena, such as Hurricane Isabel and the earthquakes in Turkey.

Necessary GIS skills are presented in a variety of areas-map symbology, data overlay, map projection and data conversion-as the making of maps and the analysis of geographic data is conceptualised.

Reflects major developments in the world as well as in the discipline, ranging from the collapse of Russia's Post-Soviet transformation to the impact of globalization and from the rise of Asia's Pacific Rim to the war in Iraq.

Leads students in easy stages from the simplest ideas on geological structures right through to the more advanced geological mapping techniques.