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Informationen zum Autor Danny Dorling joined the University of Oxford in 2013 to take up the Halford Mackinder Professorship in Geography. He was previously a professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield. His recent books include co-authored texts The Atlas of the Real World : Mapping the way we live and Bankrupt Britain: An atlas of social change and sole authored books, Injustice: Why social inequalities persist , The 32 Stops and Population Ten Billion . Carl Lee has taught Geography for the past twenty years at The Sheffield College. He has written The Urban Challenge (with Graham Drake) and Home: A Personal Geography of Sheffield . His latest book is Everything is Connected To Everything Else . He has made several short films about geographical issues. Klappentext Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsGeography gives shape to our innate curiosity; cartography is older than writing. Channelling our twin urges to explore and understand, geographers uncover the hidden connections of human existence, from infant mortality in inner cities to the decision-makers who fly overhead in executive jets, from natural disasters to over-use of fossil fuels.In this incisive introduction to the subject, Danny Dorling and Carl Lee reveal geography as a science which tackles all of the biggest issues that face us today, from globalisation to equality, from sustainability to population growth, from climate change to changing technology - and the complex interactions between them all. Illustrated by a series of award-winning maps created by Benjamin D. Hennig, this is a book for anyone who wants to know more about why our world is the way it is today, and where it might be heading next. Vorwort A clear and accessible introduction to geography by two experts in the topic, part of the Ideas in Profile series Zusammenfassung A clear and accessible introduction to geography by two experts in the topic, part of the Ideas in Profile series....
