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For Introductory World Regional Geography/Regional Geography Courses. Students learn to think outside of the map Diversity Amid Globalization takes students on a journey into the connections and diversity between people and places-the contrasting regions of the world-within thematically organized regional chapters. With an arresting visual layout and new and updated content and maps throughout, the text maintains and strengthens its hallmark thematic organization and focus on globalization, while encouraging students to participate in the material using a number of stimulating, interactive learning tools. Available with optional MasteringGeography(TM), the most effective and widely used online tutorial, homework, and assessment system for the sciences, Diversity Amid Globalization, Sixth edition offers the most complete and integrated world regional program available today. This program presents a better teaching and learning experience for you and your students by providing *Students learn how to think outside the map: MasteringGeography and textbook-integrated technology take students outside of the pages of the book, and into the world of distant places and people.*An amplified global perspective through NEW and updated content: This new Sixth edition maintains, refines, and strengthens the text's hallmark thematic organization and focus on globalization in a number of ways. *New Everday Globalization features: * In Population and Settlement sections, there is anew discussion of Demographic Transition that includes adding a fifth stage to traditional model. * In Cultural Coherence and Diversity sections, there are two new sections: Gender and Globalization, and Sports and Globalization. * In Geopolitical Framework sections, there are two new sections World Political Systems, and Decentralization and Devolution *A consistent thematic chapter organization encourages students to compare regions and discourages memorization of facts and places. *An active learning approach encourages student participation with the material and ensures effective reinforcement of the concepts through the text's pedagogy, fundamentals, and tone.

This stunning collection of images celebrates the remarkable career of Burnis "Mac" McCloud, Denver's premiere Black photographer between 1950 and 1980. His remarkable photographs, focused in Denver's Five Points community, captured the ordinary lives of African Americans during a period that witnessed the end of Jim Crow segregation and the beginning of the Civil Rights era. Assembled from more than one hundred thousand negatives that McCloud left behind, this collection introduces his creative work to the world beyond the Mile High city. Author William Wyckoff also tells McCloud's life story, revealing the challenges and vitality of Denver's Black community. At a time when much of what McCloud photographed is being swept away by gentrification and urban change, this collection of images preserves a time and place important not only for Denver but for all of Black America.

Sprawling Piedmont cities, ghost towns on the plains, earth-toned placitas set against the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, mining camps transformed into ski resorts -- these are some of the diverse regions in Colorado explored in this fascinating book. Historical geographer William Wyckoff traces the evolution of the state during its formative years from 1860 to 1940, chronicling its changing cultural landscapes, social communities, and connections to a larger America and showing that Colorado has exemplified the unfolding of a complex western environment.

Wyckoff discusses how nature, capitalism, a growing federal political presence, and national cultural influences came together to produce a new human geography in Colorado. He explains the ways in which the state's distinctive settlement geographies each took on a special character that persists to the present. He leads the reader through the transformation of the state from wilderness to a distinct region capable of accommodating the diverse needs of ranchers, miners, merchants, farmers, and city dwellers. And he describes how a state created out of cartographic necessity has been given uniqueness and meaning by the people who live there.