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World Geography: Understanding a Changing World is presented in a highly visual format that engages users and helps them gain understanding and become informed citizens of the world. Content is truly comprehensive, comprising nearly 25,000 primary and secondary sources, yet is simple to navigate. Students can perform advanced searches by region and category as well as country and make demographic comparisons between countries. The Analyze section supports student inquiry by posing such debates as “To what extent have religious differences shaped the ongoing conflict in Kashmir?” and “How has foreign intervention affected the situation in the Middle East?”

Included Features
• Contains almost 200 overviews of countries around the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, providing a portrait of each nation’s location and people cul¬ture, recent and early political history, and economy, plus more than 500 maps, including political and topographical by country and world region
 
• The Analyze sections provide everything needed to conduct a historical inquiry lesson, focused on perplexing questions such as “How has U.S. support of Israel played a key role in ensuring the existence of the Jewish state?” and “What should the political status of Puerto Rico be?”
 
• Provides more than 1,700 biographies of important political and cultural figures, including Nigerian human rights activist and playwright Wole Soyinka, Czech playwright and former president Vaclav Havel, and King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand