Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context, Updated Fifth Canadian Edition Plus Mastering Geography with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (5th Edition)

About the Author\nPaul L. Knox
Paul Knox received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Sheffield, England. In 1985, after teaching in the United Kingdom for several years, he moved to the United States to take up a position as professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Tech. His teaching centres on urban and regional development, with an emphasis on comparative study. In 1989, he received a university award for teaching excellence. He has written several books on aspects of economic geography, social geography, and urbanization. He serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals and is co-editor on a series of books on World Cities. In 1996, he was appointed to the position of University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech, where he currently serves as dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.\nSallie A. Marston
Sallie Marston received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has been a faculty member at the University of Arizona since 1986. Her teaching focuses on the historical, social, and cultural aspects of American urbanization, with particular emphasis on race, class, gender, and ethnicity issues. She received the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award in 1989. She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters and serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals. In 1994 and 1995, she served as Interim Director of Women’s Studies and the Southwest Institute for Research on Women. She is currently a professor in, and serves as head of, the Department of Geography and Regional Development.\nMichael Imort
Michael Imort received his PhD from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Ever the geographer, he took the long way to get there, studying at Brock, York, Waterloo and Freiburg, Germany, with stints in the Arctic, Hawaii, Mali, and Zaire (now DRC), and a teaching appointment in an English castle—not to mention the days when he worked as a lumberjack or ran a bookstore. When the time came to get serious, he joined the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he currently is the Associate Dean of Arts. Originally trained as a forest scientist with an interest in fire ecology, he soon became interested in the human side of environmental problems. Today his research interests include environmental thought and the many ways in which representations of landscape are used and abused for political purposes.\nAlan E. NashAlan Nash received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Cambridge in England, and began his teaching career at the University of Sheffield. After moving to Canada in 1981, he taught at Queen’s University, before becoming a research associate at the University of Western Ontario’s Centre for Canadian Population Studies. From 1986 to 1989, he was a research associate at the Institute for Research on Public Policy in Ottawa. Since then, he has been a member of the Geography Department at Concordia University in Montreal, where he has served as Chair. His teaching focuses on human geography; his recent research activities and academic publications deal with the cultural geography of restaurants. From 2002 to 2005, he was Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Association of Geographers.\nNote: If you are purchasing an electronic version, MasteringGeography does not come automatically packaged with it. To purchase MasteringGeography, please visit www.MasteringGeography.com or you can purchase a package of the physical text and MasteringGeography by searching for ISBN 10: 0321920163 / ISBN 13: 9780321920164.\nHuman Geography, 5ce builds knowledge about places and regions and an understanding of the interdependence of places and regions in a globalizing world.