Amazon.com description: Product Description: The discipline of human geography encompasses an extraordinarily broad range of subject matter, from biology to philosophy, demography to politics, sociology to cultural studies, economics to environmental issues. The fourth edition of Human Geography by William Norton is no less wide-ranging. It offers a balanced introduction not only to concepts and methodologies but to the history of the discipline, emphasizing how human geography evolved--and continues to develop--in response to changing human needs, as well as its links with other disciplines. Generously and beautifully illustrated with maps, figures, tables, and photographs, this edition includes the most recent statistical information available and has been extensively revised to reflect recent developments, most notably the ongoing economic and cultural changes associated with the process of globalization.