Geography for Beginners

The For Beginners series is the place to start for curious minds who want to tackle life’s big ideas. It tackles the sorts of subjects that people can study in secondary school and university, that some educators think are too grown up or difficult to talk about with younger kids. We think they’re wrong! 

This book unpicks how an awareness of geography helps people think about how important the world around us is, from the landscape we live on to the relationships between entire countries. Geography is a HUGE subject area that deals with so much more than map-making, rocks, and town planning. The world we live in is complex and constantly changing. It's battered by weather, shaken by earthquakes, and mined, farmed and polluted by humans. This book helps readers understand these processes, make sense of our relationship with the planet, and find ways to change it for the better. 

Contents: 

What is geography?

Chapter 1: Journey into the Earth
What the Earth itself is made of, how that all works, and how we find out more about it.

Chapter 2: Weather and climate
What goes on in the Earth's atmosphere, the difference between weather and climate, and how they both affect people's lives around the world.

Chapter 3: Watery world
All about oceans, rivers and ice - and how people's lives depend on water in all sorts of ways.

Chapter 4: Homes, towns, cities
Where people live, why they live there, and how people shape the places around them.

Chapter 5: How money and power shape the world
How countries and borders work, and how and why some countries are more powerful than others.

Chapter 6: Improving lives
Using the tools of geography to find out how people live in different countries and identify ways to improve lives.

Chapter 7: Big issues
What are some of the big questions that geographers ask? What geography mysteries are yet to be solved?

Geography is EVERYWHERE!

Glossary
Jobs in geography
Index
Acknowledgements