• Extensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its significance, including description, maps, photos (Chapters 1 and 3)
• Substantially rewritten chapters on Development (Chapter 9) and Industry (Chapter 11).
• Expanded and updated discussion of key issues covered in earlier editions, including:
– Debate in the United States over migration
– Immigration viewed from the Mexican point of view
– Anti-immigration tensions in Europe
– Middle East tensions
– Health care (including updated maps)
– War in Iraq
– Globalization and its critics
– Trade data
– Organic farming.
• New maps, including:
1-1: Katrina impact in New Orleans
2-25: Avian Flu
3-15: U.S. net migration by county
4-5: Istanbul gardens
4-15: Internet users by country
5-1.1: Language of online speakers
5-1.2: Language of e-commerce
6-1.1: Cross-section of West Bank barrier
6-1.2: Route of West Bank barrier
8-2.1: Ethnic groups in Baghdad
8-2.2: Tribes in Iraq
9-5: Cell phones
9-10: Private expenditure on health care
10-16: Change in food and population in Africa
10-17: Undernourishment in Africa
11-16: Production of trousers
11-17: Changing location of U.S. manufacturing
11-21: Labor cost per hour, clothing manufacturing
11-22: Declining clothing production in the United States
13-17: Racial change in Chicago
13-24: Stressed school districts around Cincinnati
14-7: Gas prices
14-12: Production of important minerals
14-16: Electricity from hydroelectric
14-17: Wind power by U.S. state
• New boxes highlighting key topics, including:
– Chapter 1:
Mash-ups using Google Maps
Hand-held navigation devices
– Chapter 3:
Mexican perspectives on undocumented immigration
– Chapter 5:
Building barriers in the Middle East
– Chapter 8:
Using air photos to make the case for war
Applying the concept of scale to war in Iraq
– Chapter 9:
Wal-Mart in China
– Chapter 11:
Locating car parts plants
– Chapter 13:
Market segmentation
• New content on timely topics throughout:
– Chapter 1:
Hurricane Katrina
Discussion of electronic navigation devices
Discussion of mash-ups using computer maps
Several maps drawn on air photos, including 1-3, 1-16, 6-10, and 8-3
– Chapter 2:
Coverage of Avian flu
– Chapter 3:
Immigration viewed from the Mexican point of view
– Chapter 4:
Information on diffusion of Internet usage
– Chapter 5:
Information on language used by online users
Language of e-commerce transactions
– Chapter 6:
Updated information on Middle East tensions
Coverage of Israel’s West Bank separation wall
– Chapter 7:
Coverage of Darfur conflict in Sudan
– Chapter 8:
Updated information on current war in Iraq
Coverage of post 9/11 terrorist incidents
– Chapter 9
Discussion and maps on use of cell phones
Discussion of Wal-Mart’s connection to China
Discussion of fair trade
– Chapter 10:
Plantation agriculture shifted to subsistence agriculture section
– Chapter 11.
New Key Issues
Focus on China as world’s leading manufacturing country
Discussion of regional shifts in manufacturing
Importance of changing location factors such as search for cheap labor
– Chapter 12.
Focus on services in India
New outline summarizing types of services
– Chapter 13.
New focus on problems of older suburbs
New perspectives on improved condition in some U.S. inner cities
Use of market segmentation in retailing
– Chapter 14.
Incorporation of recent higher gas prices
Outlook for expanded production of petroleum