Offers a unified perspective on a complex range of global issues in a variety of societies, both developed and developing Includes new sections on foreign aid and development assistance, terrorism, the relationship between geography and wealth and poverty, food and the overweight, and the Millennium Development Goals Features an updated and expanded section on climate change, as well as a new glossary Illustrates key topics and issues with diagrams and photographs Provides guides to further reading, media, and internet resources, and suggestions for discussing and studying the material

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