This Updated Second Edition provides professors and students with a Human Geography textbook that contains materials about recent world events triggered by the September 11th attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. The Updated Second Edition contains new materials that address the actual world events triggered by the attacks, and perhaps, more importantly, adds materials focused on providing professors with a tool to more effectively help their students understand the roots of these problems. Additionally, there is new material in the book to help professors teach their students something more about terrorism as a concept.

“In order to understand places, they must first be made meaningful to us.” Knox/Marston's exciting contemporary approach gives people and places meaning by covering compelling topics that integrate today's local, regional, and global perspectives. It provides not only a body of knowledge about places and regions, but also a deep understanding of the interdependence of places and regions in a globalizing world. Coverage throughout is intellectually empowering and capable of cultivating a life-long geographical imagination. The authors give students access to the latest ideas, concepts, and theories while concurrently developing a strong foundation in the fundamentals.