A lively and stimulating companion to standard classroom texts in human geography. Selections are influential in the development of the discipline or relevant to contemporary policy debates Includes a general introduction and helpful individual section introductions Systematically organized into eight sections: introductory readings, population and migration, environment, agriculture and society, cultural geography and place, urban geography, economic geography, development geography, and political geography Features intelligent readings from esteemed geographers while remaining accessible for those coming to the field for the first time