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Will Williams

I Used to Know That: Geography

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Imprint: O'Mara Books

Publication date: 12/01/2017

ISBN: 9781782437550

Subject: Non-Fiction

Category: Reference

Binding: Paperback

Size: 198 x 129 mm

Extent: 192 pages

Illustration: Black-and-white diagrams

Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)

Edition Status: Out of Print

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Summary:

Have you forgotten all you ever learned about climate change? What do you really know about GM foods? Can you remember everything you learned at school about earthquakes?

This useful guide reminds you of everything you once learned – or should have learned – about the earth, its resources and atmosphere, and human activity and its effects.

Discover the physical world of rivers, glaciers and coasts; the human world of population changes and migration; agriculture, including farming, GM foods and the green revolution; and industry, from tourism to ports and old industry.

I Used To Know That: Geography is an accessible yet fun way to revisit all the stuff you have forgotten from your school days but really should remember.

Sales points:

  • This vast subject is divided up into easily digestible bite-sized chunks

  • Written to O Level standard, specifically for the layperson, this book is the perfect way to brush up on all those facts you really should know

  • Breaks the subject down into its fundamental topics, including: the physical world, the human world, global issues, climate change, industry and the hydrological cycle

  • Series Editor, Caroline Taggart, is the best-selling author of I Used to Know That, An Apple a Day and My Grammar and I

About the Author:

Will Williams

Will Williams has an MA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Oxford and has taught geography for many years. He is passionate about the important role geography plays in our modern world and about communicating its increasing relevance to the conversation about climate change to the masses.