Physical Geography, plus MasteringGeography with Pearson eText

Product Description This package includes a physical copy of Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation: International Edition, 11/e by Hess as well as access to the eText and MasteringGeography.   Continuing Tom L. McKnight's well-known thematic focus on landscape appreciation, Darrel Hess offers a broad survey of all of the physical processes and spatial patterns that create Earth’s physical landscape. McKnight’s Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation provides a clear writing style, superior art program, and abundant pedagogy to appeal to a wide variety of students. This new edition offers a truly meaningful integration of visualization, technology, the latest applied science, and new pedagogy, providing essential tools and opportunities to teach and engage students in these processes and patterns.    MasteringGeography: Engages and motivates students to learn Provides students personalized coaching and feedback Quickly monitors and displays student results Easily captures data to demonstrate assessment outcomes MyLab and Mastering from Pearson improve results for students and educators. Used by over ten million students, they effectively engage learners at every stage.   Used by over a million science students, the Mastering platform is the most effective and widely used online tutorial, homework, and assessment system for the sciences.   For students · MasteringGeography tutorials guide students through the toughest topics in geography with self-paced tutorials that provide individualized coaching. These assignable, in-depth tutorials are designed to coach students with hints and feedback specific to their individual misconceptions. · MasteringGeography's MapMaster™ tutorials present place name and layered thematic interactive maps to enhance their geographic literacy. · Pearson's Encounter Series provides interactive explorations of geoscience concepts through assessable MasteringGeography Google Earth™ activities. · MasteringGeography videos related to world regional and physical geography help students visualize and explore a range of places and topics. · Interactive eText allows students to highlight text, add their own study notes, and review instructor's personalized notes, 24/7.  For educators · Provide students with personalized coaching and feedback automatically ·  Make Google Earth™ assignable and assessable · For educator access, contact your Pearson Account Manager. To find out who your Account Manager is, visitwww.pearsoned.co.uk/replocator  About the Author Darrel Hess is professor of geography at City College of San Francisco, where he served as chair of the Earth Sciences department from 1995-2009. He regularly teaches physical geography, economic geography, and human geography. Hess received his B.A. in geography from UC Berkeley and his M.A. in geography from UCLA. Before graduate school he served in the Peace Corps in Korea, and before teaching full-time he worked as a writer, photographer, and audiovisual producer.   Hess served as T.A. to Tom McKnight at UCLA. He began working with McKnight and Pearson as author of the text’s Study Guide starting in the Fourth Edition and as author for the Lab Manual starting in the Fifth Edition. He became a full time co-author of the Ninth Edition, and became sole author of the Tenth Edition. Hess has contributed to the development of the Geoscience Animation Library and has partnered with many geoscience teachers and writers in the development of the CA edition.    Dennis Tasa has been a renowned illustrator of many bestselling geoscience textbooks since 1978,  including the physical geology, Earth science, and meteorology franchises by Tarbuck and Lutgens. He has created illustrations and media for NSF-funded projects, and has worked on various Earth science media, including Pearson’s GEODe.