《书目》(Booklist)书评

A useful book of explanations, hands-on activities, and exercises that demonstrates both the importance and the practical applications of geography in our everyday lives. The author, a high school and college geography teacher, aims his message at parents, teachers, school administrators, and decision makers in government and industry. Readers patient enough to skim through O'Mahony's repetitive, long-winded, and exaggerated opening argument on behalf of geography's timeliness, international significance, and interrelatedness with all other fields of learning will find the heart of this volume valuable either in planning a geography curriculum or, in the case of parents, in helping their children better appreciate and understand the highlights of this field. Unfortunately, the book's winsome conversational style is undercut by wordiness and tedious repetitions, and an editor could have improved the book's presentation by organizing it as an easy-to-reference resource or workbook rather than following a narrative plan. ~--Mary Banas