AP Human Geography Resource List- Updated 09/05/2009
RESOURCE NAME
LINK TO RESOURCE OR TO PURCHASE INFO
TYPE OF RESOURCE
UNIT
Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
http://www.csiss.org/
Website
All
Flowing Data Maps
http://flowingdata.com/category/mapping/
Map Collection
All
Frontline World
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/bytheme.html
Online videos
All
Gap Minder
http://www.gapminder.org/
Interactive maps
All
Geographische Rundschau
http://www.geographischerundschau.de/international/
Magazine
All
Geography in Action
http://he-cda.wiley.com/WileyCDA/HigherEdTitle/productCd-0471701211,courseCdGE0200.html
All
Mapping Worlds
http://show.mappingworlds.com/
Textbook
Interactive thematic
maps
Maps in Our Lives
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/maps/maps-exhibit.html
Map Collection
All
Maps of War
http://www.mapsofwar.com/
Maps
All
Place II Map Collection
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/place/
Map Collection
All
Power of Place
http://www.learner.org/resources/series180.html
Video Series
All
Ted Talks
http://www.ted.com/talks?gclid=CMGqyd2D1Y8CFSasGgodiwhw-Q
Online videos
All
World Bank Photo Collection
World Data Center for Human Interactions in the
Environment
http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/
Website
All
http://sedac.ciesin.org/wdc/map_gallery.jsp
Map Collection
All
World Mapper
http://www.worldmapper.org/
Cartograms
All
Michael Wesch's You Tube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch
Online videos
Cultural
Postville: When Cultures Collide
http://www.ket.org/tvschedules/episode.php?nola=POCC++000000
Video
Cultural
A Hot Dog Program
Challenges, Rewards for Those who Wear Faith on
Their Sleeve
http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=1962830
Video
Cultural
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/02/20/religion.irpt/index.html
Article
Cultural
Confucius Lives Next Door
Book
Cultural
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
http://links.net/vita/trip/japan/media/bukz/confuciuslives/
http://www.amazon.com/Cows-Pigs-Wars-Witches-Riddles/dp/0679724680
Book
Cultural
Do You Speak American?
http://www.pbs.org/speak/
Essays, activities, etc.
Cultural
Dreams of Trespass
http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Trespass-Tales-Harem-Girlhood/dp/0201489376
http://www.amazon.com/Foreign-Familiar-Understanding-ClimateCultures/dp/1581580223
Book
Cultural
Book
Cultural
Foreign to Familiar
All
Hillbilly: The Real Story
How Different Groups Spend Their Day
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory
of Globalization
http://www.amazon.com/History-Channel-Hillbilly-Real-Story/dp/B001B186ZS
Video
Cultural
http://www.nytimes.com//interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metricsgraphic.html?ref=business
Interactive Graphics
Cultural
Book
Electronic Readings,
Maps, etc
Cultural
Book
Cultural
Book
Cultural
Article
Online video, reports,
etc
Cultural
Video
Cultural
Book
Cultural
Book
Cultural
http://www.amazon.com/How-Soccer-Explains-World-Globalization/dp/0066212340
Islam in Southeast Asia
http://asiasociety.org/education-learning
Jihad vs. McWorld
Kite Runner
http://www.amazon.com/Jihad-vs-McWorld-Globalism-Tribalism/dp/0345383044
http://www.amazon.com/Kite-Runner-Khaled-Hosseini/dp/1594480001
Mapping the Cultural Buzz
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/arts/design/07buzz.html?_r=2&scp=3&sq=melena%20r
yzik&st=cse
Merchants of Cool
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/
Cultural
Cultural
Outcasts United
http://www.amazon.com/Milagro-Beanfield-War-Rub%C3%A9nBlades/dp/B0007QJ210/ref=ed_oe_dvd
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Nine-Hills-to-Nambonkaha/SarahErdman/e/9780312423124
http://outcastsunited.com/
Preserving Languages is About More Than Words
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2009/03/15/AR2009031501857.html
Article
Cultural
http://www.promnightinmississippi.com/
Video
Cultural
Social & Demographic Trends
http://pewsocialtrends.org/
Website
Cultural
The City of Joy
Book
Cultural
The Tribes of America
http://www.amazon.com/City-Joy-Dominique-Lapierre/dp/0446355569
http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Poverty-Nations-SomeRich/dp/0393318885/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252196943&sr=8-1
Book
Cultural
Trouble in the Other Middle East
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/opinion/08kaplan.html?emc=eta1
Article
Cultural
Visualizing Economics Gallery
http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/my-gallery/
Graphics
Cultural
Voices
Website
Cultural
Wal-Mart Era Wanes (diffusion)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB119135657404946747lMyQjAxMDE3OTAxMzMwNTM2Wj.html
Article
Cultural
What's for Dinner?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/dinner.html#
Photo Gallery
Climate Connections
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9657621
Interactive series
Everything's Cool
http://www.everythingscool.org/
Video
Cultural
Geographic
Perspectives
Geographic
Perspectives
Milagro-Beanfield War
Nine Hills to Nambonkaha
Prom Night in Mississippi
Exploring the Early Americas
http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/earlyamericas/Pages/default.aspx
Website, historic maps
How to Lie With Maps
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=474
31
Book
UCLA Class Project: Fin Bin Laden
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/21/science/sci-binladen21
Article
Why Geography Matters
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Geography-Matters-ChallengesTerrorism/dp/0195183010
Book
Black Gold (free trade coffee)
http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/
Video
Pennies A Day (microcredit)
http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/foundationpress/?p=404
Video
Ship Container Loading and Unloading
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeMHYX4LxEc
Online video
Slumdog Millionaire
http://www.foxsearchlight.com/slumdogmillionaire/
Video
Coalbrookdale and the History of Coal Power
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9955564
Article and Audio
Development as Freedom
http://www.amazon.com/Development-as-Freedom-Amartya-Sen/dp/0385720270
Book
Ending Famine Simply by Ignoring the Experts
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/world/africa/01iht-02malawi.8555704.html
Article
Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/ghana804/video/video_index.html
Online Video
Green Revolution' Trapping India's Farmers in Debt
Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Revitalizing
America's Older Industrial Cities
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102944731
Article
http://www3.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20070520_oic.pdf
Policy Report
The Big Mac Index (purchasing power parity)
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities of Our
Time
http://www.oanda.com/products/bigmac/bigmac.shtml
Website
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/pages/endofpoverty/index
http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Poverty-Nations-SomeRich/dp/0393318885/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252196943&sr=8-1
Book
http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/bookshelf/the-world-is-flat
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780670033379,00.html
Book
Geographic
Perspectives
Geographic
Perspectives
Geographic
Perspectives
Geographic
Perspectives
Industrialization &
Development
Industrialization &
Development
Industrialization &
Development
Industrialization &
Development
Industrialization&
Development
Industrialization&
Development
Industrialization&
Development
Industrialization&
Development
Industrialization&
Development
Industrialization&
Development
Industrialization&
Development
Industrialization&
Development
Industrialization&
Development
Industrialization&
Development
Book
Political
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
The World is Flat
Collapse
Book
Guns, Germs, and Steel
http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/about/index.html
Kosovo Slideshow
Political
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/20071209_KOSOVO_FEATURE/index.html#
Book
Slideshow with
narration
Mr. Gorbachev, Show Off This Bag
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/business/media/08adco.html
Article
Political
Redistricting Game
http://www.redistrictinggame.org/
Website
Political
Book
Political
Resource Wars
Political
The Revenge of Geography
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4862&print=1
Article
Political
World Freedom Atlas
http://freedom.indiemaps.com/
Interactive map
Political
All the Trouble in the World
http://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~genauth~568~1466~DES
C
Book
Population
Earth Pulse
www.nationalgergraphic.com/earthpulse
Interactive Website
Population
Global Migration Map
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/world/20070622_CAPEVERDE_GRAPHIC.html#
Proportional map
Population
Hot, Flat, and Crowded
http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/bookshelf/hot-flat-and-crowded
Book
Population
Immigration Myths and Realities Quiz
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/quiz.html
Online quiz
Population
Japan Eyes Demographic Time Bomb
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7084749.stm
Article
Population
La Linea
http://www.amazon.com/Linea-Ann-Jaramillo/dp/1596431547
Book
Population
National Atlas
http://nationalatlas.gov/
Website
Population
Our Kind
http://www.amazon.com/Our-Kind-Where-Came-Going/dp/0060919906
Population
Population Reference Bureau
www.prb.org
Social Explorer
http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx
Book
Website, includes
lesson plans
Interactive US Census
maps
US Population Distribution by Age
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/08/us-Population-distribution-by-age-1950.html
Population
World in Balance
World Population Projected to Reach 7 Billion…
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/12/world.population/index.html?eref=igoogle_c
nn
Website
Interactive graphics,
interviews, etc.
News Article
Population
Global Trends 2025
http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_2025_project.html
Website
Populaton
Fast Food Nation
Book
Rural and Agri
Food, Inc.
http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/books/schlosser.html
http://www.foodincmovie.com/
Rural and Agri
Harvest of Fear
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/
Video
Links, interviews,
discussion
Holy Cow
http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=2130026
Video
Rural and Agri
Population
Population
Population
Rural and Agri
King Corn
www.kingcorn.net
Video
Rural and Agri
Online Videos
Article, Photo Gallery,
Illustrations
Rural and Agri
Smithfield Foods
http://www.smithfieldfoods.com/media/audio.aspx
Special Report- The Global Food Crisis
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/06/cheap-food/bourne-text
The Future of Food
Video
Rural and Agri
Online videos
Rural and Agri
The Omnivore's Dilemma
http://www.thefutureoffood.com/
http://www.themeatrix.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-HistoryMeals/dp/1594200823
Book
Rural and Agri
Use of Antibiotics in Livestock
http://fmstream.tamu.edu:8000/fm/AnimalInsights/042209.mp3
MP3
Rural and Agri
A Field Guide to Sprawl
http://www.doloreshayden.com/work1.htm
Book
Urban
Blueprint America
http://video.pbs.org/program/1113214386/
TV Series
Urban
Edge City
Book
Urban
Manufactured Landscapes
http://www.amazon.com/Edge-City-Life-New-Frontier/dp/0385424345
http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=manufacturedlandscapes
Video
Urban
Math and the City (Rank-Size Rule)
http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/math-and-the-city/?apage=3
Article
Urban
Radiant City
http://www.amazon.com/Radiant-City-Gary-Burns/dp/B001139ZJC
Video
Urban
Subdivide and Conquer
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/sub.html
Video
Urban
The Geography of Nowhere
http://www.amazon.com/Geography-Nowhere-Americas-Man-MadeLandscape/dp/0671888250
Book
Urban
The Meatrix
Rural and Agri