May 31, 20235 min read
Exploring the World of Energy: Part 1
Suitable for A Level, IB, IGCSE, GCSE students and teachers of Geography I’m producing a series of blog posts about energy. I think it is...
The articles of this website will supplement and deepen the knowledge of A Level & IB geographers rather than be a revision/study guide to match a syllabus. It will be useful for teachers too, a place where they can extend their own knowledge so they can nurture their passion for geography and respond well to questions from students, the kind of questions that may take them by surprise. The articles here aim to go beyond the textbooks and add more realism and add colour to geography. They may sometimes counter printed geographical textbook theory with new theories and information that may give the reader areason to pause and question what is delivered to them in class. Students of geography who are planning to apply for a geographical undergraduate degree programme will especially benefit from this resource as they question further and gain insights in preparation for rigorous further study in the field of geography.
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Here are a few highly recommended books that are thought-provoking, engaging, and powerfully bring the importance of geography to the forefront of our minds.
Pacific
by Simon Winchester
Factfulness
by Hans Rosling
Prisoners of Geography
by Tim Marshall
Dune
by Frank Herbert
Touching the Void
by Joe Simpson
Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History
by Lewis Dartnel