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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 outcomesMyLab 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 (TM) 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 (TM) activities.* MasteringGeography videos related to world regional and phy