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Description: This atlas features an explanation of explorations by time and country. The book begins with the earliest explorations and then organizes each entry by country. Each entry features a verbal explanation, as wells as colored photographs and maps. True to National Geographic’s reputation and legacy, they’ve created this atlas with the same care and attention to detail as our renowned adult atlases. “No one does maps or atlases with as much panache and knowledge as National Geographic,” said the Washington Post. Description: National Geographic’s classic atlas for kids is now fully revised and updated, with a reduced trim that makes it easy to carry and easy to browse. Complete with geo-themed games, crosswords, picture puzzles and more, this is the atlas for today’s young explorers, as well as the perfect homework reference source. Through the labyrinths of Berlin and Beijing – underground realms dug for refuge, espionage and even, as Canada’s Moose Jaw, used as the playground for gangsters trading liquor and money over cards.

A comprehensive index of more than 8,000 entries includes numerous alternative name forms used over the centuries. The Atlas of World History closes with a bibliography that provides a booklist for suggested further reading. This newly revised and expanded edition of The World Atlas of Beer features ten additional countries—including Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland, Iceland, and China—as well as up-to-the-moment beer industry information and trends. With this ultimate companion in hand, you can explore the best beers in the whole world. Content/Scope: This large-format geographical reference resource is updated annually. Includes census information, dozens of city maps, satellite images of Earth, and a geographical glossary. The atlas provides information on topics such as climate, the greenhouse effect, employment and industry, standards of living, agriculture, population and migration, and global conflicts. A general index contains 84,000 entries.

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Beautiful, original artwork shows the location of the lost cities and depicts how they looked when they thrived.

Buttressed by engaging prose and vivid graphics, Erik Millstone and Tim Lang convincingly argue that human progress depends on resolving global inequality and creating a more sustainable food production system. The Atlas features some 450 vivid full-color maps illustrating the major themes and events of world history, 100 photographs, 60 diagrams and hundreds of thousands of words of explanatory text. Accuracy/Authority/Bias: Oxford University Press (OUP), a department of the University of Oxford, is the largest university press in the world. The university became involved in printing around 1480. The atlas provides an in depth look at nations all around the world. There are many different types of maps in large format demonstrating many aspects and features of regions across the world. This resource will enable students to learn information about different regions from a variety of perspectives. So much history resides in each map–cultural, mythological, navigational–expressing the unlimited extent of human imagination. This is captured in the accompanying texts–mini essays by leading map historians–that are as vivid and insightful as the maps themselves.

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A veritable encyclopedia of geographic and demographic information, profusely illustrated [...] Extraordinary." N AT IONAL MA RK ET ING A ND PU B L IC I T Y C AM PA I G N National Print Publicity | National Radio Publicity | Print and Online Advertising | Online Promotion Many of the Universe’s 100 billion galaxies show clear structural patterns, originally classified by the American astronomer Edwin Hubble in 1925. Spiral galaxies like our own have a central, almost spherical bulge and a surrounding disk composed of spiral arms. Barred spirals have a central bar of stars across the nucleus, with spiral arms trailing from the ends of the bar. Elliptical galaxies have a more uniform appearance, ranging from a flattened disk to a near sphere. Using stunning info-graphics, maps, charts, tables, and photographs, the Atlas of Cities is a comprehensive overview of the patterns of production, consumption, generation, and decay of the twenty-first century’s defining form.

The 20th edition of the Atlas of the World has been completely updated and revised. Changes include: • Fully revised index & refreshed satellite imagery • Revised frontmatter country and city statistics • Seven new satellite images of London, Amsterdam, Riyadh, Cairo, Vancouver, Sydney, Panama Canal, and Rio de Janeiro • Six new world thematic maps on water scarcity, immigration, refugees, refugee remittances, direction of oil trade, and globalization • Expansion of Hong Kong approach map to include Lan Tau Island and International Airport The book’s unique arrangement, with the maps organized in complimentary or contrasting pairs, reveals how the history of our attempts to make flat representations of the world has been full of beauty, ingenuity and innovation. Accuracy/Authority: The text covers all major explorations in an unbiased way. The same information is presented for each featured exploration. The only world atlas updated annually, Oxford's Atlas of the World is the most authoritative atlas on the market.

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Content/Scope: This atlas has new census information, dozens of city maps, gorgeous satellite images of Earth, and a geographical glossary. It has a completely updated Gazetteer of Nations provides an invaluable A-Z reference of concise country profiles, including statistics on economies, politics, and historical profiles. Accessibility/Diversity: This atlas provides diverse information of several countries around the world.

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