Oxford Atlas of the World

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Accuracy/Authority/Bias: This book is printed by what is considered to be one of the more reputable printing companies, Oxford University Press. The process in which items are peer reviewed are very rigorous. 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.

Arrangement/ Presentation: The text is organized by explorations and discoveries in a country or region. It also features entries on particular explorers. All maps featured are in color; they are large and easy to read. Each map is accompanied by a key. 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. Flipping through this book is a lush experience, with new satellite imagery and more maps and graphs than you thought imaginable. Reading the Atlas is a little trip around the globe." THE NEAREST STARS The 22 nearest stars, excluding the Sun, with their distance from Earth in light-years* Proxima Centauri Alpha Centauri A Alpha Centauri B Barnard’s Star Wolf 359 Lalande 21185 Sirius A Sirius B

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Accessibility/Diversity: This atlas provides diverse information of several countries around the world. Criteria:Scope: This text explains the major explorations in history. It does so in the format of a map, as it is an atlas. Beautiful, original artwork shows the location of the lost cities and depicts how they looked when they thrived.Description: Taking the reader on a global tour of coffee-growing countries, The World Atlas of Coffee presents the bean in full-color photographs and concise, informative text. It shows the origins of coffee — where it is grown, the people who grow it; and the cultures in which coffee is a way of life — and the world of consumption — processing, grades, the consumer and the modern culture of coffee. Description: It is perhaps the eighth wonder of our world that despite modern mapping and satellite photography our planet continues to surprise us.

Never forgetting the freaks and wonders of nature’s own unusual masterpieces: the magical underground river shaped like a dragon’s mouth in the Philippines and the floating world of Palmerston.

Ideal for secondary students (11+)

Most galaxies, however, have no obvious structure at all. Galaxies also vary enormously in size, from dwarf galaxies only 2,000 light-years across to great assemblies of stars 80 or more times larger. 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