National Geographic Atlas of the World Revised Six

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Description: In an exclusive partnership with National Geographic, Wiley offers a powerful resource that is affordable, compact, and authoritative. It puts our world in your students’ grasp, presenting 25 global themes, from tectonics, the biosphere, and energy sources to population, health, literacy, and more, along with such timely topics as environmental stress and flash points for conflict and terror.

Accuracy/Authority/Bias: National Geographic is a global publishing company known for its educational materials. Many schools turn to this company for reference materials. Realignment of the international boundary between Burkina Faso and Niger resulting from the International Court of Justice decision.Having done some work in the late nineties with the National Geographic Society for certification with them as a Geography consultant, I was gifted a beautiful set of a variety of atlases, one that was huge and much loved. Those have long since been worn out in the classroom. One feature that I liked most about their atlases was the inclusion of charts, maps, and graphs that represent sociological, climate, and world trends, as well as some essays on features of the people of Earth and their distribution around the globe. They do this very well. Description: It is perhaps the eighth wonder of our world that despite modern mapping and satellite photography our planet continues to surprise us. 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. Arrangement/Presentation: This book contains sections for each continent and the flags and country facts at the end of each continental section, it features stunning satellite images that portray unique physical geography and highlights the sprawling extent of major cities.

Expert contributors explore how the development of these cities reflects one or more of the common themes of urban development: the mobilizing function (transport, communication, and infrastructure); the generative function (innovation and technology); the decision-making capacity (governance, economics, and institutions); and the transformative capacity (society, lifestyle, and culture). Not earthbound, this Atlas extends into space with sections on the Moon, Inner and Outer Solar Systems and the Milky Way. Addition of Brussel as alternative local name form for Bruxelles (Brussels) as city is officially bilingual. Now shown as Brussel/Bruxelles. Accessibility/Diversity: The illustrations include diverse locations from around the world. This will be of specific interest to patrons who are visual learners.Beautiful, original artwork shows the location of the lost cities and depicts how they looked when they thrived. 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.

Explores common themes of urban development, from transport and communication to lifestyle and culture Webb and Beaumont also offer a fascinating history of beer and an in-depth look at the science and art of beermaking. Description: More than half the world’s population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Description: From the earliest of times, maps have fired our imaginations and helped us make sense of our world, from the global to the very local. Head of Map Collections at the British Library, Peter Barber has here compiled an historic and lavish atlas, charting the progress of civilization as our knowledge of the world expanded.The Atlas includes sections on the Ancient World, Medieval World, Early Modern World, Age of Revolutions, and the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Each section opens with an introduction that highlights the main socioeconomic, cultural and religious themes of the period, followed by spreads of maps, text, illustrations and captions that discuss specific regions and eras. From the Antebellum South to Fort Sumter, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the fitful peace of Reconstruction, National Geographic’s Atlas of the Civil War displays eye-opening maps—and a gripping, self-contained story—on every spread. Many of the maps are beautiful works of art in their own right. From Europe to the Americas, Africa to Asia, north to south, there are maps of oceans and continents charted by heroic adventurers sailing into the unknown, as accounts spread of new discoveries, shadowy continents begin to appear n the margins of the world, often labeled ‘unknown lands.’ With more than 250 maps, graphics, and illustrations, the National Geographic Concise Atlas of the World offers an authoritative and engaging portrayal of the world and all that is in it.

Map-obsessives and everyone who loved Just My Type will be lining up to join Garfield on his audacious journey through time and around the globe. Each chapter explores a particular type of city–from the foundational cities of Greece and Rome and the networked cities of the Hanseatic League, through the nineteenth-century modernization of Paris and the industrialization of Manchester, to the green and “smart” cities of today.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: The seventh edition will confirm the status of The World Atlas of Wine as the most essential and authoritative wine reference work. Reflecting the changing nature of the wine scene, the Atlas details developments in climate, technique and fashion as well as new regulations made over the last six years.