National Geographic Atlas of the World Revised Six

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Description: It is perhaps the eighth wonder of our world that despite modern mapping and satellite photography our planet continues to surprise us. Description: If you’ve got the budget for it you can’t go wrong with National Geographic’s 10th edition of its Atlas of the World. Published to mark the 100th anniversary of National Geographic it includes: 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.’ Spreads depict everything from hunting in Africa in 10,000 BC to the kingdoms of Southeast Asia in the earliest years of the millennium, the decline of the Byzantine Empire, the growth of the Atlantic economies in the 18th century, and standards of living since 1945.

Description: Imagine a world without maps. How would we travel? Could we own land? What would men and women argue about in cars? Scientists have even suggested that mapping—not language—is what elevated our prehistoric ancestors from ape-dom.Accessibility/Diversity: The illustrations include diverse locations from around the world. This will be of specific interest to patrons who are visual learners. Description: This alluring read includes 40 locations that are rife with disaster, chaos, paranormal activity, and death. Follow the history of maps from the early explorers’ maps and the awe-inspiring medieval Mappa Mundi to Google Maps and the satellite renderings on our smartphones, Garfield explores the unique way that maps relate and realign our history—and reflect the best and worst of what makes us human.

This extrensively updated and extended edition features new material on burgeoning areas, including detailed coverage of many recently opened US craft distilleries, new distilleries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and discussion of the growing whisky scene in Latin America. 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.Some of the choicest maps show distribution of stats like, Refugees, Immigration Spread, World Debt, Global Disease Burden, Fragility of States, Trade Flow, Access to Improved Sanitation, Access to Education, and many more. Naturally, any map that includes information about the people of Earth is in its very nature political and subject to interpretation. For example, one map represents the locations of “politicides and genocides around the world.” That is a subject that is based on perspective, as it does not include the abortion counts. A large number of the peoples living on Earth would see abortion as genocide. It depends on your own perspective. This atlas also pictures flags from around the world. 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.