The Times Concise Atlas of the World

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As you ascend mountains, zip-line over woods, and dip into oceans, this atlas is your passport to a world of undercover wonders illustrated by beautiful art. In a time when political, health, climatic, and environmental crises anywhere on the planet can change our daily lives, maps provide a time-honored way to navigate the realities we face. With this atlas, you hold an authoritative yet convenient tool for explaining global forces’ interaction at work in the fast-changing but always wonderful planet that is our home. Each section is further divided into given subjects and contain between one and nine maps, charts to show economic, demographic, manufactures, agricultural output, drug trade and other data as needed. Occasionally illustrations are included on a topic.

In the introduction to the first edition, Geoffrey Barraclough notes that the desire of The Atlas was to provide a history based on the viewpoint of its creators, hence the spread of Islam, for example, is centred at Mecca, as might have been the view of the seventh century Arabs. Authoritative reference maps, superbly designed to present detailed information with outstanding clarity' Each atlas chapter starts with a map and visual timeline to set the stage for the events, emphasizing when, where, and why things occurred and transformed history as they did. The last section of the atlas features commemorations that took place one hundred years after the world war and memorials around the world created to honor those who perished in the conflict. Administrative structures in Bangladesh, France, Ghana, India, Norway, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and UK A new thoroughly contemporized reference atlas in the thrilling Collins world atlas range. Excellent value and contains all the world maps you require in a budget atlas for family, study, and business use.This latest edition, created with the support of a geography tutor, has everything children want and need to know about our changing world. Dynamic, user-friendly content contains breathtaking photos, updated exciting facts, statistics, graphs, infographics, and full-color physical, political, and thematic maps on important topics. Historical maps of the world show the political make-up of the world over the last 150 years and the atlas also includes plans of 41 of the world’s major cities. A satellite imagery section contains an overview image of each continent, and is complemented with a detailed image. Maps are more than our planet’s topography or nations’ boundaries. Maps can represent people and ideas’ movements, giving a unique way to tell historical topics and explore extensive times.

It’s not like the competition doesn’t do this: both my editions of the Oxford (the 14th) and the National Geographic (the ninth) put this information on the endpapers. But putting it there means having to flip to the front or end of the book to look up a symbol. When you’re dealing with something the size of a world atlas, that’s awfully unwieldy, even with the smaller Oxford. Besides purpose-created maps, archival maps from Allied and Axis nations offer unique insights into historical events. There are also timelines to assist you in following the story as it opens, while historical overviews describe the political, economic, social, and technical progress at the time. Captivating, large-scale images present themes such as the Blitzkrieg, Holocaust, kamikaze combat, and code-breaking.The Atlas, first published in 1978 in London, UK, sold more than two million copies in many languages. Its stated aim was to describe the major processes and events of world history across a broad canvas and omit tiny details of, say, ruling families, minor battles etc. It wished to give a dynamic view of population migrations, economic developments such as agriculture and industrialisation, wars, the spread of religions and political ideologies. Atlas of Record-Breaking Adventures: A collection of the biggest, fastest, longest, toughest, tallest, and most deadly things from around the world The atlas is a sarcastic almanac of humanity’s fancy world views, from the ancient ages to Donald Trump and the era of Facebook and YouTube. The atlas contains more than a hundred different viral stereotype maps. The index now has over 100 000 entries, and is fully cross-referenced with alternative and former names. Written by a crew of historians directed by Richard Overy as an expert, World War 2 Map by Map explores how the most violent conflict in history shaped our world’s face.