The Times Concise Atlas of the World

Product Information

The index now has over 100 000 entries, and is fully cross-referenced with alternative and former names. 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. 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.

Every of the 24 wonderfully decorated maps brings to life the movies we know and love, and each comes with additional information about the film and the characters.It was created by Barry Winkleman, the Publishing Director of The Times, and Geoffrey Barraclough, Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford University. They assembled a team of some 100 leading historians. [2] 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.

This significantly updated and expanded edition highlights new material on burgeoning areas, including full coverage of many recently opened new distilleries in the United States, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. 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. 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. The first book of its type, this gorgeous atlas showcases America’s breathtaking park system from coast to coast, richly decorated with an inspiring and informative atlas of maps, illustrations, and photos. Treating a world atlas as a reviewable object on its own terms is going to be a challenge. Let me start by talking about the damn bookmark.

The Second World War: The Definitive Visual History takes you from the bloodshed of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles. 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. Atlas of Record-Breaking Adventures: A collection of the biggest, fastest, longest, toughest, tallest, and most deadly things from around the world The reference mapping has been completely revised and up-dated, and redesigned to be in the same style as the Millennium Edition of The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World. There are additional large scale maps, including central Asia, Japan, southeast Australia, and eastern United States. This engaging atlas guides the reader toward the most rewarding observations, starting with basic space science and containing a comprehensive set of night sky maps for all four Northern and Southern Hemispheres seasons. A remarkable chapter on astrotourism emphasizes ancient observatories, dark-sky preserves, and other global destinations for the sky-seeking drifter; a final chapter details contemporary and future space missions and what they might discover.