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New Concise World Atlas
By Oxford University Press
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With hundreds of dramatic, full-color, large-format maps produced
by Europe's finest team of cartographers, the New Concise World
Atlas stands to strengthen top-of-the-line atlases by improving on
both the content and the price of our previous concise edition. The
New Concise World Atlas offers a fresh look at the world in a clear
and direct manner, opening with six pages of compiled statistics on
world population, climate and geography--important points of
reference for the global citizen. The highly illustrated "Earth in
Space" thematic section that follows provides a broad overview of
the planet on a macro level, placing our planet in the larger
context of the universe. In twenty-two compact yet compelling
essays, the Earth's human and natural processes are explained
through a balanced combination of informative text, instructive
charts and graphs, and vibrant photography and mapping.
As part of a suite of atlases that are updated
annually, the New Concise offers information other atlases
lack:
- revised province names and boundaries in Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, the Czech Republic, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Paraguay and
Venezuela, as well as the introduction of the Euro to the European
economy
- With 128 pages of the latest maps at carefully selected scales,
every region from the Arctic Ocean to The Volga Basin is rendered in
layer-colored contours, revealing detailed political and
topographical information about each of the 191 countries
recognized by the United Nations
- Page number indicators have been added throughout which, along
with refined locator windows, allow for easy identification of
adjacent map pages
- Historical cross-references have also been added to the
comprehensive 55,000-entry index, and a "Regions in the News"
element highlights those geographic areas that have struggled with
strife and turmoil over the last twelve months
- Thematic maps illustrate local ethnic populations and occupied
territories, helping to decode some of the issues plaguing
Colombia, Afghanistan, and Kashmir.
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