National Geographic Atlas of the World Eleventh Edition

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From the map specialists at National Geographic comes the 6th edition of the award-winning Student World Atlas – the best resource ever for middle and high school students to become informed global inhabitants. 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.

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Space Atlas combines precise information on the basics of astrophysics, including hidden matter and gravitational waves. For this release and to celebrate the 50th jubilee of his moonwalk, American astronaut Buzz Aldrin presents a new unique section on Earth’s moon and its significant role in space research past and future. For curious children, this is the opportunity to embark on the voyage of a lifetime—and see how remote nations have more in common than you might expect. Hopscotch from country to country in a chain of linking attractions: Examine Mexico’s glittering cave of crystals, then see the world’s largest cave in Vietnam. Peer over a 355-foot waterfall in Zambia, then comprehends how Antarctica’s Blood Falls got their bizarre color. Or visit mysterious mummies in Japan and France, then magnificent ice caves in Argentina and Austria. The Second World War: The Definitive Visual History takes you from the bloodshed of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles. Encyclopedic reference mapping with 155 thousand place names supplies an astonishingly detailed worldview. The illustrated thematic visual content embraces the most significant geographical issues of the day, making this world atlas valuable to any reference collection.

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. 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. This remarkable atlas begins with the development and journey of our earliest ancestors out of Africa. You can then look up maps about the Mongol Conquests, Greece and Persian Wars, Medieval Europe’s trade roads, and the Ottomans’ growth. The atlas describes North America’s colonization, the scientific revolution, Napoleon’s rise, and Britain’s colonization of India. There’s more in the following centuries, like the Age of Imperialism, the American Civil War, European industrialization, and Japan’s alteration. 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. Complete maps and captivating representations from up-to-date space missions partner with rich, trustworthy scientific information in this guided tour of our planetary neighborhood (planets, moons, asteroids), the Milky Way, and other constellations.

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An authoritative new history of great breadth, the book presents a spectacular reinterpretation of history’s deadliest war conflict. This complete and convincing historical world atlas reveals the story of our globe in detail, from the origins of life on our planet until the 21st century. The National Geographic atlas of the world is a set of high thematic maps to understand world events and difficulties, from natural resources to climate change and economic patterns. Six mainly designed ‘Flavour Camp Charts’ group whiskeys by style and allow readers to distinguish new whiskeys from around the planet to try. 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 reveal the world’s political makeup over the last 150 years, and the atlas also contains plans of 41 of the world’s major cities.