Dorling Kindersley Cartography (Firm)

Full of clear, detailed maps, this beautifully designed world atlas is the perfect companion for discovering our planet. Originally published in 1997 and now in its 10th edition, the Essential World Atlas includes all recent border, place name, and flag changes around the world, including the new nation of South Sudan and the annexation of Crimea. A series of 12 global thematic maps on subjects as diverse as ocean currents and languages gives a general...

One of the many things we have learned about the earth is that it is shrinking. With the increase in population and the heretofore unknown regions having been explored, mapped and inhabited, it becomes increasingly important to have a vision of the world, its limitation in size and the events that occur that make it more precarious. The increase in technologies, enable us to see how people live and events occuring around the world...earthquakes,...