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With superbly crafted maps covering the entire globe, the Essential World Atlas, Fifth Edition highlights the best aspects of Oxford's atlas line in a handy and affordable paperback format. In addition to a unique city-mapping program that takes the viewer deeper into the workings of urban spaces, this edition offers several new and innovative features. The inclusion of numerous maps of islands in the South Pacific and the Caribbean distinguishes this atlas from its competitors, and it features dozens of thematic maps, charts, and graphs explaining many fundamental concepts in human geography.
The new Fifth Edition also contains hundreds of up-to-the-minute political and topographical changes since the last edition including:
New national parks in Norway, Turkey, South Africa, Uganda and Costa Rica
New international airports added in Congo, Cape Verde Islands, Philippines, Korea, and India
New high speed rail lines in China
New Kosovo and Iraq flags
New rail link joining North and South Korea
New Lotschberg rail tunnel in Switzerland
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The New Concise World Atlas, Second Edition offers a sweeping look at the world in a fresh, clear manner, opening with six pages of compiled statistics on world population, climate and geography, all important points of reference for the global citizen. The highly illustrated "Earth in Space" thematic section that follows provides a wide-angle overview of the planet, placing the human world in the larger context of the universe. Then, in twenty-two compact yet compelling essays, the Earth's human and natural processes are explained using a balanced combination of informative text, instructive charts and graphs, and vibrant photography and cartography.
As part of a suite of annually updated atlases, the second edition offers information the competition lacks: revised province names and boundaries in Denmark, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Serbia and Montenegro as well as the opening of four new international airports and several major new railroads. Five new city maps, several regional spreads of the United States, and inset maps of island groups such as the Azores, the Seychelles and the Comoros also appear here for the first time. 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 192 countries recognized by the United Nations. Mirroring style changes made to the popular Atlas of the World, 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 already comprehensive 55,000-entry index, so that finding specific locations will be effortless no matter which place name is most familiar. Topping off this value-laden resource, a "Regions in the News" element highlights those geographic areas that have struggled with strife and turmoil over the last twelve months. These thematic maps illustrate local ethnic populations and occupied territories, helping to decode some of the issues plaguing Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq, and Sudan.
With hundreds of dramatic full-color, large-format maps produced by Europe's finest team of cartographers, the New Concise World Atlas, Second Edition will surely be found on the shelf of anyone concerned with the state of the world....
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Major new editions of our oxford dictionaries
The Oxford New French Dictionary
• For students, travelers, and businesspeople-a fully revised and thoroughly up-to-date reference.
• Over 40,000 words and phrases and 60,000 translations of essential, everyday vocabulary
• New, ultra-clear text for quick and easy reference
• Special warning symbols make slang and informal language easily identifiable
• Convenient tables of regular and irregular verbs
• Extra help with frequently used words-the building blocks to learning a language...
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Major new editions of our oxford dictionaries
The Oxford New Spanish Dictionary
-first update in ten years!
• For students, travelers, and businesspeople-a fully revised and thoroughly up-to-date reference.
• Over 40,000 words and phrases and 60,000 translations of essential, everyday vocabulary
• New, ultra-clear text for quick and easy reference
• Special warning symbols make slang and informal language easily identifiable
• Convenient tables of regular and irregular verbs
• Extra help with frequently used words-the building blocks to learning a language...
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Major new editions of our Oxford dictionaries and thesaurus
The Oxford New Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Over 150,000 entries, definitions, and synonyms in an integrated A-to-Z volume
• Includes appendices with valuable information such as: Standard Weights and Measurements, Signs and Symbols, U.S. Presidents, Countries of the World, and more
• Hundreds of new words and meanings make this two-in-one guide more useful than ever!...
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