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Atlas of the World: Fourteenth Edition from: Oxford University Press List Price: CDN$ 83.35 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 51.50 You Save: CDN$31.85 (38%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 912 EAN: 9780195334005 ISBN: 0195334000 Label: Oxford University Press Manufacturer: Oxford University Press Number Of Pages: 476 Publication Date: 2007-09 Publisher: Oxford University Press Studio: Oxford University Press Sales Rank: 23452 Related Items: Related Items:   see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
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 Rating:  - Oxford World AtlasThis rendition has a comprehensive coverage of the universe and our solar system in full color. There are pictures of earthquake zones and weather belts worldwide. Constellations of stars are depicted for astronomers . There is good coverage of the world economic systems. The maps are easy to read and interpret. The boldface print makes for ease of identification of even the smallest cities and towns. This book is perfect for any school project in geography, earth science, world history and a whole host of other academic constituencies. It is a worthy investment if you have any children in school- at any level. Rating:  - Comparing with BritannicaComparado con el Atlas de la Britannica, este no tiene nada que hacer. La claridad de los mapas, que es la esencia del Atlas, es bastante superior en la Britannica. Poseo la edición del año 1994 y me parece superior. Lo único que justifica la compra de este Atlas de la Oxford es que trae la información de geografía humana y política más actualizada. Además, lo interesante y útil de los pequeños planos o mapas de las últimas noticias mundiales (en este caso, medio oriente). Si desea actualizar su Britannica, mejor espere la nueva edición de ese Atlas. Rating: - One of the best atlasesThis is one of the best atlases - and a newly added country profiles section and foreign goegraphical terms glossary make this book even more useful. The atlas is well designed and beautiful. However, I recommend this atlas be bought together with the Hammond World Atlas, another excellent atlas, because of different place names,thematic information,statistical data,etc. Rating: - Ultimately disappointingAt first glance this is a beautiful, almost spectacular, book. Lots of color, dramatic aerial photos of the earth, and a large section devoted to topics ranging from the earth's history to modern population shifts. But as a reference book it falls short. There are a lot of maps, but there is really less there than meets the first look: a lot of space is taken up with a narrowing down of detail - one map shows the hemisphere, then another an area of the hemisphere, then another a detail, of sorts, of the area. And often a detail of the detail. The cost to the reader is a lot of redundancy, and that very few countries get a full, detailed, page of their own. And many of the larger maps, especially, are quietly inaccurate. Towns are shown ... Read More: Rating: - Superb atlas and superb valueThis atlas is even better than I had anticipated based on its reviews. The book, quite a large tome, is a beautiful and comprehensive cartographic overview of the world. The atlas's weakest area might be considered to be its US map section, as those maps are presented by specific regions and not by individual states. However, the latter is nit-picking since this is indeed a "world atlas" and not intended to be a road map of the USA. (Nevertheless, my 22-year-old Hammond Medallion atlas features detailed maps of individual US states (showing each county, major roads, etc) as well as the individual provinces of Canada, and a quite comprehensive world map section. Those big old Hammond atlases were better than their modern counterparts, but I digress...) ... Read More: |
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