World Cities section updated to show new roads, railways, and places of interest, including prominent new buildings such as the Humboldt Forum (Berlin), Museum of the Future (Dubai), and GES-2 (Moscow) Content/Scope: This Atlas is appropriate for grade levels nine and up. It is printed annually which allows it to adjust to current events around the world. Many of the nearest stars, like Alpha Centauri A and B, are double stars, orbiting about their common center of gravity and to all intents and purposes equidistant from Earth. Many of them are dim objects, with no name other than the designation given to them by the astronomers who first investigated them. Description: If you’ve got the budget for it you can’t go wrong with National Geographic’s 10th edition of its Atlas of the World. Published to mark the 100th anniversary of National Geographic it includes: Content/Scope: This atlas has new census information, dozens of city maps, gorgeous satellite images of Earth, and a geographical glossary. It has a completely updated Gazetteer of Nations provides an invaluable A-Z reference of concise country profiles, including statistics on economies, politics, and historical profiles.

The 20th edition of the Atlas of the World has been completely updated and revised. Changes include: • Fully revised index & refreshed satellite imagery • Revised frontmatter country and city statistics • Seven new satellite images of London, Amsterdam, Riyadh, Cairo, Vancouver, Sydney, Panama Canal, and Rio de Janeiro • Six new world thematic maps on water scarcity, immigration, refugees, refugee remittances, direction of oil trade, and globalization • Expansion of Hong Kong approach map to include Lan Tau Island and International Airport THE NEAREST STARS The 22 nearest stars, excluding the Sun, with their distance from Earth in light-years* Proxima Centauri Alpha Centauri A Alpha Centauri B Barnard’s Star Wolf 359 Lalande 21185 Sirius A Sirius B

gressively larger atoms were forged in stellar furnaces, and the Galaxy’s range of elements, once restricted to hydrogen and helium, grew larger. About 9 billion years after the Big Bang, a star formed on the outskirts of our Galaxy with enough matter left over to create a retinue of planets. Nearly 5 billion years after that, human beings evolved. The Sun is one of more than 100 billion stars in the Home Galaxy alone. Our Galaxy, in turn, forms part of a local group consisting of approximately 30 similar structures, mostly small “dwarf” galaxies but a few large ones, and one – the Andromeda Galaxy – larger than our own. There are at least 100 billion galaxies in the Universe, many of which are members of huge galaxy clusters. Oxford's Atlas of the World provides an extensive intro to World Geography, up-to-date information on current events of geographical significance, captioned satellite images of the Earth, facts and figures on every sovereign state, and detailed coverage of 69 major urban areas. ATLAS OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE YEARS Since the first edition in 1992, the Atlas of the World has seen many improvements throughout its twenty editions. The biggest change has been the steady digitization of all the map content. Since the first edition premiered it has been effectively recompiled and has gone from an entirely film-based atlas, manually revised, to a fully digital product. Here are some highlights of the changes to the Atlas of the World throughout the years: 1992 –1st Edition

We hope you enjoyed the list. However, if you think we’ve missed any great atlases, please let us know in the comments section below. Accessibility/Diversity: Includes ready reference information arranged alphabetically. This resource features the South Sudan in all political and physical maps as well as new independent states. In Atlas of Lost Cities, Aude de Tocqueville tells the compelling narrative of the rise and fall of such notable places as Pompeii, Teotihuacán, and Angkor. She also details the less well known places, including Centralia, an abandoned Pennsylvania town consumed by unquenchable underground fire; Nova Citas de Kilamba in Angola, where housing, schools, and stores were built for 500,000 people who never came; and Epecuen, a tourist town in Argentina that was swallowed up by water. Never forgetting the freaks and wonders of nature’s own unusual masterpieces: the magical underground river shaped like a dragon’s mouth in the Philippines and the floating world of Palmerston. Updates and expansions to World Geography section including new maps and diagrams covering the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as updates to charts and maps on issues related to global public health, such as maternal mortality, malnutrition, and government health expendituresFlipping through this book is a lush experience, with new satellite imagery and more maps and graphs than you thought imaginable. Reading the Atlas is a little trip around the globe." With beautiful maps and stunning photography illustrating each destination, Atlas of Improbable Places is a fascinating voyage to the world’s most incredible destinations. So much history resides in each map–cultural, mythological, navigational–expressing the unlimited extent of human imagination. This is captured in the accompanying texts–mini essays by leading map historians–that are as vivid and insightful as the maps themselves. Equally well-suited for a general audience and students of history or international relations, the Atlas of World History continues Oxford’s presence as the premier publisher of world atlases.

Accessibility/Diversity: This book is set up with up to date maps that pique student interest. When taught proper geographic analysis skills the possibilities are endless. Description: This alluring read includes 40 locations that are rife with disaster, chaos, paranormal activity, and death. Description: Award-winning author and whisky expert Dave Broom explores over 200 distilleries and examines over 400 expressions. Detailed descriptions of the Scottish distilleries can be found here, while Ireland, Japan, the USA, Canada and the rest of the world are given exhaustive coverage. THE HOME GALAXY The Sun and its planets are located in one of the spiral arms of the Galaxy, about 26,000 light-years from the galactic center and orbiting around it in a period of about 220 million years. The center is invisible from the Earth, masked by vast, light-absorbing clouds of interstellar dust. The Galaxy is probably around 12 billion years old and, like other Arrangement/Presentation: The book focuses on several topics beginning with the Future of Oceans and Seas, Gazetteer of Nations and an Introduction to World geography. The maps and photographs will visually appeal to readers.bout 13.7 billion years ago, time and space began with the most colossal explosion in cosmic history: the so-called Big Bang that is believed to have initiated the Universe. According to current theory, in the first millionth of a second of its existence it expanded from a dimensionless point of infinite mass and density into a fireball about the size of our present Solar System – and it has been expanding ever since. It took about 300,000 years for the primal fireball to cool enough for atoms to form. They were mostly hydrogen which is still the most abundant material in the Universe. The radiation from this era still pervades the Universe, though its subsequent expansion means that we see it at about 3º above Maps in the atlas are large format and visually appealing to readers. The overall content is arranged in a way that allows the reader to view the different political, physical, climate, resources, and other important aspects of a region. Additionally there is a major detailed index which allows for easy location of intended information. Travis Elborough goes in search of the obscure and bizarre, the beautiful and estranged. Taking in the defiant relics of ancient cities such as Ani, a once thriving metropolis lost to conquered lands, and the church tower of San Juan Parangaricuto, that miraculously stands as the sole survivor of a town sunk by lava. Many of the maps are beautiful works of art in their own right. From Europe to the Americas, Africa to Asia, north to south, there are maps of oceans and continents charted by heroic adventurers sailing into the unknown, as accounts spread of new discoveries, shadowy continents begin to appear n the margins of the world, often labeled ‘unknown lands.’ Timeliness/Permanence: This atlas is the only atlas that is updated annually which guarantees that users will find the most current geographic information.

Updated national parks and conserved areas including the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), the largest conservation zone in the world. We hope you find one or two new Atlases you’ve never considered before or better yet never heard of altogether. With completely up-to-date facts-at-a-glance, a glossary, pronunciation guide, and comprehensive index, this completely revised atlas takes young readers on a high-energy tour of the world and will be a must-have in every home and school. Accessibility/Diversity: This atlas provides diverse information of several countries around the world.

Historical World Atlases

Relation to Similar Works: The collection contains other atlases, but the Oxford World Atlas is the most prominent and in-depth resource available today.