The World Around Us
Sanyat
Sattar
Goode's
World Atlas
John C. Hudson
Rand McNally & Co; January 2003
Goode's packs an impressive amount of information into a
relatively small, sturdy package. It has many features found
only in the best reference atlases: gutter breaks; latitude
and longitude in the index; detailed information on projections
and scale; combined shaded relief and hypsometric/bathymetric
tints and numerous metropolitan and thematic maps. Its main
drawback is that the finest details and smallest place names
are faint and hard to read. But Goode's has distinguished
some of the best explanatory materials on scale, projections,
and cartography found in any atlas, regardless of size or
cost. In fact, the quality of the thematic maps alone make
this title worth considering for any reference collection--even
one that includes large reference atlases. Overall, Goode's
is one of the best deals available in an atlas today and
the first choice for a basic reference atlas for any library
or personal collection.
The
World Atlas of Wine
Hugh Johnson & Jancis Robinson
Mitchell Beazley; September 2001
The
World Atlas of Wine is something of a dream-team production.
The names Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson alone recommend
any book on which they appear. The fifth edition (in 30
years) of this astonishingly successful book lives up to,
and surpasses, its predecessors. In 350 densely packed but
never clotted pages the authors manage the extraordinary
feat of characterising wine production throughout the world,
from Vancouver Island to Japan--Buddhists first planted
vines in that inhospitably precipitous, monsoon-lashed land
over a 1,000 years ago. The regional maps that form the
core of the book are a triumph of clarity.
The
Penguin State of the World Atlas
Dan Smith
Penguin USA; September 2003
Dan
Smith has been the director of the International Peace Research
Institute, Oslo (PRIO), and chairman of the board for the
Institute for War & Peace Reporting, in London. This
is his completely up-to-date edition of this invaluable
classic reference that allows the reader a global overview
of the elements that define the opening of the twenty-first
century. Using a mainly visual analysis of data in full-colour
maps and graphics, Dan Smith gives shape and meaning to
the statistics.
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