Truly an atlas for the millennium! All maps contained in this huge volume are the most current available, taken from the latest multimedia technology. With immediate visual appeal, this atlas takes the reader on a journey around our planet with such precision, one will immediately know that Earth is unique in our galaxy. Bright, vivid colors draw attention to the satellite photos, physical maps, and bathymetry maps. Also included are climate, geological, biogeographic, demographic, and social indicators along with economics, industry, commerce, and transport, all providing amazing insight into our world.
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For the technical buffs, the reference maps and Satellite Images use a Lambert Conformal Conic...the physical world maps are a Miller projection. The general world thematic maps use a Robinson projection...with the smaller insets using a Mollweide projection. The 80 page index will serve the cartographer well in accessing the huge amount of information that this volume contains.
Once in a while a new book comes along that really makes you sit up and take notice and this really is an atlas to take us into the new millennium. Go on and treat yourself to something special this year, I know I have. -- Julie Snook of The British Cartography Society
Without a doubt, the reproductions of the satellite photographs are outstanding. Their clarity and color allow for incredible detail, from the continental plates visible through the ocean depths to the snowcapped peaks of the world's mountain ranges. This is a volume that should not be missed. -- Publishers Quality Library Service
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The 21st Century World Atlas is as unique as it is peerless. Satellite maps and reference maps are all based on digital models. The detailed studies of countries are internationally recognized. Text, reference charts, and graphs summarize physical, cultural, social, and economic features concisely and accurately. Digital terrain models are set on black backgrounds creating pages that are as visually dramatic as they are easy to read and comprehend.
The 21st Century World Atlas is the most comprehensive work of its kind available. I addition to being a state-of-the-art reference book, it is truly a work of art - a volume that you can proudly display in home, school, or office.
Additional features of the 21st Century World Atlas include: Over 300 satellite images and reference maps; More than 200 digital terrain models; Over 400 thematic maps of physical, political, and economic features; Over 500 thematic country maps; More than 1,700 graphs indicating the most up-to-date statistical data available; Descriptive text of cultural, political, social, and economic present-day situations; Index of place names with over 60,000 entries which can be located by means of a reference grid and geographical coordinates
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Elaborate and technically superb, but not Grand or a Classic,
This review is from: The 21st Century World Atlas (Hardcover)
Some world atlases breathe a sense of grandeur that makes you feel confident in its quality. This one is not one of them. This very heavy book exhibits a wide variety of geographical topics and razor-sharp maps of each country in this world, but they should have consulted a real visual artist; perhaps then this might truly have been a classic.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good atlas, marred by small scale maps of large countries.,
By dhpowell@tesco.net (Dundee, Scotland, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The 21st Century World Atlas (Hardcover)
I like the way this atlas is organised into 5 main sections, Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Small scale maps overview each section, followed by larger scale maps showing each country separately. One problem with the way this atlas has approached this treatment is that small countries are quite large scale, but large countries are very small scale. The obvious solution would be to divide large counties into their states or provinces, which are generally about the same size as small/medium sized countries in Africa/Europe/Asia, and would show useful detail. Each state in the USA, each province in China, each state in Australia, needs its own map in order to show useful detail; illustrating these large countries on a double page spread is simply inadequate. Even many smaller countries would be much clearer if they were split into logical regional maps. Another problem is that apart from the overview maps introducing each section, the individual country map scales are completely arbitrary. It is not the case that small map scales have been chosen to fit the map to the page; frequently the map area occupies a fraction of the available space on the page. There is plenty of space for more maps; there are over 200 pages of obscure statistical information before the main map part of this atlas begins.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Color My World,
By Robert A Steinbeck (Hauppauge, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The 21st Century World Atlas (Hardcover)
The Atlas is large and filled with decorative colorful pages. High land is represented using browns and low land is shown in greens. Deserts often appear green while fertile valleys at higher elevations are browned. Major roadways are depicted using double thick parallel blue lines. Less important roadways are represented using a bright vibrating orange color.Various thematic maps and information are presented randomly for each country. There is an abundance of maps regarding geological formations. Nearly every country has its own charts showing male verse female statistics for literacy and life expectancy. There is one extra small detailed population map of the world. The atlas contains many global thematic maps. Topics such as animal hides, honey, and feldspar are well documented; air travel and telecommunications are not. Thematic maps often use bubbles over each country to represent its proportion. These bubbles are not proportional in size to the numbers they represent. A bubble representing 1000 is less than 10 times larger than a bubble representing 100. This makes all countries look more equal than they are. Similar care is given to many other statistical presentations.
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