This practical quick-reference guide offers an up-to-date look at the places and physical features of the modern world. Put this essential reference into your three-ring binder and you'll be able to consult its richly detailed color maps wherever you go. The notebook-style reference includes dozens of detailed, full-color maps and an index to nearly 10,000 key locations around the world.
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The papers are full of dire reports concerning America's youth and their level of geographic savvy. Having a big, beautiful atlas at home is great, but how often do the kids pore over the home reference shelf? The Notebook Atlas is three-hole punched for easy notebook insertion, and for a thin, light volume it's very complete, with 48 full-color maps and charts of the longitude and latitude of the world's countries and major cities. The maps are nicely done: colorful and easy to read, they inspire map literacy and a desire to see the world.
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The Merriam brothers desired a continuity of editorship that would link Noah Webster's efforts with their own editions, so they selected Chauncey A. Goodrich, Webster's son-in-law and literary heir, who had been trained in lexicography by Webster himself, to be their editor in chief. Webster's son William also served as an editor of that first Merriam-Webster dictionary, which was published on September 24, 1847.
Although Webster's work was honored, his big dictionaries had never sold well. The 1828 edition was priced at a whopping $20; in 13 years its 2,500 copies had not sold out. Similarly, the 1841 edition, only slightly more affordable at $15, moved slowly. Assuming that a lower price would increase sales, the Merriams introduced the 1847 edition at $6, and although Webster's heirs initially questioned this move, extraordinary sales that brought them $250,000 in royalties over the ensuing 25 years convinced them that the Merriams' decision had been abundantly sound.
The first Merriam-Webster dictionary was greeted with wide acclaim. President James K. Polk, General Zachary Taylor (hero of the Mexican War and later president himself), 31 U.S. senators, and other prominent people hailed it unreservedly. In 1850 its acceptance as a resource for students began when Massachusetts ordered a copy for every school and New York placed a similar order for 10,000 copies to be used in schools throughout the state. Eventually school use would spread throughout the country. In becoming America's most trusted authority on the English language, Merriam-Webster dictionaries had taken on a role of public responsibility demanded of few other publishing companies.
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Essential for traveling,
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I have traveled to 25 countries and always take this with me. It is very compact and light. It holds up well when traveling sometimes in the worst of conditions. Most of the maps are two pages and they fold together nicely. Bottom line if you go traveling take something like this with you. It is a great conversation starter and you can easily show people where you live in relation to them.
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for the price of a magazine!,
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For the price of a magazine that will be thrown away a month later, you can get this basic but good little atlas that will prove useful for years to come. It's lightweight and paperback and printed on matte paper, and is about as thick as a small magazine. It's way more detailed than the dumbed-down school atlases I had in school which were a joke - this one actually has a decent level of detail (not like a full-size atlas, but surprisingly good for $5). It shows more cities than any world wall map I've seen, even the largest ones. Each map has the legend on the page - unlike some atlases where you have to constantly flip back to the legend page. It has an index as well as a bit of additional information about each country. 2 small complaints: the countries are shaded in somewhat dark colors, making the text a bit hard to read, and the page margins are large...they could've made the maps larger if the 4 edges of each page didn't have such large white borders. Even if you're not a student, or into geography or travel, this could easily be the most useful $5 you'll ever spend.
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i was glad to be able to purchase the notebook atlas from amzon because i could not find it in a store where i live thank you much.
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