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Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the worlds burgeoning megacities together. This has profound consequences for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the environment, and social identity. Connectivity, not geography, is our destiny. Khanna argues that new energy discoveries and technologies have eliminated the need for resource wars;...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A wholly original history of France, filled with a lifetime's knowledge and passion-by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Frequently hilarious, always surprising, Graham Robb's France combines the stylistic versatility of a novelist with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vastness. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to far shores, whether it was the Vikings, the Irish, Christopher Columbus in the north, or the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south, the Atlantic evolved in the world's growing consciousness of itself as an enclosed body of water bounded by the Americas to the West, and by Europe and Africa...
107) Government maps
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A guide to understanding how and why maps are made and used, focusing on why mapping is important for governments in times of peace and war to provide information about population, elections, enemy locations, and other topics.
109) Where is Antarctica?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Antarctica, the earth's southernmost continent, was virtually untouched by humans until the 19th century. This [book] introduces readers to the world's coldest, driest, and windiest continent"--Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"3,822 perimeter miles. 11,247 rivers and streams. 8,749 feet at its height. 268,596 square miles in total. Texas is big. Julius Caesar once quipped that all of ancient Gaul could be divided up into three parts. Texas resists such easy division. Mapping Texas, edited by John S. Wilson, presents an array of early maps, dating from 1561 to 1860. The volume features selections from the extensive material housed in the Frances C. Poage Map Room of The...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Bethlehem is so suffused with history and myth that it feels like an unreal city, even to the people who call it home. For many, Bethlehem remains the little town at the edge of the desert described in Biblical accounts. Today, the city is hemmed in by a wall and surrounded by forty-one Israeli settlements and hostile settlers and soldiers. Nicholas Blincoe tells the town's history through the visceral experience of living there, taking readers through...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China--then the world's most technologically advanced civilization--provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. From that date onward, Europeans...
Series
Tell me why volume 28
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Language
English
Description
This volume answers questions children ask about people, places and things.
Author
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Using Google Maps and Google Earth is more than just a book: it's the fastest, easiest way to master Google's amazing mapping applications! Don't just 'read' about it: see it, hear it, live it, with step-by-step screencasts and expert audio tips. Discover how to map your favorite places with Google Maps; see actual locations with Street View; generate driving, walking, and public transit directions; find and learn more about businesses; create and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This charming reference introduces young readers to the wider world by exploring languages, landscapes, weather, animals, capital cities, mountains, deserts, and other landscapes and landforms, and more. It encourages kids to get play with activities such as creating a mini-rainforest in a bottle and singing a simple song in Spanish. More than 100 colorful photos are paired with kid-friendly and age-appropriate maps along with basic facts about each...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Tired of following other people's rules? Think you can do better? This title explains how to design a completely new nation from scratch: decide on the laws, choose your borders, make your flag, attract loyal citizens, and lots more. You'll get to create, organise, govern, and judge. Includes projects to complete and facts about the world's micronations.
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