Geographical reference works

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A handy, quick-reference guide to thousands of difficult-to-remember or difficult-to-find facts, now in ebook format.

Collins Shorts - insight in an instant.

A complete natural history and the first large-scale survey of this unique part of the country.

A first-time skywatcher's guide from bright new talent, BBC Blue Peter astronomer, Anton VamplewMost books on stargazing claim to be for beginners, but by page 12 are talking about celestial equators and sidereal months.

The essential guide to identifying every species of bird you may see in this area, for both tourists and wildlife enthusiasts.

Britains Structure and Scenery deals with the physical background, the stage on which the drama of life is played and which provides the fundamental environment for plants, newnaturalists.

Illustrated with beautifully detailed photographs throughout, New Naturalist Southern England comprehensively explores the formation of these wonderful landscapes that are so universally admired.

Over the years, millions of school children must have written out their address in the same way - their house number and street, their town, their country, their continent, planet Earth, the universe.

A must-have guide for parents-to-be everywhere.

This edition contains a limited number of illustrations.

An up-close, comprehensive, and colorful atlas that allows you to travel to the lands where Jesus walked, Moses traveled, and Paul preached.

Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.

You've got the whole world in your hands with the most amazing atlas around.

Atlases don't come more amazing than this!

Maps don't just show us where to go, but also where we've been.

You will be hard-pressed to find a more impressive children's atlas than this one!

Explore the world with the Reference World Atlas, 10th Edition, with over 640 maps and a wealth of information on the world's 196 nations.

A picture atlas that takes young readers on a visual journey around the world, from Spain and Portugal to China and Mongolia.

See the Earth revealed in amazing detail through more than 640 spectacular maps, along with fascinating fact files about countries all over the world.

From the vast Sahara desert to the smallest European cities, and with over 65 maps using the latest digital mapping, the Essential World Atlas 9th Edition brings you the Earth in more detail than ever before.

Complete Atlas of the World is the ultimate insight into our planet and the clearest, most concise overview of the world's geography.

Fully revised and updated for an 8th edition, the Student World Atlas brings the Earth's geography to life with state-of-the-art mapping from up-to-date satellite and cartographic sources.

Have the world at your fingertips with this invaluable compact atlasFrom the African plains to the Himalayan heights, over 60 easy-to-read maps uncover the world's continents, regions and countries in astonishing clarity in the 5th edition of the Compact World Atlas.

From the Alps dominating Central Europe to the remote Rapa Nui island in the Pacific Ocean, carry the world in your pocket with this handy book.

Great Maps takes a close look at the history of maps, from ancient maps such as medieval mappae mundi to Google Earth.

Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship.

For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation, dissemination, and use of maps.

Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be "e;making sure that people are able to get enough to eat.

This unique and informative dictionary explores the history, meanings, and origin of place names around the world.

There is no populated place without a name, and every name is chosen for a reason.

Over 15,000 A-Z entries covering England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, make this the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of British place names available.

This revised edition of the Dictionary of British Place-Names includes over 17,000 engaging and informative entries, tracing the development of the featured place-names from earliest times to the present day.

The definitive illustrated guide to modern British architecture, from one of the most acclaimed critics at work todayModernism is now a century old, and its consequences are all around us, built into our everyday lived environments.

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE ESTWA AWARD FOR ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022One of the least-known places on the planet, the only continent on earth with no indigenous population, Antarctica is a world apart.

In the same format as the successful London Compendium, the Manchester Compendium relates the remarkable and diverse history of England's second city.

This beatutiful book is alavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them.

"e;Comprehensive scholarship and convincing reasoning, enhanced by an excellent translation, place this work on a level with the best of David Glantz"e; (Dennis Showalter, award-winning author of Patton and Rommel).