Author: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher: Potomac Books
ISBN: 9781574886412
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
By intelligence officials for intelligent people
The World Factbook 2003
Author: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher: Potomac Books
ISBN: 9781574886412
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
By intelligence officials for intelligent people
Publisher: Potomac Books
ISBN: 9781574886412
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
By intelligence officials for intelligent people
If Maps Could Talk
Author: Erika L. Shores
Publisher: First Facts
ISBN: 9781429628846
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Black dots. Blue, curvy lines. What do those strange drawings mean? With a key and the skills to read it, you'll unlock the language of maps.
Publisher: First Facts
ISBN: 9781429628846
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Black dots. Blue, curvy lines. What do those strange drawings mean? With a key and the skills to read it, you'll unlock the language of maps.
50 Cities of the U.S.A.
Author: Gabrielle Balkan
Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions
ISBN: 1786031728
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
From Anchorage to Washington D.C., take a trip through America’s well-loved cities with this unique A-Z like no other, lavishly illustrated and annotated with key cultural icons, from famous people and inventions to events, food and monuments. Explore skyscraper streets, museum miles, local food trucks and city parks of the United States of America and discover more than 2,000 facts that celebrate the people, culture, and diversity that have helped make America what it is today. Cities include Anchorage • Atlanta • Austin • Baltimore • Birmingham • Boise • Boston • Burlington • Charleston Charlotte • Cheyenne • Chicago • Cleveland • Columbus • Denver • Detroit • Hartford • Honolulu • Houston Indianapolis • Jacksonville • Kansas City • Las Vegas • Little Rock • Los Angeles • Louisville • Memphis Miami • Milwaukee • Minneapolis-St. Paul Nashville • New Orleans • New York • Newark • Newport • Oklahoma City • Philadelphia • Phoenix • Pittsburgh • Portland, ME • Portland, OR • Rapid City • Salt Lake City • San Francisco • Santa Fe • Seattle • St. Louis • Tucson • Virginia Beach • Washington, D.C. The 50 States series of books for young explorers celebrates the USA and the wider world with key facts and fun activities about the people, history and natural environments that make each location within them uniquely wonderful. Beautiful illustrations, maps and infographics bring the places to colourful life. Also available from the series:The 50 States, The 50 States: Activity Book, The 50 States: Fun Facts, 50 Trailblazers of the 50 States, 50 Maps of the World, 50 Adventures in the 50 States, 50 Maps of the World Activity Book, Only in America! and We Are the 50 States.
Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions
ISBN: 1786031728
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
From Anchorage to Washington D.C., take a trip through America’s well-loved cities with this unique A-Z like no other, lavishly illustrated and annotated with key cultural icons, from famous people and inventions to events, food and monuments. Explore skyscraper streets, museum miles, local food trucks and city parks of the United States of America and discover more than 2,000 facts that celebrate the people, culture, and diversity that have helped make America what it is today. Cities include Anchorage • Atlanta • Austin • Baltimore • Birmingham • Boise • Boston • Burlington • Charleston Charlotte • Cheyenne • Chicago • Cleveland • Columbus • Denver • Detroit • Hartford • Honolulu • Houston Indianapolis • Jacksonville • Kansas City • Las Vegas • Little Rock • Los Angeles • Louisville • Memphis Miami • Milwaukee • Minneapolis-St. Paul Nashville • New Orleans • New York • Newark • Newport • Oklahoma City • Philadelphia • Phoenix • Pittsburgh • Portland, ME • Portland, OR • Rapid City • Salt Lake City • San Francisco • Santa Fe • Seattle • St. Louis • Tucson • Virginia Beach • Washington, D.C. The 50 States series of books for young explorers celebrates the USA and the wider world with key facts and fun activities about the people, history and natural environments that make each location within them uniquely wonderful. Beautiful illustrations, maps and infographics bring the places to colourful life. Also available from the series:The 50 States, The 50 States: Activity Book, The 50 States: Fun Facts, 50 Trailblazers of the 50 States, 50 Maps of the World, 50 Adventures in the 50 States, 50 Maps of the World Activity Book, Only in America! and We Are the 50 States.
Atlas of America
Author: Reader's Digest
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN: 9780762106554
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents maps, profiles, and vital information for each state, as well as metropolitan-area and city-street maps and a guide to America's national parks.
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN: 9780762106554
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents maps, profiles, and vital information for each state, as well as metropolitan-area and city-street maps and a guide to America's national parks.
Around the World Activity Book
Author: Anna Brett
Publisher: Arcturus Editions
ISBN: 9781839407468
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Take a puzzle-packed journey around the world, in this beautiful full-color book by fantastically talented children's illustrator Eilidh Muldoon. From famous landmarks to local traditions, this educational activity book allows kids to have fun solving puzzles while learning about the world around them. Inside you'll find more than 200 different charming, hand-drawn activities in full-color, featuring... - Extraordinary plant and animal life - International rivers, lakes, and mountains - National food, music, clothing, traditions, and festivals - Maps of different countries, with their national flag and capital city Puzzle types include mazes, spot-the-difference and odd-one-out puzzles, color-by-number artworks, dot-to-dot games, and much, much more! Covering both physical and human geography, this book supports curriculum learning in an entertaining and lively way. Perfect for kids aged 7+.
Publisher: Arcturus Editions
ISBN: 9781839407468
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Take a puzzle-packed journey around the world, in this beautiful full-color book by fantastically talented children's illustrator Eilidh Muldoon. From famous landmarks to local traditions, this educational activity book allows kids to have fun solving puzzles while learning about the world around them. Inside you'll find more than 200 different charming, hand-drawn activities in full-color, featuring... - Extraordinary plant and animal life - International rivers, lakes, and mountains - National food, music, clothing, traditions, and festivals - Maps of different countries, with their national flag and capital city Puzzle types include mazes, spot-the-difference and odd-one-out puzzles, color-by-number artworks, dot-to-dot games, and much, much more! Covering both physical and human geography, this book supports curriculum learning in an entertaining and lively way. Perfect for kids aged 7+.
Maps and Mapping
Author: Barbara Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780862729769
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This is one of a series which provides an activity-based introduction to geography, with concepts introduced gradually and simply. The activities aim to be both straightforward and enjoyable, and range from building a gushing geyser to designing a Treasure Island map and making a sundial. Panel boxes show real-life analogies, such as showing how toffee sets hard, to illustrate how lava turns to rock.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780862729769
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This is one of a series which provides an activity-based introduction to geography, with concepts introduced gradually and simply. The activities aim to be both straightforward and enjoyable, and range from building a gushing geyser to designing a Treasure Island map and making a sundial. Panel boxes show real-life analogies, such as showing how toffee sets hard, to illustrate how lava turns to rock.
The Map Reader
Author: Martin Dodge
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470980079
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a powerful representational form and explores how different mapping practices have been conceptualised in particular scholarly contexts. Themes covered include paradigms, politics, people, aesthetics and technology. Original interpretative essays set the literature into intellectual context within these themes. Excerpts are drawn from leading scholars and researchers in a range of cognate fields including: Cartography, Geography, Anthropology, Architecture, Engineering, Computer Science and Graphic Design. The Map Reader provides a new unique single source reference to the essential literature in the cartographic field: more than fifty specially edited excerpts from key, classic articles and monographs critical introductions by experienced experts in the field focused coverage of key mapping practices, techniques and ideas a valuable resource suited to a broad spectrum of researchers and students working in cartography and GIScience, geography, the social sciences, media studies, and visual arts full page colour illustrations of significant maps as provocative visual ‘think-pieces’ fully indexed, clearly structured and accessible ways into a fast changing field of cartographic research
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470980079
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a powerful representational form and explores how different mapping practices have been conceptualised in particular scholarly contexts. Themes covered include paradigms, politics, people, aesthetics and technology. Original interpretative essays set the literature into intellectual context within these themes. Excerpts are drawn from leading scholars and researchers in a range of cognate fields including: Cartography, Geography, Anthropology, Architecture, Engineering, Computer Science and Graphic Design. The Map Reader provides a new unique single source reference to the essential literature in the cartographic field: more than fifty specially edited excerpts from key, classic articles and monographs critical introductions by experienced experts in the field focused coverage of key mapping practices, techniques and ideas a valuable resource suited to a broad spectrum of researchers and students working in cartography and GIScience, geography, the social sciences, media studies, and visual arts full page colour illustrations of significant maps as provocative visual ‘think-pieces’ fully indexed, clearly structured and accessible ways into a fast changing field of cartographic research
My First Book of the 50 States of America
Author: Anness Punlishing
Publisher: Armadillo
ISBN: 9781861476289
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This bright first board book looks at each state, with detailed maps and interesting facts"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: Armadillo
ISBN: 9781861476289
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This bright first board book looks at each state, with detailed maps and interesting facts"--Page 4 of cover.
America's 50 States
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781435157736
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781435157736
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
Author: Clarion Books
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 0358051738
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
"Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Doing her best to stop VILE, of course. And this time she needs you to travel around the world as part of her team! But what will you find in each of the ten places you visit? How will you speak with the people you meet? What landmarks might VILE be targeting? And are there any other dangers you should know about? At every stop, you'll have to search for VILE -- and so much more. From France to Indonesia, Morocco to Ecuador, the United States to the United Arab Emirates, buckle up because the world's greatest thief is about to send you on the adventure of a lifetime."--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 0358051738
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
"Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Doing her best to stop VILE, of course. And this time she needs you to travel around the world as part of her team! But what will you find in each of the ten places you visit? How will you speak with the people you meet? What landmarks might VILE be targeting? And are there any other dangers you should know about? At every stop, you'll have to search for VILE -- and so much more. From France to Indonesia, Morocco to Ecuador, the United States to the United Arab Emirates, buckle up because the world's greatest thief is about to send you on the adventure of a lifetime."--Page 4 of cover.