THE first part of this atlas contains four maps numbered respectively 21, 60, 79, and 95. The parts of the world represented are the southern section of Scotland, Farther India, Lower Egypt (from ...

Spend time with an atlas for educational study, simple curiosity, and reference. I'm continually amazed at how much I learn about the world or a particular area just by reading and examining maps.

LIFE PICTORIAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD (600 pp.)—LIFE and Rand McNally ($30).An atlas must be a tome, but it need not to be a tombstone. The editors of LIFE and the mapmakers of Rand McNally have ...

Hubris? Greenland's ice sheet in full retreat? Most definitely, according to a press release from HarperCollins, eagerly touting the 2011 edition of its Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World .

The latest edition of the atlas is published on 3 September, four years after the previous version. The atlas’s cartographers have had to make changes to their maps because of environmental ...

With the Oxford University Press's Atlas of the World, put out annually, you are always getting the most up-to-date information. The 16th edition, which I recently received to review, came out ...

At least from afar, the mapmakers' world is a beautiful place. Their 560-plus-page Atlas includes all the typical maps of continents, countries, states and cities.

That world no longer exists, says Richard Weller, a landscape architect at the University of Pennsylvania and lead author of a recently released online project, “Atlas for the End of the World.” ...