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EL ATLAS HISTÓRICO Y GEOGRÁFICO UNIVERSITARIO es una obra de equipo en la que han participado profesores de todos los Departamentos de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia de la UNED. Contiene más de 400 mapas que tratan los grandes hechos de la Historia Universal y de España, asi como los aspectos naturales, demograficos y economicos del mundo actual,de los grandes espacios geograficos y de España.Todos van acompañados de un comentario, con las pautas principales para su lectura e interpretacion.

New fully revised edition of this top of the range Collins World Atlas. Detailed world mapping is attractively presented along with hundreds of facts, internet links, images, tables and graphs. The atlas provides a complete and topical view of today's world. This Collins world atlas presents a complete view of the world, bringing it to life through innovative maps, stunning images and detailed content. It offers an exciting perspective on how the planet is made up, how it looks and how it works. This atlas takes you further than traditional world atlases giving a more complete understanding of the world. The flagship title in the Collins World atlas range, giving a full picture of the Earth through the use of maps, satellite images, space and aerial photography, 3D terrain models and graphics. These features are further enhanced by fact boxes and internet links on each topic. The world section at the beginning of the book addresses issues facing the planet today; including environmental change, terrorism, aids, health, economy, conflicts and poverty. Detailed information is presented in the continental sections of the book.Each continent is introduced by a series of unique fly-over views of the continent. The land cover of the continent is also illustrated by a detailed map, images and text. This section also contains a political map and detailed statistics and flags of all countries and territories. Several current issues facing today's world are also discussed as well as country statistics, graphs and historical time line for each continent. The detailed reference mapping provides comprehensive and balanced coverage of the world in a highly innovative, dynamic and attractive style. These are further enhanced by the addition of world heritage sites throughout the world. The index contains over 80,000 place names and includes full cross-referencing and gazetteer-style entries for the world's most significant places and features. It also includes tables of the top ten of each major geographical feature. The book has extensive cross-referencing throughout, with "Want to know more" boxes on all the spreads allowing the user to move easily through the book and to build up a detailed picture of today's world

La mayoría de los españoles sabemos que cuando el nombre de un río empieza con Gua éste tiene un origen árabe. Alguien más aventajado sabrá decirnos que Guadalquivir significa río Grande pero, casi seguro, que no conocera lo que quisieron transmitir los musulmanes cuando bautizaron con Guadalentin al salvaje rio murciano, y si no son murcianos, seguramente no conoceran que en la zona le conocen tambien como Sangonera ni, por supuesto, la razon de este segundo nombre. Comenzando con este pensamiento, los autores emprendieron una labor de busqueda bibliografica, muchas veces de investigacion, cuyo proposito era profundizar en la etimologia de los nombres de los rios españoles mas importantes, pero no se quedo alli el trabajo: una vez comenzaba la labor de investigacion toponimica, los autores concibieron la ida de ligar nuestros rios a nuestra Historia, con mayusculas.