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El Examen Crítico, que Humboldt tardó treinta años en escribir, constituye la culminación de su extraordinaria obra americana.Es una monumental obra de geografía comparada, pero también de geografía historica, historia de la ciencia, linguistica y, en p

When National Geographic published its first Atlas of the World more than 35 years ago, the world was indeed a different place. In order to cover today''s world--including its oceans, stars, climate, natural resources, and more--National Geographic has published its seventh edition of the Atlas of the World. With each new edition, National Geographic strives to make its atlas more than just maps. You''ll learn that the coldest place in the world is the Plateau Station in Antarctica, where the average daily temperature is minus 56.7 degrees Celsius; the most populated continent is Asia, with more than 3.6 billion people, or 60.8 percent of the world''s population; the driest place on earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile; a flight from New Delhi to Rio de Janeiro covers 14,080 kilometers; life expectancy in the Republic of Zambia is 37 years; and the literacy rate in Turkmenistan is 98 percent. Flip through the pages of this impressive book and you will feel as though the world is literally at your fingertips. Full-page spreads are devoted to more than 75 political and physical maps (political maps show borders; physical maps show mountains, water, valleys, and vegetation). There are many new touches to be found in this edition, including increased usage of satellite images, an especially helpful feature when researching the most remote regions of the earth; more than 50 updated political maps that record the impact of wars, revolutions, treaties, elections, and other events; and the use of the latest research on topics such as tectonics, oceanography, climate, and natural resources. The sheer size of the atlas''s index--134 pages--offers insight into just how much information is packed into 260-plus pages. The book is so physically large, in fact, that when it''s open, the reader is staring at three square feet of information, a surface area larger than many television screens. The potential uses of this book for a family are vast, from settling a friendly argument to completing a school report. In the end, though, the atlas is still mostly about maps. Pages and pages of maps. Maps that force us to see how wonderful and dynamic our world is. Maps that remind us of where we''ve been and where we''d still like to go. --John Russell

Combining state-of-the-art cartographic technology and information with dynamic and diverse physiographic and cultural content, the Eight Edition is National Geographic's most accurate and interesting record of the world yet. The opening section, Ninety Years of Mapping at National Geographic, traces the founding of Geographic cartography to the present advances in technology and the practice of compiling and organizing geographic information. The atlas truly begins with three stunning new, full-spread world maps, that drape Earth's surface seamlessly with satellite imagery, then physical and natural features, and finally today's political world of countries and growing cities.World thematic topics are organized into two groups: the Physical and Natural World and Human Activities. The Physical and Natural World section includes captivating core topics such as the evolution of earth, geology and tectonics, climate and weather, oceans, world water, the bioshere, and biodiversity. Human Activities covers 11 world themes: population, migration and refugees, conflict and terrorism, cultures, economy, energy and minerals, communications, food, health and education, the environment, and ending with wildlands. All of these intriguing spreads reflect the most authoritative and recent data available and are reviewed by preeminent scholars and experts. Lined up after the world thematic focus is the continental division. All seven continents open with views from space and are then represented with separate physical and political maps. Larger scale regions of each continent are presented for higher definition and detail. Because of our primary readership, additional coverage is given to the UnitedStates and Canada. An entirely new component to the Eighth Edition is the city section. Maps and text discussing urban explosion will open this compilation of sixty new maps. Pictures, fact boxes, and text will accompany each city map to create colorful and informative portraits of our built environment. Selected cites such as, New York, Mexico City-the most densely populated city in the world, and Paris will receive more detailed scaling. Less familiar and remote areas of the world and beyond-the poles, the ocean floors, and space-are mapped with new data and findings and dramatic effects. The addition of a new spread and map devoted to Mars will provide a timely reference to the expected news coverage of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission-S

The world abounds with conflicts and the associated communication practices and technologies that perpetuate and contest conflict as it occurs in place. All conflicts are crucially connected with place, and all conflicts are communicated in multiple ways. This book explores the complex nexus among place, conflict and communication and brings together 11 investigations around the interplay of place, conflict and communication. The interdisciplinary focus includes education, history, international relations, law and sociology. The chapters are geographically diverse, traversing Aceh in Indonesia, Australia, England, Finland, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The book highlights the possibilities for reimagining the future so that more democratic and peaceful understandings of place can lead to fewer conflicts and less conflict-based communication. Better futures are possible only if place is replotted, conflict is reconceptualised and communication is recontextualised from new, varied and more inclusive perspectives with a vision to creating a more harmonious world.

Coral reefs are one of the most biologically diverse habitats in the world, host to an extraordinary variety of marine plants and animals. They are also one of the world''s most fragile and endangered ecosystems. The growth of mass tourism, combined with the boom in popularity of scuba diving, has brought these spectacular ecosystems to public attention across the planet. Coral reefs provide essential fish habitat, support endangered and threatened species, and harbor protected marine mammals and turtles. They are a significant source of food, provide income and employment through tourism and marine recreation, and offer countless other benefits to humans, including supplying compounds for pharmaceuticals. Yet coral reefs around the world are rapidly being degraded by a number of human activities, such as overfishing, coastal development, and the introduction of sewage, fertilizer, and sediment. "World Atlas of Coral Reefs "provides the first detailed and definitive account of the current state of our planet''s coral reefs. With its wealth of authoritative and up-to-date information, the finest maps available, and detailed descriptive texts and images by leading experts, this full-color volume will be a critical resource for anyone interested in these vital environments. "World Atlas of Coral Reefs "contains eighty-four full-page newly researched and drawn color maps, together with more than two hundred color photos illustrating reefs, reef animals, and images taken from space by NASA astronauts during the 2000 and 2001 space shuttle flights. The authors provide a wealth of information on the geography, biodiversity, and human uses of coral reefs, as well as details about thethreats to their existence. Prepared at the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, England--the United Nations office responsible for providing authoritative information on the condition of global biodiversity--the "Atlas "will be a critical tool for scientists, students, policymakers, and planners at local, national, and international levels alike. Publication of the "World Atlas of Coral Reefs" is supported by international institutions including the United Nations Environment Programme; The Marine Aquarium Council, The International Coral Reef Initiative; ICLARM--The World Fish Cen

Viaje a una epoca y a un universo en los que la ciencia y el arte se entrelazaban, y los cielos se cartografiaban con una belleza deslumbrante. Este volumen único revive la obra maestra del siglo XVII de Andreas Cellarius, un atlas iconico que capturo la ambicion humana de alcanzar el infinito. Publicado por primera vez en 1660, presenta 29 amplios mapas de doble folio que detallan los vastos sistemas celestes de Ptolomeo, Copernico y Tycho Brahe, junto con los intrincados movimientos del Sol, la Luna y los planetas.aCada lamina es una vision maravillosa: constelaciones trazadas sobre cielos radiantes se enmarcan con opulentos bordes adornados con querubines, astronomos e instrumentos de descubrimiento. A menudo descrito como el atlas celestial mas bello jamas publicado, Harmonia Macrocosmica es una de las obras maestras de la Edad de Oro de la cartografia holandesa.aEsta reimpresion no es solo un festin visual. Incluye una introduccion ilustrada del renombrado experto Robert van Gent, quien recorre la evolucion desde los antiguos astronomos hasta la revolucion cientifica. Analiza la importancia cultural, historica y astronomica de la obra maestra de Cellarius, asi como la maestria de su editor, Johannes Janssonius. Un apendice detallado enriquece a

Dirs., Gaspar Fernández Cuesta y Francisco Quirós Linares.

Tienes en tus manos un libro que se puede considerar histórico. Un libro imprescindible en tus estanterías para las generaciones venideras. Un libro que viene a ser una especie de ?Mapa de la Memoria?, en el que pueblo a pueblo, provincia a provincia, recorremos España entera recordando y plasmando fotograficamente todo el expolio cultural, artistico e historico que desde 1978 se ha cometido en España por las diferentes fuerzas politicas, acelerado en los ultimos años por el P.S.O.E y las nefastas leyes de la mal llamada memoria. Un libro en el que te encontraras mas de 5.000 fotografias de todo lo expoliado, ademas de casi 300 biografias de personajes a los que se les han quitado calles, placas o estatuas, todo ello apoyado por textos de grandes firmas, como el escultor Salvador Amaya; el Presidente de la Fundacion Nacional Francisco Franco, Juan Chicharro; su Presidente de Honor, Luis Alfonso de Borbon; y los historiadores Juan Cobos Arevalo, Alejandro Nolasco, Jose Piñeiro Maceiras, Juan Negreira y Francisco Torres Garcia, entre otros. Un libro que sera el testimonio fotografico de la verdadera memoria, de lo que fue España y de como el sacrificio de los españoles, dirigidos por su Caudillo, hizo que lo que parecia un sueño imposible se convirtiera en UNA nacion prospera, en una empresa GRANDE, que se paseo por el mundo como un ejemplo de pueblo verdaderamente LIBRE. Tambien en el libro encontraras un interesante capitulo, vergonzante para los instigadores de esa mal llamada memoria ?historica? y ?democratica?, en los que podras apreciar la cantidad de simbolos republicanos que permanecieron intactos en la ?malvada dictadura?.