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  Atlas (cartography) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, use of the word "atlas" for a bound collection of maps was not to come into use until the posthumous publication of Gerardus Mercator’s "Atlas, Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi..." (Atlas, or Description of the Universe) (Duisburg, 1585-1595).
Atlas was punished by Zeus and made to bear the weight of the heavens and earth on his back.
It was this Atlas that Mercator was referring to when he first used the name 'Atlas', and he included a depiction of the King on the title-page.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlas   (634 words)

  
 Definition of Pergamon World Atlas
The Pergamon World Atlas (in English, 1968) was originally prepared by the Polish Army Topographical Service and published as the Atlas Swiata (World Atlas) in 1962.
The atlas contains 380 pages of maps, figures and tables along with an index of 150,000 entries.
The Pergamon added extra maps of the United Kingdom and Canada.
www.wordiq.com /definition/Pergamon_World_Atlas   (140 words)

  
 Guide: Atlases Held in the Reference & Oversize Sections
Cambridge atlas of astronomy                                                   ATLAS QB65.G6813 1994
World atlas of agriculture                                                          ATLAS G1046.J1 W6 1969
Historical atlas of the world       (Rand McNally)                       REF G1030.H54 1981
books.valdosta.edu /read/atlases.htm   (1274 words)

  
 Edwards - The World in a Machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Jay Forrester's "world dynamics" models were to gain an enormous influence as the basis for The Limits to Growth, the popular best-seller that predicted the catastrophic collapse of socio-economic systems by the middle of the 21st century, based on current trends.
World dynamics' essential conclusion was that many existing trends (resource consumption, pollution increases, population growth, etc.) displayed exponential growth rates which a finite planet could not possibly sustain.
The world dynamics models continued to show, after refinement and even on the most optimistic assumptions, that natural resources would be rapidly exhausted, that pollution would rapidly increase to life-threatening levels, and that catastrophic collapse, including massive famine, would follow around the year 2050.
www.si.umich.edu /~pne/modeling.world.htm   (12752 words)

  
 Is the Bahá'í Faith a World Religion?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Smith argues that the expansion of the Bahá'í Faith into the Third World is one of the most important aspects of the religion's development, "vastly changing the social composition of its adherents and realistically establishing its claims to be a world religion" (Smith, Babi 190).
The case against the classification of the Bahá'í Faith as a world religion is presented and shown to rely on criteria that are not integral to the classification of world religions.
Whatever the merits of this case, there are important practical implications of the term "world religion" in areas such as university religious studies, religious education, and interreligious dialogue and cooperation.
bahai-library.com /?file=fazel_bahai_world.html   (5740 words)

  
 Pergamon World Atlas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pergamon World Atlas (in English, 1968) was originally prepared by the Polish Army Topographical Service and published as the Atlas Swiata (World Atlas) in 1962.
The atlas contains 380 pages of maps, figures and tables along with an index of 150,000 entries.
The Pergamon added extra maps of the United Kingdom and Canada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pergamon_World_Atlas   (110 words)

  
 Global wave climatology atlas
(1986) and the Atlas of the ocean wind and wave climate of Young and Holland (1996).
This part of the atlas is also intended as a complement and addition to current literature, namely studies of ocean wave variability, such as WASA (1998) and Wang and Swail (2001), which were confined to the Northern Hemisphere.
For this reason the atlas presents maps of monthly trends of the mean, of the 90% and 99% quantiles and of the annual mean time of exceedences of fixed thresholds.
www.knmi.nl /onderzk/oceano/waves/era40/atlas_book.html   (5618 words)

  
 Second World War Books: Books by Subject
Atlas of the Battle of Moscow, vol 2: The Soviet Offensive.
Atlas of the Battle of Leningrad: Soviet Defense and the Blockade.
Atlas of the Battle of Leningrad: Breaking the Blockade and Liberation.
www.sonic.net /~bstone/bib/bib113000.shtml   (2070 words)

  
 WORLD WAR II: A Selected List of References (Main Reading Room, Library of Congress)
In those six years between the invasion of Poland and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world was caught in the most destructive war in history.
World War II in the movies : a selected bibliography of sources / [by] Larry Landrum and Christine Eynon.
Records the bigotry and gross exploitation of American fears, which led to the painful World War II experiences of Japanese-Americans, sho were uprooted from their homes and herded into camps under Army supervision, on the assumption that they were or could be traitors to their country.
www.loc.gov /rr/main/gopher/WWII_bib.html   (6036 words)

  
 [Journal of Political Economy, 1977, vol
But in a world of many nations, the winner of a war of annihilation, although better off than the loser, may be seriously disadvantaged with regard to all other nations.
the opening up of the new world to extensive immigration, and the Industrial Revolution--caused a dramatic rise in incomes, beginning somewhere between the middle of the eighteenth and the middle of the nineteenth centuries.
The nineteenth- century map is in the Rand McNally Atlas of World History (1957, pp.
www.daviddfriedman.com /Academic/Size_of_Nations/Size_of_Nations.html   (6037 words)

  
 Atlas (cartography) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The name "atlas" derives from the traditional custom of adorning the cover or title page of such collections with a picture of the Atlas of Greek mythology holding the Earth on his shoulders.
The earliest atlas was Ptolemy's Geography of c.
The first modern atlas was issued by Abraham Ortelius on May 20, 1570.
www.phatnav.com /wiki/index.php?title=Atlas   (231 words)

  
 Third World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
This almanac of trends in world development is written by the staff of the Development and Peace Foundation and covers a wide range of fields including population, human rights, the environment, religion, military conflicts, and the economy.
Compiled by the World Resources Institute, an international nonprofit research and policy organization, this is a handbook of statistics on a variety of topics of local, national, and global importance.
All branches of world history are included: political, diplomatic, economic, religious, social, cultural, and intellectual history, as well as the history of science, technology, and medicine.
www.library.wwu.edu /ref/subjguides/thirdw4.html   (8358 words)

  
 Mammal Species of the World Literature Citations
Recent mammals of the world, a synopsis of families.
The New World jackrabbits and hares (genus Lepus) 1.
The New World jackrabbits and hares (genus Lepus)-- 2.
nmnhgoph.si.edu /msw/litcit.html   (12799 words)

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