World Classic, Pacific Centered

World Classic, Pacific Centered
Author: National Geographic Maps
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781597751148

This unique view employs a new map projection to accentuate the Pacific Rim, and shows Oceania and Asia in close proportion to their actual size on the Earth. It brings Oceania and Asia into the center of the picture, while dramatically showing the entire breadth of the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific-centered world map features classic National Geographic cartography, with political boundaries, thousands of place names, time zones, and special insets showing world vegetation and land use, and population density. It is also available in the Executive-antique version. Map is printed on premium quality paper stock, rolled, and packaged in a clear, hard plastic tube."Map Scale = 1:36,384,000Sheet Size = 46" x 30.5""

World Executive, Pacific Centered

World Executive, Pacific Centered
Author: National Geographic Maps
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781597751377

This unique view employs a new map projection to accentuate the Pacific Rim, and shows Oceania and Asia in close proportion to their actual size on the Earth. It brings Oceania and Asia into the center of the picture, while dramatically showing the entire breadth of the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific-centered world map features classic National Geographic cartography, with political boundaries, thousands of place names, time zones, and special insets showing world vegetation and land use, and population density. It is also available in our Classic blue-ocean. Map is printed on premium quality paper stock, laminated, rolled, and packaged in a clear plastic sleeve."Map Scale = 1:22,445,000Sheet Size = 73" x 48""

The World Book Encyclopedia

The World Book Encyclopedia
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2002
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

World War II Map by Map

World War II Map by Map
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0744021006

Trace the epic history of World War 2 across the globe with more than 100 detailed maps. In this stunning visual history book, custom maps tell the story of the Second World War from the rise of the Axis powers to the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Each map is rich with detail and graphics, helping you to chart the progress of key events of World War II on land, sea, and air, such as the Dunkirk evacuation, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the D-Day landings, and the siege of Stalingrad. Historical maps from both Allied and Axis countries also offer unique insights into the events. There are timelines to help you follow the story as it unfolds, while narrative overviews explain the social, economic, political, and technical developments at the time. Fascinating, large-scale pictures introduce topics such as the Holocaust, blitzkrieg, kamikaze warfare, and code-breaking. Written by a team of historians in consultation with Richard Overy, World War II Map by Map examines how the deadliest conflict in history changed the face of our world. It is perfect for students, general readers, and military history enthusiasts.

Pacific Overtures

Pacific Overtures
Author: Stephen Sondheim
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1991
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781559360258

"Priceless and peerless...a thrilling work of theatricality." --Wayman Wong, San Francisco Examiner For over three decades, Stephen Sondheim has been the foremost composer and lyricist writing regularly for Broadway. His substantial body of work now stands as one of the most sustained achievements of the American stage. Pacific Overtures, originally produced in 1976, combines an unsurpassed mastery of the American musical with such arts as Kabuki theatre, haiku, dance, and masks to recount Commander Matthew Perry's 1835 opening of Japan and its consequences right up to the present. This new edition of Pacific Overtures incorporates substantial revisions made by the authors for the successful 1984 revival.

Voices of the Pacific

Voices of the Pacific
Author: Adam Makos
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0425257835

From the New York Times bestselling author of Spearhead and A Higher Call comes an unflinching, brutal, and relentless firsthand chronicle of United States Marine Corps' actions in the Pacific during World War 2. Following fifteen Marines from the Pearl Harbor attack, through battles with the Japanese, to their return home after V-J Day, Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton have compiled an oral history of the Pacific War in the words of the men who fought on the front lines. With unflinching honesty, these Marines reveal harrowing accounts of combat with an implacable enemy, the friendships and camaraderie they found--and lost--and the aftermath of the war's impact on their lives. With unprecedented access to the veterans, rare photographs, and unpublished memoirs, Voices of the Pacific presents true stories of heroism as told by such World War II veterans as Sid Phillips, R. V. Burgin, and Chuck Tatum--whose exploits were featured in the HBO(R) miniseries, The Pacific--and their Marine buddies from the legendary 1st Marine Division. Includes rare photos

Young Citizens of the World

Young Citizens of the World
Author: Marilynne Boyle-Baise
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2013-12-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113501938X

Young Citizens of the World takes a clear stance: Social studies is about citizenship education that is informed, deliberative, and activist—citizenship not only as a noun, something one studies, but as a verb, something one DOES. Its holistic, multicultural approach is based on this clear curricular and pedagogical purpose. Straightforward, engaging, and highly interactive, the book encourages students (and their teachers) to become informed, think it through, and take action. Each chapter is written as a civic engagement which is teacher-ready for use in elementary classrooms. A set of six teaching strategies that are constructive, inquiry-driven, dramatic, and deliberative bring the curricular framework to life through intensive, integrated meaningful studies of special places, important people, and significant times. Readers are invited to rehearse the projects in their social studies education courses and then to reinterpret them for their classrooms. The projects are supported by important resources for teaching, including supportive children’s literature, links to internet sites, and visual sources and by a Companion Website that enhances and extends the text.

The World's Cities

The World's Cities
Author: Andrew James Jacobs
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415894859

The World’s Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions worldwide: City-Regions in a World System; Nested City-Regions; and The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth. The book provides students with helpful essays on each perspective, case studies to illustrate each major viewpoint, and discussion questions following each reading. The World’s Cities concludes with an original essay by the editor that helps students understand how an analysis incorporating a combination of theoretical perspectives and factors can provide a richer appreciation of the world’s city dynamics.