The New State of the World Atlas - Softcover

Kidron, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671645544 ISBN 13: 9780671645540

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books, 1987

Synopsis

Displays through maps a variety of commonly-observed events and provides an up-to-date view of today's world. There is information on the environment, the shifting balance of power between East and West, on trading influences, military spending, industry, population growth and more.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Called "a work of cartojournalism" in Kidron's introduction, this handy-size (7 x 912) thematic atlas is well known to students and librarians alike as an innovative source of information on a variety of social, political, and economic subjects. The fourth edition contains 50 new or extensively revised two-page world maps covering such au courant topics as AIDS, literacy, the greenhouse effect, endangered species, the quality of life, postal service, privatization, and the drug trade. (The third edition was published in 1987.) The maps, which are computer-generated, continue to be colorful, inviting, usually well designed, and prone to cutesy symbols (e.g., padlocks represent countries holding political prisoners) and titles ("Funny Money," "First Bite of Cherry," "The Bureaupolists"). Reasonably detailed explanations of each map, along with source notes, appear at the back of the book. As with past editions, the atlas makes no attempt to hide its basic ideological bias--that nation-states often act contrary to the best interests of their populace. Libraries that have made good use of previous editions as well as such comparable works as Neil Grant and Nick Middleton's Atlas of the World Today (HarperCollins, 1987) and Gerard Chaliand and Jean-Pierre Rageau's Strategic Atlas ( LJ 9/1/85) will want to add this to their collections, both circulating and reference, if funds permit.
- Kenneth F. Kister, author of "Best Encyclopedias," Tampa, Fla.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0671645544
• ISBN 13: 9780671645540
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 167