National Geographic Almanac of Geography (Print)
National Geographic Almanac of Geography
Grades: All | Subject(s): All | Overall rating: 10
Wow! What a stunning, interesting, and helpful resource! This book is filled with beautiful images, interesting facts, figures and statistics, helpful historical information and maps to help the reader better understand our planet. It also describes in easy-to-understand language information about the science of geography. For students researching our planet or needing any geographical information, this book is the perfect resource.
The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 focuses on detailing the basics of geography. It discusses in detail the science and history of geography, the study of geography today, past and present maps and cartography. Part 2 discusses our planet. Readers learn how the Earth was formed, how it is composed, and its dimensions, shape, motions, tilt, seasons, weather, and climate, tectonic processes, landforms, landscapes, soils and regions. Part 3 adds a human dimension to the book and discusses population, migration, and specific cultural issues such as religion, economics, politics, urbanization, and the environment. Part 4 guides the reader from country to country around the world and gives helpful information such as the country's name, continent, area, population, capital, religion, language, literacy rate, life expectancy, currency, GDP, economy, location a globe, flag, and brief information. Information about the Canadian Provinces and Territories (name, area, population, capital, GDP, entry date, economy, flag, location on a map, and brief information) and the States within our nation (name, motto, area, population, capital, PCI, statehood date and order, economy, flag, location on a map, and brief information) is also included within this part. The book concludes with several maps, images, and an extensive glossary.
I assigned an overall rating of 10 to this resource for several reasons. First, the information is so varied and valuable. Extensive research into any facet of our planet is at the reader's fingertips. I believe most of the information could be found with an Internet search; however, this would take a researcher a lot of time searching a lot of sites to compile the depth of knowledge contained within this book. Additionally, many students are assigned a topic covered within this book to research and may not have the Internet resources available at home to complete the project. Additionally, each chapter and each section conclude with a lengthy list of additional resources for users to find more information on the topics discussed. The pictures, maps, and illustrations included within the book are beautifully done; however, one would come to expect that level of quality from a book published by National Geographic. Finally, this book is much more than an almanac listing facts and statistics. While this book does include a wealth of facts and figures, it helps the reader understand what these numbers mean, how they were calculated, how they have changed over time, and why it all matters. Even though the book was published in 2005 and some of the data is outdated, I still believe this book should be found within every library...it is that good.
Source Articles:
Downs, R. (2005). National geographic almanac of geography. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic.
Grades: All | Subject(s): All | Overall rating: 10
Wow! What a stunning, interesting, and helpful resource! This book is filled with beautiful images, interesting facts, figures and statistics, helpful historical information and maps to help the reader better understand our planet. It also describes in easy-to-understand language information about the science of geography. For students researching our planet or needing any geographical information, this book is the perfect resource.
The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 focuses on detailing the basics of geography. It discusses in detail the science and history of geography, the study of geography today, past and present maps and cartography. Part 2 discusses our planet. Readers learn how the Earth was formed, how it is composed, and its dimensions, shape, motions, tilt, seasons, weather, and climate, tectonic processes, landforms, landscapes, soils and regions. Part 3 adds a human dimension to the book and discusses population, migration, and specific cultural issues such as religion, economics, politics, urbanization, and the environment. Part 4 guides the reader from country to country around the world and gives helpful information such as the country's name, continent, area, population, capital, religion, language, literacy rate, life expectancy, currency, GDP, economy, location a globe, flag, and brief information. Information about the Canadian Provinces and Territories (name, area, population, capital, GDP, entry date, economy, flag, location on a map, and brief information) and the States within our nation (name, motto, area, population, capital, PCI, statehood date and order, economy, flag, location on a map, and brief information) is also included within this part. The book concludes with several maps, images, and an extensive glossary.
I assigned an overall rating of 10 to this resource for several reasons. First, the information is so varied and valuable. Extensive research into any facet of our planet is at the reader's fingertips. I believe most of the information could be found with an Internet search; however, this would take a researcher a lot of time searching a lot of sites to compile the depth of knowledge contained within this book. Additionally, many students are assigned a topic covered within this book to research and may not have the Internet resources available at home to complete the project. Additionally, each chapter and each section conclude with a lengthy list of additional resources for users to find more information on the topics discussed. The pictures, maps, and illustrations included within the book are beautifully done; however, one would come to expect that level of quality from a book published by National Geographic. Finally, this book is much more than an almanac listing facts and statistics. While this book does include a wealth of facts and figures, it helps the reader understand what these numbers mean, how they were calculated, how they have changed over time, and why it all matters. Even though the book was published in 2005 and some of the data is outdated, I still believe this book should be found within every library...it is that good.
Source Articles:
Downs, R. (2005). National geographic almanac of geography. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic.