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Atlas of Climate Change

Revised 2007 edition!

This book condenses the history, causes, dangers and scientific background into easy-to-read maps, graphics and tables:

Today's headlines and recent events reflect the seriousness of climate change. Heat waves, droughts, and flooding are causing deaths among vulnerable populations, destroying livelihoods, and driving people from their homes. This atlas examines the possible impact of climate change on our ability to feed the world's people, avoid water shortages, conserve biodiversity, improve health, and preserve cities and cultural treasures. It also reviews historical contributions to greenhouse gas levels, progress in meeting Kyoto commitments, and local efforts to meet the challenge of climate change. The atlas covers a wide range of topics, including warning signals, future scenarios, vulnerable populations, health impacts, renewable energy and emissions reduction. With more than 50 full-colour maps and graphics, this is an essential resource for students and everyone concerned with this pressing subject. Authors: Kirstin Dow (University of South Carolina) and Thomas E. Downing (Stockholm Environment Institute).

Contents: Part I: Signs of Change • Part II: Forcing Change • Part III: Driving Climate Change • Part IV: Expected Consequences • Part V: Responding to Change • Part VI: Committing to Solutions • Part VII: Climate Change Data

Level: Library/Interdisciplinary projects at all level of the gymnasium

Rising Sea Levels (from the Atlas)

9781844075225

Atlas of Religion

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This work maps out the history, beliefs, influence and interactions of the world's religions:

The world's religions have emerged as one of the great geopolitical forces shaping our lives. Understanding these beliefs is crucial to understanding ethnic tension and the clash of cultures as well as being fundamental to world peace. Even where people have moved away from formal religious practices, the legacies of traditional beliefs continue to inform their sense of self, and their values and customs. This atlas maps the current impact of major religions and their divisions. It shows country by country how religions spread their influence through broadcasting, missionary work, schooling and banking; how they relate to government, laws and world hunger; and the role they play in wars. It traces the emergence of new religious movements, the survival of traditional beliefs, and the presence of atheism and agnosticism. It also maps the origins of each of the major religions as well as their heartlands and the sacred places of the world. For essential background, there is also a table on the fundamental beliefs of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism and Taoism. Authors: Joanne O’Brien and Martin Palmer (advisers to the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture, WWF, the World Bank, the World Council of Churches and UNESCO).

Contents: Introduction • Part I: Beginnings • Part II: Beliefs • Part III: Structures • Part IV: Conflicts And Tensions • Part V: Contemporary Challenges • Part VI: The Heartlands • Part VII: World Table • Index

Level: Library/Interdisciplinary projects at all level of the gymnasium

Buddhism (from the Atlas)

9781844073085

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Atlas of Women in the World

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World events continue to reveal the importance of understanding how women live across continents and cultures:

Using maps, text, and other graphics this eye-opening book employs up-to-the-minute research and data to show what shifts have occurred in the ten years since the first edition was published — the strides made by women and the distance still to be travelled. She explores the current status of women in relation to key issues including: equality; women at works; the culture of beauty; women in the global economy; women's health; feminism; household trends; lesbian rights; domestic violence; women in government; and motherhood. Author: Joni Seager.

Contents: 40 chapters in seven parts: I: Women in the World • II: Families • III: Birthrights • IV: Body Politics • V: Work • VI: To Have and Have Not • VII: Power • World Tables • Sources, Index.

Level: Library/Interdisciplinary projects at all level of the gymnasium

9781844072002

Atlas of Slavery

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James Walvin maps the history of slavery from ancient to modern times and provides a concise commentary that deepens our understanding of slavery and its impact on global history. Walvin's atlas reminds us of the magnitude of the task that faced those who sought – and still seek – to eradicate slavery. Despite the wide-ranging atrocities of the twentieth century, the Atlantic slave system continues to hold a horrible fascination. In this book Walvin looks at slavery in the Americas in the broadest context, taking account of both earlier and later forms of slavery. The relationship between the critical continents, Europe, Africa and the Americas, is examined through a collection of maps and related text, which puts the key features of the history of slavery in their geographical setting. Walvin shows how the people of three widely separated continents were brought together into an economic and human system that was characterized both by violence and cruelty to its victims and huge economic advantage to its owners and managers. We may think of slavery as a largely bygone phenomenon, but it is a practice that continues to this day, and the exploitation of vulnerable human beings remains a pressing contemporary issue. A great resource from which the teacher can easily pull relevant sections.
Contents: Introduction — 1. Slavery in a global setting — 2. The Ancient World — 3. Overland Trade Routes — 4. European slavery and slave trades — 5. Exploration and the spread of sugar — 6. Europeans, slaves and West Africa — 7. Britain, slavery and the slave trade — 8. Africa — 9. The Atlantic — 10. Crossing the Atlantic — 11. Destinations — 12. Arrivals — 13. Brazil — 14. The Caribbean — 15. North America — 16. Cotton and the USA — 17. Slave Resistance — 18. Abolition and Emancipation — 19. East Africa and the Indian Ocean — 20. Slavery after abolition — 21. Chronology
(146 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet etc./A Teacher's resource for projects in co-operation with history/Library/Depot

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