All the mapping and information in this revised edition has been brought fully up to date to give an accurate picture of today's world. The recent declaration of Montenegro and Serbia as two independent countries is a significant change to the atlas. Detailed reference maps in the distinctive and respected Times style provide balanced, systematic coverage of all parts of the world. All maps have been fully revised to take account of any recent environmental and geopolitical changes. Major updates include Serbia and Montenegro being split into 2 independent countries, Naypyidaw—the new capital of Myanmar, the now open Golmud-Lhasa railway in Tibet, the Aral Sea continuing to shrink in size, Portugal's big new reservoir of Barragem de Alqueva, and coastal changes in China at the mouth of Huang He and at the Mouths of Ganges in Bangladesh. A large number of new road and railways have also been added and more than 300 place names changed This complete world reference atlas is in a convenient and easy-to use format, while retaining the authority, style, and detail of the larger atlases in the range.

The Times Compact Atlas of the World

Reference

Times UK

Atlases & Maps

HarperCollins UK

Presented in an elegant gold cover and slipcase, and printed on Forest Stewardship Council paper, this is the ultimate coffee table book and the world's most prestigious atlas—the perfect blend of tradition, authority, and style. The atlas begins with contributions from geographical experts, providing detailed information on the key issues facing the world today—climate change, environmental threats, global communications, biodiversity, and energy resources—with supporting maps, images, photographs, and graphics. The unique scope and breadth of the index—with more than 200,000 entries—also includes a comprehensive set of alternative spellings for place names and former names. This authoritative reference was reprinted with updates in 2008.

The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World (The Times Atlases)

Note: The font size of the text in the book is 11.5 ptA penetrating examination of how we live and how to live better
A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life.
This new edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Health, Fitness & Dieting

PIRSIG, Robert M.

Mental Health

Mariner Books Classics

Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Traveling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery - of the unknown and the unexpected, but also of people and places he knew as a young and optimistic teacher forty years before. Safari in Swahili simply means 'journey', and this is the ultimate safari. It is Theroux in his element - a trip where chance encounter is everything, where departure and arrival times are an irrelevance, and where contentment can be found balancing on the top of a truck in the middle of nowhere.

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Travel

THEROUX, Paul

Africa

Penguin Books

A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became obsessed with their language and its cultural and linguistic implications. The Pirahã have no counting system, no fixed terms for color, no concept of war, and no personal property. Everett was so impressed with their peaceful way of life that he eventually lost faith in the God he'd hoped to introduce to them, and instead devoted his life to the science of linguistics. Part passionate memoir, part scientific exploration, Everett's life-changing tale is riveting look into the nature of language, thought, and life itself.

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures)

Politics & Social Sciences

EVERETT, DANIEL L.

Philosophy

VINTAGE

The astonishing national bestseller and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher McDougall sets out to discover their secrets. In the process, he takes his readers from science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultra-runners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to a climactic race in the Copper Canyons that pits America’s best ultra-runners against the tribe. McDougall’s incredible story will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

McDougall, Christopher

Anthropology

Random House Audio

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Anniversary) [ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Anniversary) by Pirsig, Robert M ( Author ) Hardcover May- 1974 ] Hardcover May- 01- 1974

Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

William Morrow

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

Robert M. Pirsig

Literature & Fiction

Bantam New Age Books

The classic story of American values and the way we learn them and teach them.

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance: an inquiry into values

Bantam Books

The master travel writer provides an insightful account of his odysses down the length of Africa, from Cairo to South Africa, aboard a dilapidated bus, ancient train, and rusty steamer, describing the bad food, many delays, discomforts, and dangers of his trip , along with the colorful people and places of the real Africa.

Houghton Mifflin

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