The Cambridge World Atlas features high quality of physical and political maps, sophisticated thematic maps and an easy to understand introduction with detailed regional maps. Showing statistics for all countries of the world, the Atlas includes a full glossary of terms and an index with more than 20,000 names.

Student atlas.

Global biological diversity, ecosystem diversity.

This full-color, illustrated atlas offers students and families an inspired, approachable, and interactive view of today's world and the issues facing it. 160 color plates.

This Atlas is a magnificent gift volume. Contained within its deluxe padded leatherette cover are over 300 gilt-edged pages filled with easy-to-read maps. This atlas is designed to make information as easy to retrieve as possible. Facts on each country...topography, economy, agriculture, industry, vegetation and climate are located on the same or adjacent page; a unique presentation style.

The euphoria about the defeat of epidemics which surrounded the global eradication of smallpox in the 1970s proved short-lived. The advent of AIDS in the following decade, the widening spectrum of other newly-emergent diseases (from Ebola to Hanta virus), and the resurgence of old diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria all suggest that the threa