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Compact Peters World Atlas (Keyes review) *****
ISBN:ISBN: 0843718323
Author:by Arno Peters & and Terry Herdaker, chief cartographer
Publisher:Hammond, 2002, $19.95 (USD); $29.95 (CAD)
All of us have spent so many years blithely using atlases without considering their promiscuous use of scale that the subtitle of this new atlas by the Hammond Company -- "The Earth in True Proportion" -- is momentarily difficult to grasp.
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Hammond World Travel Atlas (Keyes review) ****
Hammond's clever cartographers have come up with a coffee-table tome that marries detailed maps with small photographs illustrating 14 or so sites worth seeing on each area depicted.
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The World Almanac 2006 World Atlas (Keyes review) ****
John Keyes finds much to like about the new World Almanac 2006 World Atlas from Hammond . . .
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Visitors to Google Earth put Nanaimo on map *
"Everything you could imagine that the city government would want to tell people, they seem to have found a way to tell that using Google Earth," said Michael Jones, chief technical officer at Google Earth. "We see other cities around the world doing this, but none with the degree and zeal of Nanaimo."
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Cracking the code of Sir Francis Drake *
It was a whim that led former B.C. cabinet minister Samuel Bawlf to wonder if Drake might have sailed the coast of British Columbia before Captain Cook. As MARK HUME reports, it became a fascination
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Giants and behemoths: Abebooks *
Some months ago I wrote a column wondering why the Internet, which was supposed to foster competitiveness, is being dominated by behemoths with few or no competitors - Amazon, eBay and Google, for example.
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