Arcadia Public Library

Among the maps included in the book are the Waldseemuller Map of the World from 1507, the first to include the designation "America"; pages from the Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570, considered the first modern atlas; rare maps from Africa, Asia, and Oceania that challenge traditional Western perspectives; William Faulkner's hand-drawn 1936 map of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi; and a map of the Human Genome.--From publisher's...

"Home of haute couture and the world's leading fashion houses, Paris and its inhabitants represent sophistication and refinement to the rest of the world. In the city's elegant neighborhoods, debonair Parisian men continue to participate in a centuries-long tradition of sartorial craftsmanship and quality. The Parisian Gentleman is like a dream shopping excursion to the leading men's style-makers, from hidden ateliers and little-known studios to...

Text and more than 800 illustrations examine the history of baseball, with information on players, teams, games, records, memorabilia, and other aspects of the sport.

" ... Although a substantial body of colonial surveys had evolved by the mid-eighteenth century, few were of value in the theater of war or to military operations in America. To what extent the British were able to remedy this deficiency is the subject of this book"--