Learning geography will always be fun with the special tricks you'll learn here. Starting from familiar territory (home, backyard, schoolyard) and moving outwards, this amusing, delightfully illustrated introduction to maps and more teaches street smarts to kids. Filled to the brim with fun games, cool activities, humorous quizzes, and wacky facts, every page turns basic geography into an adventure. Build a model of an early compass to understand navigation--then head out to test your skills. Use the sun, moon, and the stars to get your bearings. Look at a map similar to the one Columbus might have used when he set out to prove the world was round. Hit the road with "a key to the highway" that provides information on tolls, the number of lanes, and other details. Figure out which route goes where. All in all, you'll have a delightful trip--and end up just where you want to be!

Have you ever wondered, Where am I?Ó People have come up with ways to keep from getting lost, like using a map. Say it's your first day at a new school & you don't know where you're going. A floor plan of the school would help new students get around. If you're at the mall with someone who lostÓ the car in the parking lot, a compass would help keep that from happening. You can draw your house the way it looks to a bird flying above it -- a bird's-eye view. A Sidewalk Shadow Stick is a pointer that will show which way you're facing by the sun's shadow on the stick throughout the day. This book is filled with lots of awesome ideas & illustrated directions for making all kinds of maps that will give you map mania!Ó

Maps are a lot smaller than places on earth. So how can you tell how far it is from here to there? With a map scale and the right skills, you'll know how far to go for every trip.

Texas-shaped ashtrays, belt buckles, earrings, kitchen utensils--"Texas kitsch"--fill gift shops alongside highways and in airports. The Lone Star State's unmistakable shape is appropriated by advertisers to hawk everything from beans to automobiles inside Texas' borders and beyond. As a billboard-sized neon sign glowing atop a popular honkey-tonk, the Texas map illuminates the Fort Worth night sky, attracting tourists in search of a good time--and a share of the Texas experience. Over the years America's most recognizable state outline has become one of its most potent symbols, a metaphor for Texas popular culture. In the last decade, the private, commercial, and official use of the Texas map as cultural symbol has boomed. Richard V. Francaviglia identifies this current trend as "Tex-map mania," and contends that the Texas map as icon integrates geography with history--and gives shape to a mythic landscape and to abstracted notions of what Texas is and who Texans are. Written in a lively style that engages both the scholar and the general reader in a discussion of the power of symbol and the meaning and significance of a shared aesthetic, The Shape of Texas is at the crossroads of cartography and popular culture. Francaviglia uses more than one hundred illustrations in offering a provocative visual and written account of this important, yet much neglected, aspect of Texas history and the dynamics of a still emerging Texas identity.

"Describes different types of maps and how they can be used to find your way"--Provided by publisher.

"Introduces types of maps and how they are used"--Provided by publisher.

This unique sourcebook for map lovers is newly revised in a third edition that includes more maps than ever before. In addition to a profusion of road maps, aerial maps, geological maps, historical maps, weather maps, nautical maps, military maps, census maps, and astronomical maps, this third revised edition contains: -- the most current maps of Russia and Eastern Europe; -- a new section on the age of exploration; -- the most up-to-date information about map software; -- a completely new section on how to have a professional map made; -- the latest information about the new generation of maps based on the 1990 census. Whether you want maps of airports or zip codes, highways, hurricanes, or hidden treasure, The Map Catalog is the book for you. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Maps can seem confusing, but they're really just views from above. So who better to guide your readers through the world of maps than Ace McCaw, a geographically gifted parrot who knows how to decode the language of maps? Big, colorful maps and accompanying photos support exploring the world in spatial terms in this fresh approach to maps.

Combines historical facts, descriptions of several kinds of maps and accessories, and mapping activities to help readers navigate through unknown territory.

Presents one thousand trivia questions and answers on various subjects, from geography and nature to popular culture and history, as well as map, photographic, and game show quizzes.