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1) Now look what you've done

Author

Pastis, Stephan

Series

Timmy Failure volume 2

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

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Timmy Failure, founder, president, and CEO of the greatest detective agency in town, perhaps the nation, is about to crack the biggest case of his generation: a school competition to find a stolen globe.

2) Maps and globes

Author

Knowlton, Jack

Series

Reading rainbow book

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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A brief history of mapmaking, a simple explanation of how to read maps and globes, and an introduction to the many different kinds of maps there are; for ages 7-10.

3) Islamicate celestial globes, their history, construction, and use

Author

Savage-Smith, Emilie

Series

Smithsonian studies in history and technology volume no. 46

Publisher

Smithsonian Institution Press

Language

English

Description

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The globe presently in the national Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution, which is a fine example of a seventeenth-century Mughal Indian globe, was selected for detailed analysis and serves as the focus for this monograph. The first part of the study compares this particular globe with other known Islamicate globes and places the development of such globes within the historical perspective of the earlier Greco-Roman world from...

4) Maps and globes

Author

Crewe, Sabrina

Series

Step by step geography

Publisher

Children's Press

Pub. Date

1997

Language

English

Description

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An introduction to maps, globes, and how to use them.

5) A new treatise on the use of the globes, and practical astronomy; or, A comprehensive view of the system of the world: In four parts. Designed for the instruction of youth, and particularly adapted to the United States

Author

Wallace, J

Publisher

Smith & Forman

Pub. Date

1812

Language

English

6) The description and use of both the globes: the armillary sphere, and orrery, exemplified in a large variety of problems in astronomy, geography, dialling, &c. Carefully selected from the late Messrs. Martin, Ferguson,...

Author

Wright, Gabriel

Language

English

7) Looking at maps and globes

Author

Olien, Rebecca

Series

Rookie read-about geography

Publisher

Children's Press

Pub. Date

c2013

Language

English

8) Der Globus: seine Entstehung und Verwendung in der Antike nach den literarischen Quellen und den Darstellungen in der Kunst

Author

Schlachter, Alois

Series

Stoicheia volume Heft 8

Publisher

B.G. Teubner

Pub. Date

1927

Language

Deutsch

9) Geography I need to know: Maps and globes

Series

Start smart

Publisher

Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC

Pub. Date

[2014]

Language

English

Description

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Helps viewers understand and identify the different parts of maps and globes. Through colorful, animated maps, children will learn about lines of longitude and latitude and how to locate different places on Earth. Viewers will also learn various skills, such as how to use directions and how to read a compass rose and map key.

10) Maps & globes

Publisher

Schlessinger Media

Pub. Date

c2004

Language

English

Description

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What is a map? What is a globe? And what are the differences? Maps & Globes teaches students to understand and identify the different parts of maps and globes from lines of latitude and longitude, to hemispheres and poles. Students will also learn the significance of location. By describing a globe as a model of the Earth, and then by comparing a globe to a flat world map, students will gain insight into how flat maps distort size, shape and distance...

11) Terrestrial and celestial globes: their history and construction, including a consideration of their value as aids in the study of geography and astronomy

Author

Stevenson, Edward Luther

Publisher

Pub. for the Hispanic society of America by the Yale university press; [etc., etc.]

Pub. Date

1921

Language

English

12) Der Globus im Wandel der Zeiten: eine Geschichte der Globen

Author

Muris, Oswald

Publisher

Columbus Verlag

Pub. Date

[1961]

Language

Deutsch

13) Tractatus de globis et eorum usu: a treatise descriptive of the globes constructed by Emery Molyneux and published in 1592 (i.e. 1594)

Author

Hues, Robert

Series

Works issued by the Hakluyt Society volume no. 79

Publisher

Printed for the Hakluyt Society

Pub. Date

1889

Language

English

14) A new and easy guide to the use of globes and the rudiments of geography

Author

Fenning, Daniel

Publisher

Printed for S. Crowder

Pub. Date

1770

Language

English

15) A Venetian terrestial globe, represented by the largest surviving printed gores of the 16th century: twenty-four engraved globe gores designed for a terrestrial globe 71 cm. in diameter, 222 cm. in equatorial circumference, unsigned and undated, Venice, ca. 1570-75?

Author

Skelton, R. A

Publisher

Garisenda Antiquariato

Pub. Date

[1965?]

Language

English

16) The maps book

Author

Bourne, Joanne

Series

Lonely Planet kids

Publisher

Lonely Planet Global Ltd

Pub. Date

2024.

Language

English

Description

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Packed with astounding maps from ancient times to the present, fascinating facts and amazing historic photographs, this ultimate guide to the full breadth of maps in existence shows kids not only how to read maps and symbols but how to create their own.