Book excerpt: * specially designed to cover the content of the secondary curriculum and examination specifications, this is the essential atlas for students from 11-18* comprehensive coverage of the British Isles at a convenient scale of 1:1 000 000 together with world mapping and an eight-page world statistical section* new maps on motivating topics such as cyberspace, crime, disease, and the world's most exciting holiday destinations make the atlas an essential resource for secondary geography* extensively researched with teachers to provide the maps and data students really need* easy-to-use features include a multi-access contents page, clear explanations of graphics, a two-colour index of place names, and flags of the world at a usable size