Oxford's flagship atlas, nicely packaged in an attractive slipcase, this oversized masterpiece has features that make it especially attractive to North American readers, including 50 large-scale state maps. With crystal-clear typography, innovative map projections, beautiful relief shading, satellite and ocean floor maps, and 110,000 place-name index. Map-lovers will appreciate that each map is drawn to a named projection to reduce distortion, a nice touch.  (MAP17, $175.00)