A treasury of geography facts includes entries about the international date line, what formed the Great Lakes, the biggest desert in the world, the oldest mountain range in North America, and how fast a hurricane can move.

"As a boy, Robert Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the ground up. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation of American geography often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline--increasingly cosmopolitan cities...

"Baby's Big World introduces children to important concepts using simple text and delightful art. Discover the world's wonders with geography"--Back cover.

Maps and text describe countries around the world and the ways of life of the inhabitants.

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, this book takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Singapore...