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The University of Ottawa (French: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.The main campus is located on 42.5 hectares (105 acres) directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottawa across the Rideau Canal in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood.
It publishes approximately 25-30 books annually in both English and French. [2] The UOP is the only fully bilingual university publishing house in Canada. [3] Like other university presses, the publishing program at the University of Ottawa Press includes scholarly works, textbooks and, on occasion, books of general interest. [4]
The annual series brings together leading members of the international affairs community for an assessment of the country's foreign policy. The books are used in university courses on foreign policy and international relations, and "have become a major publication of record on Canada's policies and actions in the world."
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World is a book on geopolitics by the British author and journalist Tim Marshall. It was published by Elliott & Thompson in 2021 and is the sequel to his 2015 book Prisoners of Geography .
known world may refer to: the extent of geographic knowledge of a given culture at a given historical period, see history of geography. Early world maps lists a number of maps showing the known world from the perspective of various historical periods; Ecumene, a Greek geographical concept for the inhabited or known parts of the world
National Capital Region by SPOT Satellite in 2003. This is the outline of the geography of the city of Ottawa, the capital of Canada.Ottawa's current borders were formed in 2001, when the former city of Ottawa amalgamated with the ten other municipalities within the former Regional Municipality of Ottawa–Carleton.
Horrible Geography is a series of children's non-fiction books written by Anita Ganeri, illustrated by Mike Phillips, and published in the UK by Scholastic. It is a spin-off from the Horrible Histories series, and is designed to get children interested in geography .
Varenius was deeply influenced by the works of classical geographers such as Claudius Ptolemy and Strabo. [6] Ptolemy's Geographia was particularly significant, as it provided a framework for mapping the known world using a coordinate system based on latitude and longitude, and the title of Geographia Generalis intentionally linked it to Ptolemy's text. [6]