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Author : Adam Sills,Associate Professor of English Adam Sills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0813945984
Ultimately, Against the Map suggests that nation is forged not only in concert with the map but, just as important, against it.
Author : Joan Sweeney
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781524772024
Maps can show you where you are anywhere in the world! A beloved bestseller that helps children discover their place on the planet, now refreshed with new art from Qin Leng. Where are you? Where is your room? Where is your home? Where is your town? This playful introduction to maps shows children how easy it is to find where they live and how they fit in to the larger world. Filled with fun and adorable new illustrations by Qin Leng, this repackage of Me on the Map will show readers how easy it is to find the places they know and love with help from a map.
Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Avery
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781592407804
Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.
Author : Michael J. Seth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793632531
This book examines the unusual circumstances of de facto states, countries which are not considered to be sovereign nations by the international community.
Author : Trevor Paglen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101011492
Welcome to a top-level clearance world that doesn't exist...Now with updated material for the paperback edition. This is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a road trip through a shadow nation of state secrets, clandestine military bases, black sites, hidden laboratories, and top-secret agencies that make up what insiders call the "black world." Here, geographer and provocateur Trevor Paglen knocks on the doors of CIA prisons, stakes out a covert air base in Nevada from a mountaintop 30 miles away, dissects the Defense Department's multibillion dollar "black" budget, and interviews those who live on the edges of these blank spots. Whether Paglen reports from a hotel room in Vegas, a secret prison in Kabul, or a trailer in Shoshone Indian territory, he is impassioned, rigorous, relentless-and delivers eye-opening details.
Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847658555
Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. With a historical sweep ranging from Ptolemy to Twitter, Garfield explores the legendary, impassable (and non-existent) mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery of America, how a Venetian monk mapped the world from his cell and the Muppets' knack of instant map-travel. Along the way are pocket maps of dragons, Mars, murders and more, with plenty of illustrations and prints to signpost the route. From the bestselling and widely-adored author of Just My Type, On The Map is a witty and irrepressible examination of where we've been, how we got there and where we're going.
Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812982220
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “ambitious and challenging” (The New York Review of Books) work, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe’s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan’s porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India’s main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century’s looming cataclysms.
Author : Bruce J. Doran,Melissa B. Burgess
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1441956476
Since first emerging as an issue of concern in the late 1960s, fear of crime has become one of the most researched topics in contemporary criminology and receives considerable attention in a range of other disciplines including social ecology, social psychology and geography. Researchers looking the subject have consistently uncovered alarming characteristics, primarily relating to the behavioural responses that people adopt in relation to their fear of crime. This book reports on research conducted over the past eight years, in which efforts have been made to pioneer the combination of techniques from behavioural geography with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in order to map the fear of crime. The first part of the book outlines the history of research into fear of crime, with an emphasis on the many approaches that have been used to investigate the problem and the need for a spatially-explicit approach. The second part provides a technical break down of the GIS-based techniques used to map fear of crime and summarises key findings from two separate study sites. The authors describe collective avoidance behaviour in relation to disorder decline models such as the Broken Windows Thesis, the potential to integrate fear mapping with police-community partnerships and emerging avenues for further research. Issues discussed include fear of crime in relation to housing prices and disorder, the use of fear mapping as a means with which to monitor the impact of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) and fear mapping in transit environments.
Author : Eric Rutkow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501103926
From the award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the world’s longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Pan-American Highway, monument to a century’s worth of diplomacy and investment, education and engineering, scandal and sweat, is the longest road in the world, passable everywhere save the mythic Darien Gap that straddles Panama and Colombia. The highway’s history, however, has long remained a mystery, a story scattered among government archives, private papers, and fading memories. In contrast to the Panama Canal and its vast literature, the Pan-American Highway—the United States’ other great twentieth-century hemispheric infrastructure project—has become an orphan of the past, effectively erased from the story of the “American Century.” The Longest Line on the Map uncovers this incredible tale for the first time and weaves it into a tapestry that fascinates, informs, and delights. Rutkow’s narrative forces the reader to take seriously the question: Why couldn’t the Americas have become a single region that “is” and not two near irreconcilable halves that “are”? Whether you’re fascinated by the history of the Americas, or you’ve dreamed of driving around the globe, or you simply love world records and the stories behind them, The Longest Line on the Map is a riveting narrative, a lost epic of hemispheric scale.
Author : Matthew H. Edney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780226605715
“In his most ambitious work to date, [Edney] questions the very concept of ‘cartography’ to argue that this flawed ideal has hobbled the study of maps.” —Susan Schulten, author of A History of America in 100 Maps Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same. “[An] intellectually bracing and marvellously provocative account of how the mythical ideal of cartography developed over time and, in the process, distorted our understanding of maps.” —Times Higher Education “Cartography: The Ideal and Its History offers both a sharp critique of current practice and a call to reorient the field of map studies. A landmark contribution.” —Kären Wigen, coeditor of Time in Maps
Author : Courtney Sheinmel,Bianca Turetsky
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781635651669
Travel around the United States of America with twins Finn and Molly in this new chapter book series that highlights a different state in each book! Magic and mystery from sea to shining sea! We must be dreaming! That's what twins Finn and Molly Parker think when they discover a camper in their driveway--and it talks! When the RV transports them to a cattle ranch in Colorado, the twins know something magical has happened. Then the camper disappears, leaving Finn and Molly to wonder . . . how are we going to get home? Each Magic on the Map book includes a map of the US, a map of the state that Finn and Molly visit, and 10 amazing facts about that state! Where will Finn and Molly go next? Find out in the next adventure: Magic on the Map #2: The Show Must Go On
Author : Erin Meyer
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610396714
An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life. Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.
Author : Courtney Sheinmel,Bianca Turetsky
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781635657173
Travel around the United States of America with twins Finn and Molly in this new chapter book series that highlights a different state in each book! Magic and mystery from sea to shining sea! Say hello to the Big Apple! PET, the magical camper, has surprised Finn and Molly Parker with another mysterious trip--this time to New York City, where they meet kid star Hallie Hampton. Hallie needs the twins' help to win a scavenger hunt before the curtain rises on her opening night. It's loads of fun ... except that Finn and Molly are doing all the work! Each Magic on the Map book includes a map of the US, a map of the state that Finn and Molly visit, and 10 amazing facts about that state!
Author : Scot Ritchie
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554532742
Learn map skills to help you navigate and find things.
Author : Raymond H. Ramsay
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Geographical myths
ISBN : UCAL:B4980404
Includes material on El Dorado, Friesland, St. Brendan and Breasil, Seven Cities (Cibola, Quivira), the Northwest Passage, Greenland, Mayda.