wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Women in American Cartography: An Invisible Social History
ISBN: 9781498548298 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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444,81 zł |
Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women's Geographical Education
ISBN: 9781138546981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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229,49 zł |
Women in American Cartography: An Invisible Social History
ISBN: 9781498548311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Although women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. The standard histories of cartography have focused on men. A woman’s name is rarely found. In Women in American Cartography, Judith Tyner argues that women were not deliberately erased but overlooked because of the types of maps they made and the jobs they held.Tyner looks at over fifty women exemplars in American cartography and their maps. She looks at teachers who made school atlases in the early nineteenth century; at pictorial mapmakers and book illustrators who created popular maps;...
Although women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. The standard histories of cartography have focus...
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192,20 zł |
The World of Maps: Map Reading and Interpretation for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781462516483 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Maps have power-they can instruct, make life easier, mislead, or even lie. This engaging text provides the tools to read, analyze, and use any kind of map and assess its strengths and weaknesses. Requiring no advanced math skills, the book presents basic concepts of symbolization, scale, coordinate systems, and projections. It gives students a deeper understanding of the types of maps they encounter every day, from turn-by-turn driving directions to the TV weather report. Readers also learn how to use multiple maps and imagery to analyze an area or region. 168 figures include 22 in color....
Maps have power-they can instruct, make life easier, mislead, or even lie. This engaging text provides the tools to read, analyze, and use any kind of...
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302,53 zł |
Principles of Map Design
ISBN: 9781462517121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This authoritative, reader-friendly text presents core principles of good map design that apply regardless of production methods or technical approach. The book addresses the crucial questions that arise at each step of making a map: Who is the audience? What is the purpose of the map? Where and how will it be used? Students get the knowledge needed to make sound decisions about data, typography, color, projections, scale, symbols, and nontraditional mapping and advanced visualization techniques.
Pedagogical Features: *Over 200 illustrations (also available at the companion... This authoritative, reader-friendly text presents core principles of good map design that apply regardless of production methods or technical approach...
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239,93 zł |
Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women's Geographical Education
ISBN: 9781409426356 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map samplers and even silk globes. Hundreds of British maps were made and although American examples are more rare, they form a significant collection of artefacts. Descriptions of these samplers stated that they were designed to teach needlework and geography. The focus of this book is not on stitches and techniques used in 'drafting' the maps, but rather why they were developed, how they diffused from the British Isles to the United States, and why they were made for...
From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map samplers and even si...
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704,29 zł |