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Adventures in Academic Cartography: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781523254316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Adventures in Academic Cartography is a personal memoir offering insight to the diverse impacts of computer technology on the world of cartography and mapping. It surveys the author's half century of work as a scholar, educator, and editor as well as his commitment to demystifying for general readers the power of maps as a tool for understanding and persuasion. An overview of his undergraduate and graduate training and early university employment precedes engaging accounts of his experiences as a classroom teacher; academic researcher, book author, journal editor, consultant, and editor of...
Adventures in Academic Cartography is a personal memoir offering insight to the diverse impacts of computer technology on the world of cartography and...
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Clock & Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address
ISBN: 9781609388218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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82,34 |
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Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy
ISBN: 9780226534282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic and paper formats, maps offer revealing insights into our movements and activities, even our likes and dislikes. In Spying with Maps, the "mapmatician" Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of fields such as military intelligence, law enforcement, market research, and traffic engineering. Could these diverse forms of geographic monitoring, he asks, lead to...
Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic a...
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107,38 |
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Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy
ISBN: 9780226534275 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic and paper formats, maps offer revealing insights into our movements and activities, even our likes and dislikes. In Spying with Maps, the maptician Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of field such as military intelligence. law enforcement, market research and traffic engineering. Could these diverse forms of geographic monitoring, he asks, lead to grave consequences...
Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic and pape...
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224,99 |
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Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780226534169 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Writers know only too well how long it can take and how awkward it can be to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or explanation clearly, succinctly, and effectively.
In his acclaimed "How to Lie with Maps, " Mark Monmonier showed how maps can distort facts. In "Mapping it Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences, " he shows authors and scholars how they can use expository cartography the visual, two-dimensional organization of information... Writers know only too well how long it can take and how awkward it can be to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might no...
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388,63 |
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Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
ISBN: 9780226534237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Weather maps have made our atmosphere visible, understandable, and at least moderately predictable. In Air Apparent Mark Monmonier traces debates among scientists eager to unravel the enigma of storms and global change, explains strategies for mapping the upper atmosphere and forecasting disaster, and discusses efforts to detect and control air pollution. Fascinating in its scope and detail, Air Apparent makes us take a second look at the weather map, an image that has been, and continues to be, central to our daily lives.
Weather maps have made our atmosphere visible, understandable, and at least moderately predictable. In Air Apparent Mark Monmonier traces debat...
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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
ISBN: 9780226534664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features to have salacious, bawdy, and even derogatory names. In the age before political correctness, mapmakers readily accepted any local preference for place names, prizing accurate representation over standards of decorum. But later, when sanctions prohibited local use of racially, ethnically, and scatalogically offensive toponyms, names like Jap Valley, California, were erased from the national and cultural map forever.
From Squaw Tit... Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features...
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Eins Zu Einer Million: Die Tricks Und Lügen Der Kartographen
ISBN: 9783764353919 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1996 / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America
ISBN: 9780226534190 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley," near a nuclear facility or in a neighborhood poorly lit at night, we all co-exist uneasily with natural and man-made hazards. As Mark Monmonier shows in this entertaining and immensely informative book, maps can tell us a lot about where we can anticipate certain hazards, but they can also be dangerously misleading.
California, for example, takes earthquakes seriously, with a comprehensive program of seismic mapping, whereas Washington has been comparatively... No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley," near a nuclear faci...
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168,75 |
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No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control
ISBN: 9780226534671 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades as governments seek regulate activities as diverse as hiking, building a residence, opening a store, locating a chemical plant, or painting your house anything but regulation colors. It is this aspect of mapping its power to prohibit that... Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishi... |
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The History of Cartography, Volume 6: Cartography in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780226534695 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 1728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation, dissemination, and use of maps. Volume 6, Cartography in the Twentieth Century, continues this tradition with a groundbreaking survey of the century just ended and a new full-color, encyclopedic format.
The twentieth century is a pivotal period in map history. The transition from paper to digital formats led to previously unimaginable dynamic and interactive maps. Geographic information... For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from ...
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Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History
ISBN: 9783319845517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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112,68 |
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Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780226534176 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Writers know only too well how long it can take-and how awkward it can be-to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or explanation clearly, succinctly, and effectively. In his acclaimed How to Lie with Maps, Mark Monmonier showed how maps can distort facts. In Mapping it Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences, he shows authors and scholars how they can use expository cartography-the visual, two-dimensional organization of...
Writers know only too well how long it can take-and how awkward it can be-to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might no...
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97,16 |
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No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control
ISBN: 9780226534688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades as governments seek regulate activities as diverse as hiking, building a residence, opening a store, locating a chemical plant, or painting your house anything but regulation colors. It is this aspect of mapping its power to prohibit that... Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishi... |
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92,04 |
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Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows
ISBN: 9780815610045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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94,84 |
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How to Lie with Maps
ISBN: 9780226435923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Fully updated for the digital age, this new edition of How to Lie with Maps examines the myriad ways that technology offers new opportunities for cartographic mischief, deception, and propaganda.
Fully updated for the digital age, this new edition of How to Lie with Maps examines the myriad ways that technology offers new opportunities for cart...
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