Maps and atlases are created as soon as information on our geography has been clarified. They are used to find directions or to get insight into spatial relations. They are produced and used both on paper as well as on-screen. The Web is the new medium for spreading and using maps. This book explains the benefits of this medium from the perspective of the user, and the map provider. Opportunities and pitfalls are illustrated by a set of case-studies. A website accompanies the book and provides a dynamic environment for demonstrating many of the principles set out in the text, including access...

California Split: Racing through the Sixties is a memoir of living through the turbulent sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area with detours to the Peace Corps, the Army, New York, and Europe. Mr. Brown was on the scene when it was all going down-the anti-Vietnam war protests, the race riots, acid rock, the sexual revolution and the hippie invasion of the Haight Ashbury. All in all, a panoramic and satisfying read of the 1960s as witnessed by one young man coming of age. pp 500