This text seeks to illustrate how maps tell us as much about the people and the powers which create them, as about the places they show. It presents historical and contemporary evidence of how the human urge to describe, understand and control the world is presented through the medium of mapping, together with the individual and environmental constraints of the creator of the map. Ideas from the fields of cultural geography, cartography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are integrated into the text. Each chapter includes: an explanation of key terms, text boxes highlighting selected...
This text seeks to illustrate how maps tell us as much about the people and the powers which create them, as about the places they show. It presents h...
Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all, and in the United States and United Kingdom they have reached a formidable size. In this new book from provocative critic Daniel Dorling, health inequalities are held up as the scandal of our times. While health is generally better now than it was a century ago, the gaps in life expectancy between regions, cities even neighborhoods have surpassed the worst measures recorded over the past century. Drawing on international studies, annotated lectures, newspaper articles, and interviews, Dorling provides an authoritative critique of...
Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all, and in the United States and United Kingdom they have reached a formidable size. In th...
"Fair Play"brings together a selection of Danny Dorling s highly influential writings examining inequality and social justice. Offering crucial insight into the popular feeling that the United Kingdom is in crisis a feeling made manifest in last summer s riots Dorling provides a wealth of evidence that the country is becoming more politically, socially, and economically divided despite progress in areas such as education and reduced segregation. Dorling s work covers a broad range of subjects and will be of interest to anyone concerned with where one of the world s leading democracies is...
"Fair Play"brings together a selection of Danny Dorling s highly influential writings examining inequality and social justice. Offering crucial insigh...
Anton Chekhov, masterful playwright and mirror to Russian society, awakening from one hundred years of sleep, is thrust rudely into twenty first century Britain.
Anton Chekhov, masterful playwright and mirror to Russian society, awakening from one hundred years of sleep, is thrust rudely into twenty first centu...
