Author: Manfred Reckziegel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783623000312
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Haack Pocket Atlas of the World
Author: Manfred Reckziegel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783623000312
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783623000312
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Maps and Atlases
Author: Gale Group
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780783892122
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780783892122
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
International Maps and Atlases in Print
Author: Kenneth L. Winch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
How Maps Change Things
Author: Ward L. Kaiser
Publisher: New Internationalist Public
ISBN: 1876998083
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
March 5th 2012 marks the 500th birthday of map-maker Gerhard Kremer, aka Mercator. There are many wishing the Flemish map maker well! From blogs to books the man who has shaped for many our world view is celebrated as often as vilified. Four centuries later, Arno Peters created what many see as a fair view of our world, but others see as a distorted or misleading map! Across the centuries it is maps that link these men and their impact on current human activity. This landmark book - How Maps Change Things: A Conversation About the Maps We Choose and the World We Want - looks at maps by these two men and others. This examination goes beyond maps as nouns, as tactile objects that show locations and distances. "Maps are verbs ... don't be fooled" we are told at the outset of How Maps Change Things. The book examines maps as change agents, reflecting intentions and setting agendas, stating who has what, and who has not. What are the messages sent by maps? What were Mercator, Peters and other map makers setting out to do with each of their creations? Ward Kaiser, author, publisher, pastor, and historian was instrumental in bringing the Peters Equal Area Map to North America. He has been leading the discussion of what maps mean and the power of maps in framing human activities. In How Maps Change Things Kaiser takes a passionate view of how maps illustrate and influence the significant paths humans pursue. Rather than looking for definitive answers, Kaiser focuses on asking thought-provoking questions. "What does our world, through the view of maps, really look like and what does the perspective (or frame of reference or bias) of the viewer mean to the map and its view? Are all maps simply propaganda for the hidden agenda of the map-maker? What is the world we get and what is the world we want ... and who cares and why?" Kaiser has stimulated an impressive and important conversation.
Publisher: New Internationalist Public
ISBN: 1876998083
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
March 5th 2012 marks the 500th birthday of map-maker Gerhard Kremer, aka Mercator. There are many wishing the Flemish map maker well! From blogs to books the man who has shaped for many our world view is celebrated as often as vilified. Four centuries later, Arno Peters created what many see as a fair view of our world, but others see as a distorted or misleading map! Across the centuries it is maps that link these men and their impact on current human activity. This landmark book - How Maps Change Things: A Conversation About the Maps We Choose and the World We Want - looks at maps by these two men and others. This examination goes beyond maps as nouns, as tactile objects that show locations and distances. "Maps are verbs ... don't be fooled" we are told at the outset of How Maps Change Things. The book examines maps as change agents, reflecting intentions and setting agendas, stating who has what, and who has not. What are the messages sent by maps? What were Mercator, Peters and other map makers setting out to do with each of their creations? Ward Kaiser, author, publisher, pastor, and historian was instrumental in bringing the Peters Equal Area Map to North America. He has been leading the discussion of what maps mean and the power of maps in framing human activities. In How Maps Change Things Kaiser takes a passionate view of how maps illustrate and influence the significant paths humans pursue. Rather than looking for definitive answers, Kaiser focuses on asking thought-provoking questions. "What does our world, through the view of maps, really look like and what does the perspective (or frame of reference or bias) of the viewer mean to the map and its view? Are all maps simply propaganda for the hidden agenda of the map-maker? What is the world we get and what is the world we want ... and who cares and why?" Kaiser has stimulated an impressive and important conversation.
National Union Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Hoover's Vision
Author: Gary Hoover
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Discusses strategies for entrepreneurial success and ways to come up with new ideas for business.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Discusses strategies for entrepreneurial success and ways to come up with new ideas for business.
DDR Revue
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany (East)
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany (East)
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress: Titles 5325-7623
Author: Library of Congress. Map Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The Geographical Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Petermann's Maps
Author: Jan Smits
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004475281
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
Petermann's Maps focuses on the maps published in the famous German journal Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen. This journal, which still exists today, greatly influenced the development of scientific geography and cartography in Germany in the nineteenth century. Numerous articles have been published by recognized experts in this field, along with a multitude of illustrations, showing maps, prints and photographs. The journal developed into an important publication, setting the standard in the history of the great expeditions and discoveries, and European colonial matters. Petermann's Maps contains a bibliography of over 3400 maps, the complete series of maps published in Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen between the year of its foundation, 1855, to the end of the Second World War. Besides the bibliography 160 of the most attractive geographical and thematic coloured maps are included in Petermann's Maps. These maps can also be viewed on the CD-ROM accompanying the book.An extensive introduction precedes the cartobibliography proper, placing Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen in its historical context. The introduction describes the history of geography from the eighteenth century onwards, outlining the development of the study of the science of cartography in Germany. The major role the founder of the journal, Augustus Petermann (1822-1878), and the publishing house Justus Perthes in Gotha played in these developments is discussed at length.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004475281
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
Petermann's Maps focuses on the maps published in the famous German journal Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen. This journal, which still exists today, greatly influenced the development of scientific geography and cartography in Germany in the nineteenth century. Numerous articles have been published by recognized experts in this field, along with a multitude of illustrations, showing maps, prints and photographs. The journal developed into an important publication, setting the standard in the history of the great expeditions and discoveries, and European colonial matters. Petermann's Maps contains a bibliography of over 3400 maps, the complete series of maps published in Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen between the year of its foundation, 1855, to the end of the Second World War. Besides the bibliography 160 of the most attractive geographical and thematic coloured maps are included in Petermann's Maps. These maps can also be viewed on the CD-ROM accompanying the book.An extensive introduction precedes the cartobibliography proper, placing Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen in its historical context. The introduction describes the history of geography from the eighteenth century onwards, outlining the development of the study of the science of cartography in Germany. The major role the founder of the journal, Augustus Petermann (1822-1878), and the publishing house Justus Perthes in Gotha played in these developments is discussed at length.