Author: Elisée Reclus
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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The Earth and Its Inhabitants
Author: Elisée Reclus
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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The John Crerar
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Classified Catalogue
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1500
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1500
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Finding List of Books and Periodicals in the Central Library ...: Philosophy; religion; language; literature; essays and miscellaneous works [etc.] 1894
Author: Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Languages : en
Pages : 462
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When Maps Become the World
Author: Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022667472X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our representations seduce and persuade; they build and destroy. They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world. This book is about the promises and perils of map thinking. Maps are purpose-driven abstractions, discarding detail to highlight only particular features of a territory. By preserving certain features at the expense of others, they can be used to reinforce a privileged position. When Maps Become the World shows us how the scientific theories, models, and concepts we use to intervene in the world function as maps, and explores the consequences of this, both good and bad. We increasingly understand the world around us in terms of models, to the extent that we often take the models for reality. Winther explains how in time, our historical representations in science, in cartography, and in our stories about ourselves replace individual memories and become dominant social narratives—they become reality, and they can remake the world.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022667472X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our representations seduce and persuade; they build and destroy. They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world. This book is about the promises and perils of map thinking. Maps are purpose-driven abstractions, discarding detail to highlight only particular features of a territory. By preserving certain features at the expense of others, they can be used to reinforce a privileged position. When Maps Become the World shows us how the scientific theories, models, and concepts we use to intervene in the world function as maps, and explores the consequences of this, both good and bad. We increasingly understand the world around us in terms of models, to the extent that we often take the models for reality. Winther explains how in time, our historical representations in science, in cartography, and in our stories about ourselves replace individual memories and become dominant social narratives—they become reality, and they can remake the world.
Ecological Regions of North America
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Category : Biogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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This volume represents a first attempt at holistically classifying and mapping ecological regions across all three countries of the North American continent. A common analytical methodology is used to examine North American ecology at multiple scales, from large continental ecosystems to subdivisions of these that correlate more detailed physical and biological settings with human activities on two levels of successively smaller units. The volume begins with an overview of North America from an ecological perspective, concepts of ecological regionalization. This is followed by descriptions of the 15 broad ecological regions, including information on physical and biological setting and human activities. The final section presents case studies in applications of the ecological characterization methodology to environmental issues. The appendix includes a list of common and scientific names of selected species characteristic of the ecological regions.
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Category : Biogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
This volume represents a first attempt at holistically classifying and mapping ecological regions across all three countries of the North American continent. A common analytical methodology is used to examine North American ecology at multiple scales, from large continental ecosystems to subdivisions of these that correlate more detailed physical and biological settings with human activities on two levels of successively smaller units. The volume begins with an overview of North America from an ecological perspective, concepts of ecological regionalization. This is followed by descriptions of the 15 broad ecological regions, including information on physical and biological setting and human activities. The final section presents case studies in applications of the ecological characterization methodology to environmental issues. The appendix includes a list of common and scientific names of selected species characteristic of the ecological regions.
A List of Books in the Reading Room January 1900 ...
Author: John Crerar Library
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1895-1902. In Three Volumes
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
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Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1895-1902
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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