Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Recent Geographical Literature, Maps and Photographs
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Recent Geographical Literature, Maps, and Photographs Added to the Society's Collection
Author: Recent Geographical Literature, Maps and Photographs
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
New Geographical Literature and Maps
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Mapping the World
Author: Caroline LaffonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781554077816
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An illustrated history of cartogrphy and what it reveals about the world around us.
Paddle-to-the-Sea
Author: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395150825
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A small canoe carved by an Indian boy makes a journey from Lake Superior all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.
Maps and Air Photographs
Author: Gordon Cawood DickinsonPublisher: Halsted Press
ISBN: 9780470266410
Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Close Up at a Distance
Author: Laura KurganPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1935408283
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Maps poised at the intersection of art, architecture, activism, and geography trace a profound shift in our understanding and experience of space. The maps in this book are drawn with satellites, assembled with pixels radioed from outer space, and constructed from statistics; they record situations of intense conflict and express fundamental transformations in our ways of seeing and of experiencing space. These maps are built with Global Positioning Systems (GPS), remote sensing satellites, or Geographic Information Systems (GIS): digital spatial hardware and software designed for such military and governmental uses as reconnaissance, secrecy, monitoring, ballistics, the census, and national security. Rather than shying away from the politics and complexities of their intended uses, in Close Up at a Distance Laura Kurgan attempts to illuminate them. Poised at the intersection of art, architecture, activism, and geography, her analysis uncovers the implicit biases of the new views, the means of recording information they present, and the new spaces they have opened up. Her presentation of these maps reclaims, repurposes, and discovers new and even inadvertent uses for them, including documentary, memorial, preservation, interpretation, political, or simply aesthetic. GPS has been available to both civilians and the military since 1991; the World Wide Web democratized the distribution of data in 1992; Google Earth has captured global bird's-eye views since 2005. Technology has brought about a revolutionary shift in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The traces of interactions, both physical and virtual, charted by the maps in Close Up at a Distance define this shift.
New geographical literature and maps
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Picture Map Geography of the United States
Author: Vernon QuinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description