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Author: John P. Snyder
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1997-12-05
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0226767477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCartographers have long grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem, mapmakers have created map projections. This work discusses and illustrates the known map projections from before 500BC to the present, with facts on their origins and use.
Author: DK
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Published: 2017-03-30
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0241521033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAtlases don't come more amazing than this! The ultimate world tour explores countries and crosses continents on its fact-finding, fun-filled journey of discovery Planet Earth is brought to life in stunning, specially commissioned 3-D maps and artworks that showcase fascinating themes, including geographical features, cities and landmarks, wildlife, and population in unprecedented detail. You'll scale the peaks of the Himalayas, trek the jungles of South America, roam the grasslands of Africa, and swim the Pacific Ocean on your incredible adventure. Visit the hottest place on Earth, spot the largest butterfly, rub shoulders with the world's biggest population, cross the busiest international border, and much, much more on your travels. This vital source of learning is perfect for children to dip into for school projects and a welcome addition to any family library. For genius geographers or anyone with a taste for adventure, this one is for you!
Author: Danny Dorling
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2005-02-17
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1848608659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK`Using up-to-date data, modern cartographic methods, and an approach that addresses students' everyday lives, Danny Dorling has produced an engaging introduction to the contemporary geography of the UK. It will be the focus of many lively discussions of patterns and trends’ - Ron Johnston, School of Geography, University of Bristol Using statistics from many sources in an engaging and accessible way, Human Geography of the UK is written from the perspective of a beginning undergraduate, it's objective is to define the key elements of population geography and show how they fit together. Highly visual – with maps and figures on every page – the text uses different data to describe the social landscape of the United Kingdom. Organized in ten short thematic chapters, explaining the nuts and bolts of population, including: birth, inequality; education; mobility; work; and mortality. The book concludes with a comparative analysis of UK in global context. Human Geography of the UK features practical exercises, and clear summaries in tables and specially drawn maps.
Author: Jane Hamilton
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0307764060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the widely acclaimed The Book of Ruth comes a harrowing, heartbreaking drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives. "It takes a writer of rare power and discipline to carry off an achievement like A Map of the World. Hamilton proves here that she is one of the best." —Newsweek The Goodwins, Howard, Alice, and their little girls, Emma and Claire, live on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Although suspiciously regarded by their neighbors as "that hippie couple" because of their well-educated, urban background, Howard and Alice believe they have found a source of emotional strength in the farm, he tending the barn while Alice works as a nurse in the local elementary school. But their peaceful life is shattered one day when a neighbor's two-year-old daughter drowns in the Goodwins' pond while under Alice's care. Tormented by the accident, Alice descends even further into darkness when she is accused of sexually abusing a student at the elementary school. Soon, Alice is arrested, incarcerated, and as good as convicted in the eyes of a suspicious community. As a child, Alice designed her own map of the world to find her bearings. Now, as an adult, she must find her way again, through a maze of lies, doubt and ill will. A vivid human drama of guilt and betrayal, A Map of the World chronicles the intricate geographies of the human heart and all its mysterious, uncharted terrain. The result is a piercing drama about family bonds and a disappearing rural American life.
Author: Frederique Ait-Touati
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2022-02-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0262046695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharting the exploration of an unknown world—our own—with a new cartography of living things rather than space available for conquest or colonization. This book charts the exploration of an unknown world: our own. Just as Renaissance travelers set out to map the terra incognito of the New World, the mapmakers of Terra Forma have set out to rediscover the world that we think we know. They do this with a new kind of cartography that maps living things rather than space emptied of life and available to be conquered or colonized. The maps in Terra Forma lead us inward, not off into the distance, moving from the horizon line of conventional cartography to the thickness of the ground, from the global to the local. Each map in Terra Forma is based on a specific territory or territories, and each tool, or model, creates a new focal point through which the territory is redrawn. The maps are “living maps,” always under construction, spaces where stories and situations unfold. They may map the Earth’s underside rather than its surface, suggest turning the layers of the Earth inside out, link the biological physiology of living inhabitants and the physiology of the land, or trace a journey oriented not by the Euclidean space of GPS but by points of life. These speculative visualizations can constitute the foundation for a new kind of atlas.
Author: Brian Sibley
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780618391103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes four posters depicting Tolkien's world of Middle-Earth with maps from The Hobbit, Beleriand, and Numenor, accompanied by a manual describing the signicance of geographical evolution in the author's works.
Author: Joan Sweeney
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2018-09-18
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13: 152477202X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaps can show you where you are anywhere in the world! A beloved bestseller that helps children discover their place on the planet, now refreshed with new art from Qin Leng. Where are you? Where is your room? Where is your home? Where is your town? This playful introduction to maps shows children how easy it is to find where they live and how they fit in to the larger world. Filled with fun and adorable new illustrations by Qin Leng, this repackage of Me on the Map will show readers how easy it is to find the places they know and love with help from a map.
Author: David A. Crowder
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-02-09
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1118051114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore the world from your computer! This interesting guide covers all aspects of Google Earth, the freely downloadable application from Google that allows users to view satellite images from all points of the globe Aimed at a diverse audience, including casual users who enjoy air shots of locales as well as geographers, real estate professionals, and GPS developers Includes valuable tips on various customizations that users can add, advice on setting up scavenger hunts, and guidance on using Google Earth to benefit a business Explains modifying general options, managing the layer and placemark systems, and tackling some of the more technical aspects, such as interfacing with GPS There are more than 400,000 registered users of Google Earth and the number is still growing
Author: Kickazz Notebooks
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-05-30
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781533526281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHollow Earth Map Notebook / Journal with lines. Lined notebook with the map of the hollow earth.Hollow world map. There is a theory that the earth is actually hollow and inhabited, with entrances at the Noth and South poles and more places like the Kentucky Mammoth caves and the pyramids of Giza. The hollow earth or Agharta has a city called Shamballa. There supposedly is also an inner sun. The famous astronomer Edmond Halley in 1692[20] put forth the idea of Earth consisting of a hollow shell about 500 mi thick, two inner concentric shells and an innermost core, about the diameters of the planets Venus, Mars, and Mercury. The inner earth - my secret diary by Admiral B. Byrd tells of his trip to the poles, he supposedly flew into the north pole entrance and met with an unknown race of people living there. Described by Jules Verne - The Journey To The Center of The Earth, Edgar Rice Burroughs - At the Earth's Core and Indiana Jonas and the hollow earth. Lined pages, glossy finish. Cool statement notebook for Hollow Earthers. By Kickazz Notebooks
Author: Alessandro Scafi
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlessandro Scafi's fascinating account looks at the perception of world geography and the place of paradise within that. Central to this discussion are the key debates, prevalent from the Renaissance, about faith and reason, theology and philosophy and paradise both as an internal and external reality.
