The Baltic Atlas
The Baltic Atlas

Author: Jennifer Boyd

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 9783956792489

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The Baltic Atlas, a handsome in-depth reader published in conjunction with the Baltic States Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016, asks two questions. The first: What is it possible to imagine? focuses on interpretations, fictional stories, analyses and reflections on ongoing processes, and proposals for the future. The second: What is possible? is an inquiry into the methods, resources, and parameters that define space. Over 30 texts explore what lies ahead as countries that have long suffered uncertainty regarding borders break from modernist ideologies. The chapters are configured like an atlas, with writings overlaid and positioned next to each other to illustrate the Baltic states region as an intensification of networks, agendas and ideas. Relevant on a global scale, Baltic Atlas highlights an open-ended ecology of practices, offering a taste of what is to

Fish Atlas of the Celtic Sea, North Sea and Baltic Sea
Fish Atlas of the Celtic Sea, North Sea and Baltic Sea

Author: Henk J. L. Heessen

Publisher: Brill Wageningen Academic

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789086862665

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The first complete survey of all marine fish species from the North Sea, Baltic Sea and Irish Sea. European research focuses on commercially interesting marine fish. This atlas presents the current data of all Western European species in the period 1977 to 2013.--

The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare
The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare

Author: Jeremy Black

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-03-28

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780521470339

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The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: Renaissance to Revolution provides a thorough introduction to the military and naval history of the years 1492 to 1792, covering the period from the European Renaissance to the revolutionary wars of the late eighteenth century. Detailed colour maps, battle plans, and colour and black-and-white illustrations combine with an authoritative text to illuminate developments in warfare on both land and sea. Particular attention is paid to the effects of European military expansion on the rest of the world including the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean. Special feature panels are devoted to key events, to the more complicated and intriguing military confrontations, to individual tacticians and to the key topics such as weapons, battle strategies, the rise of naval warfare, and the composition of armies. The book is written by a leading historian of the early modern period.

Atlas of World History
Atlas of World History

Author: Patrick Karl O'Brien

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 019521921X

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Synthesizing exceptional cartography and impeccable scholarship, this edition traces 12,000 years of history with 450 maps and over 200,000 words of text. 200 illustrations.

The Ships Atlas 1991
The Ships Atlas 1991

Author: Lloyd's Register Foundation

Publisher: Lloyd's Register

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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The Ships Atlas was first produced in 1984 and has since become a valuable tool for the shipping industry. The books provide the exact location of ports, as well as a system of map symbols which indicate basic information like cargoes handled, dry dock availability and size. The comprehensive port index lists data such as the maximum size of vessel handled, access to fuel and medical facilities and the nearest airport. The books also contain a selection of regional and global maps, including: World Political Time Zones MARPOL 7L3/78 Sensitivity Sea Areas Maritime Piracy Incidents Global Distributions of Major Diseases

Maps and Politics
Maps and Politics

Author: Jeremy Black

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2000-09-01

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1861898371

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?We all rely on the apparent accuracy and objectivity of maps, but often do not see the very process of mapping as political. Are the power and purpose of maps inherently political? Maps and Politics addresses this important question and seeks to emphasize that the apparent ‘objectivity’ of the map-making and map-using process cannot be divorced from aspects of the politics of representation. Maps have played, and continue to play, a major role in both international and domestic politics. They show how visual geographical representations can be made to reflect and advance political agendas in powerful ways. The major developments in this field over the last century are responses both to cartographic progression and to a greater emphasis on graphic imagery in societies affected by politicization, democratization, and consumer and cultural shifts. Jeremy Black asks whether bias-free cartography is possible and demonstrates that maps are not straightforward visual texts, but contain political and politicizing subtexts that need to be read with care.

Atlas of Finance
Atlas of Finance

Author: Dariusz Wojcik

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2024-09-10

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0300253052

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A unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today's interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. Finance is one of the most globalized and networked of human activities, and one of the most important social technologies ever invented. This volume, the first visually based book dedicated to finance, uses graphics and maps to bring the complex and abstract world of finance down to earth, showing how geography is fundamental for understanding finance, and vice versa. It illuminates the people--including Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes--who have shaped our thinking about global finance; brings to life the ways that place-specific histories, laws, regulations, and institutions influence finance; shows how finance relates to innovation, globalization, and environmental change; and details how finance plays a key part in drawing the landscape of uneven development, inequality, and instability. The Atlas of Finance, with word and image, will change the way you view both your money and your world.