The Self-Made Map
Author: Tom Conley
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781452900582
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In the Memory of the Map
Author: Christopher Norment
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1609380967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout his life, maps have been a source of imagination and wonder for Christopher Norment. Mesmerized by them since the age of eight or nine, he found himself courted and seduced by maps, which served functional and allegorical roles in showing him worlds that he might come to know and helping him understand worlds that he had already explored. Maps may have been the stuff of his dreams, but they sometimes drew him away from places where he should have remained firmly rooted. In the Memory of the Map explores the complex relationship among maps, memory, and experience—what might be called a “cartographical psychology” or “cartographical history.” Interweaving a personal narrative structured around a variety of maps, with stories about maps as told by scholars, poets, and fiction writers, this book provides a dazzlingly rich personal and intellectual account of what many of us take for granted. A dialog between desire and the maps of his life, an exploration of the pleasures, utilitarian purposes, benefits, and character of maps, this rich and powerful personal narrative is the matrix in which Norment embeds an exploration of how maps function in all our lives. Page by page, readers will confront the aesthetics, mystery, function, power, and shortcomings of maps, causing them to reconsider the role that maps play in their lives.
Self-Organizing Maps
Author: Teuvo Kohonen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 3642976107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book we have at hand is the fourth monograph I wrote for Springer Verlag. The previous one named "Self-Organization and Associative Mem ory" (Springer Series in Information Sciences, Volume 8) came out in 1984. Since then the self-organizing neural-network algorithms called SOM and LVQ have become very popular, as can be seen from the many works re viewed in Chap. 9. The new results obtained in the past ten years or so have warranted a new monograph. Over these years I have also answered lots of questions; they have influenced the contents of the present book. I hope it would be of some interest and help to the readers if I now first very briefly describe the various phases that led to my present SOM research, and the reasons underlying each new step. I became interested in neural networks around 1960, but could not in terrupt my graduate studies in physics. After I was appointed Professor of Electronics in 1965, it still took some years to organize teaching at the uni versity. In 1968 - 69 I was on leave at the University of Washington, and D. Gabor had just published his convolution-correlation model of autoasso ciative memory. I noticed immediately that there was something not quite right about it: the capacity was very poor and the inherent noise and crosstalk were intolerable. In 1970 I therefore sugge~ted the auto associative correlation matrix memory model, at the same time as J.A. Anderson and K. Nakano.
Millionaire Road Maps: 5 Self-Made Millionaires Tell Their Stories
Author: Matthew R. Kratter
Publisher: Millionaire Road Maps
Published: 2019-01-24
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9781794543331
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Become a millionaire by learning from self-made millionaires."Tired of living from paycheck to paycheck?Ready to finally start building wealth?Your road map is here.Discover 5 different paths that ordinary people took to become self-made millionaires.These are not trust-fund babies.They are just regular folks like you and me.The only difference is that every day they took another step down the path of wealth.Daily action.And the right kind of action.That's all it takes to become a self-made millionaire.In this book, you will learn about: The secrets that self-made millionaires used to grow their wealth The small things you can do that make a big difference The best morning routines and daily habits for success The books that had the biggest impact on these millionaires How to make money by investing in what you know How to create passive income and escape the trap of being an employee How to compound wealth like a savvy investor The one thing you should never do with your hard-earned cash (don't start investing until you read this) And much, much more Whether you are a college graduate, or high school dropout. . .Whether you are a small business owner, or an employee. . .Even if you know nothing at all about business or investing. . .This book will teach you how to build a better life for you and your family.Imagine how your life would change if you knew that you were on the proven path to wealth.Amazon best-selling author and retired hedge fund manager, Matthew Kratter has interviewed 5 of the most interesting self-made millionaires that you will ever meet.Are you ready to start down the path of becoming a self-made millionaire?Then scroll to the top of this page and click BUY NOW.
Map Men
Author: Steven Seegel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-06-29
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 022643852X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished. In Map Men, Steven Seegel takes us through some of these historical dramas with a detailed look at the maps that made and unmade the world of East Central Europe through a long continuum of world war and revolution. As a collective biography of five prominent geographers between 1870 and 1950—Albrecht Penck, Eugeniusz Romer, Stepan Rudnyts’kyi, Isaiah Bowman, and Count Pál Teleki—Map Men reexamines the deep emotions, textures of friendship, and multigenerational sagas behind these influential maps. Taking us deep into cartographical archives, Seegel re-creates the public and private worlds of these five mapmakers, who interacted with and influenced one another even as they played key roles in defining and redefining borders, territories, nations—and, ultimately, the interconnection of the world through two world wars. Throughout, he examines the transnational nature of these processes and addresses weighty questions about the causes and consequences of the world wars, the rise of Nazism and Stalinism, and the reasons East Central Europe became the fault line of these world-changing developments. At a time when East Central Europe has surged back into geopolitical consciousness, Map Men offers a timely and important look at the historical origins of how the region was defined—and the key people who helped define it.
Mapping with Words
Author: Sarah Wylie Krotz
Publisher:
Published: 2019-03-27
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1442622261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMapping with Words re-conceptualizes early Canadian settler writing as literary cartography. Examining the multitude of ways in which writers expanded the work of mapmakers, it offers fresh readings of both familiar and obscure texts from the nineteenth century.
The Self-Made Program Leader
Author: Steve Tkalcevich
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2015-08-12
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1482233142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlmost all leadership books assume that the leader has authority over their team members. The challenge of project management in a matrix-structured environment is that this is not always the case. A whole new plan of attack has to be executed for the project manager to deliver in an organization where they do not have formal authority. This book t
Mapping Early Modern Japan
Author: Marcia Yonemoto
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2003-04-21
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 052092830X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes—including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias—to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of space by looking at the roles played by writers, artists, commercial publishers, and the Shogunal government in helping to fashion a new awareness of space and place in this period. Her impressively researched study shows how spatial and geographical knowledge confined to elites in early Japan became more generalized, flexible, and widespread in the Tokugawa period. In the broadest sense, her book grasps the elusive processes through which people came to name, to know, and to interpret their worlds in narrative and visual forms.
Representing Place
Author: Edward S. Casey
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780816637157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"You are here, a map declares, but of course you are not, any more than you truly occupy the vantage point into which a landscape painting puts you. How maps and paintings figure and reconfigure space--as well as our place in it--is the subject of Edward S. Casey's study, an exploration of how we portray the world and its many places. Casey's discussion ranges widely from Northern Sung landscape painting to nineteenth-century American and British landscape painting and photography, from prehistoric petroglyphs and medieval portolan charts to seventeenth-century Dutch cartography and land survey maps of the American frontier. From these culturally and historically diverse forays a theory of representation emerges. Casey proposes that the representation of place in visual works be judged in terms not of resemblance, but of reconnecting with an earth and world that are not the mere content of mind or language--a reconnection that calls for the embodiment and implacement of the human subject." -- Book jacket.
Rethinking the Power of Maps
Author: Denis Wood
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2010-04-16
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1593853661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the modern state and how maps continue to embody and project the interests of their creators. He demystifies the hidden assumptions of map making and explores the promises and limitations of diverse counter-mapping practices today. Thought-provoking illustrations include U.S. Geological Survey maps; electoral and transportation maps; and numerous examples of critical cartography, participatory GIS, and map art. The book will be important reading for geographers and others interested in maps and their political uses. It will also serve as a supplemental text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses such as Cartography, GIS, Geographic Thought, and History of Geography.
