Cartography

In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious...

This is a story that few know, but those who do are its disciples. The story, of the highest and driest of all American deserts, the Great Basin, has no finer voice than that of William Fox. Fox's book is divided into the three sections of the title. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of IndieFab awards (Regional Book) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780870138072Author David I. MacleodFormat HardbackPage Count 375Imprint Michigan State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226202471Author Tim BryarsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he chronicled in a narrative titled Il Milione, later known as The Travels of Marco Polo. While Polo's writings would go on to...

This authoritative, reader-friendly text presents core principles of good map design that apply regardless of production methods or technical approach. The book addresses the crucial questions that arise at each step of making a map: Who is the audience?...

Toward the end of the sixteenth century, and throughout the seventeenth, thinking in spatial terms assumed extraordinary urgency among Russia's ruling elites. The two great developments of this era in Russian history-the enserfment of the peasantry and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615196258Author Ian WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint ExperimentPublisher ExperimentWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 185mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226458618Author Professor and Chair Susan SchultenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago...

The period between the French Revolution and World War II was a time of tremendous growth in both mapmaking and map reading throughout Europe. There is no better place to witness this rise of popular cartography than in Alsace-Lorraine, a disputed...

Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Examining how European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World -Africa and...

More 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...

Create useful and usable map apps that your users will love. Turn your next map app project into a success with Designing Map Interfaces: Patterns for Building Effective Map Apps. Whether you're configuring an out-of-the-box solution, building an app...

Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore over...

In this history of the British surveys of India, focusing especially on the Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS) undertaken by the British East India Company, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques not only to...

The shift towards digital modes of production has fundamentally changed both cartography and graphic design. The omni-present computer, the interactive possibilities of digital media and the direct exchange of visual information through networks have...

ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING charts the ascendancy of mapping as a powerful interdisciplinary strategy, one that links people and places, data and organizations, and physical and virtual environments. Traditionally written by history's victors, maps are gaining...

In this concise introduction to the history of cartography, Norman J. W. Thrower charts the intimate links between maps and history from antiquity to the present day. A wealth of illustrations, including the oldest known map and contemporary examples...

Maps are universal forms of communication, easily understood and appreciated regardless of culture or language. This truly magisterial book introduces readers to the widest range of maps ever considered in one volume: maps from different time periods and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788461602353Author Santiago ArnalichFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Arnalich. Water and HabitatPublisher Arnalich. Water and HabitatWeight(grams)...

Almost universally, newly independent states seek to affirm their independence and identity by making the production of new maps and atlases a top priority. For formerly colonized peoples, however, this process neither begins nor ends with independence,...

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography...

A superbly illustrated guide to 64 maps from all around the world! From examples of medieval Mappa Mundi and the first atlas to Google Earth and maps of the moon, this captivating maps book is a must-have for all history and geography enthusiasts and...

A study of early Chinese maps using interdisciplinary methods. This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of maps in China, centering on those found in three tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and constitute...

Instructive, amusing, colorful pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting mountains and trees across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More recent...

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In the 'Age of Discovery', explorers brought a wealth of information about new and strange lands from across the oceans. Yet, even as the Americas appeared on new world maps, China remained a cartographic mystery. How was the puzzle of China's geography...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509888801Author William RankinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint PicadorPublisher Pan Macmillan

Few of us ponder the mechanisms behind our eyes. We simply expect them to capture the world around us. But for many people, injuries, illnesses, aging, and other health issues can hinder their ability to see and navigate their world. When it comes to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781462556069Author John KrygierFormat PaperbackPage Count 309Imprint Guilford PublicationsPublisher Guilford Publications

The Survey of India was established as Survey of Bengal in 1767, and the post of Surveyor General of India is one of the longest-standing scientific roles in the world. For more than 250 years, it has made contributions in the field of surveying and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782956182252Author Jug CerovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint PublishdrivePublisher PublishdriveWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410222183Author Charles H DeetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911529163Author Giles FoodyFormat HardbackPage Count 398Imprint Ubiquity Press LtdPublisher Ubiquity Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632393777Author Marina De LimaFormat HardbackImprint Callisto ReferencePublisher Callisto ReferenceWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479426669Author Department of DefenseFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635490596Author Tucker NichollasFormat HardbackImprint Larsen and Keller EducationPublisher Larsen and Keller EducationWeight(grams) 757g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218344948Author Aaron L OvertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Heatherstone Knowledge WorksPublisher Heatherstone Knowledge WorksWeight(grams) 68g

Cartographers have known for decades that maps are far from objective representations of the world; rather, every map reflects the agendas and intentions of its creators. Yet that understanding has had almost no effect on the way maps are viewed and used...

Reflexive Cartography addresses the adaptation of cartography, including its digital forms (GIS, WebGIS, PPGIS), to the changing needs of society, and outlines the experimental context aimed at mapping a topological space. Using rigorous scientific...