Seeing Through Maps
Title | Seeing Through Maps PDF eBook |
Author | Denis Wood |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Cartography |
ISBN | 9781904456551 |
This book explains the principles behind the Peters' Projection Map and a dozen other unique maps and provocative images. Features over 70 maps and illustrations, including a redrawing of Mercator's original world map (unavailable since the 1950s), Minard's map of Napoleon's march on Moscow and routes of African Slave Trading.
Seeing Through Maps
Title | Seeing Through Maps PDF eBook |
Author | Ward L. Kaiser |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN |
Synopsis: Maps become a means of seeing the world from many perspectives in this appealing guide, which is aimed at training readers to look at images with a critical eye. The authors (a social scientist and a pastor/community organizer) challenge readers to stretch their intellectual boundaries while they wrap their minds around demonstrations of the many ways of making maps and the truth that no way is "the right one." A final chapter provides a guide to using map projections in human resource development and adult education. It's a smart book but not a beautiful one-many of the illustrations went muddy in the transfer from color to b&w, and seven unlovely pages of the publisher's advertising precede the index. Wide format: 11x8.5.
Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art
Title | Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Reddleman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 178 |
Release | 2017-11-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1351777939 |
In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "cartographic abstraction" – a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction. Reddleman closely engages with selected artworks (by contemporary artists such as Joyce Kozloff, Layla Curtis, and Bill Fontana) and theories in each chapter. Reconfiguring the Foucauldian underpinning of critical cartography towards a materialist theory of abstraction, cartographic viewpoints are theorised as concrete abstractions. This research is positioned at the intersection of art theory, critical cartography and materialist philosophy.
There's a Map on My Lap!
Title | There's a Map on My Lap! PDF eBook |
Author | Tish Rabe |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | 48 |
Release | 2019-06-18 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0593126769 |
The Cat in the Hat introduces beginning readers to maps–the different kinds (city, state, world, topographic, temperature, terrain, etc.); their formats (flat, globe, atlas, puzzle); the tools we use to read them (symbols, scales, grids, compasses); and funny facts about the places they show us (“Michigan looks like a scarf and a mitten! Louisiana looks like a chair you can sit in!”).
Maps
Title | Maps PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey Weiss |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 72 |
Release | 1995-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780395720288 |
Discusses various aspects of maps including direction, distance, symbols, latitude, and longitude, how maps are made, special purpose maps, and charts.
Maps as Mediated Seeing
Title | Maps as Mediated Seeing PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Fremlin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 141 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Cartography |
ISBN |
Seeing Through Maps
Title | Seeing Through Maps PDF eBook |
Author | Denis Wood |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Cartography |
ISBN | 9781931057202 |