Cartography, map-making and projections Books
Fagbokforlaget GIS: The Geographic Language of Our Age
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive introduction to geographic information systems (GIS). It explains the ideas and methodology behind GIS, and discusses all aspects of the process of collection, processing, analysis, and presentation of geographic information. In this respect, the book differs from more technically oriented literature on GIS. GIS is increasingly employed as a tool to support planning and management across diverse areas of society, and so the emphasis is placed on how GIS works as a geographic language in different contexts. The book is informative, easy to follow, and aims to make GIS applicable and relevant to professional planners who organise and shape our environments. In this second edition, the content has been updated by various experts. The new chapter on the use of geographic information and GIS as a basis for military decisions, may also be very relevant for other disciplines. All of the authors have academic backgrounds, high levels of expertise, and long experience in the use of GIS at the Norwegian Military Academy and the NDEA.
£47.60
Tapir Academic Press GIS: The Geographic Language of Our Age
Book SynopsisFew textbooks offer a comprehensive overview of geographic information systems (GIS) today. The literature common in academic circles is highly technical and pays little attention to the role GIS plays, and has played, as a tool in the planning and shaping of society and the world around us. The authors of this book feel strongly about the potential inherent in the concepts and methodologies that make up a geographic information system. Similarly, the authors are aware of the limitations of the uniformly technical and structural approach that dominates discussions about GIS in many professional circles. The authors'' ambition with this book is to guide the reader on an educational, easy-to-understand journey that introduces the concepts and methodologies that lie behind today''s geographic information systems. Their goal is thus to make GIS both more familiar and relevant to a far broader section of the professional circles who plan, organise and shape our surroundings.
£42.50
Brill LAmérique Méridionale The Map That Shaped Brazil
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£135.90
United Nations Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the
Book SynopsisThe Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945 by 51 countries representing all continents, paving the way for the creation of the United Nations on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of Justice forms part of the Charter. The aim of the Charter is to save humanity from war; to reaffirm human rights and the dignity and worth of the human person; to proclaim the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small; and to promote the prosperity of all humankind. The Charter is the foundation of international peace and security.
£7.10
United Nations Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the
Book SynopsisThe Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945 by 51 countries representing all continents, paving the way for the creation of the United Nations on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of Justice forms part of the Charter. The aim of the Charter is to save humanity from war; to reaffirm human rights and the dignity and worth of the human person; to proclaim the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small; and to promote the prosperity of all humankind. The Charter is the foundation of international peace and security.
£7.10
United Nations Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the
Book SynopsisThe Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945 by 51 countries representing all continents, paving the way for the creation of the United Nations on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of Justice forms part of the Charter. The aim of the Charter is to save humanity from war; to reaffirm human rights and the dignity and worth of the human person; to proclaim the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small; and to promote the prosperity of all humankind. The Charter is the foundation of international peace and security.
£7.10
Lannoo Publishers Maps that Made History: 1000 Years of World
Book SynopsisMaps that Made History is like a 1000-year-long journey around the world; every one of the carefully selected maps featured here has influenced the course of history in some way. This beautifully illustrated book gathers 100 marvellous old maps, each with a fascinating story to tell, from a 12th century Persian world atlas to a Soviet spy map. These maps were used to resolve conflicts, situate battles, construct a road or a canal, establish important shipping routes, even as propaganda tools. All the maps are reproduced in an oversized format, while accompanying text from an experienced team of historians explains the importance of each one.
£72.00
Uitgeverij de Kunst The Universe of Amsterdam: Treasures from the
Book SynopsisThe largest maps in the world are to be found in the floor of the Citizens' Hall, in the heart of the Royal Palace Amsterdam. The three circular mosaics, each measuring over six metres in diameter, together depict the known world and the night sky. They remain to this day an iconic and beloved part of the majestic palace, which was originally built in the mid-17th century to serve as Amsterdam's town hall. At that time, the city was the world's leading cartography centre. The prominent place of the floor maps relates directly to that primacy. This book tells the story of these unique maps and of the flourishing of cartography in Amsterdam in the 17th and 18th centuries.
£18.80
Amsterdam University Press Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East
Book SynopsisA few months into the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2009/10, the promises of social media, including its ability to influence a participatory governance model, grassroots civic engagement, new social dynamics, inclusive societies and new opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs, became more evident than ever. Simultaneously, cartography received new considerable interest as it merged with social media platforms. In an attempt to rearticulate the relationship between media and mapping practices, whilst also addressing new and social media, this interdisciplinary book abides by one relatively clear point: space is a media product. The overall focus of this book is accordingly not so much on the role of new technologies and social networks as it is on how media and mapping practices expand the very notion of cultural engagement, political activism, popular protest and social participation.Trade Review"Subjects in this book fit perfectly in the field of media and mass communication. Topics ranging from the news coverage in the Middle East to the history of communication and the technology used by the political elite in Asia could be used for research. Further, political scientists and sociologists (those who are focusing on subjects related to social movements and the intersection between the citizenries and rulers) could build upon information discussed in this book. Lastly, the audience of this book could be scholars of media effects, who focus their research interest on the news coverage and political communication, especially in the Middle East. Also, this book could be used undergraduate students about international communications subjects to explore the use of new media and technology in different parts of the world."- Ahmed Alrawi, Mass Communication and Society (2021) "In vividly observed case studies, this book presents a living, lacy meshwork of cartographies stretching across the MENA region. The authors extend mapping to a wide range of practices, bureaucratic and embodied, imperial and grassroots, to generate trenchant redefinitions of both media and nation-building."- Prof. Dr. Laura U. Marks, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University Vancouver (Canada) "This edited volume addresses an original topic. Bringing together analyses on various locations in the Middle East and North Africa, it aims for an open, dynamic understanding of 'area' not as given, but as set of spaces that is constantly reimagined and produced."- Dr. Christiane Reinecke, Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig (Germany)Table of ContentsIntroduction: About Space as a Media Product (Alena Strohmaier and Angela Krewani) Part I: Cartographies Mapping Empire: Knowledge Production and Government in the Last Ottoman Century (Nour Dados) Who Maps Middle Eastern Geographies in the Digital Age? Inequalities in Web 2.0 Cartographies in Israel/Palestine (Christian Bittner and Georg Glasze) Taking the Battle to Cyberspace: Delineating Borders and Mapping Identities in Western Sahara (Frederik von Reumont) Wargaming the Middle East: The Evolution of Simulated Battlefields from Chequered Boards to Virtual Worlds and Instrumented Artificial Cities (Janina Schupp) Part II: Movements Iranian Internet Cinema, a Cinema of Embodied Protest: Imperfect, Amateur, Small, Unauthorized, Global (Hamid Naficy) From Amateur Video to Documentary: Found Footage Film and a Reconfiguring of Historical Knowledge (Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans) Cinematic Spaces of "the Arab street": Mohamed Diab's Inverted Road Movie Clash (2016) (Alena Strohmaier) Body-Space-Relation in Parkour: Street Practices and Visual Representations (Ines Braune) Mediated Narratives of Syrian Refugees: Mapping Victim-Threatener Correlations in Turkish Newspapers (Ayça Tunç Cox) Part III: Agencies Documenting Social Change and Political Unrest through Mobile Spaces and Locative Media (Angela Krewani) Reframing the "Arab Spring": On Data-Mining and the Field of Arab Internet Studies (Laila Shereen Sakr) Where is Iran? Politics between State and Nation, inside and outside the Polity (Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany) Mapping Genocide? Giving Visual Memory to Oral Yezidi Culture (Sebastian Maisel) Reconfiguring the Kurdish Nation on YouTube: Spatial Imaginations, Revolutionary Lyrics, and Colonial Knowledge (Andrea Fischer-Tahir) Index
£111.15
Amsterdam University Press Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion: Mapping Stories
Book SynopsisMotion in Maps, Maps in Motion argues that the mapping of stories, movement, and change should not be understood as an innovation of contemporary cartography, but rather as an important aspect of human cartography with a longer history than might be assumed. The authors in this collection reflect upon the main characteristics and evolutions of story and motion mapping, from the figurative news and history maps that were mass-produced in early modern Europe, through the nineteenth- and twentieth-century flow maps that appeared in various atlases, up to the digital and interactive motion and personalized maps that are created today. Rather than presenting a clear and homogeneous history from the past up until the present, this book offers a toolbox for understanding and interpreting the complex interplays and links between narrative, motion, and maps.Trade Review"Karten sind hier Oberflächen, Multimedia-Pakete und hybride Datensammlungen. Sie stehen online, werden geteilt und verlinkt, geklickt und gescrollt. Als Nutzer*innen interagieren und navigieren wir, photoshoppen und animieren, zoomen hinein und hinaus. [...] Auf gut 180 Seiten haben die Herausgeber sechs historische Fallstudien und einen abschließenden Kommentar zusammengestellt, die deutlich erkennen lassen, dass Karten längst nicht so starr sind, wie sie auf den ersten Blick scheinen."- Christian Holtorf, Hochschule Coburg, Coburg, Deutschland, Geographica Helvetica, 2021Table of Contents0. Introduction - Jörn Seemann, Zef Segal and Bram Vannieuwenhuyze 1. The New World Map and the Old: The Moving Narrative of Joan Blaeu's Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula (1648) - Djoeke van Netten 2. Entangled Maps: Topography and Narratives in Early Modern Story Maps - Bram Vannieuwenhuyze 3. Flow Mapping through the Times: The Transition from Harness to Nazi Propaganda - Zef Segal 4. The Tensions of Heterochronicity on Cartographies of Imperial Motion in Japan -Radu Leca 5. A school atlas as a history machine: The Bosatlas on-line - Ferjan Ormeling 6. Facebook Cartographies and the Mapping of Local History: Storied Maps from the American Middletown -Jörn Seemann 7. 'Change-of-State' in the History of Cartography - Mark Monmonier List of Figures Index
£121.60
Amsterdam University Press Constructing and Representing Territory in Late
Book SynopsisIn recent political and legal history, scholars seldom specify how and why they use the concept of territory. In research on state-formation processes and nation building, for instance, the term mostly designates an enclosed geographical area ruled by a central government. Inspired by ideas from political geographers, this book explores the layered and constantly changing meanings of territory in late medieval and early modern Europe before cartography and state formation turned boundaries and territories into more fixed (but still changeable) geographical entities. Its central thesis is that assessing the notion of territory in a pre-modern setting involves analysing territorial practices: practices that relate people and power to space(s). The essays in this book not only examine the construction and spatial structure of pre-modern territories but also explore their perception and representation through the use of a broad range of sources: from administrative texts to maps, from stained-glass windows to chronicles.Trade Review"The collection of essays is convincing due to its very high degree of coherence, which is manifested in the consistent discussion of Stuart Elden’s theses despite all the breadth and diversity of topics. The authors do not make the mistake of opposing the thesis of the emergence of territory as a political concept in modern times with the assertion that it already existed in pre-modern times. Rather, all essays use the thesis as a tool to question a variety of administrative, literary, and material sources in terms of how political actors in the late Middle Ages and early modern period related people, power, and space to each other." - Steffen Krieb, The Medieval Review, Dec. 2022 "The book successfully showcases both the importance of problematizing the concept of territory within history, as well as how it can be applied and researched – especially demonstrating the complexity of the historic ‘territories’ and the broadness of approaches to it by looking further than the past state-centric approaches." Arnoud Jensen, The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, Dec. 2022Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: An Introduction (Mario Damen and Kim Overlaet) Part 1 The Multiplicity of Territory 1. Were There 'Territories' in the German Lands of the Holy Roman Empire in the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries? (Duncan Hardy) 2. Beyond the State: Community and Territory-Making in Late Medieval Italy (Luca Zenobi) 3. Clerical and Ecclesiastical Ideas of Territory in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Bram van den Hoven van Genderen) 4. Marginal Might? The Role of Lordships in the Territorial Integrity of Guelders, c. 1325-c. 1575 (Jim van der Meulen) Part 2 The Construction of Territory 5. Demographic Shifts and the Politics of Taxation in the Making of Fifteenth-Century Brabant (Arend Elias Oostindier and Rombert Stapel) 6. From Knights Errant to Disloyal Soldiers? The Criminalisation of Foreign Military Service in the Late Medieval Meuse and Rhine Regions, 1250-1550 (Sander Govaerts) 7. Conquest, Cartography and the Development of Linear Frontiers during Henry VIII's Invasion of France in 1544-1546 (Neil Murphy) 8. From Multiple Residences to One Capital? Court Itinerance during the Regencies of Margaret of Austria and Mary of Hungary in the Low Countries (c. 1507-1555) (Yannick De Meulder) Part 3 The Representation of Territory 9. Heraldry and Territory: Coats of Arms and the Representation and Construction of Authority in Space (Mario Damen and Marcus Meer) 10. The Territorial Perception of the Duchy of Brabant in Historiography and Vernacular Literature in the Late Middle Ages (Bram Caers and Robert Stein) 11. Imagining Flanders: The (De)construction of a Regional Identity in Fifteenth-Century Flanders (Lisa Demets) 12. Mapping Imagined Territory: Quaresmio's Chorographia and Later Franciscan Holy Land Maps (Marianne Ritsema van Eck) Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: A Conclusion (Mario Damen and Kim Overlaet) Index
£111.15
American School of Classical Studies at Athens Mapping Mediterranean Lands
Book SynopsisThis special issue of the Gennadius Library's periodical, The New Griffon, presents six essays about the Library's map collection and its place in a larger project to bring together, in a digital repository, maps and charts of the Mediterranean held in American overseas research centers. The text is presented in both English and Greek.Table of ContentsMapping Mediterranean Lands (Maria Georgopoulou); "Mapping the Mediterranean" in the Gennadius Library (Leonora Navari); American Overseas Digital Library Medmaps Inventory Database of the ASCSA Gennadius Library Maps Program (Alexis Malliaris); Francesco Grimani at the Gennadius Library (Haris Kalligas); The Cartography of the Greek Enlightenment, 1700-1820 (George Tolias); Pre-Linnean Taxonomies, Edenic Visions, and Cosmographic Dreams: Pierre Belon's Mappings of Mount Athos (Veronica della Dora)
£16.10
Springer Verlag, Singapore Ubiquitous Mapping: Perspectives from Japan
Book SynopsisSince the last decades of the twentieth century, the circumstances surrounding map use and map making have drastically changed owing to advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs). In particular, the spread of web maps and mobile devices have altered the way people interact with maps. This book features the latest works on theoretical and practical issues of these changes by terming them “ubiquitous mapping”. In particular, the book pays attention to not only the technological basis but also multidisciplinary human–social aspects. The book covers the topics of the evaluation of ICT-based technologies for context-aware mapping, the theory and application of crowd-sourced geospatial information and collaborative mapping, and both the positive and negative effects of ubiquitous mapping on human society.Table of Contents1 On the Establishment of Theoretical Cartography and Meta-cartography and the Subsequent Development of Ubiquitous Mapping Part 1 Technological issues and applications 2 Ubiquitous Digital Storytelling with Local and Dynamic Georeferencing of Analog Maps 3 Developing and Evaluating Virtual Heiankyō AR 4 Role of Maps and Public Street Signs in Wayfinding Behavior by Foreign Visitors Part 2 Human aspects 5 Use of Smartphones as Navigation Aids and Acquisition of Spatial Knowledge 6 Intergenerational Differences in the Use of Maps: Results from an online survey 7 Development Process of OpenStreetMap Data in Japan Part 3 Social and practical issues 8 Stigmatization on the Web: Ethical consideration of geospatial stigmatiza-tion via online mapping 9 How Have Tactile Maps for the Visually Impaired Been Situated in Japan?: From the analysis of newspaper articles 10 Mapping Isolation: Distribution of Isolated Foreign Women Living in Rural Japan
£107.99
Aspha Ediciones Matanzas desde los mapas y planos
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£21.85
Victionary GET LOST!: Explore the World in Map Illustrations
Book SynopsisFrom iconic landmarks to hidden shortcuts, GET LOST! takes your eyes on a journey and allows readers to explore the lands through the eyes of Illustrators. Before GPS systems and Google Maps were invented, folded paper maps and guidebooks were always our trusty companions while on the road. While paper maps are becoming increasingly obsolete, there’s more to cartography than just bearings and scales. Illustrated maps hone the ability to bring a place to life through vivid drawings, leaving a unique impression filled with the illustrator’s own experiences. GET LOST! boasts four different jacket designs, featuring city maps of London, Paris, Los Angeles or Singapore. Orders will be fulfilled at random from evenly mixed cartons.
£28.00
