World Mapping Today
Author | : Bob Parry |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 1080 |
Release | : 2011-12-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3110959445 |
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Author | : Bob Parry |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 1080 |
Release | : 2011-12-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3110959445 |
Author | : Danny Dorling |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2005-02-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1848608659 |
`Using up-to-date data, modern cartographic methods, and an approach that addresses students' everyday lives, Danny Dorling has produced an engaging introduction to the contemporary geography of the UK. It will be the focus of many lively discussions of patterns and trends’ - Ron Johnston, School of Geography, University of Bristol Using statistics from many sources in an engaging and accessible way, Human Geography of the UK is written from the perspective of a beginning undergraduate, it's objective is to define the key elements of population geography and show how they fit together. Highly visual – with maps and figures on every page – the text uses different data to describe the social landscape of the United Kingdom. Organized in ten short thematic chapters, explaining the nuts and bolts of population, including: birth, inequality; education; mobility; work; and mortality. The book concludes with a comparative analysis of UK in global context. Human Geography of the UK features practical exercises, and clear summaries in tables and specially drawn maps.
Author | : Scholastic Teaching Resources |
Publisher | : Scholastic Teaching Resources |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781338214871 |
From treasure maps to state maps, this fun and colorful map skills primer covers symbols, cardinal directions, the globe-map connection, and more.
Author | : Grolier |
Publisher | : Grolier, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780717256198 |
A eight volume reference set that provides a history of map making, describes the different types of maps, their purpose and the techniques used to make them, plus the meaning of some of the symbols and how to use them to read maps.
Author | : Robert B. Parry |
Publisher | : Butterworth-Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : James R. Akerman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Introducing readers to a wide range of maps from different time periods and a variety of cultures, this book confirms the vital roles of maps throughout history in commerce, art, literature, and national identity.
Author | : Sylvia A. Johnson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Cartography |
ISBN | : 0689818130 |
A history of mapmaking showing how maps both reflect and change people's view of the world.
Author | : Parag Khanna |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0812988566 |
From the visionary bestselling author of The Second World and How to Run the World comes a bracing and authoritative guide to a future shaped less by national borders than by global supply chains, a world in which the most connected powers—and people—will win. Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the twenty-first century. Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the world’s burgeoning megacities together. This has profound consequences for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the environment, and social identity. Connectivity, not geography, is our destiny. In Connectography, visionary strategist Parag Khanna travels from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, Pakistan to Nigeria, and across the Arctic Circle and the South China Sea to explain the rapid and unprecedented changes affecting every part of the planet. He shows how militaries are deployed to protect supply chains as much as borders, and how nations are less at war over territory than engaged in tugs-of-war over pipelines, railways, shipping lanes, and Internet cables. The new arms race is to connect to the most markets—a race China is now winning, having launched a wave of infrastructure investments to unite Eurasia around its new Silk Roads. The United States can only regain ground by fusing with its neighbors into a super-continental North American Union of shared resources and prosperity. Connectography offers a unique and hopeful vision for the future. Khanna argues that new energy discoveries and technologies have eliminated the need for resource wars; ambitious transport corridors and power grids are unscrambling Africa’s fraught colonial borders; even the Arab world is evolving a more peaceful map as it builds resource and trade routes across its war-torn landscape. At the same time, thriving hubs such as Singapore and Dubai are injecting dynamism into young and heavily populated regions, cyber-communities empower commerce across vast distances, and the world’s ballooning financial assets are being wisely invested into building an inclusive global society. Beneath the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apart is a new foundation of connectivity pulling it together. Praise for Connectography “Incredible . . . With the world rapidly changing and urbanizing, [Khanna’s] proposals might be the best way to confront a radically different future.”—The Washington Post “Clear and coherent . . . a well-researched account of how companies are weaving ever more complicated supply chains that pull the world together even as they squeeze out inefficiencies. . . . [He] has succeeded in demonstrating that the forces of globalization are winning.”—Adrian Woolridge, The Wall Street Journal “Bold . . . With an eye for vivid details, Khanna has . . . produced an engaging geopolitical travelogue.”—Foreign Affairs “For those who fear that the world is becoming too inward-looking, Connectography is a refreshing, optimistic vision.”—The Economist “Connectivity has become a basic human right, and gives everyone on the planet the opportunity to provide for their family and contribute to our shared future. Connectography charts the future of this connected world.”—Marc Andreessen, general partner, Andreessen Horowitz “Khanna’s scholarship and foresight are world-class. A must-read for the next president.”—Chuck Hagel, former U.S. secretary of defense This title has complex layouts that may take longer to download.
Author | : R.B. PARRY |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 1987 |
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Author | : Ralph E. Ehrenberg |
Publisher | : National Geographic Society |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"This book highlights more than a hundred maps from every era and every part of the world. Organized chronologically, they display an astonishing variety of cartographic styles and techniques. They range from priceless artistic masterworks like the 1507 Waldseemuller world map, the first to use the name "America, " to such practical artifacts as a Polynesian stick chart, a creation of bent twigs, seashells, and coconut palms that was nevertheless capable of guiding an outrigger canoe safely across thousands of miles of trackless and seemingly endless ocean. Some, like the portolans, or sea charts, of the Age of Discovery, were closely guarded state secrets that shaped the rise and fall of empires; others circulated widely and showed such fabled routes as the Silk Road across western Asia and the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails that opened up the American West."--Jacket.