Me on the Map

Me on the Map
Author: Joan Sweeney
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 152477202X

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Maps can show you where you are anywhere in the world! A beloved bestseller that helps children discover their place on the planet, now refreshed with new art from Qin Leng. Where are you? Where is your room? Where is your home? Where is your town? This playful introduction to maps shows children how easy it is to find where they live and how they fit in to the larger world. Filled with fun and adorable new illustrations by Qin Leng, this repackage of Me on the Map will show readers how easy it is to find the places they know and love with help from a map.

On the Map

On the Map
Author: Simon Garfield
Publisher: Avery
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1592407803

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Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.

There's a Map on My Lap!

There's a Map on My Lap!
Author: Tish Rabe
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0593126769

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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!”).

On the Map

On the Map
Author: Simon Garfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781846685101

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Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history.

Blank Spots on the Map

Blank Spots on the Map
Author: Trevor Paglen
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2009-02-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1101011491

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Welcome to a top-level clearance world that doesn't exist...Now with updated material for the paperback edition. This is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a road trip through a shadow nation of state secrets, clandestine military bases, black sites, hidden laboratories, and top-secret agencies that make up what insiders call the "black world." Here, geographer and provocateur Trevor Paglen knocks on the doors of CIA prisons, stakes out a covert air base in Nevada from a mountaintop 30 miles away, dissects the Defense Department's multibillion dollar "black" budget, and interviews those who live on the edges of these blank spots. Whether Paglen reports from a hotel room in Vegas, a secret prison in Kabul, or a trailer in Shoshone Indian territory, he is impassioned, rigorous, relentless-and delivers eye-opening details.

After the Map

After the Map
Author: William Rankin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 022633953X

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For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a “map-minded age,” where increasingly state-of-the-art maps would become everyday tools. By the century’s end, however, there had been decisive shift in mapping practices, as the dominant methods of land surveying and print publication were increasingly displaced by electronic navigation systems. In After the Map, William Rankin argues that although this shift did not render traditional maps obsolete, it did radically change our experience of geographic knowledge, from the God’s-eye view of the map to the embedded subjectivity of GPS. Likewise, older concerns with geographic truth and objectivity have been upstaged by a new emphasis on simplicity, reliability, and convenience. After the Map shows how this change in geographic perspective is ultimately a transformation of the nature of territory, both social and political.

Just My Type

Just My Type
Author: Simon Garfield
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2010-10-21
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1847652921

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Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.

Map As Art, The: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography

Map As Art, The: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
Author: Katharine A. Harmon
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2009-09-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781568987620

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This work is filled with 350 works by well-known artists such as Joyce Kozloff, Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, and Olafer Eliasson. All are wayfinders, charting the highways and byways of the spirit and the topography of the soul.

Not on the Map

Not on the Map
Author: Michael J. Seth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781793632548

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This book examines the unusual circumstances of de facto states, countries which are not considered to be sovereign nations by the international community.

The Map and the Territory

The Map and the Territory
Author: M. Munro
Publisher: punctum books
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1953035787

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"I didn't even know that was a question I could ask." That remark from a student in an introductory philosophy course points to the primary body of knowledge philosophy produces: a detailed record of what we do not know. When we come to view a philosophical question as well-formed and worthwhile, it is a way of providing as specific a description as we can of something we do not know. The creation or discovery of such questions is like noting a landmark in a territory we're exploring. When we identify reasonable, if conflicting, answers to this question, we are noting routes to and away from that landmark. And since proposed answers to philosophical questions often contain implied answers to other philosophical questions, those routes connect different landmarks. The result is a kind of map: a map of the unknown. Yet when it comes to the unknown, and all the more so to its cartography, might it not make sense to take our orientation from Borges: What's in question here, with respect to philosophical questions, is an incipient, unlocalizable threshold-a terrain neither subjective, nor entirely objective, one neither of representation, nor finally of simple immediacy-there where the map perceptibly fails to diverge from the territory. Amid Inclemencies of weather and fringed, as per Borges, with ruin and singular figures-with Animals and Beggars-what's enclosed is an attempt to chart the contours of this curious immanence.