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1) Maps today
Publisher
Gareth Steven Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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English
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In Maps of the Imagination, Peter Turchi posits the idea that maps help people understand where they are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain human realities. The author explores how writers and cartographers use many of the same devices for plotting and executing their work, making crucial decisions about what to include and what to leave out, in order to get from here to there, without...
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Español
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Amb els mapes, a més de ciència, es fa política. El 1939 els catalans algueresos, i altres pobles d'Itàlia, foren eliminats d'un mapa etnogràfic de tot Europa elaborat a Milà pel Touring Club Italiano. Les minories en qüestió hi havien figurat des de 1927, però finalment els mussolinians van imposar sobre aquella obra els postulats feixistes més extrems. Aquest llibre, bastit sobre mapes «de pobles i llengües» dels segles XIX i XX, es...
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English
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An instant classic when first published in 1991, How to Lie with Maps revealed how the choices mapmakers make-consciously or unconsciously-mean that every map inevitably presents only one of many possible stories about the places it depicts. The principles Mark Monmonier outlined back then remain true today, despite significant technological changes in the making and use of maps. The introduction and spread of digital maps and mapping software, however,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 30 min.)
Language
English
Description
Based on the popular and provocative book, Seeing Through Maps, this program provides a fascinating 30-minute exploration into the minds of twelve mapmakers and how their unique backgrounds, philosophies, values, and politics led each to select a particular mathematical formula to create their maps. Learn about the impact those world images have had on us, consciously and unconsciously. An invaluable resource for classes dealing with issues of cultural...
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Español
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Félix Azara realizó el Diario de reconocimiento de guardias y fortines que guarnecían la línea de frontera de Buenos Aires a pedido de Melo de Portugal, con quien había mantenido una buena relación durante su larga estancia en el Paraguay cuando éste era por entonces su gobernador.
La máxima autoridad del virreinato del Río de la Plata, por medio del oficio del 29 de Febrero de 1796, exponía los motivos de la misión y las plazas que componían...
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Español
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Félix de Azara es considerado generalmente como geógrafo y naturalista. Sin embargo, se ha hecho menos énfasis en su labor como etnógrafo sagaz. Azara recorrió el Chaco y convivió con los pueblos aborígenes de la región. Sus notas y observaciones reflejan el alcance de sus conocimientos sobre el Chaco y su comprensión sobre los hábitos y las tradiciones de sus habitantes.
Informes de don Félix de Azara sobre varios proyectos de colonizar...
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Español
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El Diario de la navegación y reconocimiento del río Tebicuary es uno de los varios de libros de viajes que escribió Azara. Sus trabajos dedicados a establecer, de forma científica, las fronteras entre las colonias españolas y las portuguesas. Esta actividad aparece también, entre otros textos suyos, en su Correspondencia oficial.
Félix Azara estudió la geografía de Sudamérica y esclareció en sus mapas el curso de ríos y el lugar de montañas....
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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Fifth edition.
Physical Desc
63 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 36 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kids are naturally curious. They want to know all about everything around them, near and far. And the completely updated Beginner's World Atlas is the perfect tool to introduce them to the people, places, and animals of the world. We have combined our world-famous mapmaking skills and color photography with input from specialists in geography education to create an atlas designed for kids ages 7 to 10."--
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English
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Journey through the craft of Making Art with Maps. From origami to paper cutting and decoupage, love of paper crafting has soared, and with it the variety of paper types used by artists. Among these are maps - an apt choice for any crafter: they're easy to find, often free, meant to be folded, and their colorful surfaces add an allure of travel to every project. Making Art from Maps is equal parts inspiration and fun. Jill K. Berry, author of Map...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rose wants to bring something truly unique for show-and-tell, so she creates maps to explore her imagination in search of something no one has ever seen before"--
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English
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Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of women in the profession, sets out the situation of women in technical fields and cartography-related organizations, and outlines the challenges they face in their careers. Map Worlds explores women as colourists...
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Robin Wilson is emeritus professor of pure mathematics at the Open University and emeritus professor of geometry at Gresham College, London. He has written and edited many books on topics ranging from graph theory and combinatorics, via sudoku, philately, and the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, to the history of mathematics. He is currently president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.
On October 23, 1852, Professor Augustus De Morgan...
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English
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Travel through the exciting world of cartography with “Map Art Lab”. This fun and creative book features 52 map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey to new worlds. Authors Jill K. Berry and Linden McNeilly guide readers through useful concepts while exploring colorful, eye-catching graphics. The labs can be...
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English
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Few transportation maps can boast the pedigree that London's iconic 'Tube' map can. Sported on t-shirts, keyrings, duvet covers, and most recently, downloaded an astonishing twenty million times in app form, the map remains a long-standing icon of British design and ingenuity. Hailed by the art and design community as a cultural artifact, it has also inspired other culturally important pieces of artwork, and in 2006 was voted second in BBC 2's Great...
17) Treasure map
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Series
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
54 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Clarke and Miguel! They are new friends. They love going on adventures! Together, they make a map of their town. And they find a sweet treasure!"--
18) City of sparrows
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Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in Syria in the 1990s, Sami's childhood was unremarkable. His day-to-day life largely sheltered him from the horrors of the authoritarian government, until he founded a successful internet company--which landed him on the regime's radar. Suddenly Sami finds himself in jail, then forcibly enlisted into the Syrian army during the early days of a fast-growing civil uprising. Assigned to the mapmaking division, Sami yearns to simply serve...
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English
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With dozens of rare color maps and other documents, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia follows the story of map-making, exploration and colonization in Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It documents the idea of Southeast Asia as a geographical and cosmological construct, from the earliest of times up until the down of the modern era. using maps, itineraries, sailing instructions, traveler's tales, religious texts and other contemporary sources,...
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English
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A history of the development of world maps during the later medieval period in the centuries leading up to Columbus's journey.
In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed. The World Map, 1300—1492 investigates this important, transitional period of mapmaking. Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to examine how the discoveries...
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