Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography, Paperback - Mark Monmonier

Reducere. DescriptionBehind every great map is a network and behind every great network is a map. In Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the...

Reducere. In this collection of essays J. B. Harley (1932-1991) draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy, and the study of visual culture to sub...

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Publisher: ATF PressAuthor(s): Mark A O'BrienNumber of pages: 206Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 14Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

An instant classic when first published in 1991, How to Lie with Maps revealed how the choices mapmakers make--consciously or unconsciously--mean t...

DescriptionBlending meteorological history with the history of scientific cartography, Monmonier charts the phenomenon of lake-effect snow and expl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark W. SchaeferMark W. Schaefer, college educator, consultant, and best-selling author of five marketing books including S...

Brings the diverse energy histories of North and South American nations into dialogue with one another, presenting an integrated hemispheric framew...

Reducere. The central theme of Connections Remembered is the ancient African origins of humanity and civilization, framed around the impact of these historic...

DescriptionThis book provides reflections on the Sunday Bible readings in the Roman Catholic Lectionary for Years A, B, and C of the liturgical cyc...

The internationally bestselling author says if we can save the salmon, we can save the worldPublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Mark Kurlans...

To make a revolution is to subvert the ancient state of our country; and no common reasons are called for to justify so violent a proceeding Burke ...

An exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire...

DescriptionOver the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scho...

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory is a collection of essays on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fake document which has created a pernicious an...

Reducere. In That Holy Anarchist, Mark Van Steenwyk explores the relationship between Christianity and anarchism. The name of Jesus is invoked by those in po...

Centuries of Meditations is a devotional manual from the English literary Thomas Traherne; undiscovered for over 200 years, this manuscript was fir...

Reducere. DescriptionThis title provides a selection of essays from one of today's foremost Southern historians exploring the past of the American South.

Reducere. The simple fact is that they admitted it. They had to after being caught red handed. The evidence did not sink to the bottom of the Mediterranean a...

Reducere. Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden was one of the highest-profile personalities among the Apollo astronauts, renowned for his outspokenness a...

A landmark new account of the twentieth century from one of Europe's most outstanding thinkers.

Reducere. Between 1910 and 1920, thousands of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals were killed along the Texas border. The killers included strangers and ...

The massive Christmas 2011 bestseller and Radio 4 Book of the Week

Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic rel...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first volume in Mark Nesbitt's popular book series. A combination of history and mystery, this volume focuses on the early ghost-lor...

Reducere. For generations, Whidbey Island's vivid beauty has made it a home for those drawn in by a rural landscape and thriving communities. Whether native ...

Acre for acre, Gettysburg has earned the reputation as the most haunted place in America The fourth book in Mark Nesbitt's popular "Ghosts of Getty...

Reducere. DescriptionThe fifth volume in Mark Nesbitt's popular "Ghosts of Gettysburg" book series. This volume includes tales of eerie events and more ghost...

This pioneering history of modern India explores a multiplicity of connections between India and the world. Situating India in global context over ...

DescriptionThis thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at thi...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): al-Hasan al-YusiTranslator: Justin StearnsNumber of pages: 280Collection: Library of Arabic Literatu...

Network theory and methodologies have become central to exploring and explaining social, economic, and political relationships and connections in p...

Contributor(s): Author: Hayden WhiteHayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning--its pro...

A new, beautifully illustrated hardback edition of the bestselling Etymologicon, published on its tenth anniversary.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s):...

DescriptionWith over 60 per cent of the world's population living in cities, the networks beneath our feet - which keep the cities above moving - a...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

The story of ocean liners brought to life by objects and ephemera, revealing life on board, luxury and magnificence, and peril and disasterIllustra...

Reducere. The History of Starved Rock provides a wonderful overview of the famous site in Utica, Illinois, from when European explorers first viewed the bluf...