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9781936320653 | Academica Pr Llc, September 15, 2014, cover price $82.95
Product Description: Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 considers the cartographic challenge of visualizing time on a map. Inspired by graphic innovator Charles Minardâs classic map of Franceâs disastrous invasion of Russia, this book combines historical and geographic analysis with cartographic visualizations of mapping change over time...read more
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9781589483125 | Esri Pr, May 29, 2014, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 considers the cartographic challenge of visualizing time on a map.
Product Description: The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. References to mapping and cartography are endemic in poststructuralist theory, and, similarly, geographically and culturally diverse authors of twentieth-century fiction seem fixated upon mapping...read more
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9780415955973 | Routledge, September 7, 2007, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse.
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9780415512855 | Routledge, December 15, 2012, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse.
9780415809122 | Reprint edition (Routledge, June 30, 2012), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse.
Product Description: How do you draw a map of 100,000 places, of more than a million flows of people, of changes over time and space, of different kinds of spaces, surfaces and volumes, from human travel time to landscapes of hopes, fears, migration, manufacturing and mortality? How do you turn the millions of numbers concerning some of the most important moments of our lives into images that allow us to appreciate the aggregate while still remembering the detail? The visualization of spatial social structure means, literally, making visible the geographical patterns to the way our lives have come to be socially organised, seeing the geography in society...read more
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9781119962939 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, September 19, 2012, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: How do you draw a map of 100,000 places, of more than a million flows of people, of changes over time and space, of different kinds of spaces, surfaces and volumes, from human travel time to landscapes of hopes, fears, migration, manufacturing and mortality?
Product Description: Â Throughout his life, maps have been a source of imagination and wonder for Christopher Norment. Mesmerized by them since the age of eight or nine, he found himself courted and seduced by maps, which served functional and allegorical roles in showing him worlds that he might come to know and helping him understand worlds that he had already explored...read more
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9781609380779 | Univ of Iowa Pr, March 15, 2012, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Â Throughout his life, maps have been a source of imagination and wonder for Christopher Norment.
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9781409412373, titled "Go: On the Geographies of Gunnar Olsson: On the Geographies of Gunnar Olsson" | Ashgate Pub Co, August 30, 2012, cover price $149.95
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9780824832469 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, December 1, 2008, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Our personal worlds are timed, inter-positional, and contingent.
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9780824833121 | 1 edition (Univ of Hawaii Pr, December 1, 2008), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines.
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9780226906041 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 2008, cover price $49.00
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9781589481732 | Esri Pr, April 30, 2008, cover price $49.95
Product Description: Dutch world maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with their decorative pictures and elaborate typography, stand in sharp contrast to the wholly practical maps of today, which emphasize precise detail and consistent scale...read more
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9780816643325 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, March 3, 2005, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Dutch world maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with their decorative pictures and elaborate typography, stand in sharp contrast to the wholly practical maps of today, which emphasize precise detail and consistent scale.
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9780816643332 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, March 3, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Dutch world maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with their decorative pictures and elaborate typography, stand in sharp contrast to the wholly practical maps of today, which emphasize precise detail and consistent scale.
Product Description: "The map is not the territory" is a cartographic truism. It means that unless the map is drawn on a mile-to-mile scale and has the same physical characteristics as the territory itself, it cannot be perfectly accurate. But as David Turnbull demonstrates, the map is a metaphor not only for the territory it represents but for the culture that created it...read more
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9780226817057 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1994), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: "The map is not the territory" is a cartographic truism.
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