An annual compilation of inspiring stories of government GIS work, this year's volume, Mapping the Nation: Governments Coordinated Responses to Crises, focuses on crisis management.
Opening with powerful statements by Lord Acton and Otto Bauer – the classic liberal and socialist positions, respectively – Mapping the Nation presents a wealth of thought on this issue: the debate between Ernest Gellner and Miroslav ...
Olmsted to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., March 25, 1861, and Adams to Olmsted, March 29, 1861, ... H. Gray Funkhouser, “Historical Development of the Graphical Representation of Statistical Data,” Osiris 3 (1937): 375.
In The Goddess and the Nation, she teaches us about pictorial ways of learning the form of the nation, of how to live with it—and ultimately to die for it.
From the earliest depictions of Scotland by Ptolemy in the second century AD to the most recent mapping and representation in the geographic information system and in satellite navigation, this collection offers a fascinating and thought ...
1 of The Shaping of America (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986); Peter H. Wood, “Slave Labor Camps in Early America: Overcoming Denial and Discovering the Gulag,” in Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger (eds.) ...
When Edmund Gibson had produced a new edition of William Camden's Britannia, he had set about correcting Camden's original choice of toponymy by ... Gibson's practice formed a model for map-makers throughout the following century.
Featuring vividly colored examples of various maps, including physical, political, and thematic, this book will have readers engaged and inspired to learn more about the different parts of the U.S. and to create a map of their own!
Presenting the best poems from the nationwide Places of Poetry project, selected from over 7,500 entries Poetry lives in the veins of Britain, its farms and moors, its motorways and waterways, highlands and beaches.
A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy Society “A master class on how the world works.” —NPR Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global ...
Siam Mapped demonstrates that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic.