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Shell Education 2008; US$ 8.99A shark is a type of fish that has about 350 different species in the world. Sharks are made up of cartilage and are always growing new teeth. Sometimes the teeth grow in rows of 5. Sharks are known to be dangerous creatures, but they do not kill as many people as one would think. Some different sharks are whale sharks, great white sharks, hammerhead... more...
Looking at Maps
Shell Education 2008; US$ 8.99Maps show us where things are in the world with abstract pictures of what is in view. Many maps have grid coordinates that make it easier to locate where something is. A vertical grid line is known as longitude and a horizontal line is known as latitude. Symbols and keys are important parts of maps. A scale helps us know how far apart things are from... more...
Korea
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 36.00The first general history of Korea as seen through maps, Korea: A Cartographic History provides a beautifully illustrated introduction to how Korea was and is represented cartographically. John Rennie Short, one of today’s most prolific and well-respected geographers, encapsulates six hundred years of maps made by Koreans and non-Koreans... more...
Geographical Design
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2011; US$ 35.00With GIS technologies ranging from Google Maps and Google Earth to the use of smart phones and in-car navigation systems, spatial knowledge is often acquired and communicated through geographic information technologies. This monograph describes the interplay between spatial cognition research and use of spatial interfaces. It begins by reviewing what... more...
Survey of Palestine Under the British Mandate, 1920-1948
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 49.95This book is a historical study of the survey and mapping system of Palestine under the British Mandate. It traces the background and the reasoning behind the establishment of the survey programme, examines the foundations upon which the system was based, and strives to understand the motivation of those who implemented it. This study shows that the... more...
Algorithmic Foundation of Multi-Scale Spatial Representation
CRC Press 2006; US$ 129.95Presents an coverage of all known algorithms available for the geometric transformations in spatial representation of different types of spatial features. This book focuses on geometric transformations in multi-scale representations. It is for cartographers, geographers, GIS specialists, and scientists in computational geometry. more...
Cybercartography
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 225.00For generations, the map has been central to how societies function all over the world. Cybercartography is a new paradigm for maps and mapping in the information era. Defined as ?the organization, presentation, analysis and communication of spatially referenced information on a wide variety of topics of interest to society,? cybercartography is presented... more...
OpenLayers Cookbook
Packt Publishing 2012; US$ 26.99Over 60 recipes to create GIS web applications with the open source JavaScript library more...
Mapping Hacks
O'Reilly Media 2005; US$ 23.99Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should things change now? Well, they shouldn't. The... more...









