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In the Memory of the Map
University of Iowa Press 2012; US$ 22.50Throughout 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... more...
Thematische Kartographie
De Gruyter 1972; US$ 126.00Lehrbuch der Allgemeinen Geographie, Bd.10, Thematische Kartographie. more...
Kartographische Geländedarstellung
De Gruyter 1965; US$ 147.00Kartographische Geländedarstellung. more...
Rediscovering the World
Springer 2013; US$ 99.99We need new maps is the central claim made in this book. In a world increasingly influenced by human action and interaction, we still rely heavily on mapping techniques that were invented to discover unknown places and explore our physical environment. Although the traditional concept of a map is currently being revived in digital environments,... more...
Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 141.00The 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. While the map... more...
Thematic Cartography, Cartography and the Impact of the Quantitative Revolution
Wiley 2013; US$ 230.00This series in three volumes considers maps as constructions resulting from a number of successive transformations and stages integrated in a logical reasoning and an order of choices. Volume 2 focuses on the impact of the quantitative revolution, partially related to the advent of the computer age, on thematic cartography. more...
Small-scale Map Projection Design
CRC Press 2002; US$ 84.95This book focuses on numerical map projection research and is written from the perspective of the map projection user. more...
Graphs and Networks
ISTE 2006; US$ 105.00This book concerns the use of graphs for the simulation and representation of mainly transport networks. The aim of the book is to treat networks in both spatial analysis and urban management, together with the simulation by graph theory, a tool that makes it possible to solve various classic problems such as high-speed roads between one or more origins... more...
Learning and Teaching with Maps
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 45.95A comprehensive and authoritative account of how primary school children and teachers can use maps to enhance learning and deepen understanding of this essential skill. It includes all aspects of map use, such as reading and interpreting maps and using maps to find the way, covering maps of all scales, including globes and atlases. The text is extensively... more...
Map-based Mobile Services
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 189.99Divided into three parts - theory, method and implementation, this book starts with a summary of the state-of-the-art in mobile technologies. It also introduces a conceptual framework of mobile cartography with the emphasis on mobile usage context. It is accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains the PDF-Files in colour. more...









