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King's Two Maps
Routledge 2004; US$ 44.95This book chronicles the specific technologies, material and epistemological, by which the map - a peculiar artefact, part image and part treatise - shows itself capable of accessing, organizing and reorienting a tremendous range of information. more...
GIS, Environmental Modeling and Engineering
CRC Press 2009; US$ 107.95Explores how to use GIS and external models to solve real environmental problems. This text defines GIS, identifies how data is structured, and explains common functionality. It provides case studies and covers issues such as interoperability, data quality, model validity, space-time dynamics, and decision-support systems. more...
The Mapmakers' Quest
OUP Oxford 2003; US$ 35.99In 1400 Europe was behind large parts of the world in its understanding of the use of maps. For instance, the people gf China and of Japan were considerably more advanced in this respect. And yet, by 1600 the Europeans had come to use maps for a huge variety of tasks, and were far ahead of the rest of the world in their appreciation of the power and... more...
Self-Made Map
University of Minnesota Press 1996; US$ 42.00In this wide-ranging and fascinating work, Tom Conley demonstrates that "a new cartographic impulse" during the French Renaissance gave rise to a new sense of self, one defined in part by the relationship of self and space. more...
Maps to the Other Side
Microcosm Publishing 2013; US$ 15.99Part mad manifesto, part revolutionary love letter, part freight train adventure story? Maps to the Other Side is a self-reflective shattered mirror, a twist on the classic punk rock travel narrative that searches for authenticity and connection in the lives of strangers and the solidarity and limitations of underground community. Beginning at the... more...
Mapping Latin America
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 31.00For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something—a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn’t, and to ask who made it, why, and for whom. The contributors to this new volume ask these... more...
Scotland: Mapping the Nation
Birlinn 2013; US$ 18.94Whilst documents and other written material are obvious resources that help shape our view of the past, maps too can say much about a nation's history. This is the first book to take maps seriously as a form of history, from the earliest representations of Scotland by Ptolemy in the second century AD to the most recent form of Scotland's mapping and... more...
Anti-personnel Landmine Detection for Humanitarian Demining
Springer 2009; US$ 119.99Describes various technologies developed during a Japanese National Research Project which ran from 2002-2007 to meet the challenge of developing practical detection systems that can discriminate between anti-personnel land mines and the innocent metal fragments that frequently litter minefields confusing conventional and metal-detecting methods. more...









