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Description:This NEW book explains the principles behind the Peters Projection and a dozen other unique maps and provocative images. Its got over 70 illustrations: Van Sant, Fuller Dymaxion, a Toronto-centered equidistant map of the world, even Minard's map of Napoleon's march on Moscow, and routes of African Slave Trading (Petit's African Diaspora map). We've reproduced a redrawing of Mercator's original world map (unavailable since the 1950's) and have the first authorized publication of the original McArthur Universal Corrective projection. It a book designed to reveal the "hidden agendas" of maps. BUT its a book about far more than cartography -- it shows how we can understand the world, and each other, much more fully if we're willing to see things from a number of DIFFERENT perspectives. Map projections are used as a metaphor for seeing the world from different points of view (other countries, other cultures, other peoples and other times).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Seeing Through Maps: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View. To get started finding Seeing Through Maps: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 152

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: O D T Inc

Release: 2001

ISBN: 1931057001

Description: This NEW book explains the principles behind the Peters Projection and a dozen other unique maps and provocative images. Its got over 70 illustrations: Van Sant, Fuller Dymaxion, a Toronto-centered equidistant map of the world, even Minard's map of Napoleon's march on Moscow, and routes of African Slave Trading (Petit's African Diaspora map). We've reproduced a redrawing of Mercator's original world map (unavailable since the 1950's) and have the first authorized publication of the original McArthur Universal Corrective projection. It a book designed to reveal the "hidden agendas" of maps. BUT its a book about far more than cartography -- it shows how we can understand the world, and each other, much more fully if we're willing to see things from a number of DIFFERENT perspectives. Map projections are used as a metaphor for seeing the world from different points of view (other countries, other cultures, other peoples and other times).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Seeing Through Maps: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View. To get started finding Seeing Through Maps: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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