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Book Navigation Then and Now

Download or read book Navigation Then and Now written by George Leonard Hosmer and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book NAVIGATION THEN AND NOW

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  • Author : George Leonard Hosmer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book NAVIGATION THEN AND NOW written by George Leonard Hosmer and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Designing Web Navigation

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  • Author : James Kalbach
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2007-08-28
  • ISBN : 0596553781
  • Pages : 415 pages

Download or read book Designing Web Navigation written by James Kalbach and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: navigation design. Amid all the changes to the Web in the past decade, and all the hype about Web 2.0 and various "rich" interactive technologies, the basic problems of creating a good web navigation system remain. Designing Web Navigation demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology-it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them. Ideal for beginning to intermediate web designers, managers, other non-designers, and web development pros looking for another perspective, Designing Web Navigation offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts seamlessly folded in. How does your web site serve your business objectives? How does it meet a user's needs? You'll learn that navigation design touches most other aspects of web site development. This book: Provides the foundations of web navigation and offers a framework for navigation design Paints a broad picture of web navigation and basic human information behavior Demonstrates how navigation reflects brand and affects site credibility Helps you understand the problem you're trying to solve before you set out to design Thoroughly reviews the mechanisms and different types of navigation Explores "information scent" and "information shape" Explains "persuasive" architecture and other design concepts Covers special contexts, such as navigation design for web applications Includes an entire chapter on tagging While Designing Web Navigation focuses on creating navigation systems for large, information-rich sites serving a business purpose, the principles and techniques in the book also apply to small sites. Well researched and cited, this book serves as an excellent reference on the topic, as well as a superb teaching guide. Each chapter ends with suggested reading and a set of questions that offer exercises for experiencing the concepts in action.

Book Navigation from Then to Now

Download or read book Navigation from Then to Now written by Rachel Grack and published by Sequence Developments in Techn. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book for elementary readers highlights how maps and technology have changed the way people find their way from place to place. Full-color photos and a running timeline help show how changes in ways we travel and new technology have carried us from using to stars to today's GPS turn-by-turn directions. A table of contents, glossary, further resources, and an index are included.

Book The Natural Navigator

Download or read book The Natural Navigator written by Tristan Gooley and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. Now this singular guide helps us rediscover what our ancestors long understood—that a windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong can help us find our way, if we know what to look and listen for. Adventurer and navigation expert Tristan Gooley unlocks the directional clues hidden in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, plant growth, and the habits of wildlife. Rich with navigational anecdotes collected across ages, continents, and cultures, The Natural Navigator will help keep you on course and open your eyes to the wonders, large and small, of the natural world.

Book The History of Navigation

Download or read book The History of Navigation written by Dag Pike and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today travellers by land, sea and air take accurate navigation for granted but it was not always thus.The author, a highly experienced sailor, sets out to record the development of navigational techniques from the earliest time, five millenniums ago. As explorers started to venture offshore into the unknown they had to rely on the sun and stars for direction. From this pioneers turned to mathematics, astrolobes, sextants and increasing accurate clocks to measure latitude and later longitude. More recently major breakthroughs with electronic navigation, GPS and other satellite systems have revolutionised travel.Focusing primarily but not exclusively on marine navigation, the author weaves a fascinating course through the successes and failures of mankinds quest to explore his world. The result is a thoroughly entertaining and informative work which has no rival.

Book Navigation Through the Ages

Download or read book Navigation Through the Ages written by Donald Launer and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailors have been navigating the seas for thousands of years, and navigational technology has progressed exponentially during that time. This concise yet comprehensive volume begins with the impressive developments in navigation made by early navigators and follows the art and science of navigation through the ages to their culmination in the huge advances made by our contemporaries. With a focus on the navigational tools invented by each age and civilization, Launer traces the evolution of humankind¿s navigational skills from the Kamal of the Arabs and the Lead-line first used by the Romans to the radio and satellite communication devices available to modern sailors. He pays homage to the Polynesians who, in the absence of a written language were able to pass down their navigational skills through generations, and to the adventurous Vikings, who managed to find their way from Scandinavia to England, Iceland, Greenland and beyond; but he also covers the practical applications of the complex technologies found on most boats today, such as GPS. Generous illustrations help readers envision the tools in use. Navigation Through the Ages will appeal to sailors and lay readers alike¿anyone with an interest in the history of science and the exploration of our world.

Book Quo Vadis  Evolution of Modern Navigation

Download or read book Quo Vadis Evolution of Modern Navigation written by F. G. Major and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quo Vadis: Evolution of Modern Navigation presents an intelligent and intelligible account of the essential principles underlying the design of satellite navigational systems—with introductory chapters placing them in context with the early development of navigational methods. The material is organized roughly as follows: the first third of the book deals with navigation in the natural world, the early history of navigation, navigating by the stars, precise mechanical chronometers for the determination of longitude at sea, and the development of precise quartz controlled clocks. Then, the reader is introduced to quantum ideas as a lead in to a discussion of microwave and optical interactions with atoms, atomic clocks, laser gyrocompasses, and time based navigation. The final third of the book deals with satellite-based systems, including orbit theory, early satellite navigation systems, and a detailed treatment of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Intended for non-specialists with some knowledge of physics or engineering at the college level, this book covers in an intuitive manner a broad range of topics relevant to the evolution of surface and space navigation, with minimum mathematical formalism.

Book How to Navigate Today

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  • Author : Marion Rice Hart
  • Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN : 9780870330353
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book How to Navigate Today written by Marion Rice Hart and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Navigation of Feeling

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  • Author : William M. Reddy
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2001-09-10
  • ISBN : 9780521004725
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book The Navigation of Feeling written by William M. Reddy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a theory that explains the impact of emotions on historical change.

Book The Science of Navigation

Download or read book The Science of Navigation written by Mark Denny and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s world of online maps and travel directions delivered wirelessly to hand-held devices, getting from place to place requires little thought from most of us—which is a good thing, since accurate navigation can be tricky. Get your bearings with Mark Denny—an expert at explaining scientific concepts in non-technical language—in this all-encompassing look at the history and science of navigation. Denny’s tour kicks off with key facts about the earth and how its physical properties affect travel. He discusses cartography and early mapmakers, revealing fascinating tidbits such as how changes over time of the direction of true north, as well as of magnetic north, impacted navigation. Denny details the evolution of navigation from the days of coastal piloting to GPS and other modern-day technologies. He explains the scientific breakthroughs in accessible, amusing terms and provides an insightful look at their effects on societies, cultures, and human advancement. Throughout, Denny frames the long history of navigation with amazing tales of such people as Pytheas, an ancient Greek navigator, and Sir Francis Drake and of such discoveries as the magnetic compass and radio direction finding. Whether you have an interest in orienteering and geocaching or want to know more about the critical role navigation has played in human survival and progress since ancient people learned to use lodestones, The Science of Navigation is for you. With it you’ll finally understand the why of wayfinding.

Book Time and Navigation

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  • Author : Andrew Kenneth Johnston
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 1588344916
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Time and Navigation written by Andrew Kenneth Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know where you are, you need a good clock. The surprising connection between time and placeais explored inaTime and Navigation- The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, the companion book to the National Air and Space Museum exhibition of the same name. Today we use smartphones and GPS, but navigating has not always been so easy. The oldest "clock" is Earth itself, and the oldest means of keeping time came from observing changes in the sky. Early mariners like the Vikings accomplished amazing feats of navigation without using clocks at all. Pioneering seafarers in the Age of Exploration used dead reckoning and celestial navigation; later innovations such as sextants and marine chronometers honed these techniques by measuring latitude and longitude. When explorers turned their sights to the skies, they built on what had been learned at sea. For example, Charles Lindbergh used a bubble sextant on his record-breaking flights. World War II led to the development of new flight technologies, notably radio navigation, since celestial navigation was not suited for all-weather military operations. These forms of navigation were extended and enhanced when explorers began guiding spacecraft into space and across the solar system. Astronauts combined celestial navigation technology with radio transmissions. The development of the atomic clock revolutionized space flight because it could measure billionths of a second, thereby allowing mission teams to navigate more accurately. Scientists and engineers applied these technologies to navigation on earth to develop space-based time and navigation services such as GPS that is used every day by people from all walks of life. While the history of navigation is one of constant change and innovation, it is also one of remarkable continuity. Time and Navigation tells the story of navigation to help us understand where we have been and how we got there so that we can understand where we are going.

Book The Whole History of Navigation from Its Original to this Time   1704

Download or read book The Whole History of Navigation from Its Original to this Time 1704 written by John Locke and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Duluth

Download or read book Duluth written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exploring Your World

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : National Geographic Society
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780870447266
  • Pages : 608 pages

Download or read book Exploring Your World written by and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 1989 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family reference work containing alphabetically arranged articles, with charts, maps, and photographs, covering physical and human geography.

Book The Practice of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy

Download or read book The Practice of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy written by Henry Raper and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: