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Book The Self Made Map

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Conley
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9781452900582
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Self Made Map written by Tom Conley and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Self made Map

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Conley
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780816627004
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book The Self made Map written by Tom Conley and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The self-made map argues that during the Renaissance in France a "new cartographic impulse" affected both the "graphic and imaginary forms of literature." In this wide-ranging and fascinating work, Tom Conley demonstrates that as maps were plotted during this period, a new sense of self emerged, one defined in part by the relationship of the self to space. Conley traces the explosion of interest in mapmaking that occurred with the discovery of the New World, and discusses the commensurate rise of what he defines as cartographic writing - writing that "holds, penetrates, delineates, and explores space." Considering the works of such writers as Rabelais, Montaigne, and Descartes, Conley provides a "navigation" through the printed page, revealing the emerging values of Renaissance France. Conley also exposes the ideological exercise inherent in mapmaking, arguing that Renaissance cartography is inseparably bound up with the politics of the era. He undertakes close readings of maps and illustrations, discussing the necessity of viewing Renaissance maps in the context of their typographic layout, graphic reproduction, and literary and ideological import.

Book The Self Made Map

Download or read book The Self Made Map written by Tom Conley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How to Make Hand Drawn Maps

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  • Author : Helen Cann
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2018-05-22
  • ISBN : 1452175292
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book How to Make Hand Drawn Maps written by Helen Cann and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With wonderful examples and easy-to-follow instructions, this beautifully illustrated how-to book makes it simple and fun to create one-of-a-kind hand-drawn maps. Helpful templates, grids, and guidelines complement a detailed breakdown of essential cartographic elements and profiles of talented international map artists. From city maps and family trees to treasure maps, palmistry charts, platformgame maps, and more, the wide range of projects collected here will satisfy first-time cartographers as well as veteran mapmakers inspired by the popular map art trend.

Book Millionaire Road Maps  5 Self Made Millionaires Tell Their Stories

Download or read book Millionaire Road Maps 5 Self Made Millionaires Tell Their Stories written by Matthew R. Kratter and published by Millionaire Road Maps. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Become a millionaire by learning from self-made millionaires."Tired of living from paycheck to paycheck?Ready to finally start building wealth?Your road map is here.Discover 5 different paths that ordinary people took to become self-made millionaires.These are not trust-fund babies.They are just regular folks like you and me.The only difference is that every day they took another step down the path of wealth.Daily action.And the right kind of action.That's all it takes to become a self-made millionaire.In this book, you will learn about: The secrets that self-made millionaires used to grow their wealth The small things you can do that make a big difference The best morning routines and daily habits for success The books that had the biggest impact on these millionaires How to make money by investing in what you know How to create passive income and escape the trap of being an employee How to compound wealth like a savvy investor The one thing you should never do with your hard-earned cash (don't start investing until you read this) And much, much more Whether you are a college graduate, or high school dropout. . .Whether you are a small business owner, or an employee. . .Even if you know nothing at all about business or investing. . .This book will teach you how to build a better life for you and your family.Imagine how your life would change if you knew that you were on the proven path to wealth.Amazon best-selling author and retired hedge fund manager, Matthew Kratter has interviewed 5 of the most interesting self-made millionaires that you will ever meet.Are you ready to start down the path of becoming a self-made millionaire?Then scroll to the top of this page and click BUY NOW.

Book The Self Made Program Leader

Download or read book The Self Made Program Leader written by Steve Tkalcevich and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost all leadership books assume that the leader has authority over their team members. The challenge of project management in a matrix-structured environment is that this is not always the case. A whole new plan of attack has to be executed for the project manager to deliver in an organization where they do not have formal authority. This book t

Book Mapping with Words

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  • Author : Sarah Wylie Krotz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-03-27
  • ISBN : 1442622261
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Mapping with Words written by Sarah Wylie Krotz and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping with Words re-conceptualizes early Canadian settler writing as literary cartography. Examining the multitude of ways in which writers expanded the work of mapmakers, it offers fresh readings of both familiar and obscure texts from the nineteenth century.

Book Mapping Early Modern Japan

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  • Author : Marcia Yonemoto
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2003-04-21
  • ISBN : 052092830X
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Mapping Early Modern Japan written by Marcia Yonemoto and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-04-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes—including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias—to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of space by looking at the roles played by writers, artists, commercial publishers, and the Shogunal government in helping to fashion a new awareness of space and place in this period. Her impressively researched study shows how spatial and geographical knowledge confined to elites in early Japan became more generalized, flexible, and widespread in the Tokugawa period. In the broadest sense, her book grasps the elusive processes through which people came to name, to know, and to interpret their worlds in narrative and visual forms.

Book Representing Place

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  • Author : Edward S. Casey
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780816637157
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book Representing Place written by Edward S. Casey and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You are here, a map declares, but of course you are not, any more than you truly occupy the vantage point into which a landscape painting puts you. How maps and paintings figure and reconfigure space--as well as our place in it--is the subject of Edward S. Casey's study, an exploration of how we portray the world and its many places. Casey's discussion ranges widely from Northern Sung landscape painting to nineteenth-century American and British landscape painting and photography, from prehistoric petroglyphs and medieval portolan charts to seventeenth-century Dutch cartography and land survey maps of the American frontier. From these culturally and historically diverse forays a theory of representation emerges. Casey proposes that the representation of place in visual works be judged in terms not of resemblance, but of reconnecting with an earth and world that are not the mere content of mind or language--a reconnection that calls for the embodiment and implacement of the human subject." -- Book jacket.

Book Rethinking the Power of Maps

Download or read book Rethinking the Power of Maps written by Denis Wood and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the modern state and how maps continue to embody and project the interests of their creators. He demystifies the hidden assumptions of map making and explores the promises and limitations of diverse counter-mapping practices today. Thought-provoking illustrations include U.S. Geological Survey maps; electoral and transportation maps; and numerous examples of critical cartography, participatory GIS, and map art. The book will be important reading for geographers and others interested in maps and their political uses. It will also serve as a supplemental text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses such as Cartography, GIS, Geographic Thought, and History of Geography.

Book Medieval Islamic Maps

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen C. Pinto
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2016-11
  • ISBN : 022612696X
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book Medieval Islamic Maps written by Karen C. Pinto and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Islamic mapping is one of the new frontiers in the history of cartography. This book offers the first in-depth analysis of a distinct tradition of medieval Islamic maps known collectively as the Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Kitab al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik, or KMMS). Created from the mid-tenth through the nineteenth century, these maps offered Islamic rulers, scholars, and armchair explorers a view of the physical and human geography of the Arabian peninsula, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean, Spain and North Africa, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, the Iranian provinces, present-day Pakistan, and Transoxiana. Historian Karen C. Pinto examines around 100 examples of these maps retrieved from archives across the world from three points of view: iconography, context, and patronage. By unraveling their many symbols, she guides us through new ways of viewing the Muslim cartographic imagination.

Book Atlas of Emotion

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  • Author : Giuliana Bruno
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2020-05-05
  • ISBN : 178663323X
  • Pages : 1133 pages

Download or read book Atlas of Emotion written by Giuliana Bruno and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 1133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavour to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative montage of words and pictures, emphasises that "sight" and "site" but also "motion" and "emotion" are irrevocably connected. In so doing, Giuliana Bruno touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Annette Message, the film making of Peter Greenaway and Michelangelo Antonioni, the origins of the movie palace and its precursors, and her own journeys to her native Naples. Visually luscious and daring in conception, Bruno opens new vistas and understandings at every turn.

Book Alternative Geographies

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Rennie Short
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-09-29
  • ISBN : 1317904605
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Alternative Geographies written by John Rennie Short and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and groundbreaking text that takes a fresh view of contemporary geographical issues by looking at the geographies we have lost. Geography means writing about the world. Alternative ways of writing about the world are introduced and critically evaluated. The book discusses medieval cosmologies, Renaissance magic, feng shui, and the knowledge systems of indigenous people. Alternative Geographies provides an alternative way of looking, describing and understanding the world

Book Archipelagoes

Download or read book Archipelagoes written by Simone Pinet and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insular turn in late medieval and early modern culture central to the emergence of modern fiction.

Book Earth mapping

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  • Author : Edward S. Casey
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1452906807
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Earth mapping written by Edward S. Casey and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how contemporary artists re-envision the earth in innovative painterly, sculptural, and architectural ways.

Book Mapping Discord

Download or read book Mapping Discord written by Jeffrey N. Peters and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping Discord examines a series of allegorical maps published in France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of early modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the unique language of allegorical cartography raises important theoretical questions about the relations between rationalist discourses of science and the figural designs of imaginative writing. In detailed analyses of the imaginary maps that appeared in seventeenth-century novels and stories, as well as of maps, atlases, and geographic treatises produced by professional scholars and engineers of the period, Mapping Discord considers the ideological structure and uses of cartographic language, and argues that allegorical maps have much to tell us about the potential capacity of every map to operate as a visual metaphor for power. Illustrated, Jeffrey N. Peters is Associate Professor of French at the University of Kentucky.

Book Ships on Maps

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard W. Unger
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2010-08-04
  • ISBN : 0230282164
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Ships on Maps written by Richard W. Unger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of technology. Above all the ships were there to show the European conquest of the seas of the world.