| Author | : Marta Segal Block |
| Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781432907921 |
What can you find in a map key? How are maps made? Why do maps use symbols? This title teaches readers how maps are made and how they are read. Readers will learn how the round globe can be fit onto a flat map, why maps use symbols, and what lines of latitude and longitude mean.
| Author | : Franco Moretti |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 141 |
| Release | : 2020-05-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1789603315 |
In this groundbreaking book, Franco Moretti argues that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. In place of the traditionally selective literary canon of a few hundred texts, Moretti offers charts, maps and time lines, developing the idea of "distant reading" into a full-blown experiment in literary historiography, in which the canon disappears into the larger literary system. Charting entire genres-the epistolary, the gothic, and the historical novel-as well as the literary output of countries such as Japan, Italy, Spain, and Nigeria, he shows how literary history looks significantly different from what is commonly supposed and how the concept of aesthetic form can be radically redefined.
| Author | : Mark S. Monmonier |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 1993-06 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 0226534170 |
Monmonier shows authors and scholars how they can use expository cartography--the visual, two-dimensional organization of information--to heighten the impact of their books and articles. A concise, practical book that introduces the fundamental principles of graphic logic and design. 112 maps. 1 halftone.
| Author | : John Macpherson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780582766099 |
The aim of this book is to provide a course in the intepretation of West Indian topographical maps for students who are preparing for O-level and similar examinations.
| Author | : Department of the Army |
| Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2009-07-27 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1602397023 |
It requires no prior knowledge of these subjects. Sections include map care, comprehension of map symbols, military symbols, grid reference systems, and interpretation of aerial photographs. After the basics are covered, the second half moves to land navigation - varying terrains, elevations, day-night variations. Map and compass work is thoroughly explained. Finally, extreme scenarios - desert, mountain, jungle, arctic, and urban terrains - are all explored.
| Author | : Rebecca Aberg |
| Publisher | : Children's Press(CT) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Map reading |
| ISBN | : 9780516277738 |
The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons - to all corners of the globe! With this series all about geography, emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities, nations, waterways, and habitats around the world...and right in their own backyards.
| Author | : Barbara Cooney |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 1985-11-06 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101654929 |
A beloved classic—written by a beloved Caldecott winner—is lovelier than ever! Barbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation. The countless lupines that bloom along the coast of Maine are the legacy of the real Miss Rumphius, the Lupine Lady, who scattered lupine seeds everywhere she went. Miss Rumphius received the American Book Award in the year of publication. To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of two-time Caldecott winner Barbara Cooney's best-loved book, the illustrations have been reoriginated, going back to the original art to ensure state-of-the-art reproduction of Cooney's exquisite artwork. The art for Miss Rumphius has a permanent home in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
