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Author : Ken Jennings
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1439167184
Traces the history of mapmaking while offering insight into the role of cartography in human civilization and sharing anecdotes about the cultural arenas frequented by map enthusiasts.
Author : Lesley Howarth
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2001-07-09
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780744577723
Reissue of the dazzling sequel to the award-winning MapHead. If you could go anywhere do anything - where would you go? What would you do? This is the dilemma facing MapHead on his return to Rubytown from his home in the Subtle World. Materializing in a multi-storey car park, he is drawn to the Stamp family, for whom, he feels, he has a vital task to perform. But what? And how? MapHead quickly makes friends with Jack Stamp, but in doing so crosses a boundary that should not be crossed. Using his powers to flash maps across his head is one thing, but using them to intrude into people's lives is something else. That can only cause problems - big problems. Soon MapHead finds himself up the multi without a ticket - and, this time, without his dad to help him
Author : Ken Jennings
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1442473282
Offers facts about the highest landmarks and mountains, the deepest depth of the seas, what countries are shaped like food, ocean inhabitants, and capital location changes.
Author : Katharine A. Harmon
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781568984308
Mapmaking fulfills one of our most ancient and deepseated desires: understanding the world around us and our place in it. But maps need not just show continents and oceans: there are maps to heaven and hell; to happiness and despair; maps of moods, matrimony, and mythological places. There are maps to popular culture, from Gulliver's Island to Gilligan's Island. There are speculative maps of the world before it was known, and maps to secret places known only to the mapmaker. Artists' maps show another kind of uncharted realm: the imagination. What all these maps have in common is their creators' willingness to venture beyond the boundaries of geography or convention. You Are Here is a wide-ranging collection of such superbly inventive maps. These are charts of places you're not expected to find, but a voyage you take in your mind: an exploration of the ideal country estate from a dog's perspective; a guide to buried treasure on Skeleton Island; a trip down the road to success; or the world as imagined by an inmate of a mental institution. With over 100 maps from artists, cartographers, and explorers, You are Here gives the reader a breath-taking view of worlds, both real and imaginary.
Author : Lesley Howarth
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Aliens
ISBN : 9780744554953
If you could go anywhere - do anything - where would you go? What would you do? This is the dilemma facing MapHead on his return to Rubytown from his home in the Subtle World. This is the sequel to the award-winning MapHead about a boy with powers to flash maps across his head.
Author : Austin Tappan Wright
Publisher : Duckworth Publishing
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Consuls
ISBN : 9780715636299
Published 11 years after the author's death, this classic of utopian fiction tells the story of American consul John Lang. He visits the isolated and alien country of Islandia and is soon seduced by the ways of a compelling and fascinating world.
Author : Matthew Bucklan
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1615197494
The Maps for Curious Minds series is back—with 100 vivid infographic maps that transform the way we understand the cultural and geographical wonders of North America No matter how well you think you know North America, the 100 infographic maps in this singular atlas uncover a trove of fresh wonders that make the continent seem like the center of the universe. Did you know that North America is where the first T. rex was found? Or that it’s where you can visit the world’s biggest geode as well as its oldest, tallest, and largest trees—not to mention the world’s tallest and steepest roller coasters?! Brimming with fascinating insight (Who is the highest-paid public employee in each state?) and whimsical discovery (Where can you visit the world’s largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island?), this book highlights the unexpected contours of geography, history, nature, politics, and culture, revealing new ways to see North America—and the hundreds of millions who call it home.
Author : Ned Vizzini
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2010-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1423141083
Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy. At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he's just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away.
Author : Gwilym Lucas Eades
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 077359678X
Maps and cartography have long been used in the lands and resources offices of Canada's indigenous communities in support of land claims and traditional-use studies. Exploring alternative conceptualizations of maps and mapmaking, Maps and Memes theorizes the potentially creative and therapeutic uses of maps for indigenous healing from the legacies of residential schools and colonial dispossession. Gwilym Eades proposes that maps are vehicles for what he calls "place-memes" - units of cultural knowledge that are transmitted through time and across space. Focusing on Cree, Inuit, and northwest coast communities, the book explores intergenerational aspects of mapping, landscape art practice, and identity. Through decades of living in and working with indigenous communities, Eades has constructed an ethnographically rich account of mapping and spatial practices across Canada. His extended participation in northern life also informs this theoretically grounded account of journeying on the land for commemoration and community healing. Interweaving narrative accounts of journeys with academic applications for mapping the phenomena of indigenous suicide and suicide clusters, Maps and Memes lays the groundwork for understanding current struggles of indigenous youth to strengthen their identities and foster greater awareness of traditional territory and place.
Author : Jo Parnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1352007193
With recent advances in digital technology, a number of exciting and innovative approaches to writing lives have emerged, from graphic memoirs to blogs and other visual-verbal-virtual texts. This edited collection is a timely study of new approaches to writing lives, including literary docu-memoir, autobiographical cartography, social media life writing and autobiographical writing for children. Combining literary theory with insightful critical approaches, each essay offers a serious study of innovative forms of life writing, with a view to reflecting on best practice and offering the reader practical guidance on methods and techniques. Offering a range of practical exercises and an insight into cutting-edge literary methodologies, this is an inspiring and thought-provoking companion for students of literature and creative writing studying courses on life writing, memoir or creative non-fiction.