Human Geography of the UK

Human Geography of the UK
Author: Danny Dorling
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2005-02-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1848608659

`Using up-to-date data, modern cartographic methods, and an approach that addresses students' everyday lives, Danny Dorling has produced an engaging introduction to the contemporary geography of the UK. It will be the focus of many lively discussions of patterns and trends’ - Ron Johnston, School of Geography, University of Bristol Using statistics from many sources in an engaging and accessible way, Human Geography of the UK is written from the perspective of a beginning undergraduate, it's objective is to define the key elements of population geography and show how they fit together. Highly visual – with maps and figures on every page – the text uses different data to describe the social landscape of the United Kingdom. Organized in ten short thematic chapters, explaining the nuts and bolts of population, including: birth, inequality; education; mobility; work; and mortality. The book concludes with a comparative analysis of UK in global context. Human Geography of the UK features practical exercises, and clear summaries in tables and specially drawn maps.

The Writer's Map

The Writer's Map
Author: Huw Lewis-Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780226596631

"The Writer's Map is an atlas of the journeys that our most creative storytellers have made throughout their lives. This collection encompasses not only the maps that appear in their books but also the many maps that have inspired them, the sketches that they used while writing, and others that simply sparked their curiosity. " -- Publisher's description

Atlas of Forecasts

Atlas of Forecasts
Author: Katy Borner
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0262045958

Forecasting the future with advanced data models and visualizations. To envision and create the futures we want, society needs an appropriate understanding of the likely impact of alternative actions. Data models and visualizations offer a way to understand and intelligently manage complex, interlinked systems in science and technology, education, and policymaking. Atlas of Forecasts, from the creator of Atlas of Science and Atlas of Knowledge, shows how we can use data to predict, communicate, and ultimately attain desirable futures. Using advanced data visualizations to introduce different types of computational models, Atlas of Forecasts demonstrates how models can inform effective decision-making in education, science, technology, and policymaking. The models and maps presented aim to help anyone understand key processes and outcomes of complex systems dynamics, including which human skills are needed in an artificial intelligence-empowered economy; what progress in science and technology is likely to be made; and how policymakers can future-proof regions or nations. This Atlas offers a driver's seat-perspective for a test-drive of the future.

After the Map

After the Map
Author: William Rankin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 022633953X

For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a “map-minded age,” where increasingly state-of-the-art maps would become everyday tools. By the century’s end, however, there had been decisive shift in mapping practices, as the dominant methods of land surveying and print publication were increasingly displaced by electronic navigation systems. In After the Map, William Rankin argues that although this shift did not render traditional maps obsolete, it did radically change our experience of geographic knowledge, from the God’s-eye view of the map to the embedded subjectivity of GPS. Likewise, older concerns with geographic truth and objectivity have been upstaged by a new emphasis on simplicity, reliability, and convenience. After the Map shows how this change in geographic perspective is ultimately a transformation of the nature of territory, both social and political.

Atlas of North America

Atlas of North America
Author: National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1985
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 9780870446078

Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries

Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries
Author: Athelstan Spilhaus
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1991
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780871691965

"To show the world ocean, insofar as possible, uninterrupted by the edge of the map"--P. 1.

Ortelius Atlas Maps

Ortelius Atlas Maps
Author: M. P. R. van den Broecke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Atlases
ISBN: 9789061943808

This revised edition contains corrections, extra information to date the charts more correctly, descriptions of the title page and a portrait of Ortelius.