A Map of the East
Title | A Map of the East PDF eBook |
Author | Leo Rubinfien |
Publisher | David R. Godine Publisher |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9780879239435 |
In this startling and illuminating book, Leo Rubinfien's "map" is neither precise nor defined by boundaries. It is, rather, a celebration, a book of photographs composed poetically through subjective eyes, a sequence of couplets (here seen as paired photographs) carefully arranged by the hand of an artist.
Map Men
Title | Map Men PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Seegel |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2018-06-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022643852X |
More than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished. In Map Men, Steven Seegel takes us through some of these historical dramas with a detailed look at the maps that made and unmade the world of East Central Europe through a long continuum of world war and revolution. As a collective biography of five prominent geographers between 1870 and 1950—Albrecht Penck, Eugeniusz Romer, Stepan Rudnyts’kyi, Isaiah Bowman, and Count Pál Teleki—Map Men reexamines the deep emotions, textures of friendship, and multigenerational sagas behind these influential maps. Taking us deep into cartographical archives, Seegel re-creates the public and private worlds of these five mapmakers, who interacted with and influenced one another even as they played key roles in defining and redefining borders, territories, nations—and, ultimately, the interconnection of the world through two world wars. Throughout, he examines the transnational nature of these processes and addresses weighty questions about the causes and consequences of the world wars, the rise of Nazism and Stalinism, and the reasons East Central Europe became the fault line of these world-changing developments. At a time when East Central Europe has surged back into geopolitical consciousness, Map Men offers a timely and important look at the historical origins of how the region was defined—and the key people who helped define it.
Mapping the Middle East
Title | Mapping the Middle East PDF eBook |
Author | Zayde Antrim |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2018-04-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1780239548 |
Mapping the Middle East explores the many ways people have visualized the vast area lying between the Atlantic Ocean and the Oxus and Indus River Valleys over the past millennium. By analyzing maps produced from the eleventh century on, Zayde Antrim emphasizes the deep roots of mapping in a region too often considered unexamined and unchanging before the modern period. As Antrim argues, better-known maps from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—a period coinciding with European colonialism and the rise of the nation-state—not only obscure this rich past, but also constrain visions for the region’s future. Organized chronologically, Mapping the Middle East addresses the medieval “Realm of Islam;” the sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire; French and British colonialism through World War I; nationalism in modern Turkey, Iran, and Israel/Palestine; and alternative geographies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Vivid color illustrations throughout allow readers to compare the maps themselves with Antrim’s analysis. Much more than a conventional history of cartography, Mapping the Middle East is an incisive critique of the changing relationship between maps and belonging in a dynamic world region over the past thousand years.
Thoughts Are Free
Title | Thoughts Are Free PDF eBook |
Author | Max Hertzberg |
Publisher | Wolf Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2016-10-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0993324738 |
East Germany, 1994: a country ravaged by politics and economic meltdown Fascist skinheads roam the streets of East Berlin, the country is divided by a referendum. In this sequel to Stealing The Future, ex-dissident Martin Grobe is preparing an ex-Stasi agent for an undercover mission against the far-right, while punk Karo tackles the problem in her own way: on the streets with the local Antifa. But when Martin's investigations make him a target, he joins forces with Karo—can they stem the tide of violence threatening to wash away the GDR? Book 2 of the East Berlin Series. "Through fine storytelling Hertzberg asks how we can meet the challenge of diversity without betraying the ideas of self-determination and freedom." Peace News
East Of West: The World (One-Shot)
Title | East Of West: The World (One-Shot) PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Hickman |
Publisher | Image Comics |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2014-12-10 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN |
"THE WORLD" A STAND ALONE, all-encompassing look at the wider world of EAST OF WEST. Part atlas, part encyclopedia, part timeline, and part apocrypha, EAST OF WEST: THE WORLD is the must-have one-shot companion to the spellbinding series. NOTE: EAST OF WEST: THE WORLD will contain pivotal plot and character info that will not be in the regular series...so don't miss out! The Apocalypse is illuminated in EAST OF WEST: THE WORLD.
Ready-to-go Super Book of Outline Maps
Title | Ready-to-go Super Book of Outline Maps PDF eBook |
Author | Scholastic, Inc. Staff |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780439117616 |
101 Reproducible outline maps of the continents, countries of the world, the 50 states, and more.
Brokedown Palace
Title | Brokedown Palace PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Brust |
Publisher | Orb Books |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2006-09-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466820500 |
Back in print after a decade, Brokedown Palace is a stand-alone fantasy in the world of Steven Brust's bestselling Vlad Taltos novels. Once upon a time...far to the East of the Dragaeran Empire, four brothers ruled in Fenario: King Laszlo, a good man—though perhaps a little mad; Prince Andor, a clever man—though perhaps a little shallow; Prince Vilmos, a strong man—though perhaps a little stupid; and Prince Miklos, the youngest brother, perhaps a little—no, a lot-stubborn. Once upon a time there were four brothers—and a goddess, a wizard, an enigmatic talking stallion, a very hungry dragon—and a crumbling, broken-down palace with hungry jhereg circling overhead. And then... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.