Time in Maps
Title | Time in Maps PDF eBook |
Author | Kären Wigen |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2020-11-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022671862X |
Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.
On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time
Title | On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth Sussman |
Publisher | MIT Press (MA) |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Architecture |
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These photographs, essays, drawings, and original texts document the rich agit-art legacy of the Situationist International, a group of European artists and writers who emerged from such avant-garde movements as COBRA, Lettrisme, and the Imaginary Bauhaus and from the breakup of surrealism to launch a strategy of art as cultural critique.
The Passage
Title | The Passage PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Cronin |
Publisher | Doubleday Canada |
Pages | 785 |
Release | 2010-06-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385669526 |
The Andromeda Strain meets The Stand in this startling and stunning thriller that brings to life a unique vision of the apocalypse and plays brilliantly with vampire mythology, revealing what becomes of human society when a top-secret government experiment spins wildly out of control. At an army research station in Colorado, an experiment is being conducted by the U.S. Government: twelve men are exposed to a virus meant to weaponize the human form by super-charging the immune system. But when the experiment goes terribly wrong, terror is unleashed. Amy, a young girl abandoned by her mother and set to be the thirteenth test subject, is rescued by Brad Wolgast, the FBI agent who has been tasked with handing her over, and together they escape to the mountains of Oregon. As civilization crumbles around them, Brad and Amy struggle to keep each other alive, clinging to hope and unable to comprehend the nightmare that approaches with great speed and no mercy. . .
A Guide to First-Passage Processes
Title | A Guide to First-Passage Processes PDF eBook |
Author | Sidney Redner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2001-08-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0521652480 |
The basic theory presented in a way which emphasizes intuition, problem-solving and the connections with other fields.
A Passage in Time
Title | A Passage in Time PDF eBook |
Author | Peter H. Spectre |
Publisher | W. W. Norton |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Maine |
ISBN | 9780393029970 |
Looks at the role of the schooner in Maine's maritime history, and describes a journey in Maine's coastal waters
My Exile Lifestyle
Title | My Exile Lifestyle PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Wright |
Publisher | |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2011-06-26 |
Genre | Authors, American |
ISBN | 9781938793097 |
My Exile Lifestyle is a memoir made of stories from the life of author, entrepreneur, and full-time traveler, Colin Wright. From his early years as an antisocial geek, to his high-flying career in Los Angeles, to his life as a wandering vagabond, Colin holds nothing back as he talks about love, business, blogging, and culture through tales that span four continents. In the easy to digest style of storytelling that has made his other work such a success, Colin discusses life on the road and nothing is too taboo. Every epic, embarrassing, and awkward detail is covered with sometimes brutal honesty.
Time Warped
Title | Time Warped PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Hammond |
Publisher | House of Anansi |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2012-08-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1770892133 |
We are obsessed with time. However hard we might try, it is almost impossible to spend even one day without the marker of a clock. But how much do we understand about time, and is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it? Drawing on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and biology, and using original research on the way memory shapes our understanding of time, acclaimed writer and broadcaster Claudia Hammond delves into the mysteries of time perception. Along the way, she introduces us to an extraordinary array of colourful characters willing to go to great lengths in the interests of research, such as the French speleologist Michel, who spends two months in an ice cave in complete darkness. Time Warped shows us how to manage our time more efficiently, speed time up and slow it down at will, plan for the future with more accuracy, and, ultimately, use the warping of time to our own advantage.