Terra Forma
Title | Terra Forma PDF eBook |
Author | Frederique Ait-Touati |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2022-02-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0262046695 |
Charting the exploration of an unknown world—our own—with a new cartography of living things rather than space available for conquest or colonization. This book charts the exploration of an unknown world: our own. Just as Renaissance travelers set out to map the terra incognito of the New World, the mapmakers of Terra Forma have set out to rediscover the world that we think we know. They do this with a new kind of cartography that maps living things rather than space emptied of life and available to be conquered or colonized. The maps in Terra Forma lead us inward, not off into the distance, moving from the horizon line of conventional cartography to the thickness of the ground, from the global to the local. Each map in Terra Forma is based on a specific territory or territories, and each tool, or model, creates a new focal point through which the territory is redrawn. The maps are “living maps,” always under construction, spaces where stories and situations unfold. They may map the Earth’s underside rather than its surface, suggest turning the layers of the Earth inside out, link the biological physiology of living inhabitants and the physiology of the land, or trace a journey oriented not by the Euclidean space of GPS but by points of life. These speculative visualizations can constitute the foundation for a new kind of atlas.
The Negro Motorist Green Book
Title | The Negro Motorist Green Book PDF eBook |
Author | Victor H. Green |
Publisher | Colchis Books |
Pages | 235 |
Release | |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.
Catalogue of Publications, Maps, and Services
Title | Catalogue of Publications, Maps, and Services PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 23 |
Release | 1982 |
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Alone in Wonderland
Title | Alone in Wonderland PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Reed |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781734841800 |
Alone in Wonderland is a story about backpacking. But it's also a story about: independence, love, grief, freedom, adventure, family, chosen family, challenging societal norms, safety, feminism, trauma, overcoming, letting go, letting in, self-knowledge, and self-acceptance.
Official Map Publications
Title | Official Map Publications PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Thiele (writer on maps.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1938 |
Genre | Cartography |
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Understanding GIS
Title | Understanding GIS PDF eBook |
Author | David Smith |
Publisher | ESRI Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | ArcGIS. |
ISBN | 9781589485266 |
In this fourth edition of Understanding GIS -- the only book teaching how to conceive, develop, finish, and present a GIS project -- all exercises have been updated to use Esri's ArcGIS Pro software with revamped data. The book guides readers with explanations of project development concepts and exercises that foster critical thinking.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Title | Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1040 |
Release | |
Genre | Government publications |
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