Compact Peters Atlas of the World
Author | : Arno Peters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Atlases |
ISBN | : 9780582089563 |
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Author | : Arno Peters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Atlases |
ISBN | : 9780582089563 |
Author | : Arno Peters |
Publisher | : Harpercollins |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Atlases. |
ISBN | : 9780060165406 |
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Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2002 |
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ISBN | : 9783861504504 |
Author | : Arno Peters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Atlases |
ISBN | : 9780954049959 |
Finally correcting many long-standing misconceptions about the geography of our own planet, the Peters World Atlas presents one sixtieth of the Earth's surface as an astronaut's eye view on each double-page spread. Its unique use of colour and relief is intuitive, so jungles are green, deserts are brown, and mountains appear to bulge out of the page. In addition to this, 246 thematic maps explore such topics as nature, society, global rainfall, birth control, marriage, weather, status of women, employment and military strength, among others. In full-colour.
Author | : Mark Monmonier |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226534324 |
In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator's projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines—clear-cut routes with a constant compass bearing—for true direction. But the projection's popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse—often in inappropriate, non-navigational ways—for wall maps, world atlases, and geopolitical propaganda. Because it distorts the proportionate size of countries, the Mercator map was criticized for inflating Europe and North America in a promotion of colonialism. In 1974, German historian Arno Peters proffered his own map, on which countries were ostensibly drawn in true proportion to one another. In the ensuing "map wars" of the 1970s and 1980s, these dueling projections vied for public support—with varying degrees of success. Widely acclaimed for his accessible, intelligent books on maps and mapping, Monmonier here examines the uses and limitations of one of cartography's most significant innovations. With informed skepticism, he offers insightful interpretations of why well-intentioned clerics and development advocates rallied around the Peters projection, which flagrantly distorted the shape of Third World nations; why journalists covering the controversy ignored alternative world maps and other key issues; and how a few postmodern writers defended the Peters worldview with a self-serving overstatement of the power of maps. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars is vintage Monmonier: historically rich, beautifully written, and fully engaged with the issues of our time.
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Publisher | : Hf Ullmann |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9783833155604 |
Peters Projection, the type of cartographic representation on which the atlas is based, was introduced in 1973. It is a method of depicting the world on paper that accurately represents the surface of the globe while maintaining the relative proportions of three dimensions. In other words, countries with the same area are of equal size on a Peters map.
Author | : Peters Arno |
Publisher | : H.F. Ullmann |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-08-10 |
Genre | : Atlases |
ISBN | : 9780841671560 |
Provides physical, political, and human and economic geography maps of the world in currect surface area proportion, and includes maps covering such subjects as nutrition, demography, energy use, and health.
Author | : National Geographic |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1426216602 |
With more than 550 maps and graphics, all completely revised, this atlas provides accurate coverage of the whole world. Introductory sections for each continent are also fully updated and feature stunning images that portray unique physical geography and highlight the sprawling extent of major cities. The flags and country facts at the end of each continental section reflect the latest statistics from national and international sources.
Author | : Arno Peters |
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Release | : 1989-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780714732534 |
Author | : Tim Valentine |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2017-04-07 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1315516993 |
How can computers recognize faces? Why are caricatures of famous faces so easily recognized? Originally published in 1995, much of the previous research on face recognition had been phenomena driven. Recent empirical work together with the application of computational, mathematical and statistical techniques have provided new ways of conceptualizing the information available in faces. These advances have led researchers to suggest that many phenomena can be explained by the structure of the information available in the population(s) of faces. This broad approach has drawn together a number of apparently disparate phenomena with a common theoretical basis, including cross-race recognition; the distinctiveness of faces; the production and recognition of caricatures; and the determinants of facial attractiveness. This title provides a state of the art review of the field at the time in which the authors use a wide variety of approaches. What is common to all is that the authors base the accounts of the phenomena they study or their model of face recognition on the statistics of the information available in the population of faces. On publication this title was a comprehensive, up-to-date review of an important area of research in face recognition written by active researchers. It includes contributions from mathematics, computer science and neural network theory as well as psychology. It is aimed at research workers and postgraduate students and will be of interest to cognitive psychologists and computer scientists interested in face recognition. It will also be of interest to those working on neural network models of visual recognition, perceptual development, expertise in visual cognition as well as facial attractiveness and caricature.