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Terra Cognita

Author : Eviatar Zerubavel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351305980
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Terra Cognita written by Eviatar Zerubavel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us are fascinated by the conventional storybook account of Christopher Columbus' heroic discovery of America in 1492. Yet, should the credit for discovering America go to a man who insisted it was but a few islands off the shores of China?In Terra Cognita, Eviatar Zerubavel argues that physical encounters are only one part of the complex, multifaceted process of discovery. Such encounters must be complemented by an understanding of the true identity of what is being discovered. The small group of islands claimed by Columbus to have been discovered off the shores of Asia was a far cry from what we now call America. The discovery of the New World was not achieved in a single day but was a slow process--mental as well as physical--that lasted almost three hundred years. By celebrating 1492 as a year of discovery, we inevitably distort the reality of history.In vividly documenting how a slowly emerging New World gradually forced itself into Europe's consciousness, Zerubavel shows that Columbus did not discover America on October 12, 1492. Supplemented by fascinating old maps and a new preface written for this paperback edition, Terra Cognita will be of interest to historians, geographers, cognitive scientists, sociologists, and students of culture.

Terra Incognita

Author : Ian Goldin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473570123
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Terra Incognita written by Ian Goldin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Amazing. It would be my desert island choice' Martin Rees 'Fascinating, beautiful, alarming and revelatory use of mapping and infographics' Stephen Fry on EarthTime maps 'An indispensable read' Arianna Huffington From the global impact of the Coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the Australian bushfires, join authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah as they trace the ways in which our world has changed and the ways in which it will continue to change over the next hundred years. Map-making is an ancient impulse. From the moment homo sapiens learnt to communicate we have used them to make sense of our surroundings. But as Albert Einstein once said, 'you can't use old maps to explore a new world.' And now, when the world is changing faster than ever before, our old maps are no longer fit for purpose. Welcome to Terra Incognita. Based on decades of research, and combining mesmerising, state-of-the-art satellite maps with enlightening and passionately argued analysis, Ian and Robert chart humanity's impact on the planet, and the ways in which we can make a real impact to save it, and to thrive as a species. Learn about: fires in the arctic; the impact of sea level rise on cities around the world; the truth about immigration - and why fears in the West are a myth; the counter-intuitive future of population rise; the miracles of health and education that are waiting around the corner, and the reality about inequality, and how we end it. The book traces the paths of peoples, cities, wars, climates and technologies, all on a global scale. Full of facts that will confound you, inform you, and ultimately empower you, Terra Incognita guides readers to a new place of understanding, rather than to a physical location.

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English

Author : Press Boulevard Company Staff
Publisher : Berkley Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English written by Press Boulevard Company Staff and published by Berkley Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating guide to English's exotic side...

Ultrahigh Pressure Metamorphism

Author : Robert G. Coleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521547994
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Ultrahigh Pressure Metamorphism written by Robert G. Coleman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the geological aspects of the ultrahigh pressure minerals - diamond and coesite - in the Earth's crust.

Exile and Kingdom

Author : Avihu Zakai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521521420
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Exile and Kingdom written by Avihu Zakai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ideological origins of the Puritan migration to and experience in America.

Terra Incognita

Author : Alfred Hiatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Terra Incognita written by Alfred Hiatt and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the age of antiquity to the Middle Ages, scholars argued about the existence of places, and perhaps peoples, beyond the world known to Europeans. But to allow for the possibility of such lands and races raised troubling questions: Was it truly impossible to reach the underside of the earth? And, if so, how could its inhabitants receive the word of God? In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Instead, Hiatt finds, the idea of people on the other side of the Earth provided a potent and malleable symbol for political theorists, satirists, scholars, and poets--as well as for map makers. Terra Incognita is, in the end, the history of a non-place, of lands conjured by the scientific imagination, which nevertheless drove exploration, and which continued to shape the world map, even as they slowly vanished from it.

Reinventing Curriculum

Author : Linda Laidlaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113561069X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Curriculum written by Linda Laidlaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-05-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Linda Laidlaw explores the questions: What happens when children begin to write? Why is it that the teaching and practice of writing seems at times to be difficult in schools? How might teachers work differently to create more inviting spaces for developing literacy? The premise is that written texts and literacy processes are developed within a complex "weave" of particular contexts, or ecologies, and the unique particularity of the learner's experiences, histories, memories and interpretations. Laidlaw offers new information about writing and literacy pedagogy linked to current research in the complexity sciences and cognition, and considers the possibilities that might emerge for pedagogy when alternative metaphors, images, and structures are considered for writing and curriculum. The volume includes qualitative and narrative description of writing and literacy situations, events, and pedagogy, and elaborates the historical, theoretical, and curricular background in which such instruction exists within contemporary schooling. Reinventing Curriculum: A Complex-Perspective on Literacy and Writing: *addresses literacy through a focus on writing rather than on reading; *develops an approach to literacy and writing pedagogy that incorporates recent theories and research on learning and the complexity sciences; *examines perspectives on writing from both a teaching perspective and that of the work of writers; *makes connections between the acquisition of literacy to research in other domains; *examines both the benefits and the "costs" of literacy; and *challenges "commonsense" understandings within instruction, for example, that literacy teaching and learning can occur apart from other aspects of children's learning, context, and subjectivity, or that learning occurs individually rather than collectively. This book is important reading for researchers, professionals, teacher educators, and students involved in literacy education and writing instruction, and an excellent text for courses in these areas.

Tourism Geography

Author : Stephen Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113501017X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Tourism Geography written by Stephen Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism Geography develops a critical understanding of how different geographies of tourism are created and maintained. Drawing on both historical and contemporary perspectives, the discussion connects tourism to key geographical concepts relating to globalization, mobility, new geographies of production and consumption, and post-industrial change. The new edition has been fully updated to have an international focus, with global case studies and broader based content.

Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context

Author : Ileana Baird
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317145453
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context written by Ileana Baird and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British or British-colonial borders. To highlight trends, fashions, and cultural imports of truly global significance, the contributors draw their case studies from Western Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. This survey underscores the multifarious ways in which new theoretical approaches, such as thing theory or material and visual culture studies, revise our understanding of the people and objects that inhabit the phenomenological spaces of the eighteenth century. Rather than focusing on a particular geographical area, or on the global as a juxtaposition of regions with a distinctive cultural footprint, this collection draws attention to the unforeseen relational maps drawn by things in their global peregrinations, celebrating the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale.

Terra Cognita

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Terra Cognita

Author : Kim Aaron
Publisher : still is the written word Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terra Cognita written by Kim Aaron and published by still is the written word Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first colonization mission to our closest star witnesses Earth go silent during their 20 year journey. When they arrive, the mission survey crew wakes to find they may be the only humans left in existence. Their ship was not designed to make it the four and half light-year return trip to Earth, and even if they did, what if Earth was destroyed or uninhabitable? What can they do but continue? Nearly a thousand human beings live a pastoral life nestled in their valley. They have no communication with any other humans and assume they might be the only ones left alive in the galaxy. But something is happening to the planet beneath their feet. Can Navi, a 12 year-old girl chosen by some force to save her people, understand the enigmatic and frightening warnings she is receiving? Or will some looming, yet unknown disaster bring the curtain down on the human race?

GlobalSoilMap

Author : Dominique Arrouays
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1138001198
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book GlobalSoilMap written by Dominique Arrouays and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GlobalSoilMap: Basis of the global spatial soil information system contains contributions that were presented at the 1st GlobalSoilMap conference, held 7-9 October 2013 in Orléans, France. These contributions demonstrate the latest developments in the GlobalSoilMap project and digital soil mapping technology for which the ultimate aim is to produce a high resolution digital spatial soil information system of selected soil properties and their uncertainties for the entire world. GlobalSoilMap: Basis of the global spatial soil information system aims to stimulate capacity building and new incentives to develop full GlobalSoilMap products in all parts of the world.

Old Trails and New Directions

Author : Carol M Judd
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487590695
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Old Trails and New Directions written by Carol M Judd and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1980-12-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fur trade scholarship has changed considerably in recent years. The tempo of research has quickened and the field has become more multidisciplinary, bringing together scholars in archaeology, economics, ethnohistory, geography, history, and anthropology. The papers in this volume reflect recent developments in several specific areas of research: mapping, native cultures, social and labour history, personalities, the Pacific coast, and economics. The moving of the Hudson's Bay Archives from London to Winnipeg in 1974 has patriated an incredibly rich source of information on many aspects of Canadian history, and the effects of this superb collection being available to Canadian scholars are just beginning to be felt. In this volume we can see that the history of the fur trade in Canada is not merely the story of the world's first great multi-national – the Hudson's Bay Company – but a study of a complex society during a period of more than two centuries. Languages, customs, transportation, personalities, marriage, and even sex are looked at in the wide-ranging papers in this book.

Amphiboles

Author : David R. Veblen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501508199
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Amphiboles written by David R. Veblen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 9B of Reviews in Mineralogy is dedicated more to an exploration of the social life of amphiboles and the amphibole personality in real rocks and in the experimental petrology laboratory. The chemical complexity of amphibole, which Robinson et al., refer to as "a mineralogical shark in a sea of unsuspecting elements," permits amphiboles to occur in a very wide variety of rock types, under a large range of pressure and temperature conditions, and in association with an impressive number of other minerals. The description of amphibole petrology and of petrologists' attempts to understand amphibole phase relations are therefore not simple matters, as the length of this volume suggests. Although they do not cover every type of amphibole occurrence, it is hoped that the papers in this volume will provide the amphibole student and researcher with an up-to-date summary of the most important aspects of amphibole petrology. Volume 9B, Amphiboles: Petrology and Experimental Phase Relations, was begun in 1981 in preparation for the Short Course on Amphiboles and Other Hydrous Pyriboles presented at Erlanger, Kentucky, October 29 - November 1, 1981, prior to the annual meetings of the Geological Society of America and associated societies. Unfortunately, only the first chapter was in manuscript form at the time of the short course, and publication was delayed by one year.

Books and the Sciences in History

Author : Marina Frasca-Spada
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521659390
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Books and the Sciences in History written by Marina Frasca-Spada and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, published in 2000, examines the intersection between science and books from early medieval times to the nineteenth century.

Intercultural Services

Author : Gary M. Wederspahn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136394710
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Intercultural Services written by Gary M. Wederspahn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For worldwide intercultural services, here is one-stop shopping at its best. This easy-to-use guide gives you practical advice to locate, evaluate, purchase, and oversee intercultural services. It describes and provides easy access (including websites and e-mail addresses) to the world's leading intercultural services. These high-impact, productive, and cost-effective service providers are critical to your operation's growth strategy and global success. This handy guide covers the gamut of intercultural services. Whether you are managing a multi-cultural workplace, preparing to enter the global business arena, or are already competing internationally, you'll find valuable, practical insights and information on: * exploring intercultural services * key intercultural concept * cross-border roles and organizations * choosing service providers * working with suppliers * types and qualities of products Based on the author's 30+ years of being a user, purchaser, manager, evaluator, designer, and provider of intercultural services, this book presents a helpful, in-depth review of all you must know to make the right decisions about intercultural services. Clear examples and checklists lead managers step-by-step through virtually all aspects of understanding, assessing, and acquiring intercultural services.