Map of the World NEW REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION by Antonis Antoniou (Editor)
$95.00 AUD
Category: Books about Maps
The world of contemporary mapmaking is brought up-to-date in this revised and expanded edition of a best-selling book. For centuries we have used the tools of cartography to represent both our immediate surroundings and the world at large--and to convey them to others. In our age of satellite navigation ...Show more
History of Information Graphics by Sandra Rendgen
$150.00 AUD
Category: Books about Maps
In the age of big data and digital distribution, when news travels ever further and faster and media outlets compete for a fleeting slice of online attention, information graphics have swept center stage. At once nuanced and neat, data graphics can distill abstract ideas, complex statistics, and cutting ...Show more
Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary by Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim
$99.50 AUD
Category: Books about Maps
Cartographic Grounds is visual compendium exploring the intersection of cartography and design through the provocative juxtaposition of maps and plans. The book offers a critique of data-driven mapping practices in the design disciplines. It argues for a return to cartographic representation, focusing o ...Show more
The Infographic - A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications by Murray Dick
$60.00 AUD
Category: Books about Maps | Series: History and Foundations of Information Science Ser.
An exploration of infographics and data visualization as a cultural phenomenon, from eighteenth-century print culture to today's data journalism.Infographics and data visualization are ubiquitous in our everyday media diet, particularly in news-in print newspapers, on television news, and online. It has ...Show more
The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge by Manuel Lima
$85.00 AUD
Category: Books about Maps
In The Book of Circles, his companion volume to the popular Book of Trees, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millenia of information design. Three hundred detailed and colourful illustrations cover an encyclopedic array of subjects, drawing fascinating parallels across time and culture. The ...Show more
An Atlas of Geographical Wonders: From mountaintops to riverbeds by Gilles Palsky; Jean-Marc Besse; Philippe Grand; Jean-Christophe Bailly
$95.00 AUD
Category: Books about Maps
This is the first book to catalog comparative maps and tableaux that visualize the heights and lengths of the world's mountains and rivers. Produced predominantly in the nineteenth century, these beautifully rendered maps emerged out of the tide of exploration and scientific developments in measuring te ...Show more
Cartographies of Time by Daniel Rosenberg
$69.99 AUD
Category: Books about Maps
What does history look like? How do you draw time? Cartographies of Time is the first history of the timeline, written engagingly and with incredible visuals. The authors, both accomplished writers and historians, sketch the shifting field of graphic representations of history from the beginning of the ...Show more
Map: Exploring the World (HB) by Daniel Huffman (Contribution by); Phaidon Press Editors; Laura Imaoka (Contribution by); John Hessler
$75.00 AUD
Category: Books about Maps
300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves. Map: Exploring the Worldbrings together more than 300 fascinating maps from the birth of cartography to cutting-edge digital maps of the twenty-fist century. The book ...Show more
The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live by Daniel Dorling
$65.00 AUD
Category: Books about Maps
Now available in paperback, this reference book has everything we need to make sense of todays world. 366 digitally modified maps known as cartograms depict the areas and countries of the world by their demographic importance on a vast range of topics, ranging from basic data on population, health, weal ...Show more
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones
$55.00 AUD
Category: Books about Maps
Maps can transport us, they are filled with wonder, the possibility of real adventure and travels of the mind. This is an atlas of the journeys that writers make, encompassing not only the maps that actually appear in their books, but also the many maps that have inspired them and the sketches that the ...Show more
The Book of Trees - Visualizing Branches of Knowledge by Manuel Lima
$62.95 AUD
Category: Books about Maps
Trees are in nature but also in our minds. Their shape have influenced how we communicate via diagrams, link ideas together and illustrate deeper human thoughts in art throughout history. Trees have been a recurrent metaphor for mapping information in numerous scientific domains, such as biology, geneti ...Show more