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Al Aab
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 00:08:49 +0100 (MET)
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1) Air apparent: How meteorologists learned to map, predict,
and dramatize weather (Mark Monmonier)
2) The history of cartography (Volume 2, Book 3):
Cartography in the traditional African, American, Arctic,
Australian, and Pacific societies
(David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis, editors)
3) The uses of images: Studies in the social function of art
and visual communication (Ernst H. Gombrich)
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1) TITLE: Air apparent: How meteorologists learned to map,
predict, and dramatize weather
AUTHOR: Mark Monmonier
SUMMARY: Air Apparent is the story of the weather map, which in
its many forms has made the atmosphere visible,
understandable, and at least moderately predictable.
No other maps are so spontaneously timely, so widely
and frequently consulted, and so central to the daily
activities of so many.The singular history of the
weather map developed around the twin poles of
weather's many facets and the public's varied needs.
Mark Monmonier traces the contentious debates among
scientists eager to unravel the enigma of storms and
global change, explains the strategies for mapping the
upper atmosphere and forecasting disaster, and exposes
the turbulent efforts to detect and control air
pollution. Monmonier also explores the interaction
between technology - from the telegraph to the
Internet - and weather forecasting.
CONTENTS:
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Seeing and Forecasting
2. Seeing and Understanding
3. Weather by Wire
4. Looking Up
5. Looking Ahead
6. Downwind Dangers
7. Looking Down
8. Looking Around
9. Spreading the News
10. Weather Channels and Web Sites
11. Hindsight As Insight
12. Managed Myopia
Appendix: Web-site Addresses
Notes
Index
Hardcover, 344 pages,
22 color plates, 4 halftones, 89 line drawings
Price: USA $ 27.50
Published: February 1999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0-226-53422-7
Webpages about this book:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/534227.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226534227
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2) TITLE: The history of cartography (Volume 2, Book 3):
Cartography in the traditional African, American,
Arctic, Australian, and Pacific societies
EDITORS: David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis
SUMMARY: In this latest book of the History of Cartography
series, contributors from a variety of disciplines
address the significance of traditional cartographies.
Whether painted on rock walls in South Africa, chanted
in a Melanesian ritual, or fashioned from palm fronds
and shells in the Marshall Islands, all indigenous
maps share a crucial role in representing and
codifying the spatial knowledge of their various
cultures. This volume gathers information about
mapping traditions that are not well-known or studied.
CONTENTS:
List of Illustrations
Preface, David Woodward
1. Introduction (David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis)
2. Cartographic content of rock art in Southern Africa
(Tim Maggs)
3. Indigenous mapmaking in intertropical Africa
(Thomas J.Bassett)
4 Maps, mapmaking, and map use by native North Americans
(G. Malcolm Lewis)
5. Mesoamerican cartography (Barbara E. Mundy)
6. Mapmaking in the Central Andes (William Gustav Gartner)
7. Indigenous cartography in lowland South America and the
Caribbean (Neil L. Whitehead)
8. Traditional cartography in Arctic and Subarctic Eurasia
(Elena Okladnikova)
9. Icons of country: topographic representations in classical
Aboriginal traditions (Peter Sutton)
10. Aboriginal maps and plans (Peter Sutton)
11. The Pacific Basin: an introduction (Ben Finney)
12. Traditional cartography in Papua New Guinea
(Eric Kline Silverman)
13. Nautical cartography and traditional navigation in Oceania,
(Ben Finney)
14. Maori cartography and the European encounter
(Phillip Lionel Barton)
15. Concluding remarks (David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis)
Editors, authors and project staff
Bibliographical index
General Index (Ellen D. Goldlust-Gingrich)
Hardback, 660 pages,
24 color plates, 267 halftones, 196 line drawings, 5 tables.
Price: USA $ 150.00
Published: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0-226-90728-7
Webpages about this book:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/907287.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226907287
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3) TITLE: The uses of images: Studies in the social function of
art and visual communication
AUTHOR: Ernst H. Gombrich
SUMMARY: This volume of essays develops themes that have
preoccupied professor Gombrich in his study of visual
imagery of all kinds. Central to these essays is a
consuming interest in the function of images, and how
these functions - and the images - change over time.
All essays have been published earlier.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
1. Paintings on walls. Means and ends in the history of
fresco painting
2. Paintings for altars. Their evolution, ancestry and progeny
3. Images as luxury objects. Supply and demand in the
evolution of the international gothic style
4. Pictures for the home
5. Sculpture for outdoors
6. The dream of reason
7. Magic, myth and metaphor
8. Pleasure of boredom. Four centuries of boredom
9. Pictorial instructions
10. Styles of art and styles of life
11. What art tells us
Notes
Index
Photographic acknowledgements
Hardback, 304 pages,
Price: USA $ 39.95
Published: 1999
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN: 0-7148-3655-9
Webpages about this book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0714836559
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InfoDesign Bookwatch is compiled and edited by Piet Westendorp
and Karel van der Waarde. Suggestions for titles are welcome,
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