Putting People on the Map - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Putting People on the Map write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2007-02-22. Putting People on the Map available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Precise, accurate spatial information linked to social and behavioral data is revolutionizing social science by opening new questions for investigation and improving understanding of human behavior in its environmental context. At the same time, precise spatial data make it more likely that individuals can be identified, breaching the promise of confidentiality made when the data were collected. Because norms of science and government agencies favor open access to all scientific data, the tension between the benefits of open access and the risks associated with potential breach of confidentiality pose significant challenges to researchers, research sponsors, scientific institutions, and data archivists. Putting People on the Map finds that several technical approaches for making data available while limiting risk have potential, but none is adequate on its own or in combination. This book offers recommendations for education, training, research, and practice to researchers, professional societies, federal agencies, institutional review boards, and data stewards.
The Map Thief
The Map Thief - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Map Thief write by Michael Blanding. This book was released on 2015-06-02. The Map Thief available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of an infamous crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subculture that consumed him Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers—both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. Once considered a respectable antiquarian map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling as a map thief —until he was finally arrested slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. The Map Thief delves into the untold history of this fascinating high-stakes criminal and the inside story of the industry that consumed him. Acclaimed reporter Michael Blanding has interviewed all the key players in this stranger-than-fiction story, and shares the fascinating histories of maps that charted the New World, and how they went from being practical instruments to quirky heirlooms to highly coveted objects. Though pieces of the map theft story have been written before, Blanding is the first reporter to explore the story in full—and had the rare privilege of having access to Smiley himself after he’d gone silent in the wake of his crimes. Moreover, although Smiley swears he has admitted to all of the maps he stole, libraries claim he stole hundreds more—and offer intriguing clues to prove it. Now, through a series of exclusive interviews with Smiley and other key individuals, Blanding teases out an astonishing tale of destruction and redemption. The Map Thief interweaves Smiley’s escapades with the stories of the explorers and mapmakers he knew better than anyone. Tracking a series of thefts as brazen as the art heists in Provenance and a subculture as obsessive as the oenophiles in The Billionaire’s Vinegar, Blanding has pieced together an unforgettable story of high-stakes crime.
A Compendious Treatise on the Use of the Globes, and of Maps
A Compendious Treatise on the Use of the Globes, and of Maps - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Compendious Treatise on the Use of the Globes, and of Maps write by John Lathrop. This book was released on 1812. A Compendious Treatise on the Use of the Globes, and of Maps available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
O-level Mathematics Challenging Drill Questions (Concise) (Yellowreef)
O-level Mathematics Challenging Drill Questions (Concise) (Yellowreef) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook O-level Mathematics Challenging Drill Questions (Concise) (Yellowreef) write by Thomas Bond. This book was released on 2013-11-07. O-level Mathematics Challenging Drill Questions (Concise) (Yellowreef) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. • questions from top schools since 2003 • complete answer keys • topical order to facilitate drilling • complete and true encyclopedia of question-types • comprehensive “trick” questions revealed • tendency towards carelessness is greatly reduced • complete edition and concise edition eBooks available
Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period write by Ingrid Baumgärtner. This book was released on 2019-03-04. Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge. The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.
