This is a book about the world views of men in our Western tradition. the ideas they have held and still hold on the Big Questions-cosmological questions, which ask whether the universe makes sense in terms of human capacity to comprehend and, if so, what kind of sense, theological and metaphysical questions, which ask further questions about purpose and design of the universe, and about man's …
THE SOURCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, the ancient Near East, lies in a relatively small area of land where three continents-Asia, Africa, and Europe-come together Although our heritage is a long one, it is difficult to state with precision just when it began. Two quite different kinds of problems stand in the way of dating accurately the beginnings of our civilization. An obvious difficulty lies …
EXTENDING ARCVIEW GISrnrnis the companion workbook to ESRI's best-selling Getting to Know ArcView GIS. Taking up where that book leaves off, it explores the three most popular ESRI® ArcView® GIS extensions: ArcView Network Ana- lyst, ArcView Spatial Analyst, and ArcView 3D Analyst™. You'll complete dozens of step-by-step exercises in the course of solving a variety of GIS problems. Concepts…
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are now essential to the work of an increasingly diverse range of organizations concerned with population characteristics, from local government and health authorities to major retailers and marketing agencies.rnrnThe period since the mid-1980s has seen massive growth in the field of GIS computer-based systems for the handling of geographically refer- enced …
For twenty years I have been fighting to impress upon publishers, authors and cartographical draughtsmen the need and value of clear maps in text-books. I became an historical carto- grapher largely because so many of the maps I saw in books and atlases were difficult to under- stand. Maps are visual aids: they do not supersede text-books. What are required are simple, clear drawings that one c…
A book based largely on personal experience and observation owes much to people met along the way. In travelling 17,500 kilometres through an island only 1,100 kilometres long, we feel that we must have met half of Java's people. They are remembered with gratitude and affection. We hope some day to meet the other half.
Thus this pleasant book, which is other than an art book, other than a travel book, other than a log. Naturally, as an artist, I am chiefly concerned with the author's visualisation of the strange and beautiful, and often terrible, country, and of the exquisite dramatic life which he found there. I have long been interested in the development of Jan Poortenaar's art, and in the exotic life of t…
Pariwisata moneter, memasarkan pemandangan dan hasil budaya manusia, mengubah kawasan-kawasan dan masyarakat-masyarakat dunia menjadi produk pariwisata. Namun, di balik kegiatan memasarkan dunia ini sesungguhnya berlangsung proses lain, yang menyangkut jati diri bangsa dan makna-makna baru serta inti kebudayaan.rnrnBuku ini lahir dari ketidakpuasan penulis terhadap cara umum meru- muskan masala…