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Schuyler Erie, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh, Simon St. Laurent (Editor)Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should things change now? Well, they shouldn't. The reality is that map creation, or "cartography," has only improved in its ease-of-use over time. In fact, with the recent explosion of inexpensive computing and the growing availability of public mapping data, mapmaking today extends all the way to the ordinary PC user. "Mapping Hacks," the latest page-turner from O'Reilly Press, tackles this notion head on. It's a collection of one hundred simple--and mostly free--techniques available to developers and power users who want draw digital maps or otherwise visualize geographic data. Authors Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh do more than just illuminate the basic concepts of location and cartography, they walk you through the process one step at a time. "Mapping Hacks" shows you where to find the best sources of geographic data, and then how to integrate that data into your own map. But that's just an appetizer. This comprehensive resource also shows you how to interpret and manipulate unwieldy cartography data, as well as how to incorporate personal photo galleries into your maps. It even provides practical uses for GPS (Global Positioning System) devices--those touch-of-a-button street maps integrated into cars and mobile phones. Just imagine: If Captain Kidd had this technology, we'd all know where to find his buried treasure! With all of these industrial-strength tipsandtools, "Mapping Hacks" effectively takes the sting out of the digital mapmaking and navigational process. Now you can create your own maps for business, pleasure, or entertainment--without ever having to sharpen a single pencil.

History''s most opulent collection of town maps and illustrations The complete reprint of all 363 color plates from Braun and Hogenberg''s survey of town maps, city views, and plans of Europe, Africa, Asia and Central America, with dozens of unusual details, two folding maps, as well as selected extracts from the original text and an in-depth commentary. First published in Cologne 1572-1617. More than four centuries after the first volume was originally published in Cologne, Braun and Hogenberg''s magnificent collection of town map engravings, Civitates orbis terrarum, has been brought back to life with this reprint taken from a rare and superbly preserved original set of six volumes, belonging to the Historische Museum in Frankfurt. Produced between 1572 and 1617 - just before the extensive devastation wreaked by the Thirty Years'' War - the work contains 564 plans, bird''s-eye views, and map views of all major cities in Europe, plus important cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Edited and annotated by theologian and publisher Georg Braun, and largely engraved by cartographer Franz Hogenberg, the Civitates was intended as a companion volume for Abraham Ortelius''s 1570 world atlas, Theatrum orbis terrarum. Over a hundred different artists and cartographers contributed to the sumptuous artwork, which not only shows the towns but also features additional elements, such as figures in local dress, ships, ox-drawn carts, courtroom scenes, and topographical details, that help convey the situation, commercial power, and political importance of the towns they accompany. The Civitates gives us a comprehensive view of urban life at the turn of the 17th century. TASCHEN''s reprint includes all of the city plates, accompanied by selected extracts from Braun''s texts on the history and contemporary significance of each urban center as well as translations of the Latin cartouches. A detailed commentary places each city map in its cartographical and cultural context, and examines earlier sources and later editions. Rounding off this comprehensive publication is a separate introductory essay examining the Civitates in its cultural and historical context. From Paris and London to Cairo and Jerusalem, readers will find many a familiar city to zoom back in time to and explore - in fact, many of the maps can still be used for orientation in historical town centers today.

Un análisis de la estructura territorial y del potencial productivo

L" Atles Actual de Geografia Universal Vox es presenta en una nova edició que renova totalment els seus continguts. Els textos han estat actualitzats i es presenten d " una manera més comprensible i didactica. Inclou uns 175 grafics, dibuixos i mapes, i afegeix noves seccions tematiques, adaptades al mon actual, que faciliten la interpretacio de les dades. Un capitol especial reuneix mapes i tota la informacio sobre Catalunya. Les estadistiques es fan resso de les dades mes recents, tant a nivell mundial com a escala estatal i autonomica. L"Atles esta il·lustrat amb 115 fotos, que van acompanyades d"uns textos que les situen en el seu context geografic. Un index amb 20 000 toponims permet la seva rapida localitzacio als mapes.

El control de la inmigración existente en aquellos años coincidentes con la contienda civil y los que siguieron a la misma se regía por unas disposiciones que, a pesar de hundir sus raíces en etapas anteriores y haberse consolidado durante la Segunda Republica española. Se aprovecharian como derecho aplicable a los trabajadores extranjeros a lo lardo de las primeras decadas del regimen de Franco. Junto a todo el elenco de normas que regulan la admision de los extranjeros como trabajadores dentro del territorio nacional, se ofrecen en estas paginas multitud de datos enormemente interesantes e imprescindibles para un estudio socioeconomico profundo de la realidad inmigratoria durante a etapa de referencia, incluyendose un elenco completo de todas y cada una de las personas que solicitaban permiso de trabajo, sus nacionalidades de procedencia, empleos y salarios que percibian dependiendo de su especializacion, extremos que resultan minuciosamente reseñados y analizados a lo largo de las paginas de esta obra.

Nicolau de Oliveira

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El Ripolles, tot ell il·lustre, tot ell venerable, es una contrada d'una popularitat notable. Irradia historia, encanteri, quietud, paratges que toquen el cor, mostres insignes de la brillantor extraordinaria de la geografia de Catalunya. El Ripolles atrapa, enamora, sorpren, a cada raconada, la seva exquisida boniquesa. Es un reclam indefugible, un menut pero estimulant pais que cal tastar.