Seeing Through Maps
Subtitle: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View
Publisher: O D T Inc
Published: September 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781931057004
Subjects: Science/Mathematics
First sentence: What is the truth?
Description: Synopsis: Maps become a means of seeing the world from many perspectives in this appealing guide, which is aimed at training readers to look at images with a critical eye. The authors (a social scientist and a pastor/community organizer) challenge readers to stretch their intellectual boundaries while they wrap their minds around demonstrations of the many ways of making maps and the truth that no way is "the right one." A final chapter provides a guide to using map projections in human resource development and adult education. It's a smart book but not a beautiful one-many of the illustrations went muddy in the transfer from color to b&w, and seven unlovely pages of the publisher's advertising precede the index. Wide format: 11x8.5.