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Books > Earth & environment > Geography
A full colour map based on a digitising of a large-scale map of
York surveyed in 1850. The map shows the main medieval and
post-medieval buildings in this attractive and interesting city
including the Minster , York Castle (Clifford's Tower), St mary's
Abbey and the well-known city walls. The map's cover has a short
introduction to the city's history, and on the reverse of the map
an illustrated gazetteer of York's main buildings and sites of
interest. Combining clear cartography and extensive research, this
is a revised version of a map first published in 2012. The new
edition is presented as a cased folding map, to match those of
Winchester, Oxford and Hull in the series. Of interest to
historians and those who know and love York, the map charts the
process of renewal and development which has shaped one of
England's most important cities.
Identifying efficient solutions to protect coastal regions from
marine pollution requires expertise from a range of specialties and
strategic approaches. This book gathers information on the impact
of oil spills at a coastal level from different experts' points of
view, identifying synergies between domains such as mathematics,
numerical modeling, mechanics, biology, economics and law. The
collaborative research presented here is based on the 4th
International Workshop on Anti-Pollution and Marine Coastal Water
Pollution, held in La Rochelle, France at the Engineering School
EIGSI, in April 2012. The areas addressed include: materials and
structures (fluid-structure and capture interaction, cable and
membrane equations, optimization); coastal hydrodynamics
(computational fluid dynamics, numerical analysis of shallow water
equations, analytical and numerical derivatives); biological
impacts (biology, multivariate analysis, indicators); and economics
and law (compensation costs, insurance coverage, coastal
vulnerability).
Medieval Christian European and Arabic-Islamic cultures are both
notable for the wealth and diversity of their geographical
literature, yet to date there has been relatively little attempt to
compare medieval Christian and Islamic mapping traditions in a
detailed manner. Cartography between Christian Europe and the
Arabic-Islamic World offers a timely assessment of the level of
interaction between the two traditions across a range of map
genres, including world and regional maps, maps of the seven
climes, and celestial cartography. Through a mixture of synthesis
and case study, the volume makes the case for significant but
limited cultural transfer. Contributors are: Elly Dekker;
Jean-Charles Ducene; Alfred Hiatt; Yossef Rapoport; Stefan
Schroeder; Emmanuelle Vagnon.
A full colour map, where the city in about 1480 is shown against a
background of a detailed Ordnance Survey of the early 20th century.
In 1480, a high-ranking official called William Worcestre revisited
his native city of Bristol and wrote a detailed description of all
the streets and their buildings and the activities that went on
there. Worcestre's description, combined with archaeological
information and historical research, has allowed the recreation in
map form of the city at that time. It was a prosperous and growing
city, already trading extensively with Europe and poised to start a
new trade with the Americas. Its merchant houses, churches and
largely vanished city walls show a town that was easily one of the
top five in England in the late Middle Ages. The map's cover has a
short introduction to the city in 1480 and an explanation of who
William Worcestre was. On the reverse is an illustrated and
comprehensive gazetteer of Bristol's main sites of medieval
interest. Produced in association with the University of Bristol.
The speed and the scale with which traditional religions in China
have been revived and new spiritual movements have emerged in
recent decades make it difficult for scholars to stay up-to-date on
the religious transformations within Chinese society. This unique
atlas presents a bird's-eye view of the religious landscape in
China today. In more than 150 full-color maps and six different
case studies, it maps the officially registered venues of China's
major religions - Buddhism, Christianity (Protestant and Catholic),
Daoism, and Islam - at the national, provincial, and county levels.
The atlas also outlines the contours of Confucianism, folk
religion, and the Mao cult. Further, it describes the main
organizations, beliefs, and rituals of China's main religions, as
well as the social and demographic characteristics of their
respective believers. Putting multiple religions side by side in
their contexts, this atlas deploys the latest qualitative,
quantitative and spatial data acquired from censuses, surveys, and
fieldwork to offer a definitive overview of religion in
contemporary China. An essential resource for all scholars and
students of religion and society in China.
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