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This book contains twenty-eight papers by participants in the NATO
Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects
of Geographic Space," held in Las Navas del Maxques, Spain, July
8-20, 1990. The NATO ASI marked a stage in a two-year research
project at the U. S. National Center for Geographic Infonnation and
Analysis (NCOIA). In 1987, the U. S. National Science Foundation
issued a solicitation for proposals to establish the NCGIA-and one
element of that solicitation was a call for research on a
"fundamental theory of spatial relations." We felt that such a
fundamental theory could be searched for in mathematics (geometry,
topology) or in cognitive science, but that a simultaneous search
in these two seemingly disparate research areas might produce novel
results. Thus, as part of the NCGIA proposal from a consortium
consisting of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the
State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of
Maine, we proposed that the second major Research Initiative (two
year, multidisciplinary research project) of the NCOIA would
address these issues, and would be called "Languages of Spatial
Relations" The grant to establish the NCOIA was awarded to our
consortium late in 1988.
A significant part of understanding how people use geographic
information and technology concerns human cognition. This book
provides the first comprehensive in-depth examination of the
cognitive aspects of human-computer interaction for geographic
information systems (GIS). Cognitive aspects are treated in
relation to individual, group, behavioral, institutional, and
cultural perspectives. Extensions of GIS in the form of spatial
decision support systems and SDSS for groups are part of the
geographic information technology considered. Audience: Geographic
information users, systems analysts and system designers,
researchers in human-computer interaction will find this book an
information resource for understanding cognitive aspects of
geographic information technology use, and the methods appropriate
for examining this use.
A significant part of understanding how people use geographic
information and technology concerns human cognition. This book
provides the first comprehensive in-depth examination of the
cognitive aspects of human-computer interaction for geographic
information systems (GIS). Cognitive aspects are treated in
relation to individual, group, behavioral, institutional, and
cultural perspectives. Extensions of GIS in the form of spatial
decision support systems and SDSS for groups are part of the
geographic information technology considered. Audience: Geographic
information users, systems analysts and system designers,
researchers in human-computer interaction will find this book an
information resource for understanding cognitive aspects of
geographic information technology use, and the methods appropriate
for examining this use.
This book contains twenty-eight papers by participants in the NATO
Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects
of Geographic Space," held in Las Navas del Maxques, Spain, July
8-20, 1990. The NATO ASI marked a stage in a two-year research
project at the U. S. National Center for Geographic Infonnation and
Analysis (NCOIA). In 1987, the U. S. National Science Foundation
issued a solicitation for proposals to establish the NCGIA-and one
element of that solicitation was a call for research on a
"fundamental theory of spatial relations." We felt that such a
fundamental theory could be searched for in mathematics (geometry,
topology) or in cognitive science, but that a simultaneous search
in these two seemingly disparate research areas might produce novel
results. Thus, as part of the NCGIA proposal from a consortium
consisting of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the
State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of
Maine, we proposed that the second major Research Initiative (two
year, multidisciplinary research project) of the NCOIA would
address these issues, and would be called "Languages of Spatial
Relations" The grant to establish the NCOIA was awarded to our
consortium late in 1988.
Two men seeking the bones of a martyr stumble upon the crimes of a
devil in the stunning historical crime novel by bestselling author
David Mark. Hull, 1849: a city in the grip of a cholera outbreak
that sees its poorest citizens cut down by the cartload. Into this
world of flame and grief comes former soldier Meshach Stone. He's
been hired as bodyguard by an academic hunting for the bones of the
apostle Simon the Zealot, rumoured to lie somewhere in
Lincolnshire. Stone can't see why ancient bones are of interest in
a world full of them. Then a woman he briefly loved is killed. As
he investigates, he realizes that she is one of many... and that
some deaths cry out for vengeance.
From Hell, Hull and Halifax, may the Good Lord deliver us. In 1849,
Hull is a city forgotten and abandoned; in the grip of a cholera
outbreak that sees its poorest citizens cut down by the cartload.
Into this world of flame and grief comes Meshach Stone, a former
soldier, lost upon his way. He's been hired as bodyguard by a
Canadian academic hunting for the bones of the apostle Simon the
Zealot, rumoured to lie somewhere in Lincolnshire. Stone can't see
why ancient bones are of interest in a world full of them...but
then a woman he briefly loved is killed. As he investigates he
realises that she is just one of many... and that some deaths cry
out for vengeance. From the twisted imagination of David Mark,
author of the McAvoy series, THE ZEALOT'S BONES is historical crime
with a difference.
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