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Author: Laura Kurgan
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1935408283

Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics

The maps in this book are drawn with satellites, assembled with pixels radioed from outer space, and constructed from statistics; they record situations of intense conflict and express fundamental transformations in our ways of seeing and of experiencing space. Download Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. These maps are built with Global Positioning Systems (GPS), remote sensing satellites, or Geographic Information Systems (GIS): digital spatial hardware and software designed for such military and governmental uses as reconnaissance, secrecy, monitoring, ballistics, the census, and national security. Rather than shying away from the politics and complexities of their intended uses, in Close Up at a Distance Laura Kurgan attempts to illuminate them. Poised at the intersection of Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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