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Mapping Different Geographies

By: Karel Kriz,William Cartwright,Lorenz Hurni

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Mapping Different Geographies

By: Karel Kriz,William Cartwright,Lorenz Hurni

This book is the outcome of the work of contributors who participated in the wo- shop “Mapping Different Geographies (MDG)” in February 2010, held in Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria. This meeting brought together cartographers, artists and geoscientists who research and practice in applications that focus on enhancing o- to-one communication or develop and evaluate methodologies that provide inno- tive methods for sharing information. The main intention of the workshop was to investigate how ‘different’ geographies are being mapped and the possibilities for developing new theories and techniques for information design and transfer based on place or location. So as to communicate these concepts it was important to appreciate the many contrasting meanings of ‘mapping’ that were held by workshop participants. Also, the many (and varied) viewpoints of what different geographies are, were ela- rated upon and discussed. Therefore, as the focus on space and time was embedded within everyone’s felds of investigation, this was addressed during the workshop. This resulted in very engaging discourse, which, in some cases, exposed the restrictions that certain approaches need to consider. For participants, this proved to be most useful, as this allowed them to appreciate the limits and restrictions of their own approach to understanding and representing different geographies. As well, the workshop also was most helpful as a vehicle for demonstrating the common ground of interest held by the very diverse areas of endeavour that the workshop participants work within.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642155375

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Believe in People

The Essential Karel Capek

By: Karel Capek

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Believe in People

The Essential Karel Capek

By: Karel Capek

Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word 'robot' in his play RUR, Capek was a vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of Czechoslovakia of the 1920s and 30s. But it is in his journalism - his brief, sparky and delightful columns - that Capek can be found at his most succinct, direct and appealing. This selection of Capek's writing, translated into English for the first time, contains his essential ideas. The pieces are animated by his passion for the ordinary and the everyday - from laundry to toothache, from cats to cleaning windows - his love of language, his lyrical observations of the world and above all his humanism, his belief in people. His letters to his wife Olga, also published here, are extraordinarily moving and beautifully distinct from his other writings. Uplifting, enjoyable and endlessly wise, Believe in People is a collection to treasure.

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Faber & Faber

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0571271707

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9780571271702

The Absolute at Large

By: Karel Capek

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The Absolute at Large

By: Karel Capek

The Absolute at Large By KAREL CAPE. First published in 1927.CONTENTS: CHAPTER PAOBI The Advertisement 7 The Karbitrator n Pantheism 17IV. God in the Cellar, 23V Bishop Linda 29VI The BoardMeeting 36VII Developments 41VIII The Dredge 46IX The Ceremony 53X Saint Ellen 59XI. The First Blow Struck 64XII Doctor Blahous 70XIII The Chroniclers Apology 75XIV The Land of Plenty 80XV Disaster 86XVI In the Mountains 92XVII The Hammer and Star 98XVIII, In the Night Editors Room 102XIX. The Process of Canonization 108XX St Kilda 113XXI The Telegram 119XXII The Old Patriot 124XXIII. The Augsburg Imbroglio 130CONTENTSCHAPTER PAGEXXIV. The Napoleon of the MountainBrigade 136XXV. The socalled Greatest War 141XXVI. The Battle of Hradec Kralove 145XXVII. A Coral Island in the Pacific 150XXVIII. At Seven Cottages 155XXIX. The Last Battle 159XXX. The End of Everything 163. CHAPTER I: THE ADVERTISEMENT. ONE New Years Day, 1943, G H Bondy, head of the great Metallo Electncal Company, was sitting as usual reading his paper He skipped the news from the theatre of war rather disrespectfully, avoided the Cabinet crisis, then crowded onsail for the Peoples Journal, which had grown long ago tofive times its ancient size, now afforded enough canvas for an ocean voyage for the Finance and Commerce section Here he cruised about for quite a while, then furled his sails, and abandoned himself to his thoughtsThe Coal Crisis he said to himself Mines getting worked out the Ostrava basin suspending work for years.Heavens above, its a sheer disaster Well have to importUpper Silesian coal. Just work out what that will add to thecost of our manufactures, and then talk about competition.Were in a pretty fix And if Germany raises her tariff, wemay as well shut up shop And the Industrial Banks goingdown, too What a wretched state of affairs What a hopeless, stupid, stifling state of affairs Oh, damn the crisisHere G H Bondy, Chairman of the Board of Directors, came to a pause Something was fidgeting him and would nollet him rest He traced it back to the last page of his discardednewspaper It was the syllable TioNj only part of a word, fothe fold of the paper came just in front of the T. It was thivery incompleteness which had so curiously impressed itselupon him. Well, hang it, its probably IRON PRODUCTION Bondpondered vaguely, or PREVENTION, or, maybe, RESTITUTION. . . And the Azote shares have gone down, too. The stagnations simply shocking. The positions so bad that itridiculous . But thats nonsense who would advertisethe RESTITUTION of anything? More likely RESIGNATION Itssure to be RESIGNATION.With a touch of annoyance, G H Bondy spread out thenewspaper to dispose of this irritating word It had nowvanished amid the chequering of the small advertisements Hehunted for it from one column to another, but it had concealeditself with provoking ingenuity. Mr. Bondy then worked fromthe bottom up, and finally started again from, the righthandside of the page.

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1443725315

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