“The land on which we live has always shaped us. It has shaped the wars, the power, politics, and social development of the peoples that now inhabit nearly every part of the earth. Technology may seem to overcome the distances…
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Book Report: Prisoners of Geography
Tagged with: Africa, Arab Spring, Arctic, Bild, Canada, cartography, China, colonialism, European Union, France, geopolitics, Germany, Helmut Kohl, Ho Chi Minh, maps, Monroe Doctrine, Prisoners of Geography, Russia, The Righteous Mind, Tim Marshall, Vietnam, Winner Take All
Posted in Books, Everything
Posted in Books, Everything
Book Report: Drunk Tank Pink
“These studies tell us something profound and perhaps a bit disturbing about what makes us who we are: there isn’t a single version of ‘you’. It’s comforting to believe that there’s an essential version of each of us, that good…
Tagged with: Adam Alter, Drunk Tank Pink, influence, labels, maps, naming, social psychology, symbols, xenophobia
Posted in Books, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Math and Science
Book Report: The Ghost Map
“Epidemics create a kind of history from below: they can be world-changing, but the participants are almost inevitably ordinary folk, following their established routines, not thinking for a second about how their actions will be recorded for posterity. And of…
Tagged with: Carl Sagan, cholera, epidemiology, Henry Whitehead, Jane Jacobs, John Snow, London, maps, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map
Posted in Books, Leadership, Marketing, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Leadership, Marketing, Math and Science
Book Report: How to Lie with Maps
“A good map tells a multitude of little white lies; it suppresses truth to help the user see what needs to be seen. But the value of a map depends on how well its generalized geometry and generalized content reflect a…
Tagged with: cartography, lessons, lies, maps, politics, propaganda, storytelling
Posted in Advertising, Books, Leadership
Posted in Advertising, Books, Leadership
