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  • Placing Names

    Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers

    Edited by Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth Mostern, Humphrey Southall ...
    Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Digital Methods

    by Richard Rogers ...
    A proposal to repurpose Web-native techniques for use in social and cultural scholarly research.In Digital Methods, Richard Rogers proposes a methodological outlook for social and cultural scholarly research on the Web that seeks to move Internet research beyond the study of online culture. It is not a toolkit for Internet research, or operating instructions for a software package; it deals with ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Stack, 10th anniversary edition with new preface by the author

    On Software and Sovereignty

    by Benjamin H. Bratton ...
    Series series Software Studies
    **Why The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and the geopolitical model of our times.A tenth anniversary edition of the comprehensive political philosophy of planetary-scale computation, with a new preface from the author.**What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales—from energy and mineral ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • A Billion Voices

    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

    by David Moser ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Mandarin, Guoyu or Putonghua? 'Chinese' is a language known by many names, and China is a country home to many languages. Since the turn of the twentieth century linguists and politicians have been on a mission to create a common language for China. From the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, to leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, all fought linguistic wars to push the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Hangeul

    Korea's unique Alphabet

    by Robert Koehler ...
    Series Book 1 - Korea Essentials
    Hangeul, the indigenous writing system of Korea, was promulgated in 1446. It is an ingenious system that utilizes modern and scientific linguistic theories and principles of Korean traditional culture to perfectly express the sounds of the Korean language. Crafted by some of the leading scholars of the age, including the brilliant King Sejong the Great, the alphabet has been widely lauded by ... Read more

    $9.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction to Multilingualism

    Language in a Changing World

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics
    This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms such as 'mother tongue', 'native speaker', and 'speech community'. In the chapters that follow, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A New Companion to Digital Humanities

    Edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship.A fully revised edition of a celebrated reference work, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this rapidly evolving ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Spatial Humanities

    GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship

    Edited by David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, Trevor M. Harris ...
    Geographic information systems (GIS) have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behavior and cultural development. Ideally GIS enables humanities scholars to discover relationships of memory, artifact, and experience that exist in a particular place and across time. Although successfully used by other disciplines, efforts by humanists to apply GIS and the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Critical Theory and the Digital

    by Dr. David M. Berry ...
    Series series Critical Theory and Contemporary Society
    This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead our politics, societies, economies, media, and even private lives. In particular, the work examines how the ... Read more

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  • The Map Reader

    Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation

    Edited by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, Chris Perkins ...
    WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel FoundationThe Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking ... Read more

    $155.99 CAD

  • Geomedia

    Networked Cities and the Future of Public Space

    by Scott McQuire ...
    Geomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities. As ubiquitous digital networks enable embedded and mobile devices to integrate place-specific data with real-time feedback circuits, everyday experience of public space has become subject to new demands. Looking beyond debates framed by the dominance of surveillance ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Recoding the Museum

    Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change

    by Ross Parry ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Why has it taken so long to make computers work for the museum sector?And why are museums still having some of the same conversations about digital technology that they began back in the late 1960s?Does there continue to be a basic ‘incompatibility’ between the practice of the museum and the functions of the computer that explains this disconnect?Drawing upon an impressive range of professional ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD