Topic: Peter Barber

A Tall Order

ABC 40/29 Ft.Smith (KHBS/KHOG) - 22 days ago
Greenland High School's head basketball coach, Jared Gobel, said he knows he has a special player on his team.. . "Like some of the coaches say...

Some Maps That Changed the World

Freakonomics - 632 days ago
Peter Barber, Head of Map Collections at the British Library, has compiled a list of 10 " map, a Chinese Globe from 1623, Google Maps, and an 1889 "Descriptive Map of London Poverty" that resulted in London's first council houses. Alas, William ...

The art of limiting distortion

Spectator, The London - 1199 days ago
RHUMB LINES AND MAP WARS by Mark Monmonnier University of Chicago Press, THE WORLD OF GERALD MERCATOR by Andrew Taylor HarperPerennial, 8.99, pp. On a two-dimensional map, for example, it may appear that the shortest distance between London and New York ...