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E-raamat: Around the World in 80 Ways: Exploring Our Planet Through Maps and Data

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  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2023
  • Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG
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  • ISBN-13: 9783031024405
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  • Formaat: EPUB+DRM
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2023
  • Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Keel: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9783031024405
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Around the World in 80 Ways offers a (sometimes opinionated) discussion of 80 data-driven maps of our planet. Taken together, the maps tell a story about the physical world; about the impact our species is having on the world; and about how people live in the world – or at least how we lived immediately before the emergence of Covid-19.

The maps lie. All maps lie. But the origins of the deceptions are explained, the data sources are signposted and referenced, and the readers are shown how to create their own maps using freely available software. The reader is thus armed with the tools needed to explore local, national or world data – on topics ranging from science to society; environment to entertainment; wealth to wellbeing – a valuable skill in an age when certain politicians are happy to refer to “alternative facts” and media outlets deliver data visualizations that sometimes mislead as much as inform.

Mapping the World
1(1)
1 Map Projections
1(1)
2 Map Conventions
2(2)
3 What Is a Country Anyway?
4(1)
4 Visualising the Data
4(1)
5 Collecting and Interpreting the Data
5(1)
6 A Moment in Time
6(1)
7 Questions, Questions
6(1)
The World Itself
7(32)
1 Earth's Poles (Map 1)
7(3)
2 Meteorites (Map 2)
10(4)
3 Waterworld (Map 3)
14(2)
4 Getting Away from It All (Map 4)
16(3)
5 The Longest Straight Line You Can Sail (Map 5)
19(2)
6 The Longest Straight Line You Can Walk Without Getting Your Feet Wet (Map 6)
21(3)
7 Volcanic Eruptions Over the Past 12,000 Years (Map 7)
24(4)
8 Forests (Map 8)
28(3)
9 Chemical Elements Named After Places on Earth (Map 9)
31(4)
10 Earth's Phosphorus (Map 10)
35(4)
The World of Countries
39(24)
11 Countries Named After People (Map 11)
39(3)
12 The Gender Gap (Map 12)
42(2)
13 Female Leaders (Map 13)
44(2)
14 Flags Containing Red (Map 14)
46(2)
15 Passport Colours (Map 15)
48(2)
16 Driving: Left or Right? (Map 16)
50(2)
17 Capital Punishment (Map 17)
52(3)
18 Press Freedom (Map 18)
55(2)
19 Dominance of a Capital City (Map 19)
57(2)
20 Population Density (Map 20)
59(4)
The World Perturbed by People
63(24)
21 Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Map 21)
63(3)
22 My Short-Haul Carbon Footprint (Map 22)
66(2)
23 Busiest Airline Routes (Map 23)
68(3)
24 Renewable Electricity (Map 24)
71(3)
25 Nuclear Power Generation (Map 25)
74(3)
26 Trash (Map 26)
77(2)
27 Plastic Waste (Map 27)
79(2)
28 Pesticide Use (Map 28)
81(2)
29 Mammal Species Under Threat (Map 29)
83(2)
30 Night Sky Brightness (Map 30)
85(2)
The World of the Built Environment
87(24)
31 Homes at Risk of Rising Sea Levels (Map 31)
87(3)
32 Lighthouses (Map 32)
90(2)
33 World Heritage Sites (Map 33)
92(4)
34 Roman Amphitheatres (Map 34)
96(2)
35 The 100 Tallest Buildings (Map 35)
98(2)
36 Spaceports (Map 36)
100(2)
37 The 500 Most Powerful Supercomputers (Map 37)
102(2)
38 Mains Frequency (Map 38)
104(2)
39 Sharing a McDonald's (Map 39)
106(2)
40 Soccer Stadia (Map 40)
108(3)
The World of Thoughts, Ideas, and Beliefs
111(22)
41 The Most Complex Machine Ever Built (Map 41)
111(4)
42 Scientific Productivity (Map 42)
115(2)
43 Intellectual Property (Map 43)
117(2)
44 Views on the Safety of Vaccines (Map 44)
119(2)
45 Good at Maths? (Map 45)
121(2)
46 Literacy (Map 46)
123(2)
47 Marking Time (Map 47)
125(2)
48 UFO Sightings (Map 48)
127(2)
49 How the World Believes (Map 49)
129(2)
50 The Happiness of Nations (Map 50)
131(2)
The World of Wellbeing
133(24)
51 Homicide (Map 51)
133(3)
52 Suicide (Map 52)
136(2)
53 Obesity in Adults (Map 53)
138(2)
54 Alcohol Consumption (Map 54)
140(2)
55 Road Traffic Deaths (Map 55)
142(2)
56 Incidence of Malaria (Map 56)
144(3)
57 Experience of Pain Yesterday (Map 57)
147(2)
58 How the World Dies (Map 58)
149(3)
59 The Life Expectancy Gender Gap (Map 59)
152(2)
60 Life Expectancy at Birth (Map 60)
154(3)
The World of Sport and Leisure
157(22)
61 Football World Cup (Map 61)
157(2)
62 Success at the Summer Olympics (Map 62)
159(3)
63 Success at the Summer Paralympics (Map 63)
162(2)
64 Chess Playing Strength (Map 64)
164(2)
65 Shakespeare's World (Map 65)
166(2)
66 Nobel Prize for Literature (Map 66)
168(2)
67 Going to the Movies (Map 67)
170(2)
68 Computer Games (Map 68)
172(2)
69 What the World Is Searching For (Map 69)
174(2)
70 Active on Social Media (Map 70)
176(3)
The World of Economics
179(22)
71 Accessing Cash (Map 71)
179(2)
72 Units of Currency (Map 72)
181(2)
73 Gold Reserves (Map 73)
183(1)
74 The Indebtedness of Nations (Map 74)
183(4)
75 Standard of Living (Map 75)
187(2)
76 Big Apple (Map 76)
189(2)
77 International Tourism (Map 77)
191(2)
78 Military Expenditure (Map 78)
193(2)
79 Access to Electricity (Map 79)
195(2)
80 Catching Fish (Map 80)
197(4)
Appendix A Afterword 201(2)
Appendix B Notes and Sources 203(4)
Appendix C Technical Appendix 207(2)
References 209(6)
Index 215
Following a first-class honours degree in Physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Manchester Stephen Webb has worked at a number of UK universities. In addition to shorter works, he has published nine books one of which won the SETI League award and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize (now Royal Society Winton Prize) for best science book. He is active in outreach activities, having spoken at numerous international conferences, podcasts and radio shows, and his 2018 TED Talk has been viewed over 6 million times.  He has published an undergraduate textbook Measuring the Universe - The Cosmological Distance Ladder (1999) as well as several popular science books, among them Out of this World - Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics in 2004, New Eyes on the Universe - Twelve Cosmic Mysteries and the Tools We Need to Solve Them in 2012, the second edition of If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life in 2015, All the Wonder that Would Be - Exploring Past Notions of the Future in 2017, and New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales in 2019 also published as part of Springers Science and Fiction series, as well as recently, Clash of Symbols - A ride through the riches of glyphs.
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