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The book starts with the author's early flying experiences as a co-pilot with British Airways and moves on to his life as a Captain and after nearly 30 years of airline flying this was followed by 10 years of flying a 1934 vintage aeroplane. Then Denis on his 60th birthday, decided to build a composite 4-seater single engine aeroplane. This project took 5 years and the book continues with an account of their flight across the North Atlantic in...

The book starts with the author's early flying experiences as a co-pilot with British Airways and moves on to his life as a Captain and after nearly 30 years of airline flying this was followed by 10 years of flying a 1934 vintage aeroplane. Then Denis on his 60th birthday, decided to build a composite 4-seater single engine aeroplane. This project took 5 years and the book continues with an account of their flight across the North Atlantic in...

A contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking "Power of Maps, " this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the modern state and how maps continue to embody and project the interests of their creators. He demystifies the hidden assumptions of mapmaking and explores the promises and limi...

This volume ventures into terrain where even the most sophisticated map fails to lead--through the mapmaker's bias. Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power. Like paintings, they express a point of view. By connecting us to a reality that could not exist in the absence of maps--a world of property lines and voting rights, taxation districts and enterprise zone...

The protection of pedestrians is the most important global road safety priority. This is the first book to provide a detailed treatment of the physical processes which occur when pedestrians and cyclists are struck by motorised vehicles. The principal focus is to show how pedestrian and cyclist pre-impact movements and vehicle design influence subsequent injury outcome. This involves recourse to several academic disciplines: epidemiology, mec...

Cartographers know that maps are more than just representations of the world, rather, every map reflects the agendas and intentions of its creators. Employing several nature maps, this book explores the different aspects of maps' self-presentation: from place names to titles and legends.