Map No. 119, Yampa
- Gore Pass in Colorado, in an extensive series of GPS compatible, contoured hiking maps of USA’s national
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One of the maps in the topographic survey of Peru from the country’s national survey organization, Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Contours are at 25m intervals & colouring/symbols indicate different types of terrain & vegetation. Some of the maps may contain small blank spaces representing as yet unmapped areas. Each sheet covers 30’ latitude by 30’ longitude. The maps have a 1km UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1’. Publication dates vary; most maps were published in 1960s to 1990s, with some sheets revised more recently. Map legend is in Spanish only, except in the more recent editions which also include English.. ...

Already an online phenomenon, East Meets West is the first volume in designer Yang Liu`s successful infographic series. Conceived & designed with perceptive wit & her signature graphic simplicity, Yang Liu`s pictograms convey the obvious & sometimes not so obvious discrepancies in life on opposite sides of the globe. Drawing on her own experiences of China & Europe, Yang Liu explores a rich range of differences between Eastern & Western experience, from sleeping patterns to the role of senior citizens, from leisure activities to attitudes towards beauty, property & public space. With their clarity, insight & fundamental fondness towards both cultures. Yang Liu`s work has become not only a social media & magazine darling, but also a favorite with professional training programms around the world. ...

Time travel: A pictogram journey through now & then In this third installment in her pictogram series for TASCHEN, leading graphic designer Yang Liu brings the way we were face to face with the way we are. Hot on the heels of the bestselling predecessors, Today meets Yesterday deploys the same vivid pictogram pairings to explore the transformations, & the challenges, of our ever-evolving world. Liu has made her name with a combination of graphic precision & incisive observation of behavior patterns. In Today meets Yesterday, her eye for tastes & trends takes ambitious scope, juxtaposing past with present to explore fundamental shifts in society. Along the way, we encounter the tussle between competing ideologies, historic & current global dangers, our interaction with the environment, & the wholesale impact of technology on our ways of ways of living, learning, & loving, from online retail to the rise of the smombie. With an eye on everything from geopolitics to concentration spans, Liu s panorama incorporates the details of daily experience as much as the momentous happenings in history. Through Facebook, food waste, collectivism, & much more, Today meets Yesterday casts the familiar situation in a crisp & discerning light, bringing fresh awareness, as well as some ironies, to who we are & where we came from.” ...

Yangon (Rangoon) street plan at 1:24, 000 from Odyssey Books with on the reverse a road map of Burma/ Myanmar at 1:2, 150, 000, both with informative descriptions & colour photos of places of interest highlighted on them & various aspects of the country. On one side is a street plan of Yangon showing locations of numerous hotels, as well as museums, pagodas or zedis, & other places of interest. Surrounding the plan are descriptions of 37 various sites, illustrated with colour photos & cross-referenced to the plan. The districts immediately south of the city’s central railway station are also sown in greater detail on an enlargement. On the reverse is a road map of Burma at 1:2, 150, 000. Road & rail networks are shown on a base map with satellite-based relief shading & altitude colouring. Symbols indicate major historical or scenic sites, national parks & nature/wildlife reserves, international & domestic airports, & border crossings. The map has no geographical coordinates. Neither the street plan nor the road map is indexed. Like the plan of Yangon, the road map is also surrounded by informative descriptions & photos. ...

Architectural Guide Yangon presents around one hundred memorable buildings from Myanmar`s historical capital. Following decades of international isolation, the city`s vast heritage remains largely, surprisingly & spectacularly intact. Rangoon_- as it was known under the British
- was a melting pot of British India. Vivid traces of this legacy are everywhere, especially in the city`s Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish & Muslim houses of worship that often stand side by side, down town, in Yangon`s tightly-gridded streets. Since the country`s independence from the British in 1948, successive authoritarian regimes have also stamped the cityscape with their legacies. Today Yangon is a bustling & busy city in flux, at the frontier of Myanmar`s rapid opening to the wider world. Yangon`s urban fabric deserves a systematic guide that nourishes every visitor & resident`s shared fascination for the city & its history, offering countless anecdotes & notes on architectural detail.
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Historical Walks in Yangon (Rangoon), a waterproof & tear-resistant folded map from the Myanmar Heritage Trust published by Silkworm Books, with street plans & detailed descriptions of three walks around the city’s best preserved districts. On one side is a generalized street plan of Yangon naming main streets & districts. Three areas of particular historical & architectural interest are highlighted on the plan & shown in greater detail on separate insets, each with a route for a recommended walk & important buildings cross-referenced to the accompanying list. On the reverse each walk is given a very detailed description illustrated by old photos from late 19th & early 20th century. Further notes provide more information about the city in its colonial days. Also provided is a Heritage Building List of the city’s 187 buildings identified by the Yangon City Development Committee as the first step towards promoting heritage awareness. ...

Flowing over 6275 km (3900 miles) from one end of China to the other, the Yangtze is vast, varied, & mysterious, like China itself. It rises in the highlands of Tibet, where glaciers drip & ooze to create a network of icy channels that join to form what the Chinese call simply Chang Jiang, the Long River. From here it snakes & cascades its way through some of the worlds most spectacular scenery precipitous mountains, narrow gorges, & lush lowlands of eastern China, made fertile by the mud spread by the rivers frequent flooding. Yangtze follows the river on this fascinating & varied course. As it does so it explores many aspects of the river that have intrigued Chinese & westerners alike. It looks at the rivers unique wildlife, from the dazzling colours of rhododendrons & camellias on its banks to the endangered creatures, such as the baiji river dolphin, that dwell in or on the banks of its waters. It describes the teeming human activity along the river the fishing, farming, & trade that make it a lifeline & a livelihood for millions. And it looks at the rivers role in some of the turning points in Chinese history, such as the wars of the Three Kingdoms Period, the culture of the Tang dynasty, the Taiping Rebellion, & the Long March of Mao & his communist allies. Finally, Yangtze looks at the changes & challenges affecting the river today. For the Yangtze stands at a turning point. The worlds biggest civil engineering project, the construction of the Three Gorges dam across the river, is nearing completion. Chinas government hopes that the enormous dam will control the rivers floods, open up further reaches to big ships, & generate hydro-electricity. Opponents of the scheme point to the damage to the environment, the human costs, & the enormous risks involved. Beautifully illustrated with outstanding photographs & specially created maps, Yangtze pictures the river at a crucial time in its long & absorbing history. ...

The Yangzi River, including its Three Gorges region, on a new updated 2014 map from Odyssey Books, presenting the river & the surrounding area in a series of panels with maps at various scales, street plans & satellite images annotated with notes for visitors & spread across both sides of this title. An overview map of the whole of China with main cities & roads indicates coverage by three special panels: the upper Yangzi from its source to Luzhou, the lower Yangzi between Luzhou & Shanghai, plus within the river’s lower section two more detailed panels covering the most visited stretch between Chongqing & Yichang & a more detailed still close-up of just the Three Gorges. All the panels show road & rail networks & are annotated with numerous boxes with historical comments, notes on places of interest etc. Also provided are three city maps showing main streets & sights in Chongqing, Wuhan & Shanghai. Additional satellite maps explain problems connected with The Gorges Dam Project. ...

An unflinching & heartfelt story about racism & finding the strength to stand up for what`s right. Set in the Deep South in the 1960s, Yankee Girl still has strong resonances today. Synopsis It`s 1964 & Alice Anne Moxley has moved to Mississippi from Chicago with her family. The ` Yankee Girl` is taunted by the other girls at school, although she soon discovers the other new girl
- the school`s first black student
- suffers much worse. Alice is disturbed by what goes on, but knows she will remain an outsider if she defends Valerie. It takes a tragedy for her to realise what is really important & find the courage to act.

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