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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Australia - The Young Oldest Country: 25 Ideas That Made Australia - Then and Now. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condizione: New.

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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Every Map Is a Lie explores the fascinating history of how humans have tried to represent the world around them, and the surprising ways those representations have shaped how we understand it.We tend to think of maps as objective pictures of reality. But every map is a choice. Someone decides what to include, what to leave out, what belongs at the centre, which names to use and where boundaries should be drawn. Some choices are mathematical or practical. Others are shaped by culture, politics, technology and power. A map can help us navigate the world, but it can also influence how we see it.Through 25 ideas, Every Map Is a Lie takes readers on a journey through the history of cartography, from some of the earliest attempts to record places and journeys to the digital maps we now carry in our pockets. Along the way, we encounter Babylonian clay tablets, ancient navigation, the development of coordinates and projections, Mercator's famous world map, the prime meridian at Greenwich, the naming of America and the rise of printed maps and atlases.The story also reveals the less obvious power of maps. Maps have been used to claim territory, establish borders, define countries and sometimes make entire peoples or places appear invisible. The Treaty of Tordesillas, the Berlin Conference and the idea of terra nullius show how a line on a map can have consequences far beyond the piece of paper on which it is drawn.Not all maps try to be geographically accurate. The London Underground map deliberately distorts the city to make its transport system easier to understand. An upside-down map of the world challenges our assumptions about what should be at the top. Modern digital maps bring their own questions, as algorithms, satellite imagery and enormous amounts of location data increasingly determine how we navigate and experience the world.The book also looks beyond the maps we know. Our understanding of the oceans remains surprisingly incomplete, coastlines are changing as sea levels rise and new technologies continue to reveal places that earlier mapmakers could never have imagined.Written as an accessible and curious exploration rather than a traditional history of cartography, Every Map Is a Lie invites readers to look at familiar maps with fresh eyes. It asks simple but surprisingly deep questions: Who decided that north should be at the top? Why does Europe appear at the centre of so many world maps? Who gets to draw a border? What happens when a map leaves someone out? And can a map ever truly represent the world?Every Map Is a Lie is ultimately about much more than geography. It is about the choices humans make when we try to simplify a complicated world - and how those choices can influence what we believe to be true.Because the map is never the world itself. It is an interpretation of the world.And once you understand that, you may never look at a map quite the same way again. Explore 25 fascinating ideas that reveal how maps shape our understanding of the world, from ancient clay tablets and explorers to borders, digital maps and the hidden choices behind every map we use. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Time feels simple until you start asking questions. Why does a year have 365 days? Why does the Moon change shape every night? And why do some festivals move across the calendar while others stay fixed? Across the world, people have looked at the same sky and created very different ways to measure time, each one shaped by observation, culture and need.This book takes young readers on a fascinating journey through time, sky and human ingenuity to uncover the hidden logic behind calendars.Follow Arjun and Navya as simple questions lead to big discoveries. Through conversations, stories and clear explanations, readers explore how the Sun, the Moon and the Earth create cycles that don't fit neatly together. Along the way they learn why a year is not exactly 365 days, why a month is not always a month and why no single calendar can perfectly match the sky.The 25 ideas are organised into six arcs that take readers from confusion to clarity.The Confusion opens with the question every child has asked. Why does Diwali fall on a different date every year? The answer turns out to be anything but simple.Reading the Sky travels back to the beginning, when the sky was the only clock humans had. The Moon made months. The Sun made years. And the two refused to agree.Building Calendars follows the great civilisations of Egypt and Rome as they tried to pin time down, each making brilliant and imperfect attempts to match the sky to human life.Fixing Time traces the extraordinary moments when humans intervened. Ten days were erased from the calendar. Railways forced the world to agree on a single time. Leap years were calculated to fractions of a day.The Core Conflict gets to the heart of the matter. Lunar calendars, solar calendars and lunisolar calendars all solve the same problem in different ways. None of them is wrong. None of them is complete.The Solution reveals the deepest secret in the history of timekeeping. A nineteen year cycle discovered by a Greek astronomer that quietly solved the problem every calendar had been trying to fix for thousands of years.Perfect for readers aged 10 to 18, this book combines storytelling with science to make complex ideas easy to understand without oversimplifying them.Inside you will discover: Why lunar and solar cycles don't matchHow different calendars handle the same mismatchThe real reason festivals shift datesHow humans turned observation into systemsWhy every calendar is both correct and incompleteThis is not just a book about dates and numbers. It is a story about how humans tried to make sense of the sky and in doing so revealed different ways of seeing the world.If you have ever wondered how time is measured or why calendars look the way they do, this book will change how you see every date on the page. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Australia feels familiar until you start asking questions. Why does a country with 65,000 years of human history celebrate its national day on the date a fleet of ships arrived? Why did the first law a brand new nation passed keep people out rather than welcome them in? And how did a continent at the edge of the world become one of its most remarkable democracies in just over a century?Across its ancient landscape and young nationhood, Australia holds some of the most extraordinary stories on Earth, each one shaped by deep time, colonial collision and the ongoing argument about who belongs and what this country is still becoming.This book takes young readers on a fascinating journey through the ideas, decisions and turning points that made Australia what it is today.Follow Arjun and Navya as simple questions lead to big discoveries. Through conversations, stories and clear explanations, readers explore how a continent became a country, how a penal colony became a democracy and how a nation that once tried to keep the world out became one of the most multicultural societies on Earth.The 25 ideas are organised into six arcs that tell the complete story of Australia from its deepest foundations to its unfinished present.The Deep Foundation explores 65,000 years of First Nations culture, songlines and the ancient relationship between people and Country.The Arrival traces the collision of two worlds on a harbour shore and the hundred years of conflict that followed.The Bargain examines the deals, compromises and hard-won reforms that shaped a new nation, from federation to Medicare.The Continent takes readers across the extraordinary physical landscape, from Uluru and the outback to the Great Barrier Reef and the cities that surprise the world.The Soul uncovers the stories, myths and passions that hold Australians together, from Anzac to the outback myth to the sport that stops a nation.The Becoming asks the big unfinished question. Who is Australia still becoming, and what will your generation add to the argument?Perfect for readers aged 10 to 16, this book combines storytelling with history, civics and geography to make complex ideas easy to understand without oversimplifying them. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Time feels simple until you start asking questions. Why does a year have 365 days Why does the Moon change shape every night And why do some festivals move across the calendar while others stay fixed Across the world, people have looked at the same sky and created very different ways to measure time, each one shaped by observation, culture and need.This book takes young readers on a fascinating journey through time, sky and human ingenuity to uncover the hidden logic behind calendars.Follow Arjun and Navya as simple questions lead to big discoveries. Through conversations, stories and clear explanations, readers explore how the Sun, the Moon and the Earth create cycles that don't fit neatly together. Along the way they learn why a year is not exactly 365 days, why a month is not always a month and why no single calendar can perfectly match the sky.The 25 ideas are organised into six arcs that take readers from confusion to clarity.The Confusion opens with the question every child has asked. Why does Diwali fall on a different date every year The answer turns out to be anything but simple.Reading the Sky travels back to the beginning, when the sky was the only clock humans had. The Moon made months. The Sun made years. And the two refused to agree.Building Calendars follows the great civilisations of Egypt and Rome as they tried to pin time down, each making brilliant and imperfect attempts to match the sky to human life.Fixing Time traces the extraordinary moments when humans intervened. Ten days were erased from the calendar. Railways forced the world to agree on a single time. Leap years were calculated to fractions of a day.The Core Conflict gets to the heart of the matter. Lunar calendars, solar calendars and lunisolar calendars all solve the same problem in different ways. None of them is wrong. None of them is complete.The Solution reveals the deepest secret in the history of timekeeping. A nineteen year cycle discovered by a Greek astronomer that quietly solved the problem every calendar had been trying to fix for thousands of years.Perfect for readers aged 10 to 18, this book combines storytelling with science to make complex ideas easy to understand without oversimplifying them.Inside you will discover:Why lunar and solar cycles don't matchHow different calendars handle the same mismatchThe real reason festivals shift datesHow humans turned observation into systemsWhy every calendar is both correct and incompleteThis is not just a book about dates and numbers. It is a story about how humans tried to make sense of the sky and in doing so revealed different ways of seeing the world.If you have ever wondered how time is measured or why calendars look the way they do, this book will change how you see every date on the page.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Australia feels familiar until you start asking questions. Why does a country with 65,000 years of human history celebrate its national day on the date a fleet of ships arrived Why did the first law a brand new nation passed keep people out rather than welcome them in And how did a continent at the edge of the world become one of its most remarkable democracies in just over a century Across its ancient landscape and young nationhood, Australia holds some of the most extraordinary stories on Earth, each one shaped by deep time, colonial collision and the ongoing argument about who belongs and what this country is still becoming.This book takes young readers on a fascinating journey through the ideas, decisions and turning points that made Australia what it is today.Follow Arjun and Navya as simple questions lead to big discoveries. Through conversations, stories and clear explanations, readers explore how a continent became a country, how a penal colony became a democracy and how a nation that once tried to keep the world out became one of the most multicultural societies on Earth.The 25 ideas are organised into six arcs that tell the complete story of Australia from its deepest foundations to its unfinished present.The Deep Foundation explores 65,000 years of First Nations culture, songlines and the ancient relationship between people and Country.The Arrival traces the collision of two worlds on a harbour shore and the hundred years of conflict that followed.The Bargain examines the deals, compromises and hard-won reforms that shaped a new nation, from federation to Medicare.The Continent takes readers across the extraordinary physical landscape, from Uluru and the outback to the Great Barrier Reef and the cities that surprise the world.The Soul uncovers the stories, myths and passions that hold Australians together, from Anzac to the outback myth to the sport that stops a nation.The Becoming asks the big unfinished question. Who is Australia still becoming, and what will your generation add to the argument Perfect for readers aged 10 to 16, this book combines storytelling with history, civics and geography to make complex ideas easy to understand without oversimplifying them.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Every Map Is a Lie explores the fascinating history of how humans have tried to represent the world around them, and the surprising ways those representations have shaped how we understand it.We tend to think of maps as objective pictures of reality. But every map is a choice. Someone decides what to include, what to leave out, what belongs at the centre, which names to use and where boundaries should be drawn. Some choices are mathematical or practical. Others are shaped by culture, politics, technology and power. A map can help us navigate the world, but it can also influence how we see it.Through 25 ideas, Every Map Is a Lie takes readers on a journey through the history of cartography, from some of the earliest attempts to record places and journeys to the digital maps we now carry in our pockets. Along the way, we encounter Babylonian clay tablets, ancient navigation, the development of coordinates and projections, Mercator's famous world map, the prime meridian at Greenwich, the naming of America and the rise of printed maps and atlases.The story also reveals the less obvious power of maps. Maps have been used to claim territory, establish borders, define countries and sometimes make entire peoples or places appear invisible. The Treaty of Tordesillas, the Berlin Conference and the idea of terra nullius show how a line on a map can have consequences far beyond the piece of paper on which it is drawn.Not all maps try to be geographically accurate. The London Underground map deliberately distorts the city to make its transport system easier to understand. An upside-down map of the world challenges our assumptions about what should be at the top. Modern digital maps bring their own questions, as algorithms, satellite imagery and enormous amounts of location data increasingly determine how we navigate and experience the world.The book also looks beyond the maps we know. Our understanding of the oceans remains surprisingly incomplete, coastlines are changing as sea levels rise and new technologies continue to reveal places that earlier mapmakers could never have imagined.Written as an accessible and curious exploration rather than a traditional history of cartography, Every Map Is a Lie invites readers to look at familiar maps with fresh eyes. It asks simple but surprisingly deep questions: Who decided that north should be at the top? Why does Europe appear at the centre of so many world maps? Who gets to draw a border? What happens when a map leaves someone out? And can a map ever truly represent the world?Every Map Is a Lie is ultimately about much more than geography. It is about the choices humans make when we try to simplify a complicated world - and how those choices can influence what we believe to be true.Because the map is never the world itself. It is an interpretation of the world.And once you understand that, you may never look at a map quite the same way again. Explore 25 fascinating ideas that reveal how maps shape our understanding of the world, from ancient clay tablets and explorers to borders, digital maps and the hidden choices behind every map we use. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…