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Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
wiley   +1 more source

Cave Palaeolithic of the Ural Mountains – a review

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
The Ural Mountains are of fundamental importance for studying early human migrations along the geographical limits between Europe and Asia. Geological processes and past climates gave rise to numerous caves, mostly in Palaeozoic carbonate formations.
Jiri Chlachula
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating and redesigning the teaching practices of the Kazakh Mythology- engraving techniques. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Baigutov K   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A century of art dealing in New York. The rise of American art

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We study art trade in New York between 1870 and 1970, analysing returns on investment by the renowned Knoedler gallery to shed light on the evolution of the American art market. A generalist art gallery should allocate investments to equalize expected returns, with differences in effective returns depending on purchase prices, number of traded
Federico Etro, Elena Stepanova
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Destructive Climatic Factors on the Mechanical and Performance Properties of Structural Materials. [PDF]

open access: yesMaterials (Basel)
Widomski P   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Map and Archival Evidence of the Historical Avulsion of the Brahmaputra River

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract One of the world's great rivers, the Brahmaputra, avulsed—changed course—significantly sometime between the dates of 1765 and 1830. These are the dates of surveys by James Rennell (grey) and Richard Wilcox (black), both under the direction of the East India Company; no other surveys between these dates can refine the estimate of the ...
Keith Richards   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Bauhaus as Education Model: Enduring Design and Powerful Knowledge

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The influence of the Bauhaus art, design, and architecture school is still relevant a century after it was closed down. Although its theory of learning is somewhat elusive there is significant agreement that the school continues to inspire domestic and commercial design, as well as stimulating interdisciplinary learning in institutions across ...
Martin Johnson, Tim Oates
wiley   +1 more source

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