Last Will and Testament by Elizabeth Ferrars

Last Will and Testament by Elizabeth Ferrars

The increasingly widespread use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has meant that a version of 'geography' has been exported to many other disciplines and walks of life where this technology has been found to be useful. In the analysis of geographic information, 'geography' is often short hand for the spaces and distances used to explain or model some phenomenon. Typically, it is the usefulness of this, in turn almost entirely a consequence of the phenomenon of spatial autocorrelation, which explains the evident popularity of GIS.

The academic underpinning of GIS, Geographical Information Science is not merely a technical subject; it poses difficult theoretical questions on the nature of geographic representation and whether or not there exist limits on the ability of GIS to deal with certain objects and issues. This book attempts to synthesize the different strands of debate between technical GIS issues and social-theory of GI Science representation by looking at the conceptual and applied aspects of the subject in one cohesive volume.

This is the first book to present the debate surrounding technical GIS and theory of representation from an 'inside' GIS perspective.

The chapters have been split into three distinct sections exploring objects, time and space; their interaction with each other and with GIS

Re-presenting GIS is aimed at:

• advanced students (undergraduate and postgraduate) taking courses in GIS
• academic researchers in GI Science and Computer Science with interests in the modelling of spatial information and
• practitioners involved with GIS who need an accessible guide to current thinking in GI Science research.

The Workshop that gave rise to this book was organized with the generous assistance of the UK Economic and Social Research Council, under its Research Seminar series. The editors wish to express their gratitude.

Morna Doris MacTaggart was born in Burma in 1907 and sent at the age of six to a prestigious boarding school in England. After an early marriage and the publication of two novels, in 1940 her life was turned upside-down when she both met Robert Brown and published Give a Corpse a Bad Name, her first mystery and the first in what would become the five-book Toby Dyke series. She and Brown married in 1945 and in 1951 moved to the US, though they returned to the UK only a year later, sickened by America's turn toward McCarthyism. In 1953 Ferrars helped found the Crime Writers' Association. The couple lived in Edinburgh for 25 years, during which Ferrars wrote more than 35 crime novels, finally returning to series mystery--first with the Virginia and Alex Freer books and then with Andrew Basnett--in the late 1970s, after a move to Oxfordshire. She died in 1995, having published more than 75 novels and numerous short stories, nearly all of them involving dead bodies.

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ISBN 13	9780002317504
ISBN 10	0002317508
Title	Last Will and Testament
Author	Elizabeth Ferrars
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Distribution Services
Year published	1978-05-25
Number of pages	192
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