![]() Previously Ian was economic advisor to President Mandela and then Vice President and Policy Head for the World Bank. Ian Goldin (Author) Ian Goldin (Author) Ian Goldin is the Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development and the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School, a world-leading group of over 300 experts from across Oxford University tackling the most pressing challenges facing humanity. A riveting account of humanity´s most pressing challenges and innovative solutions, fusing mesmerizing maps and compelling analysis to help navigate our complex future. Offering an unflinching account of our challenges and ways to fix them, it willleave you optimistic about the future. This book offers a future-looking guide to navigate our uncertain times. Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah´s hypnotic maps surprise and amaze. (Saskia Sassen, Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, author of Expulsions and The Global City) Fascinating, beautiful, alarming and revelatory use of mapping and infographics An indispensable read. This is a must read for everyone striving to make a better world. By inviting readers to traverse a vast range of disciplines and ideas, their volume helps each of us better appreciate how our problems are interconnected. Goldin and Muggah use powerfully-engaging maps to help understand and confront our biggest challenges - from climate change to inequality. (Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol) Terra Incognita draws readers into multiple worlds and provides the tools to navigate between them. Full of mesmerizing maps and powerful story-telling, Terra Incognita is an indispensable guide to change our futures for the better. Full of facts that will confound you, inform you, and ultimately empower you, Terra Incognita guides readers to a new place of understanding, rather than to a physical location.Įvery young person must read this book. The book traces the paths of peoples, cities, wars, climates and technologies, all on a global scale. Learn about: fires in the arctic the impact of sea level rise on cities around the world the truth about immigration - and why fears in the West are a myth the counter-intuitive future of population rise the miracles of health and education that are waiting around the corner, and the reality about inequality, and how we end it. ![]() Based on decades of research, and combining mesmerising, state-of-the-art satellite maps with enlightening and passionately argued analysis, Ian and Robert chart humanity's impact on the planet, and the ways in which we can make a real impact to save it, and to thrive as a species. But as Albert Einstein once said, 'you can't use old maps to explore a new world.' And now, when the world is changing faster than ever before, our old maps are no longer fit for purpose. ![]() From the moment homo sapiens learnt to communicate we have used them to make sense of our surroundings. Windows XP is supported up to v5.20.0 of the program.'A stunning account of our fast-changing world' Francis Fukuyama 'An indispensable read' Arianna Huffington 'Fascinating, beautiful, alarming and revelatory use of mapping and infographics' Stephen Fry on EarthTime maps From the global impact of the Coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the Australian bushfires, join authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah as they trace the ways in which our world has changed and the ways in which it will continue to change over the next hundred years. Supported operating systems (32 and 64 bit):įor older operating systems (Windows 95, 98, ME, NT), please download version 1 of EarthTime here. Silent installation and uninstallation for mass deployment Weather data (temperature, humidity, wind, air pressure, METAR data, etc.) Locations of more than 140.000 Cities with local time and dateĬlouds (internet download of current satellite cloud data) Many options allow flexible customization. Alarms can be set on the local time of any city in the world. ![]() EarthTime shows a map of the earth with daylight and night shadows, local weather conditions and optionally a cloud layer with current satellite cloud data. It has a built-in database of thousands of cities worldwide but users can add any number of custom locations. EarthTime displays the local time and date of any place in the world. ![]()
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