The power of detail.
I felt SOOOoooo virtuous picking out The Power of Maps by Denis Wood as my next bedtime book. For a start - no pictures (unlike most of the lovely map books out there), secondly I had found it whilst reading the recommended biblography for the only university module that exists (as far as I know), on location-based mobile media. Well if THEY say so..
I've never read such a detailed verbal count of a visual communication medium. Denis wood takes a long, leisurely chapter to fully demonstrate that maps are not objective, another to argue that categorising them would be like trying to categorise the world. In my opinion, the detail is unneccesary unless you're thinking of becoming a devout cartographer or making lots of cartographer friends.
I'm being a bit unfair because despite its' wordiness, each chapter leaves me enlightened.
if nothing else.....it's going to come in handy on 7th!
Plan to provide a summary of each chapter here, for those who don't fancy plowing through it themselves!