The first step on the ITIL 4 pathway provides IT professionals with an understanding of the ITIL 4 framework and its practical application to the modern digital world while serving as expert reference guidance for solving day-to-day problems. It is fully aligned with the ITIL 4 Foundation exam and is ideal guidance for IT professionals who require an understanding of the ITIL 4 framework and how to apply it to the modern digital world. Product details Format Paperback | 212 pages Dimensions 213.36 ...
In this book the main trends, concepts and directions in cartography and mapping in modernism and post-modernism are reviewed. Philosophical and epistemological issues are analysed in cartography from positivist-empiricist, neo-positivist and post-structuralist stances. In general, in cartography technological aspects have been considered as well as theoretical issues. The aim is to highlight the epistemological and philosophical viewpoint during the development of the discipline. Some main philosophers who have been influential for contemporary thinking such as Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Popper and Bertrand Russell, are considered. None of these philosophers wrote about cartography directly (excepting Kant), but their philosophies are related to cartography and mapping issues. The book also analyses the concept of paradigm or paradigm shift coined by Thomas Kuhn, who applied it to the history of science. Different cartographic trends that have arisen since the second ha...