| Browstone,
David (M./Franck, Irene ()-Timelines of war : a chronology of warfare
from 100,000 B.C. to the present (1994) [Little, Brown and Company; Boston/New
York/Toronto/London; p.562; 29cm] |
Each
set of opposite pages displays in a parrallel running columns, different
wars and ... |
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war related events or circumstances. Because of the big size of the book....and
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limited vertical size of a computer screen, the text is hardly readable...
but these |
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pages are just here to show an attempt by graphic text representation
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historical events in global space. Because it remains a paginated book...
this does |
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not realy work well. A scroll like solution (sometimes called a leperello
or zig-zag ... |
book
would have been a better. but more expensive solution.One imagines that
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use of graphic symbols could have greatly enhanced such a book. very tiny
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country contours could have been used and maybe a set of symbols fo the... |
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diffrent type of wars mentioned.
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