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A map of landslide, avalanche, and mudslide vulnerable areas of the Soviet Union. Notice how much of the hazard zones are in sparsely populated areas in the Far East, but also in more thickly settled mountain regions of Central Asia and the Caucasus.

This is a chart depicting the movement of devoted emergency management bureaus within the government structures of the former Soviet states during independence. The bars are colored by region. Transparency indicates the presence of a legal framework…

Mrs. Tonia Lechtman was the fourth member of the team, and was actually in charge of putting the team together from Switzerland, where Noel Field was based in 1944. Her husband had fought in the International Brigade that fought against Franco in…

Okudzhava's blue trolley

This highly iconographic map of Muscovy was put together by Anthony Jenkinson after his late sixteenth century travels through the region. Note the myriad ways in which modes of travel are depicted throughout this map.

An interactive graph, or "score," of Nabokov's short story "A Guide to Berlin." The interactive "score" of Nabokov's "A guide to Berlin" shows the progression of the narrative verb by verb in each chapter (left to right, horizontal axis) and the…

This schematic representation of the narrative movement of Nabokov's "A Guide to Berlin" shows the temporal complexity of the narrative. Each block (color-coded by the location) represents a small textual segment, in which the time of action was…