Compass rose two adjacent cardinal directions. For example, North-by-east (NbE) is one quarter wind from North towards East, Northeast-by-north (NEbN) is one quarter wind from Northeast toward North. Naming all 32 points on the rose is called "boxing the compass". The 32-point rose has the uncomfortable number of 11° between points, but is easily found by halving divisions and may have been easier for those not using a 360° circle. Using gradians, of which there are 400 in a circle, the sixteen-point rose will have twenty-five gradians per point. Linguistic anthropological studies have shown that most human communities have four points of
The Broken Compass Continuum, with the altered subtitle "How Left and Right Lost Their Meaning". In anticipation of the 2010 general election, a revised paperback edition with the new title "The Cameron Delusion" was released in the UK on 17 March 2010. Poole in his "Guardian" review wrote that "Hitchens should at least be applauded for taking the trouble to provide an amusing index, a duty shirked by too many authors." The index was the subject of a full-page parody by Craig Brown in the magazine "Private Eye". The Broken Compass The Broken Compass: How British Politics Lost its Way is the fourth