ledochowicz.com

Cartography

Air Apparent How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534237, University of Chicago Press, April 1999
324 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 colour plates, 4 halftones, 89 line drawings

Weather maps have made our atmosphere visible, understandable, and at least moderately predictable. In "Air Apparent" Mark Monmonier traces debates among scientists eager to unravel the enigma of storms and global change, explains strategies for mapp...

PB:

£21,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Cartography

History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 3 Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies

Woodward David, Lewis G. Malcolm

ISBN: HB: 9780226907284, University of Chicago Press, December 1998
500 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 24 colour plates, 267 halftones, 196 line drawings, 5 tables

Although they are often rendered in forms unfamiliar to Western eyes, maps have existed in most cultures. In this latest book of the acclaimed "History of Cartography", contributors from a broad variety of disciplines collaborate to describe and addr...

HB:

£213,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Cartography

Cartographies of Danger Mapping Hazards in America

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534190, ISBN: HB: 9780226534183, University of Chicago Press, October 1998
378 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 16 line drawings, 97 maps

No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley", near a nuclear facility or in a neighborhood poorly lit at night, we all co-exist uneasily with natural and man-made ha...

PB:

£28,50

QTY:

HB:

£37,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Cartography

Flattening the Earth Two Thousand Years of Map Projections

Snyder John P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226767475, University of Chicago Press, December 1997
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 163 maps and charts, 12 portraits

As long as there have been maps, cartographers have grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem mapmakers have created hundreds of map projections, mathematical methods for drawing the round earth...

PB:

£28,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Cartography

History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 2 Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies

Harley J. B., Woodward David

ISBN: HB: 9780226316376, University of Chicago Press, February 1995
998 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 40 colour plates, 503 halftones

The monumental "History of Cartography" is an unprecedented survey of the development of cartography both as a science and an art. This essential reference presents the enormous value of maps to societies worldwide and explores the many ways they hav...

HB:

£250,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Cartography

Mapping It Out Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534176, ISBN: HB: 9780226534169, University of Chicago Press, June 1993
316 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 112 maps

Writers know only too well how long it can take – and how awkward it can be – to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or expla...

PB:

£14,50

QTY:

HB:

£70,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Cartography

Things Maps Don't Tell Us An Adventure into Map Interpretation

Lobeck Armin K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226488776, University of Chicago Press, June 1993
174 pp., 26.2x18.9 cm, line drawings throughout

Foreword to the 1993 Edition Introduction I. Coast Lines 1. Distorted Coast Lines. A Map of the World of 1589 2. Projections and Protuberances. Gulf of Mexico 3. Peninsulas. The Peninsula of Denmark 4. Peninsulas. The Peninsula of Florida 5. Peninsu...

PB:

£25,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Cartography

History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 1 Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies

Harley J. B., Woodward David

ISBN: HB: 9780226316352, University of Chicago Press, August 1992
604 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 40 page colour insert, 40 colour plates, 355 halftones, 8 tables

The first book of volume 2 of the monumental "History of Cartography" focuses on mapping in non-Western cultures, an area of study traditionally overlooked by Western scholars. Extensive original research makes this the foremost source for defining,...

HB:

£226,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Cartography

History of Cartography, Volume 1 Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean

Harley J. B., Woodward David

ISBN: HB: 9780226316338, University of Chicago Press, May 1987
622 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 32-page colour insert, 40 colour plates, 240 halftones

By developing the broadest and most inclusive definition of the term "map" ever adopted in the history of cartography, this inaugural volume of the "History of Cartography" series has helped redefine the way maps are studied and understood by scholar...

HB:

£224,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Cartography

Canada Gazetteer Atlas

ISBN: HB: 9780226092591, University of Chicago Press, August 1980
176 pp., 45.9x33.5 cm

This definitive work – Canada's official atlas – is the first to bring together from diverse official sources complete information on the populated places of the country. It consists of two parts: First, 48 double-page relief maps which are the mo...

HB:

£139,00

QTY:

add books to the list