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Armenia A Historical Atlas
ISBN: HB: 9780226332284, University of Chicago Press, May 2000
342 pp., 43.4x28 cm, 278 colour maps, 3 line drawings
From its conversion to Christianity to the Genocide during World War I, from the Soviet occupation to its recent independence, Armenia has seen a long and often turbulent history. In the magnificent "Armenia: A Historical Atlas", Robert H. Hewsen tra...
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£175,50
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Maps with the News The Development of American Journalistic Cartography
ISBN: PB: 9780226534138, University of Chicago Press, June 1999
348 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 117 line drawings
"Maps with the News" is a lively assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. Tracing the use of maps in American news reporting from the eighteenth century to the 1980s, Mark Monmonier explores why and how journalistic maps have ach...
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£23,00
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Air Apparent How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
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...
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£21,00
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History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 3 Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies
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...
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£213,00
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Cartographies of Danger Mapping Hazards in America
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...
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£28,50
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£37,50
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Flattening the Earth Two Thousand Years of Map Projections
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...
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£28,50
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History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 2 Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies
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...
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£250,00
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Mapping It Out Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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...
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£14,50
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£70,00
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Things Maps Don't Tell Us An Adventure into Map Interpretation
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...
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£25,50
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History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 1 Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies
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,...
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£226,00
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