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How to Lie with Maps Third Edition

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226435923, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
256 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 110 halftones

An instant classic when first published in 1991, "How to Lie with Maps" revealed how the choices mapmakers make – consciously or unconsciously – mean that every map inevitably presents only one of many possible stories about the places it depicts. Th...

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History of Cartography, Volume 6 Cartography in the Twentieth Century

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226534695, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
1728 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 805 colour plates, 119 halftones, 242 line drawings, 61 tables

For more than thirty years, the "History of Cartography Project" has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation, dissemination, and use of maps".Volume 6, Cartography in...

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No Dig, No Fly, No Go How Maps Restrict and Control

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534688, ISBN: HB: 9780226534671, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
242 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 line drawings, 63 halftones

Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain...

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Earth Sciences

Coast Lines How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226534039, University of Chicago Press, May 2008
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 halftones

In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious cha...

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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534664, ISBN: HB: 9780226534657, University of Chicago Press, September 2007
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 17 line drawings

Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features to have salacious, bawdy, and even derogatory names. In the age before political correctness, mapma...

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Rhumb Lines and Map Wars A Social History of the Mercator Projection

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226534312, University of Chicago Press, October 2004
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 halftones, 26 line drawings

In "Rhumb Lines and Map Wars", Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portra...

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Spying with Maps Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534282, University of Chicago Press, November 2002
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 58 line drawings

Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic and paper formats, maps offer revealing insights into our movements and activities, even our likes and disli...

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Maps with the News The Development of American Journalistic Cartography

Monmonier Mark

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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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...

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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...

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