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Cartography

Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City Land, Writing, and Native Rule

Miller Mary E., Mundy Barbara E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300180718, Yale University Press, November 2012
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 277 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

In 1975, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University acquired an exceptional mid-16th-century map of Mexico City, which, until 1521, had been the capital of the Aztecs, the Nahua-speaking people who dominated the Valley of Mexico...

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Our Magnetic Earth The Science of Geomagnetism

Merrill Ronald T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226006598, ISBN: HB: 9780226520506, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 26 halftones

For the general public, magnetism often seems more the province of new age quacks, movie mad scientists, and grade-school teachers than an area of actual, ongoing scientific inquiry. But as Ronald Merrill reveals in "Our Magnetic Earth", geomagneti...

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Weather, Illustrated Graphics from The AMS Weather Book

American Meteorological Society

ISBN: CD: 9781878220240, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, June 2012
0 pp., 0x0 cm

North America has some of the most varied and dynamic weather on the planet. Every year, the Gulf Coast is battered by hurricanes, the Great Plains are ravaged by tornados, the Midwest is pummeled by blizzards, and the temperature in the Southwest re...

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Cartography

Korea A Cartographic History

Short John Rennie

ISBN: HB: 9780226753645, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 71 colour illus.

The first general history of Korea as seen through maps, "Korea: A Cartographic History" provides a beautifully illustrated introduction to how Korea was and is represented cartographically. John Rennie Short, one of today's most prolific and well-re...

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Deadly Season Analysis of the 2011 Tornado Outbreaks

Simmons Kevin M., Sutter Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781878220257, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2012
120 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 10 tables, 10 charts

In 2011, despite continued developments in forecasting, tracking, and warning technology, the United States was hit by the deadliest tornado season in decades. More than 1,200 tornadoes touched down, shattering communities and their safety nets, and...

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Midlatitude Synoptic Meteorology Dynamics, Analysis, and Forecasting

Lackmann Gary

ISBN: HB: 9781878220103, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, January 2012
345 pp., 25.2x20 cm, colour illus.

The past decade has been characterized by remarkable advances in meteorological observation, computing techniques, and data-visualization technology. However, the benefit of these advances can only be fully realized with the introduction of a systema...

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