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Map Men Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780226438498, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 20 halftones
More than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished. In "Map Men", Steven Seegel takes us through some of t...
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£41,00
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Natural Resources and the New Frontier Constructing Modern China's Borderlands
ISBN: PB: 9780226492292, ISBN: HB: 9780226492155, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 8 tables
China's westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating cycles of violence, interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s. In their search for the roots of these growing tensions, scholars have tended to focus on ethnic clashes...
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£26,00
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£79,00
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How to Lie with Maps Third Edition
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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£17,00
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Taken by Storm, 1938 A Social and Meteorological History of the Great New England Hurricane
ISBN: PB: 9781944970246, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
384 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 3 maps, 30 halftones
On September 21, 1938, one of the most powerful storms of the twentieth century came unannounced into the lives of New Yorkers and New Englanders, leaving utter devastation in its wake. The Great Hurricane, as it came to be known, changed everything,...
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£22,50
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Ice Formation and Evolution in Clouds and Precipitation Measurement and Modeling Challenges
ISBN: HB: 9781944970260, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
320 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm
Background and Overview Chapter 1. Overview of Ice Nucleating Particles – Zamin A. Kanji, Luis A. Ladino, Heike Wex, Yvonne Boose, Monika Burkert-Kohn, Daniel J. Cziczo, and Martina Krنmer Chapter 2. Cirrus Clouds – Andrew J. Heymsfield, Martina Krنm...
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£75,00
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Verner Suomi The Life and Work of the Founder of Satellite Meteorology
ISBN: PB: 9781944970222, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 30 line drawings
As the space age got underway in the wake of Sputnik, one of the earliest areas of science to take advantage of the new observational opportunities it afforded was the study of climate and weather. This book tells the story of Finnish-American educat...
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£23,00
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Climate in the Age of Empire Weather Observers in Colonial Canada
ISBN: PB: 9781944970208, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 16 halftones
Though efforts to understand human-caused climate change have intensified in recent decades, weather observers have been paying close attention to changes in climate for centuries. This book offers a close look at that work as it was practiced in Can...
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£27,00
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Red Atlas How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
ISBN: HB: 9780226389578, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
272 pp., 25x15 cm, 282 colour plates
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of d...
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£25,00
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Midlatitude Synoptic Meteorology: Lab Manual Dynamics, Analysis, and Forecasting
ISBN: PB + CD: 9781878220264, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, August 2017
144 pp., 24.2x18.6 cm, 20 line drawings
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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£64,00
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Decolonizing the Map Cartography from Colony to Nation
ISBN: HB: 9780226422787, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 121 halftones, 1 table
Almost universally, newly independent states seek to affirm their independence and identity by making the production of new maps and atlases a top priority. For formerly colonized peoples, however, this process neither begins nor ends with independen...
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£49,00
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