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Cartography

Picturing America The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps

Hornsby Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226386041, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 153 colour plates

Instructive, amusing, colorful – pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting mountains and trees across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More rece...

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Weather in the Courtroom Memoirs from a Career in Forensic Meteorology

Haggard William H.

ISBN: PB: 9781940033952, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings, 12 maps

As director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in the late 1960s and early '70s, William H. Haggard witnessed an explosion in the number of requests from attorneys needing weather data for their cas...

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Earth's Deep History How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters

Rudwick Martin J. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421971, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 halftones, 5 line drawings

Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it all. But how wa...

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Cartography

Medieval Islamic Maps An Exploration

Pinto Karen C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226126968, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 162 colour plates

Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of copies created around the Islamic world over the course of eight centuries testifies t...

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Stormwater A Resource for Scientists, Engineers, and Policy Makers

Wilson William G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226365008, ISBN: HB: 9780226364957, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 277 halftones

As cities grow and climates change, precipitation increases, and with every great storm – from record-breaking Boston blizzards to floods in Houston – come buckets of stormwater and a deluge of problems. In "Stormwater", William G. Wilson brings us t...

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Cartography

Cartographic Japan A History in Maps

Wigen Karen, Sugimoto Fumiko, Karacas Cary

ISBN: HB: 9780226073057, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 111 colour plates, 1 table

Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore o...

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Cartography

Rome Measured and Imagined Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City

Maier Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226127637, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 12 colour plates, 84 halftones

At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a "crumbling city" populated by "broken ruins" into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists,...

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Cartography

Exploring and Mapping Alaska The Russian America Era, 1741-1867

Postnikov Alexey, Falk Marvin

ISBN: HB: 9781602232518, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2015
450 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 75 maps

Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire eighteenth century. For centuries since, cartographers have struggled to define and develop the enormous region comprising northeastern Asia,...

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Cartography

Worldly Consumers The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy

Carlton Genevieve

ISBN: HB: 9780226255316, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 line drawings

Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In "Worldly Consumers", Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to priva...

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Cartography

Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age

Sutton Elizabeth A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226254784, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

"In Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age", Elizabeth A. Sutton explores the fascinating but previously neglected history of corporate cartography during the Dutch Golden Age, from ca. 1600 to 1650. She examines how maps were used as pro...

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