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Cartography

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

Worlds Before Adam The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

Rudwick Martin J. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226731292, ISBN: HB: 9780226731285, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
648 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 40 line drawings, 125 halftones

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth – and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about...

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Earth Sciences

Adaptive Governance and Climate Change

Brunner Ronald D., Lynch Amanda H.

ISBN: PB: 9781878220974, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2010
404 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

While recent years have seen undeniable progress in international acknowledgement both of the dangers of climate change and the importance of working to mitigate it, little has actually been done. Emissions continue to rise, and even the ambitious ta...

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Earth Sciences

Changing Arctic Landscape

Tape Ken

ISBN: HB: 9781602230804, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
56 pp., 23x28 cm, 30 halftones, 41 colour illus.

With this book, photographer Ken Tape sets changes in the landscape in stark relief, pairing decades-old photos of the arctic landscape of Alaska with photos of the same scenes taken in the present. The resulting volume is a stunning reminder of in...

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Earth Sciences

Gems and Gemstones Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World

Grande Lance, Augustyn Allison

ISBN: HB: 9780226305110, University of Chicago Press, November 2009
352 pp., 25.9x22.1 cm, 290 colour plates, 7 line drawings, 5 tables

Gems are objects of wealth, icons of beauty, and emblems of the very best of everything. They are kept as signs of prestige or power. Given as tokens of love and affection, they also come in a kaleidoscopic array of hues and can be either mineral or...

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Cartography

Archaeological Atlas of Prehistoric Europe (Archeologicky Atlas Evropy)

Buchvaldek Miroslav, Lippert Andreas, Kosnar Lubomir

ISBN: HB + CD: 9788024607740, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2009
724 pp., 30.5x22.8 cm, 827 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A collaborative effort of the Archaeological Institutes of the universities of Prague and Vienna, "Atlas of the Prehistoric Archaeology of Europe" documents the spread of prehistoric cultu...

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Cartography

Natures of Maps Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World

Wood Denis, Fels John

ISBN: HB: 9780226906041, University of Chicago Press, January 2009
231 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 179 colour plates, 16 halftones

Cartographers have known for decades that maps are far from objective representations of the world; rather, every map reflects the agendas and intentions of its creators. Yet that understanding has had almost no effect on the way maps are viewed and...

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Cartography

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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Cartography

Maps Finding Our Place in the World

Akerman James R., Karrow Robert W. Jr.

ISBN: HB: 9780226010755, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
336 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 198 colour plates

Maps are universal forms of communication, easily understood and appreciated regardless of culture or language. This truly magisterial book introduces readers to the widest range of maps ever considered in one volume: maps from different time periods...

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Cartography

History of Cartography, Volume 3 Cartography in the European Renaissance

Woodward David

ISBN: HB (SET): 9780226907321, University of Chicago Press, September 2007
2272 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 80 colour plates, 815 halftones, 150 line drawings, 20 tables

When the University of Chicago Press launched the landmark "History of Cartography" series nearly thirty years ago, founding editors J. B. Harley and David Woodward hoped to create a new basis for map history. They did not, however, anticipate the la...

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