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Coast Lines by Mark Monmonier 9780226534039
Booksplease Price: £25.48In 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... -
How to Lie with Maps, Third Edition by Mark Monmonier
Booksplease Price: £21.99An 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... -
Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy Mark Monmonier 9780226534275
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.55In Spying with Maps, the "mapmatician" Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of fields such as military... -
No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control by Mark Monmonier
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £73.55Some 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... -
Maps with the News: The Development of American Journalistic Cartography by Mark Monmonier 9780226534114
Booksplease Price: £92.40Maps 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... -
Maps with the News: The Development of American Journalistic Cartography by Mark Monmonier
Booksplease Price: £30.40This assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism traces the use of news maps in newspapers and magazines and on television from the 18th century to the 1980s. Monmonier examines the... -
Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America Mark Monmonier 9780226534190
Booksplease Price: £33.24The text explains how maps can tell us a lot about where we can anticipate certain hazards, but also how maps can be dangerously misleading. It considers that although it is important to predict and... -
No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control Mark Monmonier 9780226534688
Booksplease Price: £18.63Some 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... -
Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History by Mark Monmonier 9783319845517
Booksplease Price: £26.60This book explores the US patent system, which helped practical minded innovators establish intellectual property rights and fulfill the need for achievement that motivates inventors and scholars... -
Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes Arctic Winds and Recurrent Snows by Mark Monmonier 9780815610045
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.54Blending meteorological history with the history of scientific cartography, Monmonier charts the phenomenon of lake-effect snow and explores the societal impacts of extreme weather. Along the way, he... -
Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather Mark Monmonier 9780226534237
Booksplease Price: £24.80Every night across the country, viewers tune in to their evening news to glimpse the next day's weather. They are treated to graphic images of invading air masses, colliding fronts, and growing... -
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame Mark Monmonier 9780226534664
Booksplease Price: £16.75Brassiere 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... -
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame by Mark Monmonier 9780226534657
Booksplease Price: £30.51Brassiere 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... -
Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy by Mark S. Monmonier 9780226534282
Booksplease Price: £21.99In Spying with Maps, the "mapmatician" Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of fields such as military... -
Geography Speaks: Performative Aspects of Geography by Rob Sullivan 9781138253742
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Geography Speaks is an investigation of how geography is informed by speech act theory and performativity. Starting with a critical analysis of how J.L. Austin's speech act theory probed the... -
Visible Numbers: Essays on the History of Statistical Graphics by Dr. Miles A. Kimball 9780815386506
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £47.24Bringing together scholars from around the world, this collection examines many of the historical developments in making data visible through charts, graphs, thematic maps, and now interactive... -
Mapping it Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences by Mark S. Monmonier 9780226534169
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £73.85Writers know only too well how long it can take-and how awkward it can be-to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one... -
Mapping it Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences by Mark S. Monmonier 9780226534176
Booksplease Price: £20.12Writers know only too well how long it can take-and how awkward it can be-to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one... -
Cartography. by Kenneth Field 9781589484399
RRP: £56.99Booksplease Price: £49.97A lavishly illustrated reference guide, Cartography. by Kenneth Field is an inspiring and creative companion along the nonlinear journey toward making a great map. This sage compendium for... -
10 Geographic Ideas That Changed the World by Susan E. Hanson 9780813523576
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £25.58When geographic ideas change the world in our heads, the impact can be read on the ground and in our lives. In these thought-provoking, witty essays, some of America's most distinguished geographers... -
The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950 Susan Schulten 9780226740560
Booksplease Price: £30.43In this rich and fascinating history, Susan Schulten tells a story of Americans beginning to see the world around them, tracing U.S. attitudes toward world geography from the end of... -
Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture by David Serlin 9780816648238
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London's plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and... -
Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation-State by Alexander C. Diener 9780742556355
Booksplease Price: £113.11From our earliest schooldays, we are shown the world as a colorful collage of countries, each defined by their own immutable borders. What we often don't realize is that every political boundary was... -
Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation-State by Alexander C. Diener 9780742556362
Booksplease Price: £51.70From our earliest schooldays, we are shown the world as a colorful collage of countries, each defined by their own immutable borders. What we often don't realize is that every political boundary was... -
The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £24.91Nearly 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... -
The Power of Maps by Denis Wood
Booksplease Price: £27.05This volume ventures into terrain where even the most sophisticated map fails to lead--through the mapmaker's bias. Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather...