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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings Publisher Comments Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives, "a literary gem" (The Atlantic) now available in paperback. It may come as no surprise that as a kid, Ken Jennings... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings Publisher Comments It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.98 Used - Hardcover
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Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities by Frank Jacobs Publisher Comments An intriguing collection of more than one hundred out-of-the-ordinary maps, blending art, history, and pop culture for a unique atlas of humanity. Spanning many centuries, all continents, and the realms of outer space and the imagination, this... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art by Peter Harper Publisher Comments Maps are often as much a visual art form as they are a practical tool for navigation. Of particular visual interest are display maps—maps that often used size and beauty to convey messages of regional and social status and power. Despite their... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey Publisher Comments The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The World Through Maps: A History of Cartography by John Rennie Short Publisher Comments An illustrated history of maps and mapmaking, including reproductions of 200 antique maps.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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Street By Street East Kent Plus Rye Publisher Comments From the AA - the experts on Britain's roads - comes a ground-breaking new range of street atlases - AA Street by Street. Probably the biggest launch in the history of cartography consisting of 119 separate titles, available in a total of 236 different... (read more) Your price: $6.75 Used - Spiral/comb
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Drawing the Line: Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy by Mark S. Monmonier Publisher Comments Arguing that maps, like language, can be manipulated to distort the truth, a geography professor shows how maps have been used for propaganda in many aspects of our lives, including international affairs, political districting, and finding toxic dump... (read more) List Price $5.00 Your price: $4.44 Google eBooks - Electronic
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From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association by Kris Harzinski Publisher Comments It's a situation we are all acquainted with: planning to visit friends in an unfamiliar part of the city, you draw yourself arudimentary map with detailed directions. In March 2008, graphic designer Kris Harzinski founded the Hand Drawn Map Association... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science by Diana M. Liverman Publisher Comments Space-based sensors are giving us a closer and more comprehensive look at the earth's surface; they also have the potential to tell us about human activity This volume examines the possibilities for using remote sensing technology to improve... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $21.74 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mapmakers Rev Edition by John Noble Wilford Synopsis "The Mapmakers" is a comprehensive history of cartography that traces the adventures, discoveries, and feats of technical ingenuity by which man has, over the centuries, succeeded in mapping first the surface of the globe, then the Earth's interior, the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Publisher Comments A groundbreaking biography of the man who gave his name to America, "Amerigo" is delivered by one of the worlds most exciting historians who spins a grand narrative full of character and story. 4 maps.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Notes and Comments on the Composition of Terrestrial and Celestial Maps by Johann Heinrich. Trans. By Waldo R. Tobler Lambert Publisher Comments Notes and Comments on the Composition of Terrestrial and Celestial Maps is an historically significant work on modern map projections and their mathematical underpinnings. The original German edition introduced several distinct map... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.72 New - Trade Paper
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Graphs and Networks: Multilevel Modelling (Geographical Information Systems) by Philippe Mathis Publisher Comments This book concerns the use of graphs for the simulation and representation of transport networks. Its aim is to cover networks in both spatial analysis and urban management, together with the simulation by graph theory, a tool that makes it possible to... (read more) List Price $220.00 Your price: $110.00 New - Hardcover
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GIS for Health Organizations by Laura Lang Publisher Comments Health care executives and managers will get a closer look at how to use geographic information systems (GIS) to improve patient care, better manage their facilities, and increase their market share with this book. GIS is already used to monitor the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past by Jeremy Black Synopsis Historical atlases offer an understanding of the past which is invaluable to historians, not only because they convey a previous age's sense of space and distance but also because they reveal what historians and educators of those periods thought... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Power of Maps by Denis Wood Publisher Comments The author shows how maps are made to appear as unbiased reference objects, though they actually depict, like a photograph, a subjective point of view. He discusses the signs and myths inherent in maps and suggests ways to decode the interests implicit... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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No Dig, No Fly, No Go (10 Edition) by Mark Monmonier Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World by John Rennie Short Publisher Comments Theres no excuse for getting lost these days—satellite maps on our computers can chart our journey in detail and electronics on our car dashboards instruct us which way to turn. But there was a time when the varied landscape of North America... (read more) List Price $50.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Innovations In GIS 1 by M. F. Worboys Publisher Comments This book aims to offer research at the cutting edge. The individual chapters are fully revised and updated versions of contributions to the first focused scientific symposium on research in geographic information systems GISRUK. The book provides the... (read more) List Price $159.95 Your price: $153.95 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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