Mapping and Cartography
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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...
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Maps: Finding Our Place in the World
by James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow Jr. Publisher Comments 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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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...
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Weighing the World
by Edwin Danson Publisher Comments Weighing the World is a revealing behind-the-scenes look at the scientific events leading to modern map making written by one of the world's master surveyors. Edwin Danson, using a similar approach to his earlier best seller, "Drawing the Line: How Mason...
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How To Lie With Maps 2ND Edition
by Mark S Monmonier Publisher Comments Originally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. Monmonier shows that,...
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Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneer on Cartography from Antiquity to the Space Age
by John Noble Wilford Publisher Comments A comprehensive history of cartography that traces the adventures, discoveries and feats of technical ingenuity by which man has succeeded in mapping the globe, moon and the planets. Photos....
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
by Miles Harvey 
Publisher Comments U.S.A. $24.95 Canada $35.95 "Every once in a blue moon you read a book that leaves you absolutely breathless, reminding you of the bright, hidden worlds within our world. This is that book, a glimmering, supersonic journey into terra incognita, where...
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Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections
by John P. Snyder Publisher Comments As long as there have been maps, cartographers have grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem mapmakers have created hundreds of map projections, mathematical methods for drawing the round earth on a...
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Street By Street East Kent Plus Rye
by 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...
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Tracks in the Sea Matthew Fontaine Maur
by Chester G Hearn Publisher Comments Tracks in the Sea captures a rich yet little-known chapter in the history of seafaring--the mapping of the oceans by Matthew Fontaine Maury, the father of modern navigation and ocean science. Voyages in the early 1800s were risky endeavors. Navigation...
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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...
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Geographic Information Systems an in 2ND Edition
by Tor Bernhardsen Publisher Comments The ultimate comprehensive introduction to GIS-now in an updated, expanded new edition. This book is well designed, solidly constructed, and finely crafted; those who depend on it as they set out to explore our spatial world will be well served. . . . If...
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Cartographic Relief Presentation
by Eduard Imhof Synopsis Eduard Imhof's classic book Cartographic Relief Presentation is once again available. Within the discipline of cartography, few works are considered classics in the sense of retaining their interest, relevance, and inspiration with the passage of time...
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Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking work, leading historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the story of our hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand North, Central, and South America in isolation without turning to the intertwining forces...
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The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity
by Martin Bruckner Publisher Comments The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the 18th century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. Drawing on historical geography, cartography, literary history, and material culture, Bruckner argues that...
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Graphs and Networks: Multilevel Modelling (Geographical Information Systems)
by Philippe Mathis Publisher Comments The application of graph theory to transportation and communication networks is covered in this collection of articles by mathematicians and urban planners. As the basis for preparing simulated networks, graphing is reviewed in terms of mathematical...
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Things Maps Don't Tell Us: An Adventure Into Map Interpretation
by Armin Kohl Lobeck Publisher Comments "The book is a treasure trove of tidbits describing how the world around us came about. . . . Things Maps Don't Tell Us actually communicates a great deal about the things maps can tell us if we care to look carefully underneath the printed symbols...
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The Power of Maps
by Denis Wood Publisher Comments This 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 instruments of communication, persuasion, and power. Like...
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Remote Sensing & Image Interpretatio 3RD Edition
by Thomas M Lillesand Book News Annotation **** The second edition (1987) is cited in BCL3. An introduction to remote sensing for upper division students studying earth resource management. This revised and updated edition expands the discussion of such topics as photointerpretation strategies,...
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Mercator
by Nicholas Crane Publisher Comments “Crane’s book is quite probably destined to become the standard text.”—Simon Winchester, The New York Times Gerhard Mercator lived in an era of formidable intellectual and scientific advances. At the center of the exploratory...
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