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An updated edition of the “humorous, informative and perceptive” guide to how maps can lead us astray (Toronto Globe and Mail). An instant classic...
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A Social History of the Mercator Projection
In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Ger...
Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy
Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic and pape...
Published in 1985, Technological Transition in Cartography relates likely future developments in the form and use of maps to historical trends, includ...
Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Writers 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 migh...
Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy
Argues that maps can be manipulated to distort the truth, and shows how they have been used for propaganda in international affairs, political distric...
The Development of American Journalistic Cartography
Maps 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 t...
How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features...
How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
Weather maps have made our atmosphere visible, understandable, and at least moderately predictable. In Air Apparent Mark Monmonier traces debates amon...
How Maps Restrict and Control
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,...
Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows
Blending meteorological history with the history of scientific cartography, Monmonier charts the phenomenon of lake-effect snow and explores the socie...
A New Perspective for Map History
This book explores the US patent system, which helped practical minded innovators establish intellectual property rights and fulfill the need for achi...
How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win Elections
For years Mark Monmonier, "a prose stylist of no mean ability or charm" according to the Washington Post, has delighted readers with his insightful un...
How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change
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 ...
Mapping Hazards in America
No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley," near a nuclear faci...
How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address
"A city guy who aspired to be a farmer, John Byron Plato took a three-month winter course in agriculture at Cornell before starting high school, which...
A Memoir
Adventures in Academic Cartography is a personal memoir offering insight to the diverse impacts of computer technology on the world of cartography and...
Clever People Awarded a Us Patent for a Map-Related Device Or Method
As its title and subtitle imply, this book is a collection of short biographies of people awarded United States patents for inventions intended to imp...