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30 produkter
How to Lie with Maps, Third Edition
Häftad, 2018
315 kr
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An 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 possible stories about the places it depicts. The principles Mark Monmonier outlined back then remain …
Mapping It Out
Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Häftad, 1993
205 kr
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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 might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or explanation clearly, succinctly, and effectively. In his …
History of Cartography, Volume Six
Cartography in the Twentieth Century
E-bok, 2015
12251 kr
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For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation, dissemination, and use of maps. Volume 6, Cartography in the Twentieth Century , continues this tradition …
Bushmanders and Bullwinkles
How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win Elections
E-bok, 2001
758 kr
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For years Mark Monmonier, "a prose stylist of no mean ability or charm" according to the Washington Post , has delighted readers with his insightful understanding of cartography as an art and technology that is both deceptive and revealing. Now he turns his focus to the story of political …
Mapping It Out
Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
E-bok, 2015
436 kr
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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 might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or explanation clearly, succinctly, and effectively. In his …
Coast Lines
How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change
E-bok, 2008
470 kr
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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 challenges to all aspects of coastal …
Maps with the News
The Development of American Journalistic Cartography
Inbunden, 1989
858 kr
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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 the eighteenth century to the 1980s, Mark Monmonier explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance. "A most welcome and thorough …
Mapping It Out
Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Inbunden, 1993
815 kr
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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 might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or explanation clearly, succinctly, and effectively. In his …
Cartographies of Danger
Mapping Hazards in America
Häftad, 1998
359 kr
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The 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 prepare for catastrophic natural hazards, more subtle and persistent phenomena such as pollution and …
Air Apparent
How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
Häftad, 2000
265 kr
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Every 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 tropical storms. This book is the story of this tool, the weather map, which in its many forms has made …
Spying with Maps
Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy
Häftad, 2004
230 kr
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In 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 intelligence, law enforcement, market research, and traffic engineering. Could these pervasive forms of …
Cartographies of Danger
Mapping Hazards in America
E-bok, 2008
777 kr
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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 facility or in a neighborhood poorly lit at night, we all co-exist uneasily with natural and man-made hazards. As Mark Monmonier shows in this …
Rhumb Lines and Map Wars
A Social History of the Mercator Projection
E-bok, 2010
488 kr
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In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars , Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator''s legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the …
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
E-bok, 2008
371 kr
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Brassiere 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 names. In the age before political correctness, mapmakers readily accepted any local preference for …
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
Häftad, 2007
175 kr
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Brassiere 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 names. In the age before political correctness, map-makers readily accepted any local preference for …
No Dig, No Fly, No Go
How Maps Restrict and Control
Inbunden, 2010
815 kr
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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 individuals and industries to the periphery. This …
No Dig, No Fly, No Go
How Maps Restrict and Control
Häftad, 2010
196 kr
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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 individuals and industries to the periphery. This …
History of Cartography, Volume 6
Cartography in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2015
8676 kr
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For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation, dissemination, and use of maps. Volume 6, Cartography in the Twentieth Century, continues this tradition …
Lake Effect
Tales of Large Lakes Arctic Winds and Recurrent Snows
Inbunden, 2012
305 kr
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Blending 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 introduces readers to natural philosophers who gradually identified this distinctive weather …
Connections and Content
Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography
E-bok, 2019
620 kr
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Behind every great map is a network and behind every great network is a map. In Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography , cartographic cogitator Mark Monmonier shares his insights about the relationships between networks and maps. Using historical maps, he …
Patents and Cartographic Inventions
A New Perspective for Map History
E-bok, 2017
395 kr
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This 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 alike. In this sense, the patent system was a parallel literature: a vetting institution similar to the …
Patents and Cartographic Inventions
A New Perspective for Map History
Häftad, 2018
312 kr
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This 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 alike. In this sense, the patent system was a parallel literature: a vetting institution similar to the …
Coast Lines
How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change
Inbunden, 2008
258 kr
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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 challenges to all aspects of coastal existence - …
Maps with the News
The Development of American Journalistic Cartography
Häftad, 1999
265 kr
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This 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 technological innovations that have made possible the widespread use of maps, and assesses the …
Cartographies of Danger
Mapping Hazards in America
Inbunden, 1997
471 kr
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Explains how maps can tell us a lot about where we can anticipate certain hazards, but also how maps can be dangerously misleading. The text considers that although it is important to predict and prepare for catastrophic natural hazards, more subtle and persistent phenomena such as pollution and …
Spying with Maps
Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy
Inbunden, 2002
471 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In 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 intelligence, law enforcement, market research, and traffic engineering. Could these pervasive forms of …
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
Inbunden, 2006
273 kr
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Brassiere 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 names. In the age before political correctness, mapmakers readily accepted any local preference for …
Clock and Compass
How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address
Häftad, 2022
189 kr
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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 he left a year before graduation to fight in the Spanish-American War. He worked as a draftsman, ran a veneers business, patented and manufactured a …
