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  • af Mark Monmonier
    238,95 kr.

    Fully updated for the digital age, this new edition of How to Lie with Maps examines the myriad ways that technology offers new opportunities for cartographic mischief, deception, and propaganda.

  • - A Memoir
    af Mark Monmonier
    173,95 kr.

    Adventures in Academic Cartography is a personal memoir offering insight to the diverse impacts of computer technology on the world of cartography and mapping. It surveys the author's half century of work as a scholar, educator, and editor as well as his commitment to demystifying for general readers the power of maps as a tool for understanding and persuasion. An overview of his undergraduate and graduate training and early university employment precedes engaging accounts of his experiences as a classroom teacher; academic researcher, book author, journal editor, consultant, and editor of Cartography in the Twentieth Century (Volume Six of the monumental History of Cartography). Additional chapters reveal his views on theory, map collecting, and writing. This integrated collection of stories promotes an understanding of the many facets of academic cartography, which emerged in the twentieth century as a distinct mapping endeavor that touches geographic education, technological innovation, national defense, public policy, professional organizations, libraries, map collections, and academic and trade publishing.

  • af Mark Monmonier
    976,95 kr.

  • - How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address
    af Mark Monmonier
    213,95 kr.

    When an interested buyer eager to see his calves couldn't find his farm, John Byron Plato realized that an RFD postal address was only good for delivering mail. His solution was a map-and-directory combo that used direction and distance. What follows is a tale of persistence and failure as rural farming declined.

  • - A New Perspective for Map History
    af Mark Monmonier
    331,95 kr.

  • - Cartography in the Twentieth Century
    af Mark Monmonier
    5.713,95 kr.

    The twentieth century is a pivotal period in map history. Geographic information systems radically altered cartographic institutions and reduced the skill required to create maps. This volume features expert contributors who provide both original research, and interpretations of larger trends in cartography.

  • - Die Tricks Und Lugen Der Kartographen
    af Mark Monmonier
    433,95 kr.

  • - Tales of Large Lakes Arctic Winds and Recurrent Snows
    af Mark Monmonier
    263,95 kr.

    Blending meteorological history with the history of scientific cartography, this charts the phenomenon of lake-effect snow and explores the societal impacts of extreme weather. Along the way, it introduces readers to natural philosophers who gradually identified this distinctive weather pattern, to tales of communities adapting to notoriously disruptive storms, and to some of the snowiest regions of the US.

  • - How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
    af Mark Monmonier
    240,95 - 338,95 kr.

    Interweaving cartographic history with tales of politics and power, this work is located within the struggles of mapmakers to create an orderly process for naming that avoids confusion, preserves history, and serves different political aims. It reveals the map's role as a mediated portrait of the cultural landscape.

  • - A Social History of the Mercator Projection
    af Mark Monmonier
    242,95 kr.

    An account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy examines the limitations and uses of Mercator's clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface while taking into account the earth's actual roundness.

  • - Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy
    af Mark S. Monmonier
    313,95 - 613,95 kr.

    Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of fields. Could these diverse forms of geographic monitoring, he asks, lead to grave consequences for society?

  • - Mapping Hazards in America
    af Mark S. Monmonier
    487,95 - 613,95 kr.

    Explains how maps can tell where to anticipate certain hazards, but also how maps can be 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 crime also pose serious dangers.

  • - How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change
    af Mark Monmonier
    258,95 kr.

    Covering shifting landscapes, cartographic technology, and climate change, this book reveals that coastlines are as much a set of ideas, assumptions, and societal beliefs as they are solid black lines on maps. It charts the historical progression from offshore sketches to satellite images.

  • af Mark Monmonier
    288,95 - 927,95 kr.

  • - How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
    af Mark Monmonier
    291,95 kr.

    Presenting the story of the weather map, this book traces its history; discusses debates among scientists on the enigma of storms and global change; explains strategies for mapping the upper atmosphere and forecasting disaster; and exposes the efforts to detect and control air pollution.

  • - How Maps Restrict and Control
    af Mark Monmonier
    271,95 - 854,95 kr.

    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 title tackles this aspect of mapping.

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