Mark Monmonier Forfatter
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Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)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... Læs mere
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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)When sanctions prohibited local use of racially, ethnically, and scatalogically offensive toponyms, names like Jap Valley, California,... Læs mere
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Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Monmonier shows authors and scholars how they can use expository cartography--the visual, two-dimensional organization of... Læs mere
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No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)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,... Læs mere
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Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)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?
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How to Lie with Maps, Third Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)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.
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Clock and Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)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... Læs mere
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Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Presenting the story of the weather map, this book traces its history; discusses debates among scientists on the enigma of... Læs mere
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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Interweaving cartographic history with tales of politics and power, this work is located within the struggles of mapmakers to create... Læs mere
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Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
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Maps with the News: The Development of American Journalistic Cartography (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)An assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. The text traces the use of maps in American news reporting from the 18th century to the 1980s, and explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance.
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Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
