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Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather,
Monmonier November 2000to Map, Predict, and Dramatize WeatherMark Monmonier 9780226534237...to Map, Predict, and Dramatize WeatherMark Monmonier ...and at least moderately predictable. In Air ApparentMark Monmonier traces debates among scientists eager to unravel the...lives. "Clever title, rewarding book.Monmonier . . . offers here a basic course in meteorology, which he...BOOK
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Social History of the Mercator Projection
Mark Monmonier 9780226534329 Rhumb Lines...Social History of the Mercator ProjectionMark Monmonier ...In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars,Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies...projection to take into account the earth’s roundness. AsMonmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator’s projection...BOOK
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Bushmanders and Bullwinkles: How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win Elections,
Monmonier February 2001Maps and Census Data to Win ElectionsMark Monmonier 9780226159409 Bushmanders...Mark Monmonier For yearsMark Monmonier , "a prose...political tales maps tell when votes and power are at stake.Monmonier shows how redistricting committees carve out favorable election...about Supreme Court decisions in regulating redistricting,Monmonier asks if the focus on form rather than function may be little...BOOK
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How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
Mark Monmonier 9780226534664...How Maps Name, Claim, and InflameMark Monmonier ...with tales of politics and power, celebrated geographerMark Monmonier locates his story within the past and present struggles...From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow isMark Monmonier at his finest: a learned analysis of a timely and controversial...BOOK
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World and Chart Environmental Change
Mark Monmonier 9780226534039...World and Chart Environmental ChangeMark Monmonier ...mapping of coasts. It is this facet of coastal life thatMark Monmonier tackles in Coast Lines. Setting sail on a journey across...landscapes, cartographic technology, and climate change,Monmonier reveals that coastlines are as much a set of ideas, assumptions...BOOK
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Technologies and the Future of Privacy
Mark Monmonier 9780226534282...Technologies and the Future of PrivacyMark Monmonier ...and dislikes. In Spying with Maps, the "mapmatician"Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite...especially in an era of asymmetric warfare and bioterrorism.Monmonier frames his explanations of what this new technology is and...BOOK
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How Maps Restrict and Control
Mark Monmonier 9780226534688...How Maps Restrict and ControlMark Monmonier ...mapping—its power to prohibit—that celebrated geographerMark Monmonier tackles in No Dig, No Fly, No Go.Rooted in ancient Egypt’s...international—and multiple dimensions—from property to cyberspace—Monmonier demonstrates how much boundaries influence our experience—from...BOOK
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How to Lie with Maps, Third Edition
Mark Monmonier 9780226435923...9780226436081 How to Lie with Maps, Third EditionMark Monmonier ...possible stories about the places it depicts. The principlesMark Monmonier outlined back then remain true today, despite significant...Times "Monmonier continues to have a great deal to offer to first time readers...BOOK
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Danger Mapping Hazards in America
Mark Monmonier 9780226534190...Danger Mapping Hazards in AmericaMark Monmonier ...co-exist uneasily with natural and man-made hazards. AsMark Monmonier shows in this entertaining and immensely informative...illustrating examples from all corners of the United States,Monmonier demonstrates how hazard mapping reflects not just scientific...BOOK
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for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Mark Monmonier 9780226534176...for the Humanities and Social SciencesMark Monmonier ...In his acclaimed How to Lie with Maps,Mark Monmonier showed how maps can distort facts. In Mapping it Out:...of scale to the complex mapping of movement or change.Monmonier helps writers and researchers decide when maps are most...BOOK
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