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  • Clock & Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address by Monmonier, Mark
    Mark Monmonier

    Clock & Compass: 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 he left a year before graduation to fight in the Spanish-American War. He worked as a draftsman, ran...
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  • Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change by Monmonier, Mark
    Mark Monmonier

    Coast Lines: 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 canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious challenges to all...
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  • Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography by Monmonier, Mark
    Mark Monmonier

    Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography

    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,...
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  • From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame by Monmonier, Mark
    Mark Monmonier

    From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: 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 to have salacious, bawdy, and even derogatory names. In the age before political correctness, mapmakers readily accepted any local preference for place...
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  • How to Lie with Maps by Monmonier, Mark
    Mark Monmonier

    How to Lie with Maps

    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...
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  • Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows by Monmonier, Mark
    Mark Monmonier

    Lake Effect: 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 societal impacts of extreme weather. Along the way, he introduces readers to natural philosophers who gradually identified this distinctive weather pattern, to tales of communities...
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  • Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences by Monmonier, Mark
    Mark Monmonier

    Mapping It Out: 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 might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or explanation...
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  • No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control by Monmonier, Mark
    Mark Monmonier

    No Dig, No Fly, No Go: 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, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and...
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  • Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History by Monmonier, Mark
    Mark Monmonier

    Patents and Cartographic Inventions: 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 achievement that motivates inventors and scholars alike. In this sense, the patent system was a parallel literature: a vetting institution similar to the...
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