Mathematical Geography, Cartography
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Edinburgh: Mapping the CityMaps can tell much about the story of a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This is particularly true of Edinburgh, one of the most visually stunning cities in the world and a place rich in historical and cultural associations. This lavishly illustrated...
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Terra Forma: A Book of Speculative MapsCharting the exploration of an unknown world--our own--with a new cartography of living things rather than space available for conquest or colonization. This book charts the exploration of an unknown world: our own. Just as Renaissance travelers set out to map the terra incognito...
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QGIS Map DesignLearn how to use QGIS 3 to take your cartographic products to the highest level.QGIS 3.4 opens up exciting new possibilities for creating beautiful and compelling maps Building on the first edition, the authors take you step-by-step through the process of using the latest...
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A History of the World in 12 MapsA New York Times Bestseller "Maps allow the armchair traveler to roam the world, the diplomat to argue his points, the ruler to administer his country, the warrior to plan his campaigns and the propagandist to boost his cause... rich and beautiful." - Wall...
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MapmakingMaps are a key element of the elementary social studies curriculum, but they're also fun to read and make! Readers are sure to be enthused when they open this book on mapmaking. Colorful diagrams and vibrant photographs aid reader comprehension, and the text encourages...
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The Eternal City: A History of Rome in MapsOne of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica, and the Trevi Fountain. Yet this ancient city's allure is due as much...
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How to Lie with MapsAn 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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The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1: Geographic Patterns and RelationshipsDo more with your GIS and understand the foundation of spatial analysis: geographic patterns and relationships. A geographic information system (GIS) enables so much more than mapping. A GIS inherently enables spatial analysis that can give you a better understanding of your geographic data....
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An Atlas of Geographical Wonders: From Mountaintops to RiverbedsThis is the first book to catalog comparative maps and tableaux that visualize the heights and lengths of the world's mountains and rivers. Produced predominantly in the nineteenth century, these beautifully rendered maps emerged out of the tide of exploration and scientific developments in...
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Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and TravelTravel through the exciting world of cartography with Map Art Lab. This fun and creative book features 52 map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey...
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Joan Blaeu. Atlas Maior of 1665Superlatives tend to fail in describing Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior--that being said, it stands as one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. The original Latin edition, completed in 1665, was the largest and most expensive book to be published during...
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Cartography.Winner of the 2019 International Cartographic Conference - Educational Products award A lavishly illustrated reference guide, Cartography. by Kenneth Field is an inspiring and creative companion along the nonlinear journey toward making a great map. This sage compendium for contemporary mapmakers distills the essence...
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GeodesyThe fourth edition of this textbook has been thoroughly revised in order to reflect the central role which geodesy has achieved in the past ten years. The Global Geodetic Observing System established by the IAG utilizes a variety of techniques to determine the geometric...
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Cartographer's ToolkitCartographer's Toolkit is like a big cheat-sheet for cartography. Its three chapters: Colors, Typography, and Composition Patterns build from individual map components to cohesive cartographic constructions. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction explaining relevant theory, key definitions, and usage suggestions. The pages that...
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A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate ChangeItaly's northern border follows the watershed that separates the drainage basins of Northern and Southern Europe. Running mostly at high altitudes, it crosses snowfields and perennial glaciers--all of which are now melting as a result of anthropogenic climate change. As the watershed shifts so...
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Mapping by Design: A Guide to Arcgis Maps for Adobe Creative CloudCreate visual and geospatial stories that blend map science and map design. To make aesthetically pleasing, informative maps, mapmakers and graphic designers have historically used time-consuming tasks and workflows as part of the job. But what if you could get to the aesthetic design...
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The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia...
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Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GISLauded for its accessibility and beautiful design, this text has given thousands of students and professionals the tools to create effective, compelling maps. Using a wealth of illustrations--with 74 in full color--to elucidate each concisely presented point, the revised and updated third edition continues...
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Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice CapThe riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the dean of adventure writingBy 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible...
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The Void, the Grid & the Sign: Traversing the Great BasinThis is a story that few know, but those who do are its disciples. The story, of the highest and driest of all American deserts, the Great Basin, has no finer voice than that of William Fox. Fox's book is divided into the three...
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