Bushmanders and Bullwinkles: How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win Elections

$28.00

For years Mark Monmonier, ""a prose stylist of no mean ability or charm"" according to the ""Washington Post, "" has delighted readers with his insightful understanding of cartography as an art and technology that is both deceptive and revealing. Now he turns his focus to the story of political cartography and the redrawing of congressional districts. His title ""Bushmanders and Bullwinkles"" combines ""gerrymander"" with the surname of the president who actively tolerated racial gerrymandering and draws attention to the ridiculously shaped congressional districts that evoke the antlers of the moose who shared... [Read more]

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Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past

$30.00

Who were the first people to inhabit North America? Does the West Bank belong to the Arabs or the Jews? Why are racists so obsessed with origins? Is a seventh cousin still a cousin? Why do some societies name their children after dead ancestors?\nAs Eviatar Zerubavel demonstrates in ""Time Maps, "" we cannot answer burning questions such as these without a deeper understanding of how we envision the past. In a pioneering attempt to map the structure of our collective memory, Zerubavel considers the cognitive patterns we use to organize the past in our minds and the mental strategies that help us string together unrelated events into coherent and meaningful narratives, ... [Read more]

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The Sovereign Map: Theoretical Approaches in Cartography Throughout History

$65.00

A novel work in the history of cartography, ""The Sovereign Map"" argues that maps are as much about thinking as seeing, as much about the art of persuasion as the science of geography. As a classicist, Christian Jacob brings a fresh eye to his subject--which includes maps from Greek Antiquity to the twentieth century--and provides a theoretical approach to investigating the power of maps to inform, persuade, and inspire the imagination.\nBeginning with a historical overview of maps and their creation--from those traced in the dirt by primitive hands to the monumental Dutch atlases and ornate maps on Italian palace walls--Jacob goes on to consider the visual components... [Read more]

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Maps, Mindscapes, and More

$69.00

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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, And Inflame

$25.00

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 names, prizing accurate representation over standards of decorum. Thus, summits such as Squaw Tit which towered above valleys in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and California found their way into the cartographic annals. Later, when sanctions prohibited local use of racially, ethnically, and scatalogically offensive toponyms, town names like Jap Valley, California, were erased from the nationa... [Read more]

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Rand McNally Chicago Map Guide

$5.95

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Insight FlexiMap Chicago

$8.95

Chicago Insight FlexiMap features detailed city, street and road maps clearly marked with all the sites and services of particular interest to travelers. Text and photographs offer a wealth of valuable tourist information including ""10 sights you shouldn't miss, "" plus information on transportation, visas, currency, important telephone numbers, emergency services, and more. [Read more]

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Rand McNally Chicago Map Guide

$5.99

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Map It!: Tools for Charting the Vast Territories of Your Mind

$16.00

Your students will get intensely involved in mapping with this dynamic comic book. Little or no artistic ability is necessary to use mapping as a rewarding note taking technique. Interactive pages encourage students to practice their skills by drawing and answering questions right in the book! Use it for students who already take good notes as well as for those who are struggling. [Read more]

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Zagatsurvey 2003/04 Chicago Map

$6.95

Zagatsurvey 2003/04 Chicago Map [Read more]

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Maps: Finding Our Place in the World

$55.00

A companion volume to the ambitious exhibition on the history of maps, this book challenges readers to stretch conventional thought about what constitutes a map and how many different ways there are to understand graphically the environment in which we live. [Read more]

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Off the Map: A Journey Through the Amazonian Wild

$16.95

This true-life adventure-travel story follows John Harrison and his wife Heather deep into an unexplored region of the Amazon rainforests in the Guiana Highlands that border Brazil. With just a canoe and a shotgun, the newlyweds followed the most remote tributary of the Amazon River without any means of contacting civilization. Harrison tells their story as, unaided and off the map, they encounter jaguars and poisonous frogs, are threatened by malaria, and almost lose their way entirely. While experiencing travel at its most raw, they struggle to keep their deteriorating sanity and relationship intact in one of the most hostile and unforgiving places in the world. Far more harrowing than ... [Read more]

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Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection

$25.00

In ""Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, "" Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator's projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines--clear-cut routes with a constant compass bearing--for true direction. But the projection's popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse--often in inappropria... [Read more]

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The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire

$60.00

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Fodor's Chicago's 25 Best [With Pullout Map]

$8.00

Fodor's Chicago's 25 Best [With Pullout Map] [Read more]

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Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather

$27.50

From the first weather tracking network in the late 18th century to today's high-tech maps on the evening news, Monmonier takes a look at the images that have been central to our daily lives for years. 22 color plates. Illustrations. [Read more]

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Frommer's Chicago [With Foldout Map]

$15.29

Frommer's Chicago [With Foldout Map] [Read more]

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No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control

$18.00

No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control [Read more]

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Streetwise Chicago

$6.95

Streetwise Chicago [Read more]

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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame

$16.00

From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame [Read more]

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Lonely Planet Chicago City Guide [With Pull-Out Map]

$12.00

Lonely Planet Chicago City Guide [With Pull-Out Map] [Read more]

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How to Lie With Maps

$17.00

Originally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. As Monmonier show, maps not only point the way and provide information, maps lie. In fact, they must. [Read more]

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European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750: Maps from the Collection of O.J. Sopranos

$44.95

This lavishly illustrated catalogue of the exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750, explores how mapmakers sought to document a new geography of the Near East that reconciled classical ideas and theories with the information collected and brought back by travelers and voyagers. The text is accompanied by images of illuminated manuscript charts and atlases, the earliest printed maps of the Ottoman Empire, and bird's-eye views of cities that provided ""arm-chair travelers"" with the experience of knowing distant places. [Read more]

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The Commerce Of Cartography: Making And Marketing Maps In Eighteenth-Century France And England

$43.00

Though the political and intellectual history of mapmaking in the eighteenth century is well established, the details of its commercial revolution have until now been widely scattered. In ""The Commerce of Cartography, "" Mary Pedley presents a vivid picture of the costs and profits of the mapmaking industry in England and France, and reveals how the economics of map trade affected the content and appearance of the maps themselves.Conceptualizing the relationship between economics and cartography, Pedley traces the process of mapmaking from compilation, production, and marketing to consumption, reception, and criticism. In detailing the rise of commercial cartography, ... [Read more]

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The Natures of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World

$49.00

The Natures of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World [Read more]

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Berlitz City Guidemap Chicago

$4.95

""Big on information, Small in your pocket. Fall in love with Berlitz's all new accurate, convenient, and fun to use City GuideMaps. When time and space are precious and the weight of a guidebook is prohibitive, these Berlitz City GuideMaps are the perfect solution for carrying essential travel information along with you. Their unique easy-fold format allows for hassle-free use so that you can get the information you need and get right on your way. Incredibly compact and easy to stash away, Berlitz's City GuideMaps make it easy to get around. They contain large amounts of useful, all up-to-date travel information including easy-to-read maps, places to see and things to do and lo... [Read more]

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