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No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control
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Product Description: 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 industries to the periphery...read more
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9780226534688 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 15, 2010, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do.

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No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control
Product Description: 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 industries to the periphery...read more
By Mark S. Monmonier
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9780226534671 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 15, 2010, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do.

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The Natures of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World
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Product Description: Cartographers have known for decades that maps are far from objective representations of the world; rather, every map reflects the agendas and intentions of its creators. Yet that understanding has had almost no effect on the way maps are viewed and used by the general public...read more
By John Pickles (foreword by)
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9780226906041 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 2008, cover price $49.00 | About this edition: Cartographers have known for decades that maps are far from objective representations of the world; rather, every map reflects the agendas and intentions of its creators.

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Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
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A lavishly illustrated tour of some of the most significant and history-making maps ever made is culled from Library of Congress archives and offers insight into the role of maps as living histories, in a volume that features such examples as the Waldseemuller Map of the World from 1507 and William Faulkner's hand-drawn 1936 maps of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. 20,000 first printing.
By James H. Billington (other contributor), Ronald E. Grim (introduced by), Library of Congress and Vincent Virga
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9780316997669 | Little Brown & Co, October 25, 2007, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: A lavishly illustrated tour of some of the most significant and history-making maps ever made is culled from Library of Congress archives and offers insight into the role of maps as living histories, in a volume that features such examples as the Waldseemuller Map of the World from 1507 and William Faulkner's hand-drawn 1936 maps of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.

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Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection
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An account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy examines the limitations and uses of Mercator's clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface while taking into account the earth's actual roundness.
By Mark Monmonier
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9780226534312 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy examines the limitations and uses of Mercator's clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface while taking into account the earth's actual roundness.

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Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600
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By John R. Short
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9780815630234 | Syracuse Univ Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $24.95

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Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity
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Product Description: Maps are stories as much about us as about the landscape. They reveal changing perceptions of the natural world, as well as conflicts over the acquisition of territories. Cartographic Fictions looks at maps in relation to journals, correspondence, advertisements, and novels by authors such as Joseph Conrad and Michael Ondaatje...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Karen Lynnea Piper
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9780813530727 | Rutgers Univ Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Maps are stories as much about us as about the landscape.

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9780813530734 | Rutgers Univ Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Maps are stories as much about us as about the landscape.

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