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Mapping Latin America A Cartographic Reader
ISBN: PB: 9780226618227, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
360 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 halftones, 118 colour illus.
For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something – a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn't, an...
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£34,50
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Disease Maps Epidemics on the Ground
ISBN: HB: 9780226449357, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
344 pp., 25.9x18.5 cm, 2 tables, 106 colour plates, 35 halftones, 6 line illus.
In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea – that the disease was carried and spread by humans. In the nineteenth century, maps of cholera cases were used to prove its waterborne nature. More recently, maps charting the...
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£36,00
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Atlas of Socio Spatial Differentiation of the Czech Republic
ISBN: PB: 9788024618890, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2011
150 pp., 31x31 cm, 37 maps, 50 graphs, 50 charts
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This unique atlas visually depicts a variety of transformational processes that occurred in the Czech Republic during the past twenty years. Central to the transformation was a rapid econo...
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£96,00
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Kandik Map
ISBN: PB: 9781602230422, ISBN: HB: 9781602230323, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
160 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In 1880, a Native American named Paul Kandik and a French explorer, Francois Mercier, traveled across northeastern Alaska and western Canada to create the earliest known map of the region. Linda Johnson now delves into the fascinating story behind th...
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£15,00
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£28,00
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