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Coast to Explore Coastal Geology and Ecology of Central California
ISBN: PB: 9780981661810, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2020
338 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 200 colour plates
Coasts have always enchanted us with their wild beauty. Coast to Explore offers an accessible guide to what we see when we look at a coastline: the wave-cut rock cliffs, sea caves, and sea stacks, as well as sand and gravel beaches and coastal dunes....
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£24,00
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Selden Map of China A New Understanding of the Ming Dynasty
ISBN: HB: 9781851245246, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2019
96 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 40 colour illus.
Dating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular conceptions of the time, looking not inward to the Asian landmass but outward to the sea. Discovered in the s...
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£20,00
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Picturing America The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps
ISBN: HB: 9780226386041, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 153 colour plates
Instructive, amusing, colorful – pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting mountains and trees across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More rece...
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£34,00
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Weather in the Courtroom Memoirs from a Career in Forensic Meteorology
ISBN: PB: 9781940033952, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings, 12 maps
As director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in the late 1960s and early '70s, William H. Haggard witnessed an explosion in the number of requests from attorneys needing weather data for their cas...
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£22,50
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Treasures from the Map Room A Journey through the Bodleian Collections
ISBN: HB: 9781851242504, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2016
224 pp., 27x27 cm, 120 colour illus.
This book explores the stories behind seventy-five extraordinary maps. It includes unique treasures such as the fourteenth-century Gough Map of Great Britain, exquisite portolan charts made in the fifteenth century, the Selden Map of China – the earl...
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£35,00
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How We See the Sky A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night
ISBN: PB: 9780226345772, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 66 halftones
Gazing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars – if, that is, we can see anything at all through the glow of light pollution. Today's casual observer knows far less about the sky than d...
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£15,00
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Weather on the Air A History of Broadcast Meteorology
ISBN: HB: 9781878220981, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, July 2010
304 pp., 23x18 cm, 75 halftones, 16 colour illus.
From low humor to high drama, TV weather reporting has encompassed an enormous range of styles and approaches, triggering chuckles, infuriating the masses, and at times even saving lives. In "Weather on the Air", meteorologist and science journalist...
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£26,50
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Armenia A Historical Atlas
ISBN: HB: 9780226332284, University of Chicago Press, May 2000
342 pp., 43.4x28 cm, 278 colour maps, 3 line drawings
From its conversion to Christianity to the Genocide during World War I, from the Soviet occupation to its recent independence, Armenia has seen a long and often turbulent history. In the magnificent "Armenia: A Historical Atlas", Robert H. Hewsen tra...
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£175,50
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History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 2 Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies
ISBN: HB: 9780226316376, University of Chicago Press, February 1995
998 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 40 colour plates, 503 halftones
The monumental "History of Cartography" is an unprecedented survey of the development of cartography both as a science and an art. This essential reference presents the enormous value of maps to societies worldwide and explores the many ways they hav...
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£250,00
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History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 1 Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies
ISBN: HB: 9780226316352, University of Chicago Press, August 1992
604 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 40 page colour insert, 40 colour plates, 355 halftones, 8 tables
The first book of volume 2 of the monumental "History of Cartography" focuses on mapping in non-Western cultures, an area of study traditionally overlooked by Western scholars. Extensive original research makes this the foremost source for defining,...
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£226,00
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