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Cartography

Blinding Polyphemus Geography and the Models of the World

Farinelli Franco

ISBN: HB: 9780857423788, Seagull Books, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Today, we believe that the map is a copy of the Earth, without realizing that the opposite is true: in our culture the Earth has assumed the form of a map. In "Blinding Polyphemus", Franco Farinelli elucidates the philosophical correlation between cu...

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Cartography

Red Atlas How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

Davies John, Kent Alexander J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226389578, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
272 pp., 25x15 cm, 282 colour plates

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of d...

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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Thirty-Eight The Hurricane That Transformed New England

Long Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300230673, ISBN: HB: 9780300209518, Yale University Press, October 2017
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 38 black&white illus.

The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England's most damaging weather event ever. To call it "New England's Katrina" might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Isl...

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Cartography

Travel

Captain Cook and the Pacific Art, Exploration and Empire

McAleer John, Rigby Nigel

ISBN: HB: 9780300207248, Yale University Press, September 2017
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 200 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geogr...

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Earth Sciences

Political Science

Elements of Power Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

Abraham David S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300226904, Yale University Press, August 2017
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Our future hinges on a set of elements that few of us have even heard of. In this surprising and revealing book, David S. Abraham unveils what rare metals are and why our electronic gadgets, the most powerful armies, and indeed the fate of our planet...

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Earth Sciences

Midlatitude Synoptic Meteorology: Lab Manual Dynamics, Analysis, and Forecasting

Lackmann Gary, Tyle Kevin R.

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781878220264, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, August 2017
144 pp., 24.2x18.6 cm, 20 line drawings

The past decade has been characterized by remarkable advances in meteorological observation, computing techniques, and data-visualization technology. However, the benefit of these advances can only be fully realized with the introduction of a systema...

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Cartography

Decolonizing the Map Cartography from Colony to Nation

Akerman James R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226422787, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 121 halftones, 1 table

Almost universally, newly independent states seek to affirm their independence and identity by making the production of new maps and atlases a top priority. For formerly colonized peoples, however, this process neither begins nor ends with independen...

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Cartography

Picturing America The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps

Hornsby Stephen J.

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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Earth Sciences

Volcanoes Encounters Through the Ages

Pyle David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781851244591, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2017
224 pp., 22.4x22.4 cm, 83 colour illus.

For centuries, volcanic eruptions have captured our imaginations. Whether as signposts to an underworld, beacons to ancient mariners, or as an extraordinary manifestation of the natural world, volcanoes have intrigued many people, who have left recor...

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Earth Sciences

Weather in the Courtroom Memoirs from a Career in Forensic Meteorology

Haggard William H.

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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