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Cartography

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

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534664, ISBN: HB: 9780226534657, University of Chicago Press, September 2007
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 17 line drawings

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, mapma...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Headless Males Make Great Lovers And Other Unusual Natural Histories

Crump Marty

ISBN: PB: 9780226122021, ISBN: HB: 9780226121994, University of Chicago Press, May 2007
212 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 108 line illus.

The natural world is filled with diverse – not to mention quirky and odd – animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex; the...

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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Deep The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss

Nouvian Claire

ISBN: HB: 9780226595665, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
256 pp., 30.7x26.1 cm, 220 colour illus.

On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters – the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 met...

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Cartography

Philosophy

Abysmal A Critique of Cartographic Reason

Olsson Gunnar

ISBN: HB: 9780226629308, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
584 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 45 halftones, 2 maps, 24 figures

People rely on reason to think about and navigate the abstract world of human relations in much the same way they rely on maps to study and traverse the physical world. Starting from that simple observation, renowned geographer Gunnar Olsson offers i...

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Cartography

Cartographies of Travel and Navigation

Akerman James R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226010748, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 81 halftones, 4 line drawings

Finding one's way with a map is a relatively recent phenomenon. In premodern times, maps were used, if at all, mainly for planning journeys in advance, not for guiding travelers on the road. With the exception of navigational sea charts, the use of m...

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Cartography

Sovereign Map Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History

Christian Jacob

ISBN: HB: 9780226389530, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 45 halftones, 15 line drawings

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...

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Mathematics

N-distances and Their Applications

Klebanov Lev B.

ISBN: PB: 9788024611525, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2006
96 pp., 30.4x20.3 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The book focuses on probability metrics suitable for the characterization of random variables in Hilbert or Banach space. It provides details of various stochastic processes, such as testi...

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Cartography

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

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226534312, University of Chicago Press, October 2004
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 halftones, 26 line drawings

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 portra...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Tropical Forest Diversity and Dynamism Findings from a Large-Scale Plot Network

Elizabeth Losos, Egbert Giles Leigh Jr.

ISBN: PB: 9780226493466, ISBN: HB: 9780226493459, University of Chicago Press, October 2004
688 pp., 23x15 cm, 170 tables, 4 halftones, 130 line illus.

Long-term Forest Dynamics Plots (FDPs) allow ecologists to explain patterns in diversity and dynamics in tropical forests around the world. In this collection, Elizabeth Losos and Egbert Giles Leigh Jr. assemble extensive standardized data – collecte...

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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Sperm Whales Social Evolution in the Ocean

Whitehead Hal

ISBN: PB: 9780226895185, ISBN: HB: 9780226895178, University of Chicago Press, August 2003
456 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 41 tables, 60 halftones, 84 line illus.

Famed in story as "the great leviathans", sperm whales are truly creatures of extremes. Giants among all whales, they also have the largest brains of any creature on Earth. Males can reach a length of sixty-two feet and can weigh upwards of fifty ton...

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