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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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Birds
Field Guide to Tasmanian Birds
Watts Dave
ISBN: PB: 9781876334604, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, January 2003
192 pp., 20.8x14.4 cm
A comprehensive listing of all major bird species found in Tasmania, accompanied by full-colour photographs of each bird in its natural habitat for identification purposes. Informative text, distribution maps and full-colour photographs makes "Field...
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Cartography
Flattening the Earth Two Thousand Years of Map Projections
Snyder John P.
ISBN: PB: 9780226767475, University of Chicago Press, December 1997
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 163 maps and charts, 12 portraits
As long as there have been maps, cartographers have grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem mapmakers have created hundreds of map projections, mathematical methods for drawing the round earth...
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Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America With Supplementary Notes on Herbaceous Taxa
Gentry Alwyn H.
ISBN: PB: 9780226289441, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
920 pp., 25.4x16.5 cm, 291 line drawings
To understand almost any part of the tropical rain forest's fabulously complex web of life, one must first learn to identify a bewildering array of plants. Alwyn Gentry's landmark book, completed just before his tragic death in 1993, is the only fiel...
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