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Genre/Form: | [Literature] |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Monmonier, Mark S. How to lie with maps. (OCoLC)1201182136 |
Material Type: | Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark S Monmonier |
ISBN: | 0226534200 9780226534206 0226534219 9780226534213 |
OCLC Number: | 32820164 |
Description: | xiii, 207 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Elements of the map -- Map generalization: little white lies and lots of them -- Blunders that mislead -- Maps that advertise -- Development maps (or, How to seduce the town board) -- Maps for political propaganda -- Maps, defense, and disinformation: fool thine enemy -- Large-scale mapping, culture, and the national interest -- Data maps: making nonsense of the census -- Color: attraction and distraction -- Multimedia, experiential maps, and graphic scripts -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Latitude and longitude. |
Responsibility: | Mark Monmonier. |
More information: | |
Local System Bib Number: | 001639971 |
Abstract:
With two additional chapters, this illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches how to evaluate maps critically, and promotes a healthy scepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. It shows that despite their immense value, maps do, and in fact need to, lie.
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