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	Airline Maps: A Century of Art and Design By Mark Ovenden and Maxwell Roberts 2019 \| Penguin Books A nostalgic and celebratory look back at one hundred years of passenger flight, featuring full-color reproductions of route maps and posters from the world’s most iconic airlines, from the author of bestselling cult classic Transit Maps of the World. NOTE: The review copy for this book will be in PDF format, due to... current events.
	A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps By Jeremy Black 2020 \| University of Chicago Press In this thrilling and unique book, Jeremy Black blends his singular cartographic and military expertise into a captivating overview of World War II from the air, sea, and sky, making clear how fundamental maps were to every aspect of this unforgettable global conflict.
	The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps By Jessica Maier 2020 \| University of Chicago Press The first English-language book to tell Rome’s rich story through its maps, The Eternal City beautifully captures the past, present, and future of one of the most famous and enduring places on the planet.
	Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity By Simon Ferdinand 2019 \| University of Nebraska Press Mapping Beyond Measure breaks fresh ground in undertaking a series of close readings of significant map artworks in sustained dialogue with spatial theorists. In so doing Ferdinand reveals how map art calls into question some of the central myths and narratives of rupture through which modern space has traditionally been imagined and establishes map art’s distinct value amid broader contemporary shifts toward digital mapping.
	The Atlas of a Changing Climate By Brian Buma 2021 \| Workman This is climate change, visualized. Climate change, shrinking wildlife habitats, rising sea levels, and vanishing species. These are big, important ideas that deserve a proper exploration—just the type of revealing journey you will experience in The Atlas of a Changing Climate. Ecologist Brian Buma helps us envision—both literally and figuratively—the history, present, and possible futures of the imperiled ecosystems directly influencing our lives. By presenting the forces driving Earth’s changes through illuminating maps, charts, and infographics, he proves the depth of our connectivity to our planet, revealing both the vulnerability—and hope—intrinsic in that link.
	Framing the World: Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought By Margaret Small 2020 \| Boydell Press In sixteenth century, the author of Framing the World argues, the seeds of the modern era of colonization, expansionism and ultimately globalization were sown. Framing the Early Modern World is a timely work, contributing to a growing discourse on the origins of globalization and the roots of modernity.
	Against the Map: The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain By Adam Sills 2021 \| The University of Virginia Press This study utilizes the methodologies of critical geography, as well as literary criticism and theory, to detail the conflicted and often adversarial relationship between cartographic and literary representations of Britain and its geography in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Adam Sills focuses particularly on "other" spaces, such as neighborhood, home, and country, are not reducible to the map but have played an equally important role in the shaping of British national identity. Ultimately, Against the Map suggests that nation is forged not only in concert with the map but, just as important, against it.
	Atlas of Yellowstone: Second Edition by W. Andrew Marcus, et al. 2022 \| The University of California Press The second edition of the award-winning Atlas of Yellowstone contains 50% new material, making it the authoritative reference for the world’s first national park on its 150th anniversary.
	Clock and Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address by Mark Monmonier 2022 \| University of Iowa Press When an interested buyer eager to see his calves couldn’t find his farm, John Plato realized that an RFD postal address was only good for delivering mail. Plato’s “Clock System” solution was a map-and-directory approach that used direction and distance from a local business center to give farmers a "real" address. Mark Monmonier tells a tale of persistence and failure as rural farming declined and technology and capitalism overtook John Byron Plato’s chance at geographic immortality.

	Airline Maps: A Century of Art and Design By Mark Ovenden and Maxwell Roberts 2019 \| Penguin Books A nostalgic and celebratory look back at one hundred years of passenger flight, featuring full-color reproductions of route maps and posters from the world’s most iconic airlines, from the author of bestselling cult classic Transit Maps of the World. NOTE: The review copy for this book will be in PDF format, due to... current events.
	A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps By Jeremy Black 2020 \| University of Chicago Press In this thrilling and unique book, Jeremy Black blends his singular cartographic and military expertise into a captivating overview of World War II from the air, sea, and sky, making clear how fundamental maps were to every aspect of this unforgettable global conflict.
	The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps By Jessica Maier 2020 \| University of Chicago Press The first English-language book to tell Rome’s rich story through its maps, The Eternal City beautifully captures the past, present, and future of one of the most famous and enduring places on the planet.
	Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity By Simon Ferdinand 2019 \| University of Nebraska Press Mapping Beyond Measure breaks fresh ground in undertaking a series of close readings of significant map artworks in sustained dialogue with spatial theorists. In so doing Ferdinand reveals how map art calls into question some of the central myths and narratives of rupture through which modern space has traditionally been imagined and establishes map art’s distinct value amid broader contemporary shifts toward digital mapping.
	The Atlas of a Changing Climate By Brian Buma 2021 \| Workman This is climate change, visualized. Climate change, shrinking wildlife habitats, rising sea levels, and vanishing species. These are big, important ideas that deserve a proper exploration—just the type of revealing journey you will experience in The Atlas of a Changing Climate. Ecologist Brian Buma helps us envision—both literally and figuratively—the history, present, and possible futures of the imperiled ecosystems directly influencing our lives. By presenting the forces driving Earth’s changes through illuminating maps, charts, and infographics, he proves the depth of our connectivity to our planet, revealing both the vulnerability—and hope—intrinsic in that link.
	Framing the World: Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought By Margaret Small 2020 \| Boydell Press In sixteenth century, the author of Framing the World argues, the seeds of the modern era of colonization, expansionism and ultimately globalization were sown. Framing the Early Modern World is a timely work, contributing to a growing discourse on the origins of globalization and the roots of modernity.
	Against the Map: The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain By Adam Sills 2021 \| The University of Virginia Press This study utilizes the methodologies of critical geography, as well as literary criticism and theory, to detail the conflicted and often adversarial relationship between cartographic and literary representations of Britain and its geography in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Adam Sills focuses particularly on "other" spaces, such as neighborhood, home, and country, are not reducible to the map but have played an equally important role in the shaping of British national identity. Ultimately, Against the Map suggests that nation is forged not only in concert with the map but, just as important, against it.
	Atlas of Yellowstone: Second Edition by W. Andrew Marcus, et al. 2022 \| The University of California Press The second edition of the award-winning Atlas of Yellowstone contains 50% new material, making it the authoritative reference for the world’s first national park on its 150th anniversary.
	Clock and Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address by Mark Monmonier 2022 \| University of Iowa Press When an interested buyer eager to see his calves couldn’t find his farm, John Plato realized that an RFD postal address was only good for delivering mail. Plato’s “Clock System” solution was a map-and-directory approach that used direction and distance from a local business center to give farmers a "real" address. Mark Monmonier tells a tale of persistence and failure as rural farming declined and technology and capitalism overtook John Byron Plato’s chance at geographic immortality.

Books for Review

Airline Maps: A Century of Art and Design

A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps

The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps

Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity

The Atlas of a Changing Climate

Framing the World: Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought

Against the Map: The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Atlas of Yellowstone: Second Edition

Clock and Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address

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