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	Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates edited by Charles E. Beveridge, Lauren Meier, and Irene Mills 2020 \| Johns Hopkins University Press Full of original plans and historic photographs, this beautifully illustrated collection is the first comprehensive presentation of Olmsted's design concepts for communities and private estates. Illuminating Olmsted's design theory, this volume displays the beautiful plans and reveals the significance of each commission within his entire body of work. Readers concerned with the quality of the environment in which we live and work, as well as architects, landscape architects, urban planners, historians, and preservationists, will find stimulating insights in Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates.
	Women and GIS: Mapping Their Stories Written by the women of Esri Press 2019 \| Esri Press Twenty-three stories about how ordinary girls with very different passions have become extraordinary women and made significant contributions to our world. From oceanographers to activists, archaeologists to entrepreneurs, the women in Women and GIS: Mapping Their Stories can serve as mentors to motivate readers who are developing their own life stories and inspire their potential in a new way.
	Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 By Alida C. Metcalf 2020 \| Johns Hopkins University Press Describing the negotiation that took place between a small cadre of explorers and a wider class of cartographers, chartmakers, cosmographers, and artists, Metcalf shows how exploration informed mapmaking and vice versa. Recognizing early modern cartographers as significant agents in the intellectual history of the Atlantic, Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 includes around 50 beautiful and illuminating historical maps.
	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.
	Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age By Martin O'Malley 2019 \| Esri Press Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age is about a more effective way to lead that is emerging, enabled by the Information Age. It provides real solutions to real problems using GIS technology and helps develop a management strategy using data that will profoundly change an organization.
	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.
	Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps Edited by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History 2020 \| University of Chicago Press Strata is a glorious testament to the lasting geological and illustrative genius of William Smith, a collection as colossal and awe-inspiring as the layers of the Earth themselves.
	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.
	Charting the Plantation Landscape: from Natchez to New Orleans Edited by Laura Kilcer VanHuss 2021 \| LSU Press Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South’s most famous maps: Norman’s Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels. Beyond its purely cartographic function, Persac’s map depicted a world of accomplishment and prosperity, while concealing the enslaved and exploited laborers whose work powered the plantations Persac drew. In this collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines consider the histories that Persac’s map omitted, exploring plantations not as sites of ease and plenty, but as complex legal, political, and medical landscapes.
	An Atlas of Extinct Countries By Gideon Defoe 2021 \| Europa Compass This is an atlas of 48 nations that fell off the map. The polite way of writing an obituary is: dwell on the good bits, gloss over the embarrassing stuff. This book refuses to do so, because these dead nations are so full of schemers, racists, and con men that it’s impossible to skip the embarrassing stuff. Because of this – and because treating nation-states with too much reverence is the entire problem with pretty much everything – these accounts are not concerned with adding to the earnest flag saluting in the world, however nice some of the flags might be.

	Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates edited by Charles E. Beveridge, Lauren Meier, and Irene Mills 2020 \| Johns Hopkins University Press Full of original plans and historic photographs, this beautifully illustrated collection is the first comprehensive presentation of Olmsted's design concepts for communities and private estates. Illuminating Olmsted's design theory, this volume displays the beautiful plans and reveals the significance of each commission within his entire body of work. Readers concerned with the quality of the environment in which we live and work, as well as architects, landscape architects, urban planners, historians, and preservationists, will find stimulating insights in Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates.
	Women and GIS: Mapping Their Stories Written by the women of Esri Press 2019 \| Esri Press Twenty-three stories about how ordinary girls with very different passions have become extraordinary women and made significant contributions to our world. From oceanographers to activists, archaeologists to entrepreneurs, the women in Women and GIS: Mapping Their Stories can serve as mentors to motivate readers who are developing their own life stories and inspire their potential in a new way.
	Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 By Alida C. Metcalf 2020 \| Johns Hopkins University Press Describing the negotiation that took place between a small cadre of explorers and a wider class of cartographers, chartmakers, cosmographers, and artists, Metcalf shows how exploration informed mapmaking and vice versa. Recognizing early modern cartographers as significant agents in the intellectual history of the Atlantic, Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 includes around 50 beautiful and illuminating historical maps.
	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.
	Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age By Martin O'Malley 2019 \| Esri Press Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age is about a more effective way to lead that is emerging, enabled by the Information Age. It provides real solutions to real problems using GIS technology and helps develop a management strategy using data that will profoundly change an organization.
	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.
	Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps Edited by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History 2020 \| University of Chicago Press Strata is a glorious testament to the lasting geological and illustrative genius of William Smith, a collection as colossal and awe-inspiring as the layers of the Earth themselves.
	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.
	Charting the Plantation Landscape: from Natchez to New Orleans Edited by Laura Kilcer VanHuss 2021 \| LSU Press Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South’s most famous maps: Norman’s Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels. Beyond its purely cartographic function, Persac’s map depicted a world of accomplishment and prosperity, while concealing the enslaved and exploited laborers whose work powered the plantations Persac drew. In this collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines consider the histories that Persac’s map omitted, exploring plantations not as sites of ease and plenty, but as complex legal, political, and medical landscapes.
	An Atlas of Extinct Countries By Gideon Defoe 2021 \| Europa Compass This is an atlas of 48 nations that fell off the map. The polite way of writing an obituary is: dwell on the good bits, gloss over the embarrassing stuff. This book refuses to do so, because these dead nations are so full of schemers, racists, and con men that it’s impossible to skip the embarrassing stuff. Because of this – and because treating nation-states with too much reverence is the entire problem with pretty much everything – these accounts are not concerned with adding to the earnest flag saluting in the world, however nice some of the flags might be.

Books for Review

Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates

Women and GIS: Mapping Their Stories

Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500

Airline Maps: A Century of Art and Design

Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age

A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps

Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps

The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps

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

Charting the Plantation Landscape: from Natchez to New Orleans

An Atlas of Extinct Countries