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Books : Science & Nature : Earth Sciences & Geography : Geography : Cartography, Geodesy & Geographic Information Systems : General AAS

• The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live

  Daniel Dorling, Mark Newman, Anna Barford

  
  
   

• An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems

  Ian Heywood, Sarah Cornelius, Steve Carver

  
  
   

• An Introduction to Geophysical Exploration

  Philip Kearey, Michael Brooks, Ian Hill

  
  
   

• You are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination

  Katharine Harmon

  
  
   

• Mapping London: Making Sense of the City

  Simon Foxell

  
  
   

• Navigating with a GPS (Cicerone Mini-guides)

  Pete Hawkins

  
  
   

• The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption

  Simon Winchester

  
  Simon Winchester has a very simple formula, of which The Map That Changed the World is a perfect example--namely that the history we have forgotten is infinitely more interesting than the history with which we are all familiar. After the success of The Surgeon of Crowthorne, which documented the life of WC Minor, the American surgeon and major contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary, Winchester now turns his attention to William Smith, the 19th-century Briton who can justly lay claim to being the founding father of geology.

  The book has all the usual attributes of a pacy historical read: a self-educated, unrecognised scientist spends years roaming the British countryside, compiling a map of the geological layers beneath the surface, only to have his ideas ripped off and to wind up homeless and penniless in Yorkshire with a wife who is going bonkers. And it gets better: in a bizarre Dickensian twist, Smith finally gets his just accolades when he is recognised by a kindly liberal nobleman and is reintroduced to London society as the geologist par excellence. Of itself, the story would be more than enough recommendation but there is a subtext running though the book that is in many ways just as compelling--namely, how some parts of history get written in stone and others in dust. Most secondary-school students get to learn of Charles Darwin and The Voyage of the Beagle. Yet how many people could stick their hands up and say they had heard of Smith? But is evolution any more important a field as geology? Is history ultimately an exercise in who has the best PR? Winchester may not have the answer, but he'll certainly make you think.--John Crace

  
   

• Basic Geological Mapping (Geological Field Guide)

  John W. Barnes, Richard J. Lisle

  
  
   

• Introduction to Remote Sensing

  James B. Campbell

  
  
   

• Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools

  Gary Sherman

  
  
   

• Principles of Geographic Information Systems, 2nd Ed.

  Peter A. Burrough, Rachael A. McDonnell

  
  
   

• Introduction to Geographic Information Systems with Data Files CD-ROM

  Kang-Tsung (Karl) Chang

  
  
   

• Geographic Information Systems and Science

  Paul A. Longley, Michael F. Goodchild, David J. Maguire, David W. Rhind

  
  
   

• Tectonic Geomorphology

  Doug Burbank, Robert Anderson

  
  
   

• Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment (The natural & built environment series)

  Peter Morris, Riki Therivel

  
  
   

• Remarkable Maps: 100 Examples of How Cartography Defined, Changed and Stole the World

  
  
   

• Geological Structures and Maps: A Practical Guide

  Richard J Lisle

  
  
   

• Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography

  Ralph E. Ehrenberg

  
  
   

• Mrs.P's Journey: The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Created the A-Z Map

  Sarah Hartley

  
  
   

• Getting to Know ArcObjects

  Robert Burke, Thad Tilton, Andrew Arana