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Product Description: A history of the Miami International Map Fair in Miami, Florida, from its founding in 1993 until the 20th fair in 2013. When founded it was the first – and for many years only – annual map fair in the western hemisphere. Hosted by HistoryMiami museum, the event draws upwards of 50 dealers from around the globe to showcase and sell maps, atlases, charts, books, and globes...read more

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9781523320370 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 11, 2016, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: A history of the Miami International Map Fair in Miami, Florida, from its founding in 1993 until the 20th fair in 2013.

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Book by Baker, Frank B.

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9781440339561 | How Design Books, October 23, 2015, cover price $35.00

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9780435080044, titled "The Basics of Item Response Theory" | Heinemann, October 1, 1985, cover price $24.00 | also contains The Basics of Item Response Theory | About this edition: Book by Baker, Frank B.

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Product Description: From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map samplers and even silk globes. Hundreds of British maps were made and although American examples are more rare, they form a significant collection of artefacts...read more

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9781409426356, titled "Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women's Geographical Education" | Ashgate Pub Co, April 1, 2015, cover price $104.95 | About this edition: From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map samplers and even silk globes.

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Product Description: From the crude maps of ancient Babylon to the satellite-fueled precision of Google Maps, cartography has been both a record of dreams and of discoveries. Maps have played midwife to empires, helped win wars, and encouraged humanity to venture beyond boundaries of space and time...read more

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9780233004396 | Andre Deutsch Ltd, February 3, 2015, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: From the crude maps of ancient Babylon to the satellite-fueled precision of Google Maps, cartography has been both a record of dreams and of discoveries.

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Product Description: From the author of The Sultan and the Queen, a fascinating look at twelve maps—from Ancient Greece to Google Earth—and how they changed our worldIn this masterful study, historian and cartography expert Jerry Brotton explores a dozen of history’s most influential maps, from stone tablet to vibrant computer screen...read more

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9780670023394 | Viking Pr, November 14, 2013, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: From the author of The Sultan and the Queen, a fascinating look at twelve maps—from Ancient Greece to Google Earth—and how they changed our worldIn this masterful study, historian and cartography expert Jerry Brotton explores a dozen of history’s most influential maps, from stone tablet to vibrant computer screen.

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Product Description: In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he chronicled in a narrative titled Il Milione, later known as The Travels of Marco Polo. While Polo’s writings would go on to inspire the likes of Christopher Columbus, scholars have long debated their veracity...read more

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9780226149820 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 29, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he chronicled in a narrative titled Il Milione, later known as The Travels of Marco Polo.

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Product Description: Why is today's world map filled with uniform states separated by linear boundaries? The answer to this question is central to our understanding of international politics, but the question is at the same time much more complex - and more revealing - than we might first think...read more

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9781107040960 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 13, 2014, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Why is today's world map filled with uniform states separated by linear boundaries?

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9780143126027 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 28, 2014), cover price $20.00

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9781592407798 | Gotham Books, December 27, 2012, cover price $27.50

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9781592407804 | Avery Pub Group, November 5, 2013, cover price $17.00

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Product Description: The first full study in the English language to give context to the extraordinary life and seminal work of the Nuremburg mathematician, cartographer and scientist Johannes Schöner (d. 1543). Schöner's collection of maps and notes offers an unprecedented insight into cartographic development during this critical period in the history of science and exploration...read more

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9781907804168 | D Giles Ltd, April 16, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The first full study in the English language to give context to the extraordinary life and seminal work of the Nuremburg mathematician, cartographer and scientist Johannes Schöner (d.

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9781461409168 | 2 edition (Springer Verlag, June 7, 2012), cover price $59.99
9780387716688 | Springer Verlag, August 1, 2007, cover price $34.95

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Product Description: In this concise introduction to the history of cartography, Norman J. W. Thrower charts the intimate links between maps and history from antiquity to the present day. A wealth of illustrations, including the oldest known map and contemporary examples made using Geographical Information Systems (GIS), illuminate the many ways in which various human cultures have interpreted spatial relationships...read more

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9780226799728, titled "Maps & Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society" | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $17.95 | also contains Maps & Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society | About this edition: In this concise introduction to the history of cartography, Norman J.

Focuses on 100 maps that changed human understanding of the world around us, changed the course of map-making, or directly influenced the path of history. This book reveals how different peoples have observed and represented their world through the ages, and how maps have been used for a variety of purposes.
By Sarah Bendall (introduced by) and Jeremy Harwood

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9780785828983 | Chartwell Books, January 3, 2012, cover price $14.99
9780715325391 | David & Charles, October 28, 2006, cover price $33.30 | About this edition: Focuses on 100 maps that changed human understanding of the world around us, changed the course of map-making, or directly influenced the path of history.
9781582974644 | David & Charles, October 27, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: One hundred key maps that changed human perception and understanding of the world, changed the course of map-making itself, or directly influenced the path of history are provided in this illustrated, thought-provoking history of cartography.

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Product Description: An illustrated history of explorers' maps and the questions they answer. More than the detailed representation of the geographical areas that their makers explored, maps reveal their makers' worldview as well as the myths, beliefs and legends of their times...read more

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9781554075256 | Firefly Books Ltd, September 10, 2009, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: An illustrated history of explorers' maps and the questions they answer.

- Fun Facts- Sidebars- Primary Source Maps- Satellite Images

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9781604534214 | Checkerboard Library, January 1, 2010, cover price $25.65

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9781599289519 | Checkerboard Library, January 1, 2008, cover price $27.07 | About this edition: - Fun Facts- Sidebars- Primary Source Maps- Satellite Images

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9781416535317 | Free Pr, November 3, 2009, cover price $30.00

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9781416535348, titled "The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America" | 1 edition (Free Pr, July 6, 2010), cover price $16.99
9781439159842 | Simon & Schuster, November 3, 2009, cover price $18.00

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9780142005255 | Avery Pub Group, October 29, 2009, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: Winner of the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian children’s non-fictionHonor Book for the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Social Studies, Grades 7-12Shortlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year2003 winner of the Mr...read more

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9780887766213 | Tundra Books, September 1, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: With reproductions of some of the most important maps in history, presents many of the unexpected stories of history's great mapmakers and their charts, quilts, songlines, and parchment that guided men and women through the strange, vast, and mysterious frontiers of the world.

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9780887769337 | Reprint edition (Tundra Books, September 8, 2009), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Winner of the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian children’s non-fictionHonor Book for the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Social Studies, Grades 7-12Shortlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year2003 winner of the Mr.

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By R. A. Skelton (editor)

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9781412811545 | 2 enlarged edition (Transaction Pub, November 15, 2009), cover price $185.95

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