The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers' World Map of 1550
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This lavishly produced new study features a full-scale colour reproduction and commentary on one of...
The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
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A thought-provoking analysis of how the acquisition and utilization of information has determined...
East Coast Pilot: Great Yarmouth to Ramsgate
Colin Jarman, Dick Holness and Garth Cooper
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Since its launch East Coast Pilot has become the most popular pilot book for the creeks, harbours...
Dislocating the Orient: British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921
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While the twentieth century's conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well...
history geography
Six Months, Three Days, Five Others
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"A master absurdist...Highly recommended." ―The New York Times Before the success of her debut...
Science fiction
Memoirs of Baron von Muffling: A Prussian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars
Friedrich Karl Ferdinand von Muffling
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Muffling's memoirs provide an exceptional first-hand account of the Napoleonic Wars by one of...
Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces
Thomas F. Banchoff and Stephen T. Lovett
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Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, Second Edition takes both an analytical/theoretical...
Blaeu: Atlas Maior
Joan Blaeu and Peter Van Der Krogt
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World class: The finest atlas ever publishedSuperlatives tend to fail in face of Joan Blaeu s Atlas...
From the Earth's Core to Outer Space
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From the Earth's Core to Outer Space focuses on four themes: (1) Evolving Earth's crust, (2)...
Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps: The Atlas of Everything You Never Knew You Needed to Know
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EXPLORE THE WORLD AS YOU NEVER KNEW IT WITH VARGIC'S ASTONISHING MISCELLANY OF CURIOUS MAPS. This...