Maps and Mapping: Books & Other Resources

The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World by Times UK Staff Now in its 13th edition, this atlas is relied on and trusted by governments around the world and international organizations, including the UN, the European Commission, and media companies, to be a benchmark of cartographic excellence.

The Compact NASA Atlas of the Solar System by Ronald Greeley; Raymond Batson This 'road map' of the solar system is the definitive guide for planetary science and should be part of every cartographers and astonomer's collection.

From Here to There by Kris Harzinski; Hand Drawn Map Association Staff (Contribution by) It's a situation we are all acquainted with: planning to visit friends in an unfamiliar part of the city, you draw yourself a rudimentary map with detailed directions. Kris Harzinski founded the Hand Drawn Map Association in order to collect just such drawings of the everyday

The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katharine Harmon (Editor); Gayle Clemans Maps can be simple tools, comfortable in their familiar form. Or they can lead to different destinations: places turned upside down or inside out, territories riddled with marks understood only by their maker, realms connected more to the interior mind than to the exterior world. These are the places of artists' maps, that happy combination of information and illusion that flourishes in basement studios and downtown galleries alike.

A Map of the World According to Illustrators and Storytellers by Antonis Antoniou (Editor); R. Klanten (Editor); H. Ehmann (Editor); H. Hellige (Editor) Reproductions of maps of various content (world, country, area, city, neighborhood, etc) in many different graphic styles, with short descriptions of each and with a foreword by main editor.

Mapping It Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Tom McCarthy Mapping It Out invites artists, architects, writers, and designers, geographers, mathematicians, computer pioneers, scientists, and others from a host of fields to create a personal map of their own, in whatever form and showing whatever terrain they choose, whether real-world or imaginary.

MAPS by Paula Scher; Simon Winchester (Foreword by) In the early 1990s, celebrated graphic designer Paula Scher (Make It Bigger, 2002) began painting maps of the world as she sees it. The larger her canvases grew, the more expressionistic her geographical visions became. Displaying a powerful command of image and type, Scher brilliantly transformed the surface area of our world.

Mind, Maps and Infographics

Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers by Karen O'Rourke By alternating close study of selected projects with a broader view of their place in a bigger picture, Walking and Mapping itself maps a complex phenomenon.

You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination by Katharine Harmon (Editor) You Are Here is a wide-ranging collection of such superbly inventive maps. These are charts of places you're not expected to find, but a voyage you take in your mind: an exploration of the ideal country estate from a dog's perspective; a guide to buried treasure on Skeleton Island; a trip down the road to success; or the world as imagined by an inmate of a mental institution.

Point of View by Sarah Bryant "... the back sides of the gate folds ... presented a challenge. Somehow, this space needed to introduce each spread and use a system which unified the book.... I decided to use a map, complete with dots to indicate locations of people. I used red to highlight the groupings which would immediately follow each map. The central point, which represents the observer whose perceptions the book explores, is gray throughout all of these maps, save the collection of dots on the title page, where it is red..."--Vamp and Tramp website.

Pont Neuf by Michael Kirby Pont Neuf : the localization of a tetrahedron in space / Kirby, Michael (4 sheets of cardboard, cut and scored so that each may be assembled into a cube ; 33 x 29 cm. (irregular), in envelope, 32 x 32 cm. + 1 sheet (artist's statement))

Beijing 10/2003 by Ai Weiwei Documentation of a 2400 kilometer journey by the artist through every street in Beijing. Captured at precisely-timed, five-minute intervals from a single channel video over 150 hours long, the 1760 video stills, laid-out two per page over 880 pages, present a different Beijing with an endless stream of traffic-congested streets, myriad junk spaces and lots of bad weather. The work took 16 days to complete beginning on October 18, 2003.

Cartographies of Time: by Daniel Rosenberg; Anthony Grafton; Princeton Architectural Press Staff An overview of the history of the graphic representation of time through almanacs, charts, graphs, and other forms in the United States and Europe since 1450.

Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time by Michael Benson Visual history of the discovery of the universe, told through illustrations, maps, diagrams, speculative works of representation, and data visualizations.

Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte The most design-oriented of Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning Information shows maps, charts, scientific presentations, diagrams, computer interfaces, statistical graphics and tables, stereo photographs, guidebooks, courtroom exhibits, timetables, use of color, a pop-up, and many other wonderful displays of information.

Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi In Maps of the Imagination, Peter Turchi posits the idea that maps help people understand where they are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain human realities

Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know by Katy Börner Presents more than thirty full-page science maps, fifty data charts, a timeline of science-mapping milestones, and 500 color images, which serve as a sumptuous visual index to the evolution of modern science and as an introduction to 'the science of science'--charting the trajectory from scientific concept to published results.

Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe by Philip Morrison; Phylis Morrison; Office of Charles and Ray Eames Simply one of the best science books ever written. Its core is a series of 42 full page images, each representing a ten-fold zoom into the centre of its predecessor, spanning the Universe from a scale of 1 billion light years to the distance between two quarks. -LibraryThing

Joan Blaeu. Atlas Maior of 1665 by Joan Blaeu; P. C. J. van der Krogt "Three and a half centuries before Google Maps there was... Joan Blaeu's atlas, the finest ever published." TNT Magazine, London

Map: Exploring the World by Daniel Huffman (Contribution by); Phaidon Editors; Laura Imaoka (Contribution by); John Hessler 300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves. Selected by an international panel of cartographers, academics, map dealers and collectors, the maps represent over 5,000 years of cartographic innovation drawing on a range of cultures and traditions.

The Art of the Map by Dennis Reinhartz; John Noble Wilford (Foreword by) his lavishly illustrated history of the golden age of cartography, from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, explores not only the embellishments on maps but also what they reveal about the world in which they were created.

The Art of Illustrated Maps by John Roman While literally hundreds of books exist on the subject of "cartographic" maps, The Art of Illustrated Maps is the first book to fully explore the world of conceptual, "imaginative" mapping.

Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art by Peter Barber; Tom Harper Maps are often as much a visual art form as they are a practical tool for navigation. Of particular visual interest are display maps—maps that often used size and beauty to convey messages of regional and social status and power.

An Atlas of Radical Cartography by Lize Mogel; Alexis Bhagat Ten mapping projects dealing with social and political issues such as migration, incarceration, globalization, housing rights, garbage and energy issues are complemented by 10 critical essays and dialogues responding to each map.

The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live by Daniel Dorling; Mark Newman; Anna Barford In this definitive reference, sophisticated software combines with comprehensive analysis of every aspect of life to represent the world as it really is. Digitally modified maps or cartograms depict the areas and countries of the world not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a vast range of subjects, from basic data on population, health, and occupation to how many toys we import and who is eating the most vegetables.

Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities by Frank Jacobs Brimming with trivia, deadpan humor, and idiosyncratic lore, Strange Maps is a fascinating tour of all things weird and wonderful in the world of cartography.

The Curious Map Book by Ashley Baynton-Williams With The Curious Map Book, Ashley Baynton-Williams gathers an amazing, chronologically ordered variety of cartographic gems mainly from the vast collection of the British Library. He has unearthed a wide array of the whimsical and fantastic, from maps of board games to political ones, maps of the Holy Land to maps of the human soul.

You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves by Hiawatha Bray You Are Here tells the story of how humankind ingeniously solved one of its oldest and toughest problems-only to herald a new era in which it's impossible to hide.

How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier Originally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality.

On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.

MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association of America

The Chicago Manual of Style by The University The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff