How to Lie with Maps
by Mark Monmonier

Maps are generally read and used with a less critical eye thanb any other printed work. How to Lie with Maps demonstrates how they can be manipulated and for what purposes. It is impossible to translate exactly the round surface of the earth onto a flat plane: all maps are deceptive. Some, however, go beyond the necessary trickery of scale and projection. Mark Monmonier exposes shades of cartographic untruth from gilded real estate plans to the sinister deception in Nazi propaganda maps. In this new edition, Monmonier has added two new chapters and ten color plates extending his insights into government maps and the uses of new technology in map making.

"His is an artful and funny book, which like any good map, packs plenty in little space."
--Scientific American

"A reading of this book will leave you much better defended against cheap atlases, shoddy journalism, unscrupulous advertisers, predatory special-interest-groups, and others who may use or abuse maps at your expense."
--John Van Pelt, Christian Science Monitor

- Introduction
- Elements of the Map
- Map Generalization; Little White Lies and Lots of the Them
- Blunders that Mislead
- Maps That Advertise
- Development Maps (or, How to Seduce the Town Board)
- Maps for Political Propaganda
- Maps, Defense, and Disinformation: Fool Thine Enemy
- Large-Scale Mapping, Culture, and the National Interest
- Data Maps: Making Nonsense of the Census
- Color: Attraction and Distraction
- Multimedia, Experiential Maps, and Graphic Scripts

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