Mark Monmonier,

How To Lie with Maps,

The University of Chicago Press,

Chicago, 1991.

CHAPTERS

I. Introduction

2. ELEMENTS OF THE MAP

Scale.

Map Projections.

Map Symbols.

3. MAP GENERALISATIONS; LITTLE WHITENLIES AND LOTS OF THEM.

Geometry.

Content.

Intuition and Ethics in Map Generalisation.

4. BLUNDERS THAT MISLEAD.

Cartographic Carelessness.

Deliberate Blunders.

Distroted Greytones : Not Getting what the Map Author Saw.

Temporal Inconsistency.

What a Difference a Day (or Year or Decade) Makes.

5. MAPS THAT ADVERTISE.

Transport Ads: Gentle Lines and Well Connected Cities. Enticement and Accessability: Ad Maps with a Single Place Focus.

Numerousness and Territoriality.

Ad Maps Touting Success and Convenience.

6. DEVELOPMENT MAPS (OR, HOW TO SEDUCE THE TOWN BOARD)

Zoning, Environmental Protection, and Maps.

Eleven Rules for Polishing the Cartographic Image.

Your Turn : the Assessment Review.

7. MAPS FOR POLITICAL PROPAGANDA

Cartographic Icons Big and Small.

Maps as Symbols of Pwer and Nationhood.

Size, Sympathy, Threats and Importance.

Propaganda Maps and History.

In Search of Explanation and Justification.

Arrows, Circles, Place-Names and other cartographic Assault Weapons.

8. MAPS, DEFENSE, AND DISINFORMATION: FOOL, THINE ENEMY.

Defence and a Secure Cartographic Database.

Soviet Cartography, the Cold War, and Displaced Places.

Features not Shown, Maps not Made.

9. DATA MAPS: MAKING NONSENSE OF THE CENSUS.

Aggregation, Classification, and Outliers.

Classification, Correlation, and Visual perception.

Places, Time, and Small Numbers.

Indexes, Rates and Rates of Change.

10. COLOR: ATTRACTION AND DISTRACTION

The Phenomenon of Colour.

Color on Maps.

EPILOGUE

APPENDIX

Latitude and Longtitude.

Selected Readings for Further Exploration

Sources of Illustration.