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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe THE NATURES OF MAPS: CARTOGRAPHIC CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE NATURAL WORLD * _Denis Wood & _ * _John Fels._ University of Chicago Press: 2008.

231 pp. $49 9780226906041 | ISBN: 978-0-2269-0604-1 Although I know it is a representation of nature, and not the real thing, such representations are powerful. They affect how we think

about the subjects they portray. And therein lies the utility of this terrific book. It uses the tools of cognitive linguistics to conduct a step-by-step analysis of how maps construct — in

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