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Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the
P***t Earth, 73rd Edition
Our Dumb World: The Onion's
Atlas of the P***t Earth, 73rd Edition features incorrect
statistics on all of the Earth's 168, 182, or 196 independent nations.
It also features maps, including a fold-out world map at actual size.
Readers will learn about every country from Afghanistan, "Allah's Cat
Box," to the Ukraine, "The Bridebasket of Europe." From Little, Brown
and Company, 2007.
Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas
Maps
This volume illustrates the history of the Lone Star
State through color plates of sixty-four historic Texas maps from the
Marty and Yana Davis Map Collection, Sul Ross State University, Alpine,
and includes ten original essays written by noted historians. Going
to Texas is a catalog that will accompany the exhibition of the
Davis Map Collection to ten museums throughout the Southwest over a
period of two years. It will begin in Dallas at the Hall of State with
the Dallas Historical Society and conclude at the National Cowgirl
Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth. From Texas Christian University
Press, 2007.
Remote Sensing in Archaeology
Whether deployed in space or on the surface of the earth, remote
sensing instruments are increasingly becoming standard archaeological
tools. Space age techniques have begun to accumulate a wealth of
information and unusual evidence such as the presence of sand-buried
courses of ancient rivers in the Sahara and the associated remains of
human occupations. Perhaps as important, some have been able to gather
priceless knowledge without disturbing fragile sites, a capability that
is particularly significant in this era of conservation. From Springer,
2007.
