Hello Please excuse this bit of self-promotion but I just wanted to flag a new book I've co-edited that is about to be published by Wiley. I thought the The Map Reader might be of relevance to some of the people on this list. The volume excerpts over 50 key pieces of scholarly writing on cartographic representation and mapping practice from the last few decades, along with five new interpretative essays. It has been co-edited with Rob Kitchin and Chris Perkins. This pdf gives some more detail on The Map Reader, with the table of contents listing the extensive range of material included, our preface explaining the purpose of the book and the first interpretative essay, http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/Map_Reader_promotional.p... Details are also given on the Wiley promotional webpage, http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470742836.html Also, through the Wiley e-book library service you can look at the six colour plates in the book for free (although they are large pdf files, so quite slow to download) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470979587 And of course it can be ordered from bookshops, including Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Map-Reader-Theories-Cartographic-Representation/dp/0... 42836 While we appreciate its an expensive academic book and likely beyond an impulse individual purchase, it is a nicely produced hardback volume that we hope will find a role as a valuable reference and source of ideas for researchers and students. Many thanks cheers Martin --- Martin Dodge Geography School of Environment and Development, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom. Homepage: http://www.cybergeography.org/martin/martin.html Blog: http://cyberbadger.blogspot.com/