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Mark Stephen Monmonier is an American author and a Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He specializes in toponymy, geography, and geographic information systems. His popular written works show a combination of serious study and a sense of humor. His most famous work is How To Lie With Maps (1991), in which he challenges the common belief that maps inherently show an unbiased truth.
How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
1999
How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win Elections
2001
How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change
2008
Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy
1994
How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
2006
1991
Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows
2012
Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
1993
How Maps Restrict and Control
2010
A Social History of the Mercator Projection
2004
Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy
2002