North American maps for curious minds : 100 new ways to see...

North American maps for curious minds: 100 new ways to see the continent

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Bucklan, Matthew

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The Experiment

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2021

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xi, 194 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.

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"100 vivid infographic maps that transform the way we understand the cultural and historical wonders of North America"--

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1. Geography

2. Politics and Power

3. Nature

4. Culture and Sports

5. People and Populations

6. Food and Health

7. Industry and Transport.

Foreword by Ian Wright

Introduction

1. GEOGRAPHY: 1.Identity crisis: what even is North America?

2. Hawaii is a really long state: comparing it to the West Coast puts it in perspective

3. Global scale: if your state or province were a country, what size by area would it be?

4. Alas, Alaska: big, weird, and wonderful

5. Countries that count: giving a few across the U.S. their due

6. Drawing outside the lines: baffling North American borders

7. Doing a double take: city pairs to leave you second-guessing

8. Just keep swimming: the first country you'll reach, coast to coast

9. The inner banks: Canada's great island lakes and lake islands

10. On dry land: states and provinces not touching an ocean, gulf, or bay

11. The 8 greatest lakes in North America: plus 7 pretty good ones

12. The United States of Washington: every place named after the first president

13. Rhode nation: if every state were the size of Rhode Island, there would be 2,457 states

14. Name dropping: city names, then and now

15. A river runs beside it: US natural borders

2. POLITICS AND POWER: 16. Madam Governor: number of women governors by state or province

17. Belles of the ballot: when women gained the right to vote

18. Engendering equality: the ongoing struggle to pass the Equal Rights Amendment

19. Red California and blue Texas?: presidential election results since 1856

20. Worth the visit?: states the candidates made time for during the 2020 general election campaign

21. "Did Not Vote" ends winning streak: a historic turnout finally beats the lack of turnout

22. States that picked the greats: predicting the pantheon of best presidents

23. The price of leadership: salaries of North American heads of states

24. Land of equality?: if every state's population had Wyoming's representation in the Senate

25. Coaching all the way to the bank: the highest-paid public employee by state

26. Monroe's lament: the dependencies of North America

27. Bang for the buck: who pays the most for their military?

28. Living on the edge: 2 out of 3 Americans live within 100 miles of the border

29. Where service comes first: proportion of veterans by state

3. NATURE: 30. Missing the forest for the trees: the can't miss trees of North America

31. Dog days: when does the hottest day of the year fall?

32. Spring hasn't sprung: Punxsutawney Phil predicts late blooms

33. Land before time: the greatest dinosaur finds in North America

34. Our biggest hits: North America's largest impact craters

35. Above the fruited plain: the highest elevation in each state

36. And now, the weather: North American weather extremes

37. Caving the day: cavernous wonders across North America

38. Supervolcano: when Yellowstone blanketed the US and Canada in ash

39. Perma-lost: the last glacial maximum compared to today

40. Where darkenss reigns: the dark skies still left for pristine stargazing

41. Singled out: endangered or threatened species that live entirely within one state

42. A second act: North American species that have staged comebacks

43. Let there be light: local time of sunset on the summer solstice

44. Don't let the sun go down on me: local time of sunset on the winter solstice

45. Too much time on my hands: hours of daylight on the summer solstice

46. Not enough time in the day: hours of daylight on the winter solstice

4. CULTURE AND SPORTS: 47. Tallest, fastest, steepest: record-setting amusement parks and rides of North America

48. Ones for the books: iconic moments in North American sports

49. Take me out to the crowd: the 20 largest North American stadiums by seating capacity

50. Topping the charts: the place names that appear in Billboard No. 1 song titles

51. Black American first: the places where they made their names

52. Don't drop the ball: the less-famous things that drop (or rise) on New Year's Eve

53. How the stacks stack up: the 20 largest physical public library collections in the US

54. Magnificent museums: the 20 most popular museums in North American by attendance

55. Hometown heroes: Hall-of famer birthplaces in the 4 major sports leagues

56. The Midus brush: the most expensive paintings of North America

57. Go see a Frank Lloyd Wright building: every one of his publicly accessible works

58. Bees expertise: winning Scripps National Spelling Bee words by winner's home state

59. All together now: the all-time largest gatherings these cities have ever seen

60. Where the stars are born: where every Best Actor and Actress Oscar winner hails from

61. What are you looking at?: the highest-rated programs on US TV

62. Ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles!: every show they played in North America

5. PEOPLE AND POPULATIONS: 63. His name is my name, too: most common surnames by state or province

64. Native lands in native hands: indigenous population by state or province

65. Where we're coming from: most common countries of origin outside the US by state

66. American pie charts: origin of residents by state

67. Birds of a feather: most common cross-state migrations

68. Brightest lights, biggest cities: the top 10 most populous US cities over time

69. Balancing act: America's population centers of gravity

70. Homes away from homes: where people have second homes

71. Homes all around, but not a place to stay: number of second homes per unhoused person

72. The extremely Big Apple: 39 states have smaller populations than NYC

73. The language barrier: percentage of households speaking only English by country

74. Turtle Island: indigenous homelands in 1491

75. Strangers in their own land: indigenous homelands today

6. LIFESTYLE AND HEALTH: 76. Wafflography: number of Waffle Houses by latitude

77. Fast food diet: which states are a drive-through lover's paradise?

78. Getting the runaround: how fast recreational runners finish a marathon by state

79. One for the ages: median age by state

80. Looking up to her: female height in North America

81. He's the tops: male height in North America

82. Men are from Alaska, women are from Puerto Rico: gender ratio by state

83. Running from the chapel: unmarried population by state

84. Finding my happy place: quality of life, happiness, and well-being in North America

85. I'm coming out: LGBTQ acceptance in North America

86. American tragedies: accident mortality by state

87. America, the next generation: birth rates by state

88. Down and out: COVID-19 anxiety and depression

7. INDUSTRY AND TRANSPORT: 89. Expansive spans: the 10 longest bridges in North America

90. Lost at sea: famous shipwrecks in North American waters

91. Who's got the goods?: the 50 largest ports in the US

92. Get out of town!: How far one day of travel took you from NYC, since 1800

93. Moving on up: the 50 tallest buildings in North America

94. Bumper to bumper, coast to coast: how long it takes to get to work by county

95. In the driver's seat: how America gets to work

96. Don't bank on it: the unbanked people of North America

97. Road hogs: the longest roads in the US, Canada, and Mexico

98. Cattle call: in which states are you likelier to run into a cow into a person?

99. T-minus 15 spaceports: launchpads across the US

100. America offline: who doesn't have internet

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Administrative and political divisions
Atlases
Economic conditions
Illustrated works
Information visualization
North America -- Administrative and political divisions -- Maps
North America -- Economic conditions -- Maps
North America -- Maps
North America -- Population -- Maps
Population

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