Mark Monmonier is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. He is the author of fifteen books, including How to Lie with Maps; Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather; Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy; and Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change.
"Lake Effect can answer any question the lay reader or scientist might have about the snows of the Great Lakes, while regaling both with tales of the life-threatening nature of the beast.-- ""Technology and Culture"" Lake Effect is an easy and pleasurable book for anybody interested in Great Lakes snow, whether the reader is simply a resident of the Northeast U.S. or a professional meteorologist.-- ""The Geographical Review"""