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Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop: The Basics of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo, 2nd Edition Updated for ArcGIS 9
by Tim Ormsby  Synopsis With revised material and new exercises based on ArcGIS version 9, this updated work acquaints geographers and GIS professionals with the principles of GIS as it teaches the mechanics of using ArcGIS software. Conceptual material is followed by scripted...
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The Map That Changed the World
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell -- clear across England...
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Mastering Arcgis - With CD (3RD 07 Edition)
by Maribeth H. Price Publisher Comments Mastering ArcGIS is an introductory GIS text that is designed to offer everything you need to master the basic elements of GIS. The author's step-by-step approach helps students negotiate the challenging tasks involved in learning sophisticated GIS...
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Beginning Mapserver: Open Source GIS Development
by Bill Kropla Publisher Comments Beginning MapServer is a comprehensive introduction to MapServer, an Open Source geographic information systems (GIS) development platform used for integrating mapping technology into internet applications. After a thorough dissertation on installation...
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Small-Scale Map Projection Design
by Frank Canters Publisher Comments The use of computers in cartography has made it a lot easier for map makers to transform data from one map projection to another and experiment with alternative representations of geographical data. Yet this has also created new challenges and...
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Making Maps a Visual Guide To Map Design For
by John Krygier Publisher Comments This visually engaging, clear, and down-to-earth guide is for those who must make effective maps using GIS. Featuring more than 300 maps and figures, this is a uniquely helpful resource....
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How To Lie With Maps 2ND Edition
by Mark S Monmonier Publisher Comments Originally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. Monmonier shows that,...
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Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past
by Jeremy Black Publisher Comments Maps are invaluable for historians. This book -- the first comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the historical atlas -- explores the role, development, and nature of this important reference tool and discusses its impact on the presentation of the...
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Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change
by Mark Monmonier Publisher Comments In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious...
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Spatial Evolutionary Modeling (Spatial Information Systems)
by Roman Krzanowski Publisher Comments Evolutionary models (e.g., genetic algorithms, artificial life), explored in other fields for the past two decades, are now emerging as an important new tool in GIS for a number of reasons. First, they are highly appropriate for modeling geographic...
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The GPS Handbook: A Guide for the Outdoors (GPS Handbook: A Guide for the Outdoors)
by Robert I. Egbert Synopsis Updated with information on the latest models of GPS and new technology such as sophisticated downloadable maps, this new edition provides all the information needed to work any GPS unit in the outdoors....
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Gis Tutorial : Workbook for Arcview 9.0 and 2 CDS (05 Edition)
by Wilpen Gorr Publisher Comments This teaching tool is designed with both self-study users and classroom users in mind, offering nine steps for learning ArcView GIS software that have been developed and tested at the GIS labs at Carnegie Mellon University. This hands-on approach...
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Outdoor Navigation with GPS (Outdoor Navigation with GPS)
by Stephen Hinch Publisher Comments The most complete, easy-to-use GPS book available, this guide offers everything needed to get the most out of a receiver, from basic consumer advice to advanced techniques....
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Designed Maps: A Sourcebook for GIS Users
by Cynthia A. Brewer Book News Annotation Brewer (geography, Pennsylvania State U.) has written two books and has worked as a map and atlas design consultant for various agencies and organizations, including the U.S. Census Bureau, National Cancer Institute, and National Park Service. She...
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You Are Here
by Katharine Harmon 
Powells.com Staff Pick Maps are magical pieces of paper. Who doesn't love to pore over them and imagine traveling to New York, Paris, Amsterdam or even Weed, California? Maps are reassuring when you are lost, and they inspire you to dream when you're stagnant. Author Katherine...
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Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship
by Anne Kelly Knowles Publisher Comments In the last decade, historical GIS has emerged as a promising new methodology for studying the past. Historical GIS is the use of geographic information systems software and allied geospatial methods for historical research and teaching. Placing History:...
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GISDATA #3: GIS Diffusion
by Ian Masser Publisher Comments This third book in the GISDATA series focuses on the widespread use of geographical information systems GIS in European local government. The editors include a wide range of applications carried out by different professional groups, and offer the...
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Geographical Information Systems: Principles, Techniques, Management, and Applications
by Paul A. Longley and Michael F. Goodchild and David J. Maguire and David W. Rhind Publisher Comments Since the publication of the First Edition of Geographical Information Systems in 1991, the “ Big Book” of GIS has become the definitive work on the science, application and practice of GIS. This new, Abridged Second Edition of Geographical...
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Gis, Spatial Analysis, and Modeling
by David J. (edt) Maguire Publisher Comments A guide for geographic analysts, modelers, software engineers, and GIS professionals, this book discusses agent-based modeling, dynamic feedback and simulation modeling, as well as links between models and GIS software. This collection also presents a...
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Gps
by Guochang Xu Publisher Comments This reference and handbook describes theory, algorithms and applications of the Global Positioning System (GPS/Galileo). It is primarily based on source-code descriptions of the KSGsoft program developed by the author at the GFZ in Potsdam. The theory...
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