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By: Michael Kennedy
Audience Types: introductory GIS class, advanced GIS class
Audience Levels: more experienced undergrad students, graduate students
Newly revised, with exercises on web mapping and python scripting. A mix of background, explanation, and application.
By: David Unwin, Nicholas Tate, Kenneth Foote, David DiBiase
Audience Types: introductory GIS class, basic or general class on digital mapping
Audience Levels: any student
Not a book on how to teach GIS specifically, but rather why. Contributed chapters that review the entirety of the role that GIS plays in higher education.
By: Michael N. DeMers
Audience Types: basic or general class on digital mapping
Someone had to write one, right?
By: Michael N. DeMers
Audience Types: introductory GIS class, advanced GIS class
Audience Levels: more experienced undergrad students, graduate students
Accessible and straight-forward. Emphasis on modeling and analysis.
By: Paul Longley, Michael Goodchild, David Maguire, David Rhind
Audience Types: introductory GIS class
Audience Levels: beginning undergrad students, more experienced undergrad students, graduate students
Thorough and comprehensive. Includes concepts, theories, underpinnings of the science behind the systems.
By: Kang-tsung Chang
Audience Types: introductory GIS class, advanced GIS class
Audience Levels: more experienced undergrad students, graduate students
By: Michael Law, Amy Collins
Audience Types: introductory GIS class, advanced GIS class
Audience Levels: beginning undergrad students, more experienced undergrad students, graduate students, any student
a workbook that introduces the principles of GIS via hands-on exercises
By: Tim Ormsby, Eileen Napoleon, Robert Burke, Carolyn Groessl, Laura Bowden
Audience Types: introductory GIS class, advanced GIS class
Audience Levels: beginning undergrad students, more experienced undergrad students
the classic tutorial book for the use of desktop ArcGIS
By: Kathryn Keranen, Bob Kolvoord
Audience Types: advanced GIS class
Uses organized workflows, spatial analysis, and visualization to make decisions about crime, hazards, hurricanes, demographics, and urban planning. Supports the use of local data and situations.
By: David Allen
Audience Types: advanced GIS class
Audience Levels: more experienced undergrad students
Problem solving through spatial analyses. A range of spatial statistics. Aligns with the concepts in Esri’s Guide to GIS Analysis book series.