GIS for Health and the Environment: Development in the Asia-Pacific Region (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography series) Edited by Poh C. Lai and Ann S. H. Mak Concerns over the spread of both swine and avian influenzas have underlined the importance of GIS-based epidemiological studies. In addition to these studies, this book also addresses GIS applications for modeling human and environmental factors associated with disease, disease modeling, and public health monitoring and response. This book is a compilation of papers from the International Conference in GIS and Health held in 2006. Its intended audience includes geospatial experts, practicing epidemiologists, medical doctors, environmentalists, and public health physicians concerned with the impact of environmental exposures on the health of populations. Springer, 2007, 310 pp., ISBN-13: 978-3540713173 The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography By Katharine Harmon That there is art in mapmaking is well known and appreciated. The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography takes the opposite tack by examining the maps in art. Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, and Jasper Johns are just a few of the artists who have used maps in their works. This book illustrates the varied and surprising ways maps have been incorporated into works of art. In paintings and drawings in every sort of medium—from cotton stretched on a frame to the skin on a man's back—as well as in models and installations, this book displays the inventive, novel, and amazing ways cartography has been used in artistic expression. Photographs of these works are accompanied by essays written by Gayle Clemans. Princeton Architectural Press, 2009, 256 pp., ISBN-13: 978-1568987620 The SAGE Handbook of Spatial Analysis Edited by A. Stewart Fotheringham and Peter A. Rogerson Spatial analysis requires specialized statistical and mathematical methods. The SAGE Handbook of Spatial Analysis provides a broad overview of the spatial analytic techniques currently available as they are applied in a range of disciplines. It gives both a retrospective and prospective look at spatial analysis that is both comprehensive and authoritative. This book describes the main areas of spatial analysis, key areas of debate in the field, examples of applications, and problems in spatial analysis. Graduate students and researchers working with spatial data, as well as professionals who perform spatial analysis, will find this book invaluable. Sage Publications Ltd., 2009, 528 pp., ISBN-13: 978-1412910828 Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures: Towards the Spatial Semantic Web Edited by Peter van Oosterom and Sisi Zlatanova The tremendous increase in the amount of spatial data accessed via the Internet has demonstrated the need for better methods of organizing and retrieving it. While spatial data infrastructure (SDI) initiatives, such as Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE), are developing data standards that promote the use of spatial data, the problem of locating suitable datasets remains. Thus, spatial data represents a special case of the more general problem of developing a semantic Web that would enable and refine the ability to locate information on the Web. Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures: Towards the Spatial Semantic Web reviews recent SDI initiatives and addresses social aspects, such as legal and organizational issues, that impede access to spatial data as well as technical solutions for making metadata available via registry services and the use of formal semantics. CRC, 2008, 216 pp., ISBN-13: 978-1420070682 gis 60 ArcUser Winter 2010 Bookshelf www.esri.com