Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications Edited by Martin Dodge, Mary McDerby, and Martin Turner This collection of papers documents the progress that has been made in the field of geographic visualization (or geovisualization) and indicates possible developments in the future. Although many GIS practitioners may be more familiar with the geovisualization of data relating to the physical sciences, this book contains many applications for these techniques in the social sciences. It addresses topics such as three-dimensional display, mobile data, and representing uncertainty. The sweep of this book is broad: case studies cited are drawn from Europe, North America, and Australia, and contributors include scholars and researchers from cartography, GIScience, architecture, art, urban planning, and computer graphics. Numerous illustrations and explanations of visualization concepts make the text accessible. Graduate students, researchers, and geographic information professionals are the target audience for Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications. Wiley, 2008, 348 pp., ISBN13: 978-0470515112 Statistical Methods for Geography—A Student's Guide, Second Edition By Peter A. Rogerson This textbook supplies a systematic introduction to the use of statistical methods in geography. The second edition was completely revised and supplies expanded introductory chapters and information on probability and descriptive statistics. This edition gives students more hands-on experience applying these concepts, with downloadable datasets and additional exercises. SPSS for Windows and Microsoft Excel are used to illustrate the application of these methods. Additional lecture material and study skills materials, along with sample datasets, are available from the companion Web site. Peter A. Rogerson is a professor of geography at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Sage Publications Ltd., second edition, 2006, 320 pp., ISBN-13: 978-1412907965 You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination By Katherine Harmon In the introduction to You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, Katherine Harmon writes: "I sense that humans have an urge to map and that this mapping instinct, like our opposable thumbs, is part of what makes us human." The rest of this artfully designed and lavishly illustrated book makes this argument with maps that reveal not only the physical world but also the realms of myth and fiction. Some maps have unexpected perspectives: one from the 1920s portrays a dog's trip through the ideal country estate. The more than 100 inventive maps presented in this volume—created by cartographers, artists, and explorers—push the definition of a map. Princeton Architectural Press, 2003, 192 pp., ISBN-13: 9781568984308 Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS— A Workbook Approach to Learning GIS, Second Edition By Michael Kennedy As in the first edition, Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS—A Workbook Approach to Learning GIS, Second Edition, combines the theoretical and practical in one volume. Designed as a one-semester textbook for university, college, or advanced high school students, it provides a solid foundation that will allow students to grasp the central concepts of GIS needed to understand spatial analysis while providing the ability to use major tools in ArcGIS. This foundation will allow students to progress on to more advanced study of GIS or GIScience. This edition has been updated for ArcGIS 9.3 and adds information on file geodatabases and 3D GIS with terrains. The accompanying CD contains the data for the book's 60 regular exercises and 9 review exercises. Wiley, second edition, 2009, 624 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0470398173 60 ArcUser Summer 2009 www.esri.com