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New Books from Esri Press

Getting to Know ArcGIS Enterprise

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By Jon Emch, Diana Muresan, and Travis Ormsby

In today’s increasingly demanding and rapidly changing business environment, understanding how to work with ArcGIS Enterprise is key to increasing collaboration and being resilient. Getting to Know ArcGIS Enterprise—the first book from Esri Press focused on ArcGIS Enterprise—covers the essential skills of planning, deploying, administering, using, and maintaining this foundational software system so users can securely organize and share their work on any device, anywhere, at any time. The book addresses the most common and vital workflows that ArcGIS Enterprise administrators need to comprehend and put into practice.

GeoAI: Artificial Intelligence in GIS

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By Ismael Chivite, Dr. Nicholas Giner, and Matt Artz

The emergence of AI-enhanced GIS has unveiled new opportunities to democratize the technology and automate complex spatial analyses, helping both new and experienced users—from city planners and policymakers to business professionals and research groups—make better decisions faster. GeoAI: Artificial Intelligence in GIS is a collection of real-world stories about how public, private, and nongovernmental organizations successfully use GeoAI to manage processes, workflows, policies, and communication. The book also includes a technology showcase that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to get readers to jump-start their own use of GeoAI.

Security First: Geospatial Workflows for a Safe and Equitable World

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By Dr. Darren Martin Ruddell and Dr. Diana Ter-Ghazaryan

To resolve the complex challenges humanity faces today, learning GIS has never been more critical for visualizing and interpreting data. Security First: Geospatial Workflows for a Safe and Equitable World guides readers through targeted exercises and examples to show how GIS can be used in the fields of human security and global intelligence. Each chapter outlines learning objectives, technical requirements, and prerequisite knowledge and includes a geospatial workflow, an analysis, and additional resources. All detailed exercises use ArcGIS software and downloadable data, helping readers establish and reinforce their technical skills. After each exercise, readers interpret their results and write an intelligence brief, fostering critical thinking about how to incorporate GIS into analytical work.

Telling Stories with Maps: Lessons from a Lifetime of Creating Place-Based Narratives

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By Allen Carroll

While humans have used maps for centuries—from scraping patterns in the sand to charting every place on Earth—the digital age has revolutionized how maps are created, distributed, and consumed. The internet forged enormous opportunities for storytelling, enabling maps to interact with other multimedia elements, including photos, videos, audio, and text, to tell countless tales about the world. In Telling Stories with Maps: Lessons from a Lifetime of Creating Place-Based Narratives, author Allen Carroll draws on his 27 years of experience working for both the National Geographic Society and Esri to reveal how maps tell stories and enrich narratives by providing context. The book, which features a foreword by Lonely Planet cofounder and renowned travel writer Tony Wheeler, contains rich illustrations, with examples ranging from traditional maps to the latest digital visualizations. Readers will be inspired to produce place-based narratives that engage and inform their audiences.

2026 Esri Press Wall Calendar: 16 Months of Beautiful Maps

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By Esri

See the art in cartography all year long. Showcasing 13 beautiful maps by Esri cartographers—including John Nelson, Dr. Kenneth Field, Craig McCabe, Emily Meriam, Heather Gabriel Smith, Sarah Bell, Joshua Stevens, and Keith VanGraafeiland—the 2026 Esri Press Wall Calendar celebrates the beauty of geography and maps over 16 months, from September 2025 through December 2026. Each spread features fun facts about maps and history, includes reflections from the cartographer, and displays a relevant Esri Press book.