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She writes about his meetings with US president Thomas Jefferson and how he deeply influenced people such as Charles Darwin, John Muir, and Henry David Thoreau. Wulf's recent article in\u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0magazine calls Humboldt the \"forgotten father of environmentalism.\" Wulf shared some of the research she did for the book when she gave the Keynote Address at the 2016 Esri User Conference, where she paid tribute to Humboldt's contributions to geography, ecology, and conservation. Knopf Doubleday, 2015, 496 pp., ISBN: 9780385350662"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":104942,"image_position":"left-center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1783988665\/esristore-20"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3>ArcPy and ArcGIS\u2014Geospatial Analysis with Python<\/h3>\r\nBy Silas Toms\r\nLearn how to be more productive by automating repetitive and analysis tasks in ArcGIS using the ArcPy module. Designed for working GIS professionals as well as students,\u00a0<em>ArcPy and ArcGIS\u2014Geospatial Analysis with Python<\/em>\u00a0builds proficiency with Python scripting from the ground up. It introduces the ArcPy Python module, how to configure the Python environment, and how to write the first script and moves on to complex scripts, working with cursors and geometry objects and the ArcPy Mapping module as well as working with ArcGIS Network Analyst and ArcGIS Spatial Analyst. The author Silas Toms is a geospatial programmer and analyst with a background in GIS analysis for city governments and environmental consulting. In his work as both a programmer and analyst, he learned to use Python and GIS to quickly produce geospatial data and tools and shares these techniques. 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