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The first two books in this series, one for ArcGIS Online and one for ArcGIS Pro, are shown here. A new book series is here! The Top 20 Essential Skills aims to efficiently identify and explain the top skills needed in a specific area of GIS. Each book includes easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and exercises designed to get a user up and running quickly—making these books ideal for both the classroom and self-guided study. The first two titles in the series are ArcGIS Pro, published in September 2023, and ArcGIS Online, publishing in June 2024. Many others are being planned, including the following topics: Python ArcGIS Arcade Data Science ArcGIS Experience Builder ArcGIS Dashboards ArcGIS Enterprise Lidar Sign up for our e-newsletter to be among the first to know when a new book is available. A photo of the authors of Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Pro, with Bonnie Shrewsbury on the left and Barry Waite on the right.                   ... View more

GIS day is November 15, and Esri Press has fun resources for young learners and geogeeks in the making! In addition to our various children’s books, we have related interactive mapping activities, printable activities and coloring pages, relevant Learn tutorials, and more.   Lindsey the GIS Professional and related activities Share the joy of mapping with Lindsey the GIS Professional as she collects information about the world around her to make a map of her favorite park. The first in a STEAM career-themed picture book series, this book describes what it's like to work with a GIS. StoryMap: Young learners can help Lindsey make some maps in this interactive activity that introduces them to ArcGIS. Lindsey website: Explore the full website for Lindsey and let kids find more fun things to do including printable activities. Spanish website: You can also find the book and activities in Spanish.   The STEAM at Work! series and related activities  This series introduces young readers to exciting, fun STEAM careers and real possibilities for channeling their passions. Along with Lindsey the GIS Professional book, characters in each book use their curiosity and skills to solve environmental and social issues. STEAM at Work! website: Let kids roam around the series website and find online and downloadable activities that interest them. Digital swag: Download a special GIS Day video background featuring Lindsey or the STEAM at Work! group.   The Locators and related activities Using different color maps and clues, readers can help the Locators—two children and their pet parrot—on each step of their journey by completing the illustrated activity at the end of each chapter. Full of fun, full-color illustrations, activities, and tons of facts about endangered species, habitats, and more, this adventure keeps kids interested and makes learning easy. StoryMap: Young geogeeks can help the Locators save jaguars in South America in this interactive map. The Locators website: Like the websites for the STEAM at Work! books, The Locators website has more fun activities for kids.   Learn about our entire children’s book catalog and associated activities here, or find more resources for GIS Day here. ... View more

For those instructors whose campus bookstores won’t have the new book GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 3.1 available in time for the start of the new school year, we’ve got you covered. Click on the link below to download the first chapter of this book and share with students who are awaiting a copy to purchase or rent. GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 3.1 First Chapter PDF ... View more

If you’ve adopted GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 3.1, the instructor resources are here! Read on to learn more about these resources from the authors, Wilpen L. Gorr and Kristen S. Kurland.   We are award-winning professors at Carnegie Mellon University who have been writing GIS textbooks and teaching GIS for over 25 years. Besides developing our own textbook writing skills, we have learned much from our students’ feedback, suggestions from GIS instructors around the world, and from CMU’s Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation Center. GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 3.1 is our introductory GIS textbook with step-by-step tutorials for ArcGIS Pro, and it’s our job to help get those materials to stick and integrate. To that end, we have several innovative features in our materials. First, each lecture starts with a “map” of the whole course, showing what you will learn today and how it is related to other parts of the course. Getting the big picture is really important for learning. Next, we keep our hands-on tutorial exercises short, on one topic at a time with at most 10 steps each. Such “chunks” are best for learning and provide a sense of accomplishment. Fairly often, we include “Your Turn” assignments that have you repeat steps just taken, but in slightly modified ways or with new data. Repetition with Your Turns starts the internalization process. Then we provide end-of-chapter assignments, available for download. These assignments have students apply materials presented in a chapter with new datasets and problem areas, to take them further along the path to retaining and integrating workflows and tool use. We always end our classes with a GIS project assignment of students’ own designs. That all makes GIS work and stick. Besides classroom teaching, we also teach GIS courses online, and so have prepared video lectures, keyed to GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 3.1. So it’s like sitting in our class to learn underlying GIS concepts, workflows, analyses, and applications. Once updated, these videos will be available upon request after the start of the Fall term. Instructors can find the resources, which include assignment solutions and grading rubrics, from Esri Press. We hope that you find these resources helpful in designing your curriculum. The instructor resources are available through VitalSource. Read this blog to find out how to access these, and be sure to add the e-book from the educator portal to your Bookshelf library.     ... View more

This blog is part of a quarterly series that announces new books available as exam and desk copies. This quarter’s new exam and desk copies include: GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 3.1 ISBN: 9781589487390 Order a print copy View an e-book copy                 Spatial Statistics Illustrated ISBN: 9781589485709 Order a print copy View an e-book copy                 Introduction to Human Geography Using ArcGIS Online ISBN: 9781589487468 Order a print copy View an e-book copy                 Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Pro ISBN: 9781589487505 Order a print copy View an e-book copy                 For more information on ordering print copies, see this blog. For more information on seeing an e-book, see this blog.           ... View more

    The 2023 Esri User Conference might be over, but the book specials are not: We’ve extended the Esri UC discount until the end of July! Use promo code UC2023 at this link to receive a 40% discount off the list price of any available Esri Press book through July 31, 2023. Additionally, orders over $40 receive free shipping. This code only works at the given link and, due to limitations with the distributor, this discount is only available for purchases in the US and Canada. Stock up on those Esri Press books you’ve been eyeing and be sure to enter the promo code at checkout! ... View more

Welcome back to an exciting Esri User Conference! This year, we have exciting plans for you at the Esri Press booth. Scroll down to see more! Book signings Come to the Esri Press booth to connect with three of our newest authors, all of whom are also Esri employees. (You might catch them at a session or two!) Be sure to first purchase your copy of the book(s) across the walkway in the Esri Store. Michael Gaigg Gaigg will be at the booth on Tuesday, July 11, from 2:00 to 2:30 signing copies of his book, Designing Map Interfaces: Patterns for Building Effective Map Apps. Lauren Bennett and Flora Vale Both Bennett and Vale will be at the booth on Thursday, July 13, from 2:30 to 3:00 signing copies of their book, Spatial Statistics Illustrated.   Pitch sessions They’re back! Due to their popularity last year, pitch sessions with our acquisitions team are being held again, with an additional day added. Drop by the Esri Press booth at any time during the UC to sign up for a 15-minute slot to meet with one of our acquisitions editors and/or our managing editor during one of the following sessions: Tuesday, July 11, from 3:00 to 4:00 Wednesday, July 12, from 3:00 to 4:00 Thursday, July 14, from 3:00 to 4:00 Be sure to learn about what you need before you schedule a time slot!   Book proofs Yes, we will have the following forthcoming books on display at the booth!                                               We can’t wait for you to drop by! ... View more