New Books to Consider Adopting for Your Classroom
Are you looking to update the textbooks you use in your classroom? Perhaps you’re interested in adding in an industry-specific focus, or want to encourage your students to analyze how data is represented in the maps they create.
At Esri Press, we’ve identified a selection of new and forthcoming books to consider for your classroom. Explore these offerings below, organized by course topic and focus.
For courses on GIS and Public Health:
| GIS Jump Start for Health Professionals Now, more than ever, professionals can benefit from the power of location data, maps, and analytics in healthcare. GIS Jump Start for Health Professionals is a concise workbook that introduces location analytics available in geographic information system (GIS) technology to health professionals, medical students, residents, fellows, nursing students, medical researchers, and others interested in health IT and informatics, health-care administration, and health policy. GIS Jump Start for Health Professionals provides hands-on tutorials that introduce the ArcGIS tools and shows how to use web-based data, storytelling apps, and much more. The book includes concepts and short video lectures to improve learning outcomes. Focused lessons get health professionals up and running quickly and experiencing firsthand the value of location data, maps, and analytics. Currently available in paperback and e-book format. |
GIS Tutorial for Health for ArcGIS Desktop 10.8 Knowing how technology can improve health research and health-care management applications has never been more important. A workbook for learning the basics of ArcGIS within a health context, GIS Tutorial for Health for ArcGIS Desktop 10.8 introduces you to preparing, visualizing, and analyzing health data. Using a hands-on approach with real-world health-care scenarios that simulate how to develop and manage a GIS health project, the included exercises guide you to solve health problems using ArcGIS Desktop, specifically ArcMap. Currently available in paperback and e-book format. | 
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For courses on ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Desktop:
| Getting to Know Web GIS, fifth edition Get the latest about online GIS using ArcGIS® apps and functionality. Capabilities of Web GIS keep expanding, and Getting to Know Web GIS, fifth edition, describes some of the most cutting-edge and exciting innovations. This book shares the scientific concepts, big pictures, real-world applications, and how-tos of the most current software and apps for using ArcGIS in the cloud. Forthcoming in e-book format coming this summer. |
Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop 10.8 Want to get up and running with ArcGIS Desktop? Start here. Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop 10.8, sixth edition, is the classic textbook that introduces readers to the features and tools of ArcGIS Desktop, specifically ArcMap. Currently available as an e-book, a paperback format will be published this summer. | 
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For courses on cartography:
| Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualise Empirical Data Maps are ubiquitous, yet maps are not made equally, nor are they read equally. Using 101 maps, graphs, charts, and plots of the 2016 United States presidential election data, Thematic Mapping explores the rich diversity of thematic mapping and the visual representation of data. It details well-known techniques and demonstrates how to design effective maps and graphics. Each map illustrates a different approach to the same data, and all lead to different maps and different ways of seeing different shades of truth. Currently available as an e-book, the paperback will publish late March. |
If you found this post useful, and want to explore what educational resources are available to you and your students, explore our related Community blogs:
- How to Request a Desk Copy from Esri Press
- Courseware and E-textbook Rental Options for Online Learning
- Supporting Distance Learning with Courseware for Select E-books
We also encourage you to explore additional book offerings from Esri Press for use in your course.