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Mission-Critical Mapping: GIS for Defense and Intelligence explores how defense and intelligence organizations successfully use GIS to manage their high-stakes work.
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EmTech Anthropology: Careers at the Frontier emphasizes anthropology's critical role at the frontier of emerging technologies (EmTech). The book delves into the possibilities and opportunities that arise from the convergence…
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Prepare, Respond, Renew: GIS for Wildland Fire explores a collection of real-life stories about wildland fire agencies successfully using GIS for preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery and rehabilitation workflows.
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The second volume in the A Life Outside series brings together 15 all-new essays and stories about the outdoor lifestyle. A Life Outside 2 maintains the trademark humor of the…
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From Southern California to Botswana, the Sierra Nevada Mountains to South Africa, and Greece to the Mojave Desert, this short collection of hiking stories illustrates life's "little adventures"-weekend and other…
From mountaineering to kayaking to rock climbing and more, this short collection of outdoor adventure stories from the Sierra Nevada Mountains illustrates life's "little adventures"-weekend and other relatively short trips…
From local lakes to the Sierra Nevada Mountains and beyond, this short collection of kayaking stories illustrate life's "little adventures"-day, weekend, and other relatively short trips here and there designed…
An American teenager moves to southern Africa in the 1970s during a time of great change, and comes back changed himself. After a 35 year absence, he returns to southern…
From the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California to the wilds of Botswana, the third installment in Matt Artz's stories of outdoor adventures takes him around the world and back again…
From the High Sierra to his own backyard, Matt Artz's short collection of mountain biking stories illustrate life's "little adventures"-weekend and other relatively short trips here and there designed to…
From kayaking in Death Valley to rock climbing in the Eastern Sierra, Matt Artz's short collection of road trip stories illustrates the value of life's "little adventures"-weekend and other relatively…
From Death Valley to Joshua Tree; from Yellowstone to Victoria Falls, Matt Artz's short collection of outdoor stories illustrates how outings in national parks can quench our thirst for wildness…
From the wilds of Africa to local trails and boulders, the fourth installment in the A Life Outside series is the perfect companion for those unfortunate times when you can't…
A funny, irreverent look at outdoor activities from rock climbing and mountaineering to kayaking and mountain biking, A Life Outside brings together a selection of non-fiction and fiction writings by…
Boulderfest! is the definitive guidebook to bouldering at Snow Valley in the San Bernardino Mountains, California.
Spice. The essence of a certain plant, and thus of a certain place, distilled down into some crumpled leaves or a fine powder. Flavor. A mixture of taste and smell…
A teenage boy discovers a way to use his love of kites to escape from his troubled family situation.
"Slim Roamer recently embarked on a cross-country road trip of indefinite length and with no set itinerary. His goals are two-fold: to find the best rock in the southwest, and…
Exhilarating, delightful, disturbing, amusing, and overall intensely personal, Down to Africa is the story of an American teenager living in southern Africa in the 1970s. It was a time of…
Returning to southern Africa for the first time in 35 years, Matt Artz shares his adventures while volunteering for a conservation and research program in the Tuli Wilderness of Botswana…
"The spotted hyena had probably heard the kill, and took off towards the sound to see what it could scavenge. It managed to walk off with a small piece of…
I'm getting older. I'm slowing down. I can't do everything that I used to. And as the steamroller of old age continues its relentless advance, there's not much I can…
From scaling tall mountains to tiny boulders and everything in between, this short collection of rock climbing stories illustrates life's "little adventures"-weekend and other relatively short trips here and there…
From interviews with rock climbing royalty to tales of mere amateurs floundering up boulders, this short collection of climbing stories illustrates life's "little adventures"-weekend and other relatively short trips here…
In Mapping Your Mission: GIS for Nonprofits, readers will learn how nonprofits advance their mission through engaging storytelling tools, data visualization, and spatial analysis of demographic, behavioral, economic, and environmental…
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Discover a modern approach to help mitigate threats to public safety in your community.
Creating safer, less vulnerable communities requires a modern approach to understanding threats and hazards that are…
Managing Our World: GIS for Natural Resourcesexplores a collection of real-life stories about natural resource organizations successfully using GIS to increase efficiency and sustainability.
Learning from COVID-19: GIS for Pandemics explores a collection of real-life case studies about how organizations across the globe have successfully used GIS to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Preserving Our Planet: GIS for Conservation explores real-life stories about conservation organizations successfully using GIS to meet challenges to biodiversity preservation.
Protecting the People: GIS for Law Enforcement explores a collection of real-life stories about law enforcement agencies successfully using GIS for crime analysis, open policing, and field mobility.
Addressing Earth's Challenges: GIS for Earth Sciences explores a collection of real-life stories about how earth science organizations successfully use GIS to visualize and analyze data.
Finding a Sustainable Balance: GIS for Environmental Management explores a collection of real-life stories about how environmental and natural resource management organizations successfully use GIS.
Discover a modern approach using geographic information systems (GIS) to understand threats and hazards to communities with Dealing with Disasters: GIS for Emergency Management.
Creating a Smarter Campus: GIS for Education explores real-life stories about education organizations improving teaching, learning, research, IT support, and administration with GIS technology.
Discover a modern approach to help build healthier communities.
Improving health outcomes, increasing access to health care, and building healthier communities requires a modern approach to understanding health and human…
