Dear Listers, I recently wrote a book called The GIS 20: Essential Skills. It has been published by ESRI press and is featured today at http://www.esri.com/ under "Announcements" on the homepage. I wanted to get the word out for those that are at the UC. It's available at the bookstore and the ESRI press booth. I also wanted to say thanks to those who filled out the survey, which helped to shape this book.
The book was inspired by a poll of 500 GIS practitioners, it is an easy-to-understand guide that emphasizes the top twenty skills most people need to master to be successful using GIS. A quick and comprehensive introduction to fundamental GIS skills, this book includes a data CD for completing the exercises. There are a few unique things about this book: -This book teaches 20 essential skills in 20 exercises. It's a completely new way of teaching GIS focusing on completing a specific and common task, such as geocoding, or reference mapping. -It's the most version free book ESRI offers to date, it's written for ArcGIS 10 but is compatible with 9.x versions of the software. -It include a data cd, but the exercises are written so your own data can be used to complete exercises. -The book is written in a relaxed tone, using everyday language (non-jargon), which is a significant change from previous ESRI books. -The price point is more reasonable than many other GIS books. To view a table of contents and a sample chapter, please visit http://www.esri.com/ or the ESRI Press site at http://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=176&moduleID=1 if you are an educator you can order a free desk copy http://esripress.esri.com/offers/deskcopy/index.cfm Note that desk copies will not be shipped until well after the initial book release in mid-July. Please feel free to email me with any questions or comments. I am also happy to schedule a call with you and your GIS colleagues to discuss. -- Thanks, Gina Clemmer New Urban Research, Inc. Message sent by: New Urban Research, Inc., 2103 NW Thurman St Suite S, Portland, 97210, United States To unsubscribe, click the link below. http://n.ss31.nur-online.com/RWCode/subscribe.asp?SID=0&SiteID=15089&email=ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu&HitID=1279214804986 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
