As I have gone down the road in researching and writing about virtual worlds and serious games, one of the biggest issues for me has been the lack of a comprehensive source for a lot of the terminology and concepts I’m having to learn about and understand. That’s why I was pretty excited when I [...]
Following up on the Book Corner from Episode 155 I have written up my thoughts on the book GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to your Web Applications by Scott Davis. You can find this and previous book write-ups in the ever quiet columns section of the web site.
Over the last couple of days I have been reading Here, There Be Dragons by James Owen which can be found in the young adult section of your bookstore (why is it always on the opposite side of the store from Scifi/Fantasy). The thing that grabbed me was a dragon on the cover, but what [...]
We covered this book back in Episode 63, but here is the quick wrte up to go along with the audio. There is another review that I avoided reading until after I had finished this review but it can be found at: GIS Monitor
I have posted the book review for Remote Sensing for GIS Managers under the columns section. I did a book corner on Episode 46 that is a little more detailed than the 500 words we limit our book reviews to. Either way, it is a solid reference book at a good price.
The American Religious Experience at http://are.as.wvu.edu is an online journal which has been in publication for nearly a decade, which is edited by Briane Turley of WVU. In our continuing effort to support the folks we know, Mike Ferber (a fellow grad student) has recently published a review of Thomas Tweed’s newest book, Crossing and [...]
It has been a while in the making but we have finally posted our book review on Krygier and Wood’s (2005) Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS which we reviewed on avsp back in November. Head over to the review, or skip the review and grab the book.
Edward Mac Gillavry, over at webmapper.net, has a review of Mapping Hacks. I haven’t read it since I still haven’t finished going through it to write my own review. I tell ya, working on that pesky dissertation just keeps getting in the way. Head over to the review to find out about it well before [...]
