This book provides a comprehensive introduction about recent state-of-the-art advancements in Open GIS, including Open GIS data, services, software, and libraries for GIS programming. This book intends to provide this missing guidance for students, educators and professionals in geospatial fields to quickly find, learn and use a wide arrange of open-sourced data, tools, and programming for geospatial applications.

September 2025

In his punchy and authoritative new book, Paul Richardson challenges recent popular accounts of geographical determinism and shows that how the world is represented often isn't how it really is--that the map is not the territory.

September 2025

Living Physical Geography focuses on human-physical geography interactions. Each of the four major parts focus on energy flows within Earth’s physical systems and use step-by-step examples to illustrate how landforms and systems develop, evolve, and change through time.

September 2025

Its decades-long infiltration of the West threatens democracy, human rights, privacy, security and free speech. Throughout North America and Europe, political and business elites, Wall Street, Hollywood, think tanks, universities and the Chinese diaspora are being manipulated with money, pressure and privilege. Hidden Hand reveals the myriad ways the CCP is fulfilling its dream of undermining liberal values and controlling the world.

Uploaded September 2025.

Major new topics covered for the first time in this edition include: graph databases and graph query languages, ontology engineering and qualitative spatial reasoning, geosensor networks and GeoAI, decentralized computing and online algorithms, and critical GIS and data sovereignty. Intended for anyone interested in understanding GIS, especially students learning computer science and geography, as well as professionals involved in advanced GIS projects.

Uploaded September 2025.

This publication presents a wide compendium of approaches to Jewish-Arab dialogue and conflict resolution from an interdisciplinary perspective based on political science, social psychology and cultural studies, integrating both theory and practice. It combines both qualitative analysis with quantitative empirical results based on case studies.

Uploaded September 2025.

At its heart is a single, transformative idea- that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings - who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Inspired by the activists, artists and lawmakers of the young 'Rights of Nature' movement, Macfarlane takes the reader on an exhilarating exploration of the past, present and futures of this ancient, urgent concept.

Uploaded July 2025

Using a wide range of archival materials as well as interviews with members of the West Maui Community Plan Advisory Committee, Lisa Huynh Eller pieces together the story of how the West Maui community struggled to determine the plan for its land use. More than merely a cautionary tale about the limits of the community planning process, the story of the 2021 West Maui Community Plan takes on renewed significance for the people of West Maui in the wake of the August 2023 wildfire as the industrial disaster relief and rebuilding complex pulls West Maui communities in multiple and contradictory directions.

Uploaded June 2025

A richly illustrated atlas of the world's deserts and drylands, their ecosystems, and their environments.

Uploaded June 2025

The much expanded sixth edition of Environmental Hazards provides a fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century. It integrates cutting-edge material from the physical and social sciences to illustrate how natural and human systems interact to place communities of all sizes, and at all stages of economic development, at risk.

Uploaded June 2025