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	Prompt Cartography: Interactive Web Map Design with LLMs By Ian Muehlenhaus 2026 \| CRC Press (distributed by Routledge) Prompt Cartography: Interactive Map Design with LLMs is a practical, research-informed guide to directing large language models and AI agents to design modern interactive maps across web, mobile, and emerging natural-language GIS platforms. It highlights how cartographic principles such as design, ethics, and spatial communication remain vital despite technological shifts and emphasizes the importance of understanding coding and data literacy to responsibly integrate AI tools like LLMs into workflows. It reframes cartographers as media directors who articulate intent, ethics, and design decisions in structured natural language that LLMs then execute, critique, and iterate at scale.
	Four Short Books for Curious Minds Various Authors 2019–25 \| The Experiment This collection of four brief titles includes The 1960s, Wild Maps for Curious Minds, North American Maps for Curious Minds, and Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds. Each offers an illustrated tour through interesting facts and oddities, with a tone that the publisher variously describes as "whimsical," "a romp," and "flat-out fun."
	A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster By Ryan Denson 2026 \| Bloomsbury Academic Examining a vast corpus of literary references and artistic representations, this volume offers the first comprehensive study of the ketos—the sea monster imagined by the ancient Greeks and Romans and depicted by ancient geographers and historians.
	Fieldwork Handbook: A Practical Guide on the Go By Marika Vertzonis 2024 \| Esri Press A book on practical GIS: Fieldwork Handbook gives you tips, best practices, and activities that make your work in the field more productive and successful. No matter how you use location intelligence in the field, you can up your game with this book and improve your experience. It covers preparation, equipment, workflows, and data.
	Exploring GeoAI: Tools and Workflows By Ismael Chivite, Nicholas Giner, Craig Carpenter 2026 \| Esri Press This book is advertised as the essential guide to empowering readers with the practical skills to implement GeoAI in ArcGIS Pro and efficiently automate, predict, and optimize their geospatial work. It contains hands-on tutorials for implementing the latest geospatial AI models and tools, including cutting-edge deep learning models and workflows to apply the transformative potential of GeoAI in their operations. Public release of this book will be on August 4, 2026, but it will debut in July at the 2026 Esri User Conference. We can supply the prospective reviewer with an Advance Reader copy in PDF format right away.
	The Spatial Edge: The Strategic Advantage of GIS Skills Across Higher Education by Thomas Fisher, Len Kne 2026 \| Esri Press The Spatial Edge uses a series of case studies to show how integrating a geographic approach can unite campuses and address challenges by fostering spatial thinking across academic disciplines and university operations. It highlights the expanding role of GIS beyond traditional fields to enhance teaching, research, logistics and planning, and community engagement in higher education worldwide.
	Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization, 5th Edition By Terry Slocum, Robert McMaster, Fritz Kessler, and Hugh Howard 2026 \| CRC Press The fifth edition of this well-established cartographic manual has been updated and restructured to incorporate new developments in recent years. With the inclusion of entirely new chapters, restructured content, and expanded discussions, the book provides a modern perspective on cartographic practices. It emphasizes the integration of Artificial Intelligence, the democratization of mapping through web-based tools, and innovative approaches to visualizing spatiotemporal data.
	Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way by Maxim Samson 2025 \| University of Chicago Press Geography is far less set in stone than we might believe, and, as Maxim Samson’s Earth Shapers contends, in our relatively short time on this planet, humans have become experts at fundamentally reshaping our surroundings. Advertised as an immense work of cultural geography touching on ecology, sociology, history, and politics, Earth Shapers argues that, far from being constrained by geography, we are instead its creators.
	A Sense of Space: A Local’s Guide to a Flat Earth, the Edge of the Cosmos, and Other Curious Places by John Edward Huth 2025 \| University of Chicago Press John Edward Huth uses two kinds of navigation—centered on, or independent of, people—to help readers chart a path through evolving spatial models. In doing so, he offers an astonishing exploration of how changing scientific models of space alter our social perceptions, and vice versa. With accessible introductions to topics including mental maps, astrology, astronomy, particle physics, and Einstein’s relativity, Huth makes clear that, although our minds have evolved to comprehend space in terrestrial distances, we routinely extend this understanding to realms far removed from our everyday experiences, from cosmological to subatomic scales.
	Security First: Geospatial Workflows for a Safe and Equitable World By Darren Martin Ruddell, Diana Ter-Ghazaryan, Ronda Schrenk (foreword) 2025 \| Esri Press Security First: Geospatial Workflows for a Safe and Equitable World guides readers through specific exercises and examples to show how GIS can be used to address significant world issues while building the technical skills required to work in the field of human security and geospatial intelligence. Through twenty geospatial workflows, Security First covers a breadth of topics found in geospatial security.
	The Queen's Atlas: Saxton’s Elizabethan Masterpiece By David Fletcher 2026 \| Bodleian Library Publishing This book traces the story of Saxton’s life and legacy by reconstructing his extraordinary mapmaking project alongside the crucial nature of the support and encouragement he received from Queen Elizabeth I and her court. This lavishly illustrated book reproduces all of Saxton’s county maps together with many other drawings revealing the forebears and successors of this groundbreaking work.
	Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map Edited by Kären Wigen 2025 \| The University of Chicago Press Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions: ten essays spanning disciplines from political science to art history, to contribute perspectives and case studies covering three main themes: mapping before the nation-state, rethinking and critiquing mapping practices, and robust traditions of counter-cartography.

	Prompt Cartography: Interactive Web Map Design with LLMs By Ian Muehlenhaus 2026 \| CRC Press (distributed by Routledge) Prompt Cartography: Interactive Map Design with LLMs is a practical, research-informed guide to directing large language models and AI agents to design modern interactive maps across web, mobile, and emerging natural-language GIS platforms. It highlights how cartographic principles such as design, ethics, and spatial communication remain vital despite technological shifts and emphasizes the importance of understanding coding and data literacy to responsibly integrate AI tools like LLMs into workflows. It reframes cartographers as media directors who articulate intent, ethics, and design decisions in structured natural language that LLMs then execute, critique, and iterate at scale.
	Four Short Books for Curious Minds Various Authors 2019–25 \| The Experiment This collection of four brief titles includes The 1960s, Wild Maps for Curious Minds, North American Maps for Curious Minds, and Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds. Each offers an illustrated tour through interesting facts and oddities, with a tone that the publisher variously describes as "whimsical," "a romp," and "flat-out fun."
	A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster By Ryan Denson 2026 \| Bloomsbury Academic Examining a vast corpus of literary references and artistic representations, this volume offers the first comprehensive study of the ketos—the sea monster imagined by the ancient Greeks and Romans and depicted by ancient geographers and historians.
	Fieldwork Handbook: A Practical Guide on the Go By Marika Vertzonis 2024 \| Esri Press A book on practical GIS: Fieldwork Handbook gives you tips, best practices, and activities that make your work in the field more productive and successful. No matter how you use location intelligence in the field, you can up your game with this book and improve your experience. It covers preparation, equipment, workflows, and data.
	Exploring GeoAI: Tools and Workflows By Ismael Chivite, Nicholas Giner, Craig Carpenter 2026 \| Esri Press This book is advertised as the essential guide to empowering readers with the practical skills to implement GeoAI in ArcGIS Pro and efficiently automate, predict, and optimize their geospatial work. It contains hands-on tutorials for implementing the latest geospatial AI models and tools, including cutting-edge deep learning models and workflows to apply the transformative potential of GeoAI in their operations. Public release of this book will be on August 4, 2026, but it will debut in July at the 2026 Esri User Conference. We can supply the prospective reviewer with an Advance Reader copy in PDF format right away.
	The Spatial Edge: The Strategic Advantage of GIS Skills Across Higher Education by Thomas Fisher, Len Kne 2026 \| Esri Press The Spatial Edge uses a series of case studies to show how integrating a geographic approach can unite campuses and address challenges by fostering spatial thinking across academic disciplines and university operations. It highlights the expanding role of GIS beyond traditional fields to enhance teaching, research, logistics and planning, and community engagement in higher education worldwide.
	Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization, 5th Edition By Terry Slocum, Robert McMaster, Fritz Kessler, and Hugh Howard 2026 \| CRC Press The fifth edition of this well-established cartographic manual has been updated and restructured to incorporate new developments in recent years. With the inclusion of entirely new chapters, restructured content, and expanded discussions, the book provides a modern perspective on cartographic practices. It emphasizes the integration of Artificial Intelligence, the democratization of mapping through web-based tools, and innovative approaches to visualizing spatiotemporal data.
	Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way by Maxim Samson 2025 \| University of Chicago Press Geography is far less set in stone than we might believe, and, as Maxim Samson’s Earth Shapers contends, in our relatively short time on this planet, humans have become experts at fundamentally reshaping our surroundings. Advertised as an immense work of cultural geography touching on ecology, sociology, history, and politics, Earth Shapers argues that, far from being constrained by geography, we are instead its creators.
	A Sense of Space: A Local’s Guide to a Flat Earth, the Edge of the Cosmos, and Other Curious Places by John Edward Huth 2025 \| University of Chicago Press John Edward Huth uses two kinds of navigation—centered on, or independent of, people—to help readers chart a path through evolving spatial models. In doing so, he offers an astonishing exploration of how changing scientific models of space alter our social perceptions, and vice versa. With accessible introductions to topics including mental maps, astrology, astronomy, particle physics, and Einstein’s relativity, Huth makes clear that, although our minds have evolved to comprehend space in terrestrial distances, we routinely extend this understanding to realms far removed from our everyday experiences, from cosmological to subatomic scales.
	Security First: Geospatial Workflows for a Safe and Equitable World By Darren Martin Ruddell, Diana Ter-Ghazaryan, Ronda Schrenk (foreword) 2025 \| Esri Press Security First: Geospatial Workflows for a Safe and Equitable World guides readers through specific exercises and examples to show how GIS can be used to address significant world issues while building the technical skills required to work in the field of human security and geospatial intelligence. Through twenty geospatial workflows, Security First covers a breadth of topics found in geospatial security.
	The Queen's Atlas: Saxton’s Elizabethan Masterpiece By David Fletcher 2026 \| Bodleian Library Publishing This book traces the story of Saxton’s life and legacy by reconstructing his extraordinary mapmaking project alongside the crucial nature of the support and encouragement he received from Queen Elizabeth I and her court. This lavishly illustrated book reproduces all of Saxton’s county maps together with many other drawings revealing the forebears and successors of this groundbreaking work.
	Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map Edited by Kären Wigen 2025 \| The University of Chicago Press Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions: ten essays spanning disciplines from political science to art history, to contribute perspectives and case studies covering three main themes: mapping before the nation-state, rethinking and critiquing mapping practices, and robust traditions of counter-cartography.

Books for Review

Prompt Cartography: Interactive Web Map Design with LLMs

Four Short Books for Curious Minds

A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster

Fieldwork Handbook: A Practical Guide on the Go

Exploring GeoAI: Tools and Workflows

The Spatial Edge: The Strategic Advantage of GIS Skills Across Higher Education

Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization, 5th Edition

Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way

A Sense of Space: A Local’s Guide to a Flat Earth, the Edge of the Cosmos, and Other Curious Places

Security First: Geospatial Workflows for a Safe and Equitable World

The Queen's Atlas: Saxton’s Elizabethan Masterpiece

Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map

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