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	Tangible Modeling with Open Source GIS By Anna Petrasova, Brendan Harmon, Vaclav Petras, Payam Tabrizian, Helena Mitasova 2018 | Springer International Publishing Copy Available: Yes This book provides an overview of the latest developments in the fast growing field of tangible user interfaces.  It presents a new type of modeling environment where the users interact with geospatial data and simulations using 3D physical landscape ...
	The National Atlas of Korea Vol. 2 By Various Authors 2017 | Korea NGII Copy Available: Yes Vol. 2 of the 5 separate volumes of The National Atlas of Korea published by Korea's National Geography Information Institute (NGII) in 2017. Vol. 2 (14 x 19 over 250 pages) covers physical geography and the environment.
	Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing The World In Eleventh-Century Cairo By Yossef Rapoport And Emilie Savage-Smith 2018 | University of Chicago Press Copy Available: Yes About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features, and inhabitants. This treatise, known as The Book of Curiosities, was unknown to modern scholars until a remarkable manuscript copy surfaced in 2000. Lost Maps of the Caliphs provides the first general overview of The Book of Curiosities and the unique insight it offers into medieval Islamic thought.