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Applying GIS eBook Series

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  • Building a Smarter Community

    GIS for State and Local Government

    Edited by Christopher Thomas, Keith Mann ...
    Series Book 3 - Applying GIS
    Provide open data, balance decisions and initiatives, and create equitable policies.Smart communities don’t wait for someone to deem them smart; they take action. State and local governments worldwide have taken that first step using geographic information system (GIS) technology. Applying GIS to planning and urban design, public works operations, and racial equity and social justice has helped ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Mapping Community Health

    GIS for Health and Human Services

    Edited by Christopher Thomas, Shannon Valdizon, Matt Artz ...
    Series Book 6 - Applying GIS
    Discover a modern approach to help build healthier communities.Improving health outcomes, increasing access to health care, and building healthier communities requires a modern approach to understanding health and human service issues that are more complex, costly, and devastating than ever before. Public health service agencies around the world rely on geographic information systems (GIS) ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Reality Mining

    Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World

    by Nathan Eagle, Kate Greene ...
    A look at how Big Data can be put to positive use, from helping users break bad habits to tracking the global spread of disease.Big Data is made up of lots of little data: numbers entered into cell phones, addresses entered into GPS devices, visits to websites, online purchases, ATM transactions, and any other activity that leaves a digital trail. Although the abuse of Big Data—surveillance, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Business Continuity Planning

    Increasing Workplace Resilience to Disasters

    by Mark Landahl, Brenda D. Phillips ...
    Terrorism, natural disasters, or hazardous materials threaten the viability for all types of businesses. With an eye toward business scale, scope, and diversity, Business Continuity Planning: Increasing Workplace Resilience to Disasters, addresses a range of potential businesses from home-based to large corporations in the face of these threats, including the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Measuring Up

    The Business Case for GIS, Volume 3

    Edited by Cory Fleming, Christopher Thomas, Shannon Valdizon ...
    Series Book 3 - Measuring Up
    How do leaders and innovators drive change and improvement?Governments often depend on a geographic context for making major decisions, sharing information, and expanding its operations. When organizations face the need for change from a drastic event, such as economic downturns or a pandemic, how do they maintain the quality of their day-to-day operations while continuing to find solutions to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Sharing Economy

    The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism

    by Arun Sundararajan ...
    “An insightful guide to the forces shaping our economy” that explores the far-ranging implications of the shift to crowd-based capitalism—with case studies on Uber, Airbnb, and others (Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google)Sharing isn’t new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club—these are not revolutionary concepts. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Management

    by BarCharts,Inc ...
    The QuickStudy Management guide can be helpful for students or corporate executives. The guide contains a full array of management topics from ethics to globalization. ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • The Wikinomics Way

    by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams ...
    In their 2007 bestseller, Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams showed how mass collaboration was changing the way businesses communicate, compete, and succeed in the global marketplace. In 2010, they released Macrowikinomics which examines the growing power of the principles of wikinomics and how businesses and communities are altering the way our financial institutions and governments ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management

    by Andrew Hiles ...
    With a pedigree going back over ten years, The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management can rightly claim to be a classic guide to business risk management and contingency planning, with a style that makes it accessible to all business managers. Some of the original underlying principles remain the same – but much has changed. This is reflected in this radically updated third edition, ... Read more

    $56.00 USD

  • Lean Solutions

    How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together

    by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones ...
    Womack and Jones deconstruct the broken producer-consumer model and show businesses how to repair it, by providing the full value consumers desire from products without wasting time or effort.Why is it that, when our computers or our cell phones fail to satisfy our needs, virtually every interaction with help lines, support centers, or any organization providing service is marked with wasted time ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Data for the Public Good

    by Alex Howard ...
    As we move into an era of unprecedented volumes of data and computing power, the benefits aren't for business alone. Data can help citizens access government, hold it accountable and build new services to help themselves.Simply making data available is not sufficient. The use of data for the public good is being driven by a distributed community of media, nonprofits, academics and civic advocates ... Read more

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  • The Power of Resilience

    How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected

    by Yossi Sheffi ...
    How the best companies prepare for and manage modern vulnerabilities—from cybersecurity risks to climate change: new tools, processes and organizations for developing corporate resilience.A catastrophic earthquake is followed by a tsunami that inundates the coastline, and around the globe manufacturing comes to a standstill. State-of-the-art passenger jets are grounded because of a malfunctioning ... Read more

    $18.99 USD