Appendix A. Further Reading

There is a huge amount of documentation for Drupal on drupal.org; however, there are also some books that we recommend.

Drupal Books

Drupal has become a very popular platform over the past few years, and as a result, there are a number of Drupal books focused on many different subjects. The following are just a few of the books we know to be good, but there are many more; please check out the list of books on Drupal.org, or an Amazon search for Drupal books.

Lynn Beighley and Seamus Bellamy, Drupal For Dummies. (Hoboken: For Dummies, 2011)

Matt Butcher, Larry Garfield, John Wilkins, Matt Farina, Ken Rickard, Greg Dunlap, Drupal 7 Module Development. (Birmingham: Packt, 2010)

Benjamin Melancon, Allie Micka, Amye Scavarda, Benjamin Doherty, Bojhan Somers, Jacine Rodriguez, Karoly Negyesi, Moshe Weitzman, Roy Scholten, Ryan Szrama, Sam Boyer, Stephane Corlosquet, Amanda Miller-Johnson, Andrew Grice, Dan Hakimzadeh, Kasey Dolin, Stefan Freudenberg, and Jacqueline Aponte, The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 (New York: Apress, 2011)

Mapping Theory Books

The following is a short list of books around the theory of mapping and cartography, specifically ones that challenge the traditional view of maps in our culture.

Mark Monmonier, How to Lie with Maps. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996)

Denis Wood, Rethinking the Power of Maps. (New York: Guilford Press, 2010)

Denis Wood and John Fels, Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008)

Technical Mapping-Related Books

The following is a short list of books that are useful for different aspects of web mapping. Unfortunately there is not a great recent book that provides an overview of web mapping.

David Flanagan, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide. (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2011)

Erik Hazzard, OpenLayers 2.10. (Birmingham: Packt, 2011)

Michael Purvis, Jeffrey Sambells, and Cameron Turner, Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax. (New York: Apress, 2006)

Gabriel Svennerberg, Beginning Google Maps API 3. (New York: Apress, 2010)

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