From the jacket: "...clear, up-to-date coverage of the foundations of spatial analysis in a GIS environment. Focusing on the universal aspects of spatial data and their analysis, this book covers the scientific assumptions and limitations of methods avalable in many GISs" From the preface: "The materials we have included have evolved over a long period of time and have been tried and tested in senior undergraduate and postgraduate courses that we have taught..."
Full citation:
O'Sullivan, D. and D. J. Unwin (2002). Geographic Information Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley