Geoscience Information Services (GIS) produces books, booklets, Earth Science Fact Sheets, and
other printed products with its Cape Cod Geographic® imprint. Two publications have been
released to date, one in 2006, an early phonics reader for children ages 4 to 6, There's a Bear with a
Pear!, and one in 2009, an art-history booklet, The Stained Glass Windows of St. Barnabas
Episcopal Church, Cape Cod, Falmouth, Massachusetts. Additional publications are in production
or planned.
The GIS staff also serves as a scientific/educational advisor and/or author in the preparation of books,
booklets, films, DVDs, CD-ROMs, and maps. Since 1968, the GIS Director-Science and staff imagrapher, Richard S.
Williams, Jr., Ph.D., has been an acknowledged scientific advisor, author, or co-author of 53
"outreach" publications distributed by a large variety of institutions. The institutions include the
U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Time-Life Books, National Geographic Society,
American Geological Institute, Smithsonian Institution (National Air and Space Museum), American
Geophysical Union, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Oxford University Press, and other
commercial publishers.
Non-Scientific Publications Currently Available from GIS with the Cape Cod
Geographic® Imprint
Please note: click on title covers for larger views.
Williams, Richie (author), and Leos Bodvar (illustrator), 2006, There's a Bear with a Pear! (with a
Parent-Teacher Guide by Williams, Beth (early childhood education teacher and doctoral candidate
(2010) at the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia):
West Falmouth, MA, Cape Cod Geographic®, A Phonics Reader, Ages 4-6, 32 p. (hardcover)
ISBN: 0-9777100-0-9
Price: $19.95 plus $3.05 postage and handling ($23) to U.S. addresses.
Williams, Richie, and Williams, Mary Ellen, 2009, The Stained Glass Windows of St. Barnabas Episcopal
Church, Cape Cod, Falmouth, Massachusetts: West Falmouth, MA, Cape Cod Geographic®, 25 p.
(softcover)
ISBN: 978-0-9777100-1-0
Price: $10 postpaid to U.S. addresses.
Payment for purchase of the above publications from GIS can be made by
sending a check to:
Geoscience Information Services
P.O. Box 911
West Falmouth, MA 02574-0911 U.S.A.
