This is an exellent book that provides a comprehensive overview over the history of soil-landscape modeling and pedometrics. The first part is focused on a review of soil-landscape analysis from different perspectives including soil survey and classifications, historical and geomorphological mapping techniques, emerging geographic information technologies (GPS, GIS, remote and soil sensors) and topographic mapping. The second part of the book is focused on multiple pedometrical methods (simple and complex multivariate quantitative models) to describe the spatial distribution of soil properties and their relationships to environmental factors (geology, vegetation, land use, terrain properties, climate) [e.g. ordinary kriging, cokriging, 3D kriging, fuzzy based modeling, spatial stochastic simulations, spatial lattice modeling, wavelets, space-time geostatistics]. Different methods are introduced and applications from diverse landscapes presented. The book is unique because it goes beyond the typical qualitative descriptions of soils and taxonomy. Here, a complete package provides the novice and advanced pedometrician with a rich resource to teach and learn about quantitative soil-landscape modeling. The editor argues that soil-landscape analysis is a holistic endeavor in which soils are one component of an environmental system and are related to multiple environmental factors. Space and time considerations are given special attention. Chapters are written by the cream de la cream in the field of pedometrics. Congratulations to all authors and the editor of this book that are experts in their field.