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Books Received
updated January 2008

Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 344 and 14 pp., $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-532875-2.

Adama, Onyanta. Governing From Above: Solid Waste Management in Nigeria’s New Capital City of Abuja. Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm Studies in Human Geography, 2007. 223 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-91-85445-67-7.

Aitchison, Cara, Hopkins, Peter, and Kwan, Mei-Po (eds.) Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender, and Belonging. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. 208 and 10 pp., $99.95, ISBN 978-0-7546-4888-8.

Akerman, James R. & Karrow, Robert W., Jr., eds. Maps: Finding Our Place in the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 400 and 9 pp., $55.00, ISBN 978-0-226-01075-5.

Albrecht, Jochen. Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007. 103 and 11 pp., $34.95, ISBN 978-1-4129-1016-3.

Becker, Jasper. Dragon Rising: An Inside Look at China Today. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2007. 264 pp., $18.95, ISBN 978-1-4262-0116-5.

Boyd, Andrew and Comenetz, Joshua. An Atlas of World Affairs. London and New York: Routledge, 11th revised ed., 2007. 254 and 9 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0415-39169-6.

Browne, Kath, Jason Lim, and Brown, Gavin (eds.) Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics.  Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. 264 and 13 pp., $69.95, ISBN 978-0-7546-4761-4.

Bruckner, Martin & Hsu, Hsuan L., eds. American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 367 pp., $65.00, ISBN 978-0-87413-980-8.

Burman, Stephen. The State of the American Empire: How the U.S. Shapes the World. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. 132 pp., $19.95, ISBN 978-0-520-24878-6.

Campbell, Robert. In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 348 pp., $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4041-4.

Cater, C. and Cater, C. Marine Ecotourism: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Oxford, UK: CAB International, 2007. 307 pp., n.p.,  ISBN 978-1-84593-259-6.

Cele, Sofia. Communicating Place: Methods for Understanding Children’s Experience of Place. Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm University, Stockholm Studies in Human Geography, 2006. 230 pp., n.p., ISBN 91-85445-46-0.

Chant, S. Gender, Generation and Poverty. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2007, 428 pp, $55.00, ISBN 978-1-84376-99-4.

Chapin, Timothy, Connerly, Charles E., & Higgins, Harrison T., eds. Growth Management in Florida: Planning for Paradise. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. 315 and 18 pp., $89.95, ISBN 978-0-7546-4852-9.

Clark, Gordon L., and Dariusz Wójcik. The Geography of Finance: Corporate Governance in a Global Marketplace. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2007. 242 and xviii pp., $85.00, ISBN 978-0-19-921336-8.

Clout, Hugh (ed.) Contemporary Rural Geographies: Land, Property and Resources in Britain: Essays in Honour of Richard Munton. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. 207 and 15 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-43183-5.

Cowen, Deborah and Gilbert, Emily (eds.) War, Citizenship, Territory. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. 409 and 7 pp., n.p., ISBN 0-415-95513-0.

Daniels, Peter W. & Harrington, James W. Services and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. 246 and 16 pp., $99.95, ISBN 97880-07546-4859-8.

Darden, Joel T., Curtis Stokes, and Richard W. Thomas, eds. The State of Black Michigan, 1967-2007. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2007. 364 and xvi pp., $39.95, ISBN 978-0-87013-827-0.

Davis, Diana K. Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2007. 296 and 15 pp., $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1751-5.

Debrix, Francois. Tabloid Terror: War, Culture, and Geopolitics. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. 193 and 10 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-77291-4.

DeFilippis, James & Saegert, Susan, eds. The Community Development Reader. London & New York: Routledge, 2008. 347 and 11 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-95429-7.

Doolittle, Amity A. Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia: Native Struggles Over Land Rights. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 224 and 11 pp., $22.50, ISBN 978-0-295-98762-0.

Estabrook, Thomas. Labor-Environmental Coalitions: Lessons from a Louisiana Petrochemical Region. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Co., 2007. 232 and ix pp., $49.95, ISBN 978-0-89503-307-9.

Gillem, Mark L. America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 350 and 20 pp., $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8166-4953-2.

Gold, J. R. and Gold, M. M. (eds.) Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World's Games, 1896-2012. New York: Routledge, 2007,
348 pp., $52.67, ISBN 0415374073.

Griffiths, Tom. Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 399 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02633-9.

Hafez, Kai. The Myth of Media Globalization. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2007. 224 and viii pp., $24.95, ISBN 978-07456-3909-3.

Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 256 pp., $39.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25258-5.

Heynen, Nik, McCarthy, James, Prudham, Scott, & Robbins, Paul, eds. Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. 298 and 12 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0415-77149-8.

Hinchliffe, Steve. Geographies of Nature: Societies, Environments, Ecologies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007. 212 and 11 pp., $44.95, ISBN 978-1-4129-1049-1.

Huggett, Richard J. Fundamentals of Geomorphology. London and New York: Routledge, 2nd revised ed., 2007. 458 and 15 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-39084-2.

Jones, Roy & Shaw, Brian J., eds. Geographies of Australian Heritages: Loving a Sunburnt Country? Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. 231 and 15 pp., $99.95, ISBN 978-0-7546-4858-1.

Klingle, Matthew. Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. 344 and 14 pp., $30.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11641-0.

Korski. Irreverent Essays on Geographers. Location not given: Estrilda Publications, 2007. 388 and 14 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-1-4276-1277-9.

Krueger, Rob & Gibbs, David, eds. The Sustainable Development Paradox: Urban Political Economy in the United States and Europe. New York: Guilford Press, 2007. 310 and 8 pp., $30.00, ISBN 978-1-59385-498-0.

Lash, Scott, and Celia Lury, Global Culture Industry. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2007. 240 and vii pp., $26.95, ISBN 978-07456-2483-9.

Lees, L., Slater, T. and Wyly, E. Gentrification. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. 344 and 12 pp., n.p., ISBN 0-415-95037-6.

Legg, Stephen. Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. 254 and 16 pp., $39.95, ISBN 978-1-4051-5632-5.

Lobao, L., Hooks, G., and Tickamyer, A. R. (eds.) The Sociology of Spatial Inequality. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007. 274 pp, $29.95 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0-7914-7108-1.

Macleod, David I., ed. Mapping in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2007. 377 and 9 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-087013807-2.

Mason, J. Collaborative Land Use Management: The Quieter Revolution in Place-based Planning. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. 363 and 5 pp., $32.95, ISBN978-0-7425-4701-8
Massey, Doreen. World City. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2007. 262 and viii pp., $24.95, ISBN 978-07456-4060-0.

McCarthy, Tom. Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. 347 and 20 pp., $32.50, ISBN 978-0-300-11038-8.

McGee, T.G., Lin, George C.S., Marton, Andrew M., Wang, Mark W.L., & Jiaping Wu. China’s Urban Space: Development Under Market Socialism. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. 260 and 22 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-43805-6.

Moellering, Harold et al., (eds.) World Spatial Metadata Standards: Scientific and Technical Descriptions, and Full Descriptions with Crosstable. Amsterdam: Elsevier/International Cartographic Association, 2005. 689 and 19 pp., n.p., ISBN 0-08-043949-7.

Monmonier, Mark. From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $16.00, 214 pp. ISBN:
0-226-53466-9.

Moore, Donald S. Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 424 and 17 pp., $33.95, ISBN 0-8223-3570-0.

Moss, Pamela & Falconer Al-Hindi, Karen, eds. Feminisms in Geography: Rethinking Space, Place, and Knowledges. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. 270 and 16 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-3829-0.

Pawling, Micah A., ed. Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: The 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. 300and xi pp., $34.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-578-4.

Peet, Richard. Geography of Power: The Making of Global Economic Policy. London and New York: Zed Books, 2007. 216 and 8 pp., $28.99, ISBN 978-1-84277-711-4.

Raj, R. and Morpeth, N.D. (eds.) Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Management: An International Perspective. Oxford, UK: CAB International, 2007. 227 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-85199-021-7.

Rigg, Jonathan. An Everyday Geography of the Global South. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. 231 and 26 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-37609-9.

Ritzer, George, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Globalization.  Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. 731 and 19 pp., $174.95, ISBN 978-1-4051-3274-9.

Ritzer, George. The McDonaldization of Society-5. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2008. 300 and 19 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-1-4129-5430-3.

Saldanha, Arun. Psychedelic: Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 239 and 10 pp., $20.00, ISBN 978-0-8166-4994-5.

Schwartz, S. Putting America on the Map: The Story of the Most Important Graphic Document in the History of the United States. New York: Prometheus Books, 2007. n.p., ISBN 978-1-59102-513-9.

Seitz, John L. Global Issues: An Introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 3rd revised ed., 2008. 308 and 17 pp., $39.95, ISBN 978-1-4051-5497-0.
Shaw, Wendy S. Cities of Whiteness. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. 218 and 12 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-1-4051-2912-1.

Surinach, J., Moreno, R., and Vaya, E. Innovation Externalities, Innovation Clusters and Regional Development. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. n.p., ISBN 978-1-84720-120-1.

Thraves, Bernard D., Lewry, Marilyn L., Dale, Janis E., & Schlichtmann, Hansgeorg, eds. Saskatchewan: Geographic Perspectives. Regina, Canada: University of Regina, Canadian Plains Research Center, 2007. 486 and 18 pp., Can. $75.00, ISBN 978-088977-189-5.

Thrift, Nigel. Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect. London and New York, Routledge, 2008. 325 and 10 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-39321-8.

Tickell, A., Sheppard, E., Peck, J. and Barnes, T., eds. Politics and Practice in Economic Geography. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007. 318 pp., n.p.,  ISBN 978-1-4129-0785-9.

Weis, Tony. The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming. London & New York: Zed Books, 2007. 217 pp., $17.50, ISBN 978-1-84277-795-4.

Whitfield, Peter. London: A Life in Maps. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 208 pp., $23.50, ISBN 978-0-7123-4919-2.

Wilson, John P. and Fotheringham, A. Stewart (eds.) The Handbook of Geographic Information Science. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008. 634 and 18 pp., $89.95, ISBN 978-1-4051-0795-2.

Wylie, John. Landscape. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. 246 and 12 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-34144-8.

Yeung, Yue-man, ed. The First Decade: The Hong Kong SAR in Retrospective and Introspective Perspectives. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2007. 422 and 22 pp., ISBN 978-962-996-357-6.