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Books Received
updated January 2010

Adey, Peter. Mobility. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 267 and 20 pp., n.p. ISBN 978-0-415-43400-3.

Adger, W. Neil, Lorenzoni, Irene, & O’Brien, Karen L. (eds.) Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 514 and 15 pp., $125.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76485-8.

Agnew, J. Globalization and Sovereignty. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. 229 and 8 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-7425-5678-2.

Agyeman, Julian & Ogneva-Himmelberger, Yelena (eds.) Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 296 and 7 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-262-51233-6.

Aiken, Charles S. William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. 283 and xiii pp., 34.95 cloth (ISBN: 978-0-8203-3219-2).

Bedford, Kate. Developing Partnerships: Gender, Sexuality, and the Reformed World Bank. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 292 and 34 pp., $25.00. 978-0-8166-6540-2.

Brakman, S. et al. The New Introduction to Geographical Economics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2nd revised ed., 2009. 568 and 27 pp., $60.00, ISBN 978-0-521-69803-0.

Braverman, Irus. Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 254 pp., $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76002-7.

Brenner, N. and Elden, S. (eds.) State, Space, World: Selected Essays by Henri Lefebvre. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 344 pp., $28.50, ISBN 978-0-8166-5317-1.

Brick, G. Subterranean Twin Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 226 and 17 pp., $18.95, ISBN 978-0-8166-4597-8.

Butlin, Robin A. Geographies of Empire: European Empires and Colonies c. 1880-1960. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 671 and 17 pp., $54.00, ISBN 978-0-521-74055-5.

Caouette, D. and Turner, S. (eds.) Agrarian Angst and Rural Resistance in Contemporary Southeast Asia. New York: Routledge, 2009. 289 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-54838-0.

Cerveny, R. Weather’s Greatest Mysteries Solved! Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009. 328 pp., $26.98, ISBN 978-1-59102-720-1.

Chen, Xiangming (ed.) Rising Shanghai: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 267 and 35 pp., $25.00, ISBN 978-0-8166-5488-8.

Choon-Piew, Pow. Gated Communities in China: Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 214 and 9 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-47810-6.

Christophers, B. Envisioning Media Power: On Capital and Geographies of Television. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009. 463 and 14 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-7391-2344-7.

Clark, Gordon L., Dixon, Adam D., and Monk, Ashby H.B. (eds.) Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 325 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-955743-1.

Clout, Hugh. Patronage and Production of Geographical Knowledge in France: The Testimony of the First Hundred Regional Monographs, 1905-1966. London: RGS/IBG, Historical Geography Research Series, No. 41, March 2009. 123 and 8 pp., n.p., ISBN 1-870074-23-8.

Coe, Neil M. & Wrigley, Neil (eds.) The Globalization of Retailing, Volumes 1 and 2. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2009. 481 and 38 pp.; 539 and 11 pp., $525.00, ISBN 9781-84844-236-8.

Colten, Craig E. Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana. University Press of Mississippi, 2009. 195 and x pp., $40.00 cloth, ISBN: 978-1-60473-238-2.

Cosgrove, D.  Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. 256 and 11 pp., $29.50, ISBN 978-1-85043-847-2.

Danson, Edwin. Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 289 and 11 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-19-538495-6.

Denevan, W. and Mathewson, K. (eds.) Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape: Readings and Commentaries. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2009. 458 pp., $40.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8071-3394-1.

Dodge, M., Kitchin, R., and Perkins, C. (eds.) Rethinking Maps: New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory. New York: Routledge, 2009.246 pp., np, ISBN 978-0-415-46152-8.

Efrat, Elisha. The Golan Heights: Occupation, Annexation, Negotiation. Translated by Shoshana Michael-Zucker. Jerusalem: ABC Publisher, 2009. 284 and 6 pp.

Faier, Lieba. Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 280 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-25214-1.

Fairbanks, Robert P. How It Works: Recovering Citizens in Post-Welfare Philadelphia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 298 and 10 pp., $27.50. ISBN 978-0-226-23409-0.

Flad, H. K. & Griffen, C. Main Street to Main Frames: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. 451 and 14 pp., $30.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-2613-6.

Graham, S. (ed.) Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 196 and 12 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-99179-7.

Hamilton, Gary G. Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 309 and 12 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-15705-6.

Hanlon, Bernadette, Short, John R., and Vicino, Thomas J. (eds.) Cities and Suburbs: New Urban Realities in the U.S. London and New York: Routledge. 304 pp. $44.95. ISBN 978-0-415-49731-2.

Harvey, David. Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. $27.50 (cloth), 352 pp., ISBN 978-0-231-14846-7.

Henderson, Paul & Henderson, Gideon M. (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Earth Science Data. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 277 and 8 pp., $30.00, ISBN 978-0-521-69317-2.

Heppen, J. and Otterstrom, S. (eds.) Geography, History, and the American Political Economy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009. 238 pp., n.p. ISBN 978-0-73912-816-9.

Herb, G. and Kaplan, D. H. Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview: Volumes 1-4. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008. $395.00, ISBN 978-1-8510-9907-8.

Herod, A. Geographies of Globalization. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 278 and 15 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-1-4051-1052-5.

Higman, B.W. & Hudson, B.J. Jamaican Place Names. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2009. 319 and 12 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-976-640-217-4.

Hochschild, Jennifer L. & Mollenkopf, John H. (eds.) Bringing Outsiders In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. 381 and 10 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-7514-6.

Houghton, J. Global Warming: The Complete Briefing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 4th revised ed., 2009. 438 and 18 pp., $59.00, ISBN 978-0-521-70916-3.

Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R., and Valentine, G. (eds.) Key Texts in Human Geography. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2008. 236 & 20 pp., $48.95, ISBN 978-1-4129-2261-6.

Immergluck, D. Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America’s Mortgage Market. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009.251 and 10 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-4772-3.

Keim, B. and Muller, R. Hurricanes of the Gulf of Mexico. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2009. 216 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3492-4.

Kimerling, A. Jon, Buckley, Aileen R., Muehrcke, Phillip C., and Muehrcke, Juliana O. Map Use: Reading and Analysis. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press Academic, 6th revised ed., 2009. 493 and 38 pp., $99.95, ISBN 978-1-58948-190-9.

Kingwell, Mark, and Turmel, Patrick (eds.) Rites of Way: the Politics and Poetics of Public Space. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009. 190 pp. ISBN 978-1-55458-167-2.

Knox, P. and Mayer, H. Small Town Sustainability: Economic, Social, and Environmental Innovation. Basel: Birkhauser, 192 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-3-7643-8580-4.

Lefebvre, H. Dialectical Materialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Translated by J. Sturrock. 158 and 32 pp., $18.50, ISBN 978-0-8166-5618-9.

Lewis, David & Kanji, Nazneen. Non-Governmental Organizations and Development. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 239 and 15 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-45430-8.

Li, Wei. Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009. 214 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-8248-3065-6.

Lilley, Keith D. City and Cosmos: The Medieval World in Urban Form. London: Reaktion Books, 2009. 256 pp., $49.00, ISBN 978-1-86189-441-0.

MacGinty, R. Conflict and Development. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 209 and 14 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-39937-1.

Malone, Patrick M. Waterpower in Lowell: Engineering and Industry in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 254 and 12 pp., $25.00. ISBN 978-0-8018-9306-3.

Mamdani, Mahmood. Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press, 2009. 416 pp. ISBN 978-0-7969-2252-6.

Manning, R. Parks & People: Managing Outdoor Recreation at Acadia National Park. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2009.336 pp., $49.95, ISBN 978-1-58465-7941-0.

McDonald, D. A. (ed.) Electric Capitalism: Recolonizing Africa on the Power Grid. Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2009. 504 and 23 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-7969-2237-3.

McGreevy, P. Stairway to Empire: Lockport, the Erie Canal, and the Shaping of America. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2009. 309 and 14 pp., $27.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-2527-6.

Mol, Arthur P.J. et al., eds. The Ecological Modernisation Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 539 and 17 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-45370-7.

Odem, M. and Lacy, E. (eds.) Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2009. 175 and 27 pp., $24.95, ISBN 9788-0-8203-3212-3.

Orum, Anthony M. & Neal, Zachary P. (eds.) Common Ground? Readings and Reflections on Public Space. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 227 and 10 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-99727-0.

Pastor Jr., M. et al. This Could be the Start of Something Big: How Social Movements and Regional Equity are Reshaping Metropolitan America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 255 and 13 pp., $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-7462-0.

Peet, Richard. Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO (2nd edition). London: Zed Books, 2009. 287 pp., $32.95 paper (ISBN: 978-1-84813-252-8).

Pilkey, O. H. & Young, R. The Rising Sea. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2009. 203 and 14 pp., $25.96. ISBN 978-1-59726-191-3.

Pillay, Udesh, Tomlinson, Richard, and Bass, Orli (eds.) Development and Dreams: The Urban Legacy of the 2010 Football World Cup. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press, 2009. 316 pp. ISBN 978-0-7969-2250-2.

Pries, Martin. Waterfronts im Wandel: Baltimore und New York [German]. Franz Sterner Verlag, 2008. 274 and ii pp., $104.00 paper (ISBN: 978-3-515-09338-5).

Roberts, Peter, Ravetz, Joe, and George, Clive. Environment and the City. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 369 and 20 pp., n.p. ISBN 978-0-415-30247-0.

Rodrigue, Jean-Paul, Comtois, Claude, and Slack, Brian. The Geography of Transport Systems. London and New York:Routledge, 2nd revised ed., 2009. 352 and 15 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-48324-7.

Sauder, Robert A. The Yuma Reclamation Project: Irrigation, Indian Allotment, and Settlement Along the Lower Colorado River. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2009. 274 pp. ISBN 978-0-87417-783-1.

Scarpaci, Joseph L. and Portela, Armando H. Cuban Landscapes: Heritage, Memory, and Place. New York: Guilford, 2009. 215 and 7 pp., $30.00. ISBN 978-1-60623-323-8.

Sewell, J. The Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Toronto’s Sprawl. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 260 and 12 pp., $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8020-9587-9.

Shearer, Peter. Introduction to Seismology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2nd revised ed., 2009. 396 and 14 pp., $70.00, ISBN 978-0-521-70842-5.

Short, John R. Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World. London: Reaktion Books, 2009. 176 pp., $45.00, ISBN 978-1-86189-436-6.

Shoval, N. and Isaacson, M. Tourist Mobility and Advanced Tracking Technologies. New York: Routledge, 2009. 207 pp., n.p. ISBN 9780415963527.

Slaymaker, Olav et al., eds. Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 432 and 16 pp., $80.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87812-8.

Smil, Vaclav. Oil: A Beginner’s Guide. Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2008. 202 and 13 pp., $14.95, ISBN 978-1-85168-571-4.

Smith, K. and Petley, D. Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster. New York: Routledge, 5th Edition, 2009. 383 pp, np, ISBN 978-0-415-42865-1.

Sorenson, John L. and Johannessen, Carl L. World Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492. New York: iUniverse, Inc., revised ed., 2009. 593 and 8 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-595-52441-9.

Timothy, Dallen J. & Nyaupane, Gyan P. Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World: A Regional Perspective. 260 and 14 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-77622-6.

Toth, J. Gravitational Systems of Groundwater Flow: Theory, Evaluation, Utilization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 297 and 11 pp., $140.00, ISBN 978-0-521-88638-3.

Travis, Charles. Literary Landscapes of Ireland: Geographies of Irish Stories, 1929-1946. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. 243 and 4 pp., ISBN 978-0-7734-3894-1.

Tyner, J. War, Violence, and Population: Making the Body Count. New York: The Guilford Press, 2009. 226 pp., np, ISBN 978-1-60623-037-4.

Warner, Timothy, Nellis, M. Duane, and Foody, Giles M. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Remote Sensing. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2009. 505 and 32 pp., $140.00. ISBN 978-1-4129-3616-3.

Weisinger, Marsha. Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. 391 and 26 pp., $35.00, ISBN 978-0-295-98881-8.

White, Damien F. and Wilbert, Chros (eds.) Technonatures: Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-First Century. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009. 266 pp. ISBN 978-1-55458-150-4.