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Books Received
updated July 2009

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

Akerman, James R., (ed.) The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 367 and 8 pp., $60.00, ISBN 978-0-226-01076-7.

Albert, Dennis A. & Comer, Patrick J., (eds.) Atlas of Early Michigan’s Forests, Grasslands, and Wetlands. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2008. 107 and 28 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-0-87013-831-7.

Bhide, Amar. The Adventuresome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. 508 and 12 pp., $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-13517-5.

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.

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.

Brown, Peter H. America’s Waterfront Revival: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 228 pp., $59.95, 978-0-8122-4122-8.

Buckley, Ralf. Ecotourism: Principles and Practices. Cambridge, MA: CABI, 2009. 368 and 10 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-1-84593-457-6.

Castles, S. and Miller, M. J. The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. Fourth Edition. New York: Guilford Press, 2009. $42.00 (paperback) 369 pp. ISBN 9781606230695.

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

Chalkey, B., Haigh, M., and Higgitt, D. Education for Sustainable Development. New York: Routledge, 2009. 307 pp. ISBN 9780415460057.

Christophers, Brett. 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.

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.

Cullingworth, B. and Caves, R. W. (eds.) Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues, and Processes.  New York: Routledge, 2009. 451 pp. ISBN 9780415774215.

Davidson, Christopher M. Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 376 and 7 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-231-70034-4.

Davis, Jack E. An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2009. 758 and 25 pp., $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3071.

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.

DeWalle, David R. & Rango, Albert. Principles of Snow Hydrology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 410 and 8 pp., $150.00, ISBN 978-0-521-82362-2.

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.

Gossling, S., Hall, C.M. and Weaver, D. B. (eds.) Sustainable Tourism Futures: Perspectives on Systems, Restructuring, and Innovations. New York: Routledge, 2009. 319 pp., ISBN 9780415996198.

Grant, Richard. Globalizing City: The Urban and Economic Transformation of Accra, Ghana. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2009. 187 and xviii pp., $26.95 cloth. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3172-9.

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.

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.

Holmes, J.S., Gutierrez de Pineres, S. A., and Curtin, K. M. Guns, Drugs & Development in Columbia. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. $55.00 (hardcover), 192 pp. ISBN 9780292718715.

Hubbard, Bill Jr. American Boundaries: the Nation, the States, the Rectangular Survey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 452 and 14 pp., $55.00, ISBN 978-0-226-35591-7.

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.

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.

Kozok, Metin & Decrop, Alain, (eds.) Handbook of Tourist Behavior: Theory and Practice. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 267 and 18 pp., n.p., ISBN 078-0-415-99360-9.

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.

Lerch, Daniel. Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty. Sebastopol, CA: Post Carbon Press, 2007. 99 and 12 pp., $30.00, ISBN 978-0-9767510-5-2.

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.

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

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.

McEwan, C. Postcolonialism and Development. New York: Routledge, 2009. 354 pp., ISBN 9780415433655.

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.

Meadows, W. C. Kiowa Ethnography. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. $65.00 (hardcover), 348 pp. ISBN 9780292718784.

Moran, Daniel & Russell, James A., (eds.) Energy Security and Global Politics: The Militarization of Resource Management. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 252 and 8 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-77638-7.

Morin, Karen M. Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2009. 278 and 12 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-8156-3167-7.

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.

Ogborn, Miles. Global Lives: Britain and the World, 1550-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 343 and 19 pp., $n.p., ISBN 978-0-521-60718-6.

Olwig, K. R. and Mitchell, D. (eds.) Justice, Power and the Political Landscape. New York: Routledge, 2009. 297 pp, ISBN 9780415448130.

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.

Priscoli, Jerome D. & Wolf, Aaron T., (eds.) Managing and Transforming Water Conflicts. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 354 and 25 pp., $140.00, ISBN 978-0-521-63216-4.

Sewell, John. 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.

Shelton, Marlyn L. Hydroclimatology: Perspectives and Applications. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 426 and 11 pp., $90.00, ISBN 978-0-521-84888-6.

Smith, K. and Petley, D. Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster, 5th Edition. New York: Routledge, 2009.383 pp, np, ISBN 978-0-415-42865-1.

Stewart, Dona J. The Middle East Today: Political, Geographical and Cultural Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 213 and 12 pp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-415-77242-6.
 
Strange, Carolyn & Bashford, Alison. Griffith Taylor: Visionary, Environmentalist, Explorer. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 283 ppp., n.p., ISBN 978-0-8020-9663-0.

Toth, Jozsef. 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.

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.