Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of Books, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

April 2015

• Accounting for Biodiversity by Michael Jones (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415630641/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu3_mbs_2pr_1em_9env_cmg15_x_69756)
• At Home and Astray: The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain by Philip Howell (University of Virginia Press 2015, http://books.upress.virginia.edu/title/4783)
• Atlas of Knowledge: Anyone Can Map by Katy Börner (MIT Press 2015, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/atlas-knowledge)
• Border Odyssey: Travels along the U.S./Mexico Divide by Charles D. Thompson Jr.,  (University of Texas Press 2015, http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/thompson-border-odyssey#sthash.1l9Z39XT.dpuf)
• Can Science Fix Climate Change?: A Case Against Climate Engineering by Mike Hulme (Polity Books 2015, http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745682051)
• Climate Change 2014 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects by IPCC (Cambridge University Press 2014, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/climatology-and-climate-change/climate-change-2014-impacts-adaptation-and-vulnerability-part-global-and-sectoral-aspects-working-group-ii-contribution-ipcc-fifth-assessment-report-volume-1)
• Climate Change 2014 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Part B: Regional Aspects by IPCC (Cambridge University Press 2014, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/climatology-and-climate-change/climate-change-2014-impacts-adaptation-and-vulnerability-part-b-regional-aspects-working-group-ii-contribution-ipcc-fifth-assessment-report-volume-2?format=PB)
• Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change by IPCC (Cambridge University Press 2015, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/climatology-and-climate-change/climate-change-2014-mitigation-climate-change-working-group-iii-contribution-ipcc-fifth-assessment-report)
• Collards: A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table by Edward H. Davis and John T. Morgan (University of Alabama Press 2015, http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Collards,6061.aspx)
• Dublin, 1930–1950: The emergence of the modern city by Joseph Brady (Four Courts Press 2015, http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2014/dublin-modern-city/)
• Dumont d’Urville: Explorer & Polymath by Edward Duyker (University of Hawai’i Pess 2015, http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9348-9780824851392.aspx)
• Edible Memory by Jennifer A. Jordan (University of Chicago Press 2015, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo19503009.html)
• Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present by Bruce L. Batten and Philip C. Brown (Oregon University Press 2015, http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/environment-and-society-in-japanese-islands)
• Genetic Geographies: The Trouble with Ancestry by Catherine Nash (University of Minnesota Press 2015, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/genetic-geographies?searchterm=genetic+geographies)
• Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy Seventh Edition by Peter Dicken (SAGE 2015, http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book242137)
• The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities by Carlos Teixeira and Wei Li (University of Toronto Press 2015, http://www.utppublishing.com/The-Housing-and-Economic-Experiences-of-Immigrants-in-U.S.-and-Canadian-Cities.html)
• How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco (MIT Press 2015, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-write-thesis)
• The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Izumi Shimada (University of Texas Press 2015, http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/shimada-inka-empire#sthash.6T2p1sCx.dpuf)
• Into the Ocean: Vikings, Irish, and Environmental Change in Iceland and the North by Kristjan Ahronson (University of Toronto Press 2014, http://www.utppublishing.com/Into-the-Ocean-Vikings-Irish-and-Environmental-Change-in-Iceland-and-the-North.html)
• The Last Launch: Messages in the Bottle by Yi-Fu Tuan (University of Virginia Press 2015, http://books.upress.virginia.edu/title/4963)
• Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies by Roelvink, Gerda, Kevin St. Martin, and J. K. Gibson-Graham, (eds) (University of Minnesota Press 2015, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/making-other-worlds-possible?searchterm=making+other)
• The Markets for Force: Privatization of Security Across World Regions by Molly Dunigan and Ulrich Petersohn, eds. (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015, http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15354.html)
• Money Trees: The Douglas Fir and American Forestry, 1900–1944 by Emily K. Brock (Oregon University Press 2015, http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/money-trees)
• Nimby is Beautiful: Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation Around the World by Carol Hager and Mary Alice Haddad (eds) (Berghahn Books 2015, http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=HagerNimby)
• Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns: Home thoughts abroad by Judith A. Bennett (Otago University Press 2015, http://www.otago.ac.nz/press/booksauthors/2014/oceanian_journeys.html)
• Performatively Speaking: Speech and Action in Antebellum American Literature by Debra J. Rosenthal (University of Virginia Press 2015, http://books.upress.virginia.edu/title/4839)
• The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia’s Grasslands, 1700–1914 by David Moon (Oxford University Press 2013, http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199556434.001.0001/acprof-9780199556434)
• Quantitative Methods and Socio-Economic Applications in GIS (2nd Edition) by Fahui Wang (CRC Press 2015, http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466584723)
• Shapers of Urban Form: Explorations in Morphological Agency by Peter J. Larkham and Michael P. Conzen (Routledge 2015, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415738903/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu3_tre_1tx_1em_3pla_cmg15_68955_cr20_choice)
• Southern Provisions by David S. Shields (University of Chicago Press 2015, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo18123362.html)
• Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region by Christopher J. Manganiello  (University of North Carolina Press 2015, http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3609)
• Steve Jobs and Philosophy by Shawn E. Klein (Open Court Publishing Company 2015, http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/steve_jobs.htm)
• To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South by Angela Jill Cooley (University of Georgia Press 2015, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/to_live_dine_dixie/)
• Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities by Benjamin Fraser (Palgrave Macmillan 2015, https://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/toward-an-urban-cultural-studies-benjamin-fraser/?K=9781137498557)
• Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces, 2nd Edition by Jon Anderson (Routledge 2015, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415734509/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu3_cjb_1tx_1em_1geo_icr_icr-sol_69740_MOPTA)
• Weaponizing Maps: Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas by Joe Bryan and Denis Wood (Guilford Press 2015, http://www.guilford.com/books/Weaponizing-Maps/Bryan-Wood/9781462519910/authors)
• Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Juliana Barr, Jean M. O’Brien, Nancy Shoemaker, and Scott Manning Stevens (eds) (University of North Carolina Press 2015, http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3646)
• Wild Life: The Institution of Nature by Irus Braverman (Stanford University Press 2015, http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25137)
• A World Made for Money: Economy, Geography, and the Way We Live Today by Bret Wallach (University of Nebraska Press 2015, http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/World-Made-for-Money,676183.aspx)
• Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology by Orin Starn (ed.) (Duke University Press 2015, https://www.dukeupress.edu/Writing-Culture-and-the-Life-of-Anthropology/)

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of Books, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

February, 2015

• Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South by Hurt, R. Douglas (University of North Carolina Press 2015, http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3624)
• The Atlantic World by Coffman, D’Maris, Adrian Leonard, William O’Reilly (eds) (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415467049/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Sbu3_SCS_3RF_1em_5his_63241_AtlanticWorld)
• Cannabis by Duvall, Chris (University of Chicago Press 2014, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo19143826.html)
• Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps by Pegg, Richard. A (University of Hawai’I Press 2014, http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9223-9780824847654.aspx)
• Computational Approaches for Urban Environments by Helbich, Marco, Jokar Arsanjani, Jamal, Leitner, Michael (Eds.) (Springer 2015, http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geography/book/978-3-319-11468-2)
• Congotay! Congotay! A Global History of Caribbean Food by Goucher, Candice (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780765642165/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu3_tre_2pr_1em_5his_ice15_icr-sol15_64943_mesharpedec14)
• Convergence of Food Security, Energy Security and Sustainable Agriculture by Songstad, David D., Hatfield, Jerry L., Tomes, Dwight T. (Eds.) (Springer 2014, http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/agriculture/book/978-3-642-55261-8)
• Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives by Bodenhamer, David J., John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris (Indiana University Press 2014, http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=1037_6125&products_id=807453)
• Disasters in Field Research: Preparing for and Coping with Unexpected Events by Ice, Gillian H., Darna L. Dufour and Nancy J. Stevens (Rowman and Littlefield 2015, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759118010)
• Environmental Justice and Activism in Indianapolis by Fuller, Trevor K. (Rowman and Littlefield 2015, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739188392)
• Ethnographies of Breastfeeding: Cultural Contexts and Confrontations by Cassidy, Tanya and Abdullahi El Tom (Bloomsbury 2015, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ethnographies-of-breastfeeding-9781472569257/)
• Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday by Hine, Christine (Bloomsbury 2015, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ethnography-for-the-internet-9780857855701/#sthash.JBmE0c6W.dpuf)
• The Fin-de-Siècle World by Saler, Michael (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415674133/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SBU3_SCS_3RF_1em_5his_62982_FindeSiecle)
• The Geopoetics of Modernism by Walsh, Rebecca (University of Florida   2014, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=WALSH003)
• The Geopolitics of Regional Power: Geography, Economics and Politics in Southern Africa by Scholvin, Sören (Ashgate 2014, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472430731)
• Health, Science, and Place by Blatt, Amy J. (Springer 2015, http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geographical+information+systems/book/978-3-319-12002-7)
• Historical Atlas of Maine by Hornsby, Stephen J. and Richard W. Judd (eds); Michael J. Hermann (Cartographic Designer) (University of Maine Press 2015, http://umaine.edu/umpress/recently-published/historical-atlas-of-maine/)
• La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence by Díaz Balsera, Viviana, and Rachel A. May (eds) (University of Florida Press 2014, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=MORMI003)
• Losing Control?: Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization by Sassen, Saskia (Columbia University Press 2014, http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-10608-5/losing-control)
• Mapping and Modeling Weather and Climate with GIS by Armstrong, Lori (ESRI Press 2014, http://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=271&moduleID=0)
• Mapping the Nation: Building a More Resilient Future by An Esri Publication (ESRI Press 2015, http://www.esri.com/esri-news/releases/15-1qtr/esri-map-book-illustrates-how-the-us-government-uses-gis)
• Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana by Milne, George E. (University of Georgia Press 2015, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/natchez_country/)
• Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America by Goodale, Mark and Nancy Postero (Stanford University Press 2015, http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=17903)
• On the State by Bourdieu, Pierre (Polity Books 2014, http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745663296)
• A Short Guide to Climate Change Risk by Arnell, Nigel (Gower Publishing 2015, http://www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409453529)
• ¡Tequila!: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico by Gaytán, Marie Sarita (Stanford University Press 2015, http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23483)
• World Heritage Sites and Indigenous People’s Rights: IWGIA Document No. 129 by Disko, Stefan, and Helen Tugendhat (eds) (Transaction 2015, http://www.transactionpub.com/title/World-Heritage%20Sites%20and%20Indigenous%20Peoples%E2%80%99%20Rights-978-87-92786-54-8.html?srchprod=1)