New Books for Geographers: Winter 2024

The AAG compiles a quarterly list of newly published geography books and books of interest to geographers. The list includes a diversity of books that represents the breadth of the discipline (including key sub-disciplines), but also recognizes the work which takes place at the margins of geography and overlap with other disciplines. While academic texts make up most of the books, we also include popular books, novels, books of poetry, and books published in languages other than English, for example.

Some of these books are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books. Publishers are welcome to contact the AAG Review of Books Editor-in-Chief Debbie Hopkins, as well as anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles.

Addressing Earth’s Challenges: GIS for Earth Sciences, by Lorraine Tighe and Matt Artz (Esri Press 2023)

Apocalyptic Conspiracism: American Evangelicalism in an Age of Climate Crisis, by Tom Albrecht and Tristan Sturm (Bloomsbury Publishing 2025)

The Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money, by Dariusz Wojcik, Panagiotis Iliopoulos, Stefanos Ioannou, Liam Keenan, Julien Migozzi, Timothy Monteath, Vladimir Pazitka, Morag Torrance and Michael Urban (Yale University Press 2024)

Auto-Correct: The Fantasies and Failures of AI, Ethics, and the Driverless Car, by Maya Indira Ganesh (Artez Press 2024)

Beyond Wild and Tame: Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape, by Alex C. Oehler (Berghahn Books 2024)

Carbon Colonialism: How rich countries export climate breakdown, by Laurie Parsons (Manchester University Press 2025)

Cities Rethought: A New Urban Disposition, by Gautam Bhan, Michael Keith, Susan Parnell, and Edgar Pieterse (Wiley 2024)

Competing Climate Cultures in Germany: Variations in the Collective Denying of Responsibility and Efficacy, by Sarah Kessler (Columbia University Press 2024)

Computing Geographically: Bridging Giscience and Geography, by David O’Sullivan (Guildford Press 2024)

Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts, by Esther Eidinow and Christopher Schliephake (Bloomsbury 2024)

DeColonize EcoModernism! By Ariel Salleh (Bloomsbury Publishing 2025)

Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users, third edition, by Cynthia A. Brewer (Esri Press 2024)

Dialogues for Degrowth: Transdisciplinary Perspectives for Sustainable and Inclusive Futures, by Ksenija Hanaček, Marula Tsagkari, and Brototi Roy (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025)

Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds, by Jonathon Turnbull, Adam Searle, Henry Anderson-Elliott and Eva Haifa Giraud (Manchester University Press 2024)

Endangered Places: Disappearing Sites around the World, by Leslie A. Duram (Bloomsbury Publishing 2024)

Environment and Development Challenges: The Imperative to Act, by Robert Watson (Columbia University Press 2024)

An Environmental History of France: Making the Landscape, 1770-2020, by Peter McPhee (Bloomsbury Publishing 2024)

Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon, by Yolonda Youngs (University of Nebraska Press 2024)

Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan, by Tadashi Ishikawa (Cambridge University Press 2025)

Geography: A Visual Encyclopedia, by DK (Penguin Random House 2025)

Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History, by Ian Morris (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023)

The Geography of Hope: Real-Life Stories of Optimists Mapping a Better World, by David Yarnold (Esri Press 2024)

Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race, by Kathryn Yusoff (Duke University Press 2024)

The Green Frontier: Assessing the Economic Implications of Climate Action, by Jean Pisani-Ferry and Adam S. Posen (Columbia University Press 2024)

Hotels, by Jules O’Dwyer (Fordham university Press 2025)

Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic, by Jen Rose Smith (Duke University Press 2025)

Let Geography Die: Chasing Derwent’s Ghost at Harvard, by Alison Mountz and Kira Williams (Penguin Random House 2025)

Life at a Distance: Medicine and Nationalism in India’s Pan-African e-Network, by Vincent Duclos (Cornell University Press 2025)

The Locators: Adventure in Oceania, by Kyle Bauer, Colleen Conner, and Wesley Jones (Esri Press 2024)

Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS, 4e, by John Krygier and Denis Wood (Guildford Press 2024)

The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana, by  Annette A LaRocco (Ohio University Press 2024)

Poetics of Repair: Contemporary Arts and Afterlives of Colonial-Era Mass Housing in the Maghreb, by Katarzyna Pieprzak (    Duke University Press 2025)

Political Geography: Approaches, Concepts, Futures, by Rachael Squire and Anna Jackman (SAGE Publishing 2024)

The Politics of Social, Ecological, and Structural Determinants of Health in Canada, by Elizabeth  McGibbon (Canadian Scholars’ Press 2024)

Race and Place: School Desegregation in Prince George’s County, Maryland, by Deirdre Mayer Dougherty (Rutgers University Press 2025)

Radical Food Geographies: Power, Knowledge and Resistance, by Colleen Hammelman, Charles Z. Levkoe and Kristin Reynolds (Bristol University Press 2024)

Rural quality of life, by Pia Heike Johansen, Anne Tietjen, Evald Bundgård Iversen, Henrik Lauridsen Lolle and Jens Kaae Fisker (Manchester University Press 2023)

Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation: A Practical Guide, by Alys Daroy, Paul Prescott , and Mark Thornton Burnett (Bloomsbury Publishing 2025)

Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction, by Karolina Krasuska (Rutgers University Press 2024)

Starving the Dream: Student Hunger and the Hidden Costs of Campus Affluence, by Nathan F. Alleman, Cara Cliburn Allen, and Sarah E. Madsen (Johns Hopkins University Press 2025)

Teaching Human Geography: Theories and Practice in Thinking Geographically, by Erin Hogan Fouberg and Janet Stuhrenberg Smith (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025)

Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence, by Kevin Glynn and Julie Cupples (Rutgers University Press 2024)

Urban Mobility: How the iPhone, Covid and climate changed everything, by Shauna Brail and Betsy Donald (University of Toronto Press 2024)

Waterhouses: Landscapes, Housing, and the Making of Modern Lagos, by Mark Duerksen (Ohio University Press 2024)