New Books: August 2014

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.

August, 2014

• Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj, Zizek (Verso Books 2014, http://www.versobooks.com/books/1716-absolute-recoil)
• A Land Between Waters: Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico by Boyer, Christopher R. (University of Arizona Press 2014, http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2382.htm)
• The Arctic Climate System, Second Edition by Serreze, Mark C. and Roger G. Barry (Cambridge University Press 2014, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/climatology-and-climate-change/arctic-climate-system-2nd-edition)
• Blackwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination by Mizelle, Richard M. Jr. (University of Minnesota 2014, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/backwater-blues)
• Creating Wilderness: A Transitional History of the Swiss National Park by Kupper, Patrick (Berghahn Books 2014, http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=KupperCreating)
• Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism by Joseph, Miranda (University of Minnesota 2014, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/debt-to-society)
• Eco-Aesthetics: Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change by Miles, Malcolm (Bloomsbury Publishing 2014, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/eco-aesthetics-9781472529107/)
• Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Markwyn, Abigail M.  (University of Nebraska Press 2014, http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Empress-San-Francisco,675974.aspx)
• Evaluating Environment in International Development by Ed. Juha I. Uitto (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415742894/)
• Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1590-2010: Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia by Narangoa, Li and Robert Cribb (Columbia University Press 2014, http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16070-4/historical-atlas-of-northeast-asia-15902010)
• Indigenous Peoples, National Parks, and Protected Areas: A New Paradigm Linking Conservation, Culture, and Rights by Ed. Stevens, Stan (University of Arizona Press 2014, http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2493.htm)
• Jakarta: Drawing the City Near by Simone, Abdoumaliq (University of Minnesota  2014,  http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/jakarta-drawing-the-city-near)
• Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on and Indigenous Frontier by Murray Li, Tania (Duke University Press 2014, https://www.dukeupress.edu/Lands-End/index-viewby=subject&categoryid=10&sort=newest.html)
• The Life of the City: Space, Humour and the Experience of Truth in Fin-de-soecle Montmartre  by Brigstocke, Julian  (Ashgate 2014, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409448969)
• Modernizing American Land Records: Order Upon Chaos by Epstein, Earl F. and Bernard Niemann Jr. J (ESRI Press 2014, http://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=257&moduleID=0)
• Negotiated Settlements: Andean Communities and Landscapes Under Inka and Spanish Colonialism by Wernke, Steven A (University of Florida   2014, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=WERNK001)
• Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England’s Religious Geography by Balik, Shelby M (Indiana University Press 2014, http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807156)
• Reconfiguring the Silk Road: New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity by Mair,Victor H. and Jane Hickman (University of Pennsylvania Press 2014, http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/94.html)
• The Social Atlas of Europe by  Ballas, Dimitris, Danny Dorling, and Benjamin D. Hennig (University of Chicago Press 2014, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo18003071.html)
• Teaching Geography Third Edition by Gersmehl, Phil  (Guilford Press 2014, http://www.guilford.com/books/Teaching-Geography/Phil-Gersmehl/9781462516414/reviews)
• Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation by Eds. Diaz Andon, Laura, Bunn, Matthew and Venkatesh Narayanamurti (Cambridge University Press 2014, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/transforming-us-energy-innovation)
• Transnational Climate Change Governanace by Bulkeley, Harriet, Andonova,Liliana B., Betsill, Michele M., Compagnon, Daniel, Hale, Thomas, Hoffmann, Matthew J., Newell, Peter, Paterson, Matthew, Roger, Charles, Vandeveer, Stacy D.  (University of Minnesota  2014, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/transnational-climate-change-governance)
• Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: Critical Perspectives by Gupta, Aarti and Mason, Michael (MIT Press 2014, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/transparency-global-environmental-governance)
• Up Against the Wall: Re-Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border by Casey, Edward S. and Mary Watkins (University of Texas Press 2014, https://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/casupa)