New Books: August 2015

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, 2015

• Ashoka in Ancient India by Nayanjot Lahiri (Harvard University Press 2015, http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674057777)
• Border Disputes: A Global Encyclopedia (3 volumes) by Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly ed. (ABC-CLIO 2015, http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A3703C)
• Changing Urban and Regional Relations in a Globalizing World: Europe as a Global Macro-Region by Kathy Pain and Gilles Van Hamme (eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishing 2014, http://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781782544647.xml)
• Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia by Haruka Yanagisawa (NUS Press 2015, http://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/products/community-commons-and-natural-resource-management-in-asia?variant=1245118612)
• Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala, Fourth Edition: A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatán Highlands, 1500-1821 by W. George Lovell (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2015, http://www.mqup.ca/conquest-and-survival-in-colonial-guatemala–fourth-edition-products-9780773545274.php)
• Deepening Neoliberalism, Austerity, and Crisis: Europe’s Treasure Ireland by Julien Mercille and Enda Murphy (Palgrave Macmillan 2015, http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/deepening-neoliberalism-austerity-and-crisis-julien-mercille/?isb=9781137468758)
• The Design of Frontier Spaces: Control and Ambiguity by Carolyn Loeb and Andreas Luescher (eds.) (Ashgate 2015, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472419767)
• Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin: The Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People by Jürgen von Mahs (Temple University Press 2015, http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2195_reg.html)
• Environmental Transformations: A Geography of the Anthropocene by Whitehead, Mark (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415809849/)
• Essential Earth Imaging for GIS by Lawrence Fox III (ESRI Press 2015, http://esripress.esri.com/bookresources/index.cfm?event=catalog.book&id=15)
• Foods That Changed History: How Foods Shaped Civilization from the Ancient World to the Present by Christopher Cumo (ABC-CLIO 2015, http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOGreenwood/product.aspx?pc=A4667C)
• The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual—Theory, Ethnography, Activism by Regna Darnell, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L. A. Hancock and Joshua Smith (eds.) (University of Nebraska Press 2015, http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Franz-Boas-as-Public-Intellectual-Volume-1,676241.aspx)
• Global Warming: The Complete Briefing (5th Edition) by John Houghton (Cambridge University Press 2015, http://www.cambridge.org/US/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/climatology-and-climate-change/global-warming-complete-briefing-5th-edition?format=PB)
• Handbook on the Globalisation of Agriculture by Guy M. Robinson and Doris A. Carson (eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishing 2015, http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/handbook-on-the-globalisation-of-agriculture)
• Historical Geographies of Prisons: Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past by Karen M. Morin, Dominique Moran (eds.) (Routledge 2015, http://tandf.net/books/details/9781315724997/)
• Jaffa: Shared and Shattered by Daniel Monterescu (Indiana University Press 2015, http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807546)
• Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People: The Misuse and Abuse of Science in Political Discourse by Richard J. Perry (John Hopkins University Press 2015, https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/killer-apes-naked-apes-and-just-plain-nasty-people)
• Landscapes for the People: George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service by Ren and Helen Davis (University of Georgia Press 2015, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/landscapes_for_the_people)
• Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers, Updated Paperback Version by Anabel Hernández (Verso Books 2013 (2014), http://www.versobooks.com/books/1709-narcoland)
• On Schmitt and Space by Claudio Minca and Rory Rowan (Routledge 2015, https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138000742)
• Orange is the New Black and Philosophy: Last Exit from Litchfield by Richard Greene (ed.) and Rachel Robison-Greene (ed.) (Open Court Publishing Company 2015, http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/orange.htm)
• Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age by Eric Gidal (University of Virginia Press 2015, http://books.upress.virginia.edu/title/4821)
• Rethinking Creative Cities Policy: Invisible Agents and Hidden Protagonists by Allan Watson, Calvin Taylor (eds.) (Routledge 2015, http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9781138890084/)
• The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles by Michael Storper, Thomas Kemeny, Naji P. Makarem and Taner Osman (Stanford University Press 2015, http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=22080)
• Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise by Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox (Cornell University Press 2015, http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100865490)
• Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance by Clint Carroll (Minnesota University Press 2015, https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/roots-of-our-renewal)
• The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology by Tom Perreault, Gavin Bridge and James McCarthy (eds.) (Routledge 2015, https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138794337)
• Security in the Bubble: Navigating Crime in Urban South Africa by Christine Hentschel (Minnesota University Press 2015, https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/security-in-the-bubble)
• Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas by Hannah Appel, Arthur Mason and Michael Watts (eds.) (Cornell University Press 2015, http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100370980)
• Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility by Jacob Shell (MIT Press 2015, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/transportation-and-revolt)
• Unity of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas by Gabriela Rangel (ed.) (Kerber 2015, http://www.artbook.com/9783866789395.html)