New Books: December 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.
December, 2014
- Adventures in Academic Cartography: A Memoir by Monmonier, Mark (Bar Scale Press 2014, http://www.markmonmonier.com/adventures_in_academic_cartography__a_memoir_117531.htm)
- The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities: Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging by Diouf, Mamadou and Rosalind Fredericks (eds) (Palgrave Macmillan 2014, http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-arts-of-citizenship-in-african-cities-mamadou-diouf/?K=9781137481870)
- The Battle of the Fields: Rural Community and Authority in Britain during the Second World War by Short, Brian (Boydell Press 2014, http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14623)
- Bloom and Bust: Urban Landscapes in the East since German Reunification by Cliver, Gwyneth and Carrie Smith-Prei (eds) (Berghahn Books 2014, http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=CliverBloom)
- Centering Animals in Latin American History by Few, Martha and Zeb Tortorici (Duke University Press 2013, https://www.dukeupress.edu/Centering-Animals-in-Latin-American-History/index-viewby=author&lastname=Ahuja&firstname=Neel&middlename=&sort=newest.html)
- Climate Conundrums: What the Climate Debate Reveals About Us by Gail, William B. (University of Chicago Press 2014, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo19185853.html)
- Comic Book Geographies by Dittmer, Jason (Franz Steiner Verlag 2014, http://www.steiner-verlag.de/reihe/view/titel/59961.html)
- Elgar Companion To Sustainable Cities: Strategies, Methods and Outlook by Mazmanian, Daniel A. and Hilda Blanco (Edward Elgar Publishing 2014, http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=14711&breadcrumlink=&breadcrum=&sub_values=)
- Extraordinary Cities: Millennia of Moral Syndromes, World-Systems and City/State Relations by Taylor, Peter J. (Edward Elgar Publishing 2013, http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=15177&breadcrumlink=&breadcrum=&sub_values=)
- The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination by Gandy, Matthew (MIT Press 2014, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fabric-space)
- Food Waste: Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life by Evans, David (Bloomsbury 2014, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/food-waste-9780857852342/#sthash.Wy69H6uq.dpuf)
- Growing Local: Case Studies on Local Food Supply Chains by King, Robert P., Michael S. Hand, and Miguel I. Gómez (University of Nebraska Press 2015, http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Growing-Local,675966.aspx)
- Healthy Cities: Public Health through Urban Planning by Sarkar, Chinmoy, Chris Webster, John Gallacher (Edward Elgar Publishing 2014, http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=15227&breadcrumlink=&breadcrum=&sub_values=)
- How Outer Space Made America: Geography, Organization and the Cosmic Sublime by Sage, Daniel (Ashgate 2014, https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=20244&edition_id=1209350986)
- Justified and Philosophy: Shoot First, Think Later by Carveth, Rod and Robert Arp (eds) (Open Court Publishing Company 2015, http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/justified.htm)
- Masculinities and Place by Gorman-Murray, Andrew and Peter Hopkins (Ashgate 2014, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472409812)
- The Middle East and Brazil: Perspectives on the New Global South by Amar, Paul (Indiana University Press 2014, http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807230)
- The Politics of Street Food: Contested Governance and Vulnerabilities in Dhaka by Etzold, Benjamin (Franz Steiner Verlag 2014, http://www.steiner-verlag.de/titel/59799.html)
- Rivers, Memory, and Nation-Building by Zeisler-Vralsted, Dorothy (Berghahn Books 2014, https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=Zeisler-VralstedRivers)
- Space in Mind: Concepts for Spatial Learning and Education by Montello, Daniel R., Karl E. Grossner and Donald G. Janelle (eds) (MIT Press 2014, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/space-mind)
- The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Capra, Fritjof, and Pier Luigi Luisi (Cambridge University Press 2014, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/life-sciences/genomics-bioinformatics-and-systems-biology/systems-view-life-unifying-vision