New Books: May 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.

 May, 2015

• Adventures in the Anthropocene by Gaia Vince (Milkweed Editions 2014, http://milkweed.org/shop/product/361/)
• Building Zion: The Material World of Mormon Settlement by Thomas Carter (University of Minnesota 2014, https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/building-zion)
• Cartophilia: Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German borderland by Catherine Tatiana Dunlop (University of Chicago Press 2015, http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo19910111.html)
• Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America by Yong Chen (Columbia University Press 2014, http://cup.columbia.edu/book/chop-suey-usa/9780231168922)
• Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast by Susanne Kerner, Cynthia Chou, Morten Warmind (eds) (Bloomsbury 2015, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/commensality-from-everyday-food-to-feast-9780857857361/#sthash.K3mlDdTu.dpuf)
• The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City by Barbara E. Mundy (University of Texas Press 2015, http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/mundy-death-of-aztec-tenochtitlan#sthash.iNQqVr0D.dpuf)
• Disasters in Field Research: Preparing for and Coping with Unexpected Events by Gillian H. Ice, Darna L. Dufour and Nancy J. Stevens (Rowman and Littlefield 2015, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759118034/Disasters-in-Field-Research-Preparing-for-and-Coping-with-Unexpected-Events)
• Dispatches from Dystopia by Kate Brown (University of Chicago Press 2015, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo19782704.html)
• Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Violence in the Americas Today by Bruce M. Bagley and Jonathan D. Rosen (eds) (University of Florida Press 2015, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=BAGLE001)
• Empires and Encounters: 1350–1750 by Wolfgang Reinhard (Harvard University Press 2015, http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674047198)
• Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project by Robert Winstanley-Chesters (Rowman and Littlefield 2014, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739187784/Environment-Politics-and-Ideology-in-North-Korea-Landscape-as-Political-Project)
• The Fog of Peace: A Memoir of International Peacekeeping in the 21st Century by Jean-Marie Guéhenno (Brookings Institution Press 2015, http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2014/fog-of-peace)
• Food and Urbanism: The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future by Susan Parham (Bloomsbury 2015, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/food-and-urbanism-9780857854537/#sthash.cevQjfTe.dpuf)
• Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks by Charles E. Beveridge, Lauren Meier, and Irene Mills (eds) (John Hopkins University Press 2015, https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/frederick-law-olmsted)
• Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters by Harriet Hawkins and Elizabeth Straughan eds. (Ashgate 2015, https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=11918&edition_id=12290&calcTitle=1)
• Geographies of Health and Development by Isaac Luginaah and Rachel Bezner Kerr (Ashgate 2015, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409454571)
• GIS Research Methods: Incorporating Spatial Perspectives by Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg and Steven J. Steinberg (ESRI press 2015, http://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=284&moduleID=0)
• Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution by James Ferguson (Duke University Press 2015, https://www.dukeupress.edu/Give-a-Man-a-Fish)
• Immigrant Experiences in North America: Understanding Settlement and Integration by Harald Bauder and John Shields (eds) (Canadian Scholars Press 2015, http://www.cspi.org/books/immigrant-experiences-in-north-america)
• An Intimate Natural History of Coastal Georgia by Evelyn B. Sherr (University of Georgia Press 2015, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/marsh_mud_and_mummichogs/)
• Isthmus: A Novel (Widow Walk Saga Book 2) by Gerard LaSalle (Avasta Press 2015, http://gerardlasalle.com/2014/12/isthmus/)
• Key Concepts in Historical Geography by John Morrissey, Ulf Strohmayer, Yvonne Whelan, and Brenda Yeoh (SAGE 2014, http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book230471)
• The Life of the Senses: Introduction to a Modal Anthropology by François Laplantine (Bloomsbury 2015, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-life-of-the-senses-9781472531964/)
• Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power by Timothy Barney (University of North Carolina Press 2015, http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3564)
• Marsh Mud and Mummichogs: Marxism and Urban Culture by Benjamin Fraser, ed. (Rowman and Littlefield 2014, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739191576/Marxism-and-Urban-Culture)
• Megaregions: Globalization’s New Urban Form? by John Harrison and Michael Hoyler eds. (Edward Elgar Publishing 2015, http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/megaregions)
• The New American Suburb: Poverty, Race and the Economic Crisis by Katrin B. Anacker (Ashgate 2015, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409442592)
• Of Walking in Ice: Munich–Paris, 23 November—14 December 1974 by Werner Herzog (University of Minnesota Press 2015, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/of-walking-in-ice)
•  On the Commodity Trail: The Journey of a Bargain Store Product from East to West by Alison Hulme (Bloomsbury 2015, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/on-the-commodity-trail-9781472572851/)
• The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam by Kimberley Kinder (University of Georgia Press 2015, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/politics_of_urban_water/)
• Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett (Crown Publishers 2015,
• http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/228186/rain-by-cynthia-barnett/)
• Remembering Places: A Phenomenological Study of the Relationship between Memory and Place by Janet Donohoe (Rowman and Littlefield 2014, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739187166/Remembering-Places-A-Phenomenological-Study-of-the-Relationship-between-Memory-and-Place)
• Reclaiming the Forest: The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya by Åshild Kolås and Yuanyuan Xie eds. (Berghahn Books 2015, http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=KolasReclaiming)
• Ritual, Performance and the Senses by Michael Bull, Jon P. Mitchell (eds.) (Bloomsbury 2015, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ritual-performance-and-the-senses-9780857854735/#sthash.1hkbW5ZS.dpuf)
• Scale in Spatial Information and Analysis by Jingxiong Zhang, Peter Atkinson and Michael F. Goodchild (CRC Press 2015, https://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439829370)
• Scientific Babel by Michael D. Gordin (University of Chicago Press 2015, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo14504917.html)
• Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women’s Geographical Education by Judith Tyner (Ashgate 2015, https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=10793&edition_id=11123&calcTitle=1)
• A Student’s Introduction to Geographical Thought: Theories, Philosophies, Methodologies by Pauline Couper (SAGE Publishing 2015, http://www.uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book242349)
• The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor Hanson (Basic Books 2015, http://www.basicbooks.com/full-details?isbn=9780465055999)
• Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River by Kenna Lang Archer (University of New Mexico Press 2015, http://www.unmpress.com/books.php?ID=20000000006117)
• The water crisis in Yemen: Managing extreme water scarcity in the Middle East by Christopher Ward (I.B. Tauris 2015, http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Earth%20sciences%20geography%20environment%20planning/The%20environment/Management%20of%20land%20%20natural%20resources/Drought%20%20water%20supply/The%20water%20crisis%20in%20Yemen%20Managing%20extreme%20water%20scarcity%20in%20the%20Middle%20East.aspx?menuitem={DFF51E2F-C0BA-4928-ACC4-415188DCDEE8})
• When the Earth Roars: Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan by Gregory Smits (Rowman and Littlefield 2014, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442220096/When-the-Earth-Roars-Lessons-from-the-History-of-Earthquakes-in-Japan)
• Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? by Andrew Lawler (Atria Books 2014, http://books.simonandschuster.com/Why-Did-the-Chicken-Cross-the-World/Andrew-Lawler/9781476729893)