New Books: October 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.

October, 2015

• Abundance and Resilience: Farming and Foraging in Ancient Kaua`i by Julie S. Field and Michael Graves (University of Hawai’i Press 2015, http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9483-9780824839895.aspx)
• The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change by Karen O’Brien and Elin Selboe, (eds.) (Cambridge University Press 2015, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/climatology-and-climate-change/adaptive-challenge-climate-change)
• Alfred Wegener: Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift by Mott T. Greene (John Hopkins University Press 2015, https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/alfred-wegener)
• American Antiquities: Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology by Terry A. Barnhart (University of Nebraska Press 2015, http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/American-Antiquities,676350.aspx)
• Cape Cod: An Environmental History of a Fragile Ecosystem by John T. Cumbler (University of Massachusetts 2014, https://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/cape-cod)
• Cities and the Cultural Economy by Thomas A. Hutton (Routledge 2016, https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415624091)
• Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America (Second Edition) by Christopher A. Airriess (Rowman and Littlefield 2015, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442218550/Contemporary-Ethnic-Geographies-in-America-Second-Edition#)
• Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction by Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski and E. Lisa F. Schipper (Routledge 2015, http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/articles/cultures_and_disasters)
• Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance by Jeremy Black (Indiana University Press 2015, http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807693)
• Handbook of Local and Regional Development by Andy Pike, Andres Rodriguez-Pose and John Tomaney (Routledge 2015, https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415548311)
• The International Handbook of Political Ecology by Raymond L. Bryant (Edward Elgar Publishing 2015, http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/the-international-handbook-of-political-ecology)
• Just South of Zion: The Mormons in Mexico and Its Borderlands by Jason H. Dormady and Jared M. Tamez (eds.) (University of New Mexico Press 2015, http://www.unmpress.com/books.php?ID=20000000006200)
• Mapping by Martin Dodge (ed.) (Routledge 2015, http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415718110)
• The Mountain: A Political History from the Enlightenment to the Present by Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz (University of Chicago Press 2015, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo15302284.html)
• The Origin, Development and Diffusion of the Steel Band in the Caribbean and Beyond: the Historical Geography of a Musical Instrument by Ralph L. Parris (The Edwin Mellen Press 2015, http://mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=9039&pc=9)
• The Personal Tornado for Pharaoh’s Soul by Gizo Vashakidze (self-published 2014, http://www.fereidani.ge/articles/138/tornado-book-eng.php)
• The Polar Regions: An Environmental History by Adrian Howkins (Polity Books 2015, http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745670805)
• Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction by Katie Meehan and Kendra Strauss (eds.) (University of Georgia Press 2015, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/precarious_worlds)
• Remote Sensing of Wetlands: Applications and Advances by Ralph W. Tiner, Megan W. Lang and Victor V. Klemas (CRC Press 2015, https://www.crcpress.com/Remote-Sensing-of-Wetlands-Applications-and-Advances/Tiner-Lang-Klemas/9781482237351)
• The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration by Michael E. Leary and John McCarthy (Routledge 2015, https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415539043)
• Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies by Anna Triandafyllidou (Routledge 2016, https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138794313)
• Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Food and Gastronomy by Philip Sloan, Willy Legrand and Clare Hindley (Routledge 2015, https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415702553)
• Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies by Matthias Gross and Linsey McGoey (Routledge 2015, https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415718967)
• Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development by Michael Redclift and Delyse Springett (Routledge 2015, https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415838429)
• Rule By Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi by D. Asher Ghertner (Oxford University Press 2015, http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199385577.do)
• Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England by Richard W. Judd (University of Massachusetts Press 2015, http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/second-nature)
• Soils: Genesis and Geomorphology (2nd edition) by Randall J. Schaetzl and Michael L. Thompson (Cambridge University Press 2015, http://www.cambridge.org/cu/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/soil-science/soils-genesis-and-geomorphology-2nd-edition?format=HB)
• Tokaido Texts and Tales: Tokaido gojusan tsui by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige and Kunisada (University of Florida Press 2015, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=STEUB004)
• Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization and Politics in the Postindustrial City by Clarence N. Stone and Robert P. Stoker (University of Chicago Press 2015, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo21163279.html