New Books Received – February 2014

The AAG Review of Books office has released the list of the books received during the month of February. Following are the references, along with links to more detailed information:

February, 2014

• A Story of Six Rivers: History, Culture and Ecology by Coates, Peter (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo15584391.html)
• African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C.: Race, Class and Social Justice in the Nation’s Capital by Prince, Sabiyha (Ashgate 2014, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409446125)
• Alcohol in World History by Hames, Gina (Routledge 2012, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415311526/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SBU4_SJC_1TX_1em_1HIS_46193)
• American Capitals: A Historical Geography by Montes, Christian (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo16720894.html)
• The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity by Hausmann, Ricardo, and Cesar A. Hidalgo, et al (MIT Press 2013, http://atlas.media.mit.edu/atlas/)
• Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World  by Paglen, Trevor (Penguin Group 2010, http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780451229168,00.html)”
• Bodies Without Borders by de Casanova, Erynn Masi and Afshan Jafar (Palgrave Macmillan 2013, http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=698662)
• Climate and Human Migration: Past Experiences, Future Challenges by xii and 318 pp (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/climate-and-human-migration-past-experiences-future-challenges)
• Climate Governance in the Developing World by Held, David, Eva-Maria Nag, and Charles Roger (Polity Books 2013, http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745662763)
• Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala: Indigenous Responses to a Failing State by Hawkins, John P., and James H. McDonald (University of Oklahoma Press 2013, http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1735/crisis of governance in maya guatemala)
• Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice by Gunn, Wendy and Ton Otto, Rachel Charlotte Smith (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/design-anthropology-9780857853691/)
• Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900–1930 by Ingram, Tammy (University of North Carolina Press 2014, http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3495)
• Encounters and Engagements between Economic and Cultural Geography by Warf, Barney (Springer 2012, http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geography/book/978-94-007-2974-2)
• Energy Technology Innovation: Learning from Historical Successes and Failures by Grübler Arnulf and Charlie Wilson (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/energy-technology-innovation-learning-historical-successes-and-failures?format=HB)
• Essentials of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology by Frost, B. Ronald and Carol D. Frost (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/mineralogy-petrology-and-volcanology/essentials-igneous-and-metamorphic-petrology?format=PB)
• Everyday Las Vegas: Local Life in a Tourist Town by  Rowley, Rex J. (University of Nevada Press 2013, http://www.unpress.nevada.edu/Search/Title/everyday/Titles/Everyday Las Vegas;2258?1)
• Food and the Self: Consumption, Production and Material Culture by De Slier, Isabelle (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/food-and-the-self-9780857854353/)
• Forces of Nature and Cultural Responses by Pfeifer, K (Springer 2013)
• The Franz Boas Enigma: Inuit, Arctic, and Sciences by Müller-Wille, Ludger (Baraka Books 2014, http://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/the-franz-boas-enigma/)
• From the Tree to the Labyrinth: Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation by Eco, Umberto (Harvard University Press 2013, http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674049185)
• Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction by Cresswell, Tim (Wiley-Blackwell 2013, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002630.html)
• Global Beauty, Local Bodies by Jafar, Afshan and Erynn Masi de Casanova (Palgrave Macmillan 2013, http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=698659)
• Global Energy Dilemmas by Bradshaw, Michael (Polity Books 2013, http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=9780745650647)
• The Global Pigeon by Jerolmack, Colin (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo14543687.html)
• Governing the Climate: New Approaches to Rationality, Power and Politics by  Stripple, Johannes and Harriet Bulkeley (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/governing-climate-new-approaches-rationality-power-and-politics?format=HB)
• History and GIS: Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections by Lunen, A. v., and C. Travis (Springer 2013, http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geographical+information+systems/book/978-94-007-5008-1)
• The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations by McPherson, Alan (Oxford University Press 2014, http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-invaded-9780195343038;jsessionid=AE1E702F8C99F20B463BCC2D2F72C8D1?cc=us&lang=en&)
• Island Life: Or, the Phenomena and Casuses of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates by Wallace, Alfred Russel (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo15584113.html)
• Making Human Geography by Cox, Kevin R. (Guilford Press 2014, http://tmm.guilfordpub.com/cgi-bin/cartscript.cgi?page=pr/cox3.htm)
• Mammals of Ungava and Labrador: The 1882-1884 Fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu Knowledge by Heyes, Scott A. and Kristofer M. Helgen (Smithsonian Institution Press 2014, http://www.randomhouse.com/book/228353/mammals-of-ungava-and-labrador-)
• Mapping the Nation: Supporting Decisions that Govern a People by An Esri Publication (ESRI Press 2014, http://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=246&moduleID=0)
• Material Culture and Authenticity: Fake Branded Fashion in Europe by  Craciun, Magdalena (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/material-culture-and-authenticity-9780857854513/)
• Mid-Ocean Ridges by Searle, Roger (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/structural-geology-tectonics-and-geodynamics/mid-ocean-ridges)
• The Nomad’s Path: Travels in the Sahel by Carr, Alistair (I.B. Tauris 2013, http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Lifestyle sport  leisure/Travel  holiday/Travel writing/Classic travel writing/The Nomads Path Travels in the Sahel.aspx)
• Oil Sparks in the Amazon: Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources by Vásquez, Patricia I. (University of Georgia Press 2013, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/oil_sparks_in_the_amazon/)
• Power to the People: The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964–1974 by Kaplan, Geoff (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo6177974.html)
• Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations, 3rd Edition by Feagin, Joe R (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415704014/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu3+dec13+fg+racist+america+ecampaign)
• Reclaiming American Cities:The Struggle for People, Place, and Nature since 1900 by Platt, Rutherfor H (University of Massachusetts Press 2013, http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/reclaiming-american-cities)
• The Road Through the Rust Belt: From Preeminence to Decline to Prosperity by Bowen, William M.  (W.E. UPJohn Institute 2014, http://www.upjohn.org/Publications/Titles/RoadThroughtheRustBelt)
• Space and Society in Central Brazil: A Panará Ethnography by Ewart, Elizabeth (New York, NY 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/space-and-society-in-central-brazil-9780857855800/)
• Spice: The History of a Temptation by Turner, Jack (Vintage 2004, http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/181103/spice/)
• Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution by Fine, Doug (Penguin Books 2012, http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781592407095,00.html)
• Tourism and the Power of Otherness Seductions of Difference by Picard, David and Di Giovine, Michael A.  (Channel View Publications 2014, http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?sort=sort_date/d&sf1=title_exact&st1=tourismandthepowerofotherness)
• Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World-from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief by Zoellner, Tom (Penguin Group 2014, http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670025282,00.html?Train_Tom_Zoellner)