Book Reviews

Books Reviewed in this Article:
Field Geology Frederic H. Lahee. Sixth edition, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1961, pp. + xxxi, 835. 6d.
Physics of the Aurora and Airglow Joseph W. Chamberlain. Academic Press Inc., New York and London, 1961, 704 pp. £5 18s.     

Book Review

Books Reviewed in this Article:
The Earth's Mantle (Edited by T. F. Gaskell) (Academic Press, New York & London. 1967. 509 pp., £7)     

Book reviews

Books Reviewed in this Article:
Rock Friction and Earthquake Prediction James D. Byerlee, Max Wyss (eds) Birkhauser, Basel, Stuttgart , 1978 (Contributions to Current Research in Geophysics, vol. 6)
Experimental Rock Deformation: The Brittle Field M. S. Paterson Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York , 1978 254 pages DM 48; £12
Mineralogy of the Planets: A Voyage in Space and Time J.V. Smith The Mineralogical Society, London, 1979 Reprinted from the Mineralogical Magazine, March 1979,43, 1-89
Applied Inverse Problems Edited by P. C. Sabatier Springer-Verlag, Berlin , 1978 425 pages, DM 39
Principles of Sedimentology Gerald M. Friedman & John E. Sanders John Wiley and Sons , 1978 792 pages £15.75
Advances in Earth and Planetary Sciences No. 1. Origin of Thermoremanent Magnetization D. J. Dunlop (ed.) Centre for Academic Publications, Japan and Japan Scientific Societies Press, Tokyo , 1977 $24.50, 212 pp.     

Excursions in and Around Boston

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Erick Berry. The Land and People of Iceland. J. B. Lippincott Company, East Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Pennsylvania, 1959. 126 pages with photographs, index and table of contents. $2.95.

Patricia H. Suttles and John Guy Fowlkes. Elementary Teachers' Guide to Free Curriculum Materials. Educators' Progress Service, Randolph, Wisconsin, 1960. xiv and 313 pages including three indexes and 31 pages of units. $6.50.

Arnold Toynbee and Edward D. Myers. Historical Atlas and Gazetteer. Oxford, London, 1959. 257 pages. $12.50.

Earl B. Shaw. Anglo-America: A Regional Geography. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1959. vii and 452 pages with maps, graphs, tables, photography and index. $7.75.

Peter Goullart. Land of the Lamas: Adventures in Secret Tibet. E. P. Dutton &; Co., New York, 1959. 221 pages with photographs and a map. $4.00. (The British edition of this book is entitled: Princes of the Black Bone.)

Bertha S. Dodge. Plants That Changed the World. Little, Brown, &; Co., Boston and Toronto, 1959. 190 pages. $8.50.

F. J. Monkhouse. A Regional Geography of Western Europe. Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., London, 1959. xx and 726 pp. $9.75 (50s.).

Joseph Wharton Lippincott. Old Bill, the Whooping Crane. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1958. 176 pp. Illustrated. $3.00.

Herbert Kaufman. The Forest Ranger. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Md., 1960. xv and 259 pages and index. $5.00.

Arthur H. Robinson. Elements of Cartography. John Wiley &; Sons, Inc., New York, 2nd Ed., 1960. 282 pages plus appendix (mainly of useful mathematical tables), bibliography, and index. Original illustrations drawn by James T. Flannery. $8.75.

John C. Caldwell. Let's Visit India. The John Day Company, Inc., 210 Madison Avenue, New York, 1960. 96 pages with index and table of contents. Illustrated. $2.95. Ages 8-12.

Horace R. Byers. General Meteorology. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. New York, 1959. 540 pages with 223 figures. $9.50.

C. B. Colby. Mapping the World. Coward-McCann, Inc., 210 Madison Ave., New York City, 1959. 48 pages with 60 black and white photographs. $2.00.

John C. Caldwell. Let's Visit Pakistan. The John Day Company, Inc., New York, 1960. 96 pages with table of contents, index, map, and black and white photographs. $2.95.

Perry L. Norton, editor. Urban Problems and Techniques. Chandler-Davis Publishing House, West Trenton, New Jersey, 1959. 249 pages. $4.50.

John C. Caldwell. Let's Visit Japan. The John Day Company, Inc., 210 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, 1959. 96 pages with illustrations, index, and table of contents. $2.95.     

Longview,Washington—A Planned City

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Prairie mosaic: An ethnic atlas of rural North Dakota: by William C. Sherman, Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1983. v and 152 pp., figs., illus., photos, maps, and indexes. $12.85 cloth.

Nigeria in Maps: by K. Michael Barbour, Julius S. Oguntoyinbo, J. O. C. Onyemelukwe, and James C. Nwafor, eds. New York: Africana Publishing, 1982. vii and 148 pp., figs., illus., graphs, tables, maps, apps., biblio., and glossary. $29.50 paper.

Frontier on the Rio Grande: A Political Geography of Development and Social Deprivation: by John W. House, New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. xii and 281 pp., figs., tables, photos, maps, app., refs., and index. $29.95 cloth.

Progress in Rural Geography: by Michael Pacione, ed., Totowa, NJ: Barnes &; Noble, 1983. 253 pp., figs., graphs, tables, maps, and index. $26.95 cloth.

The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography: by James M. Rubenstein and Robert S. Bacon, St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1983. xxx and 501 pp., figs., illus., graphs, tables, photos, maps, and index. $26.95 cloth.

Applied Geography: Practice, Problems and Prospects: by Morgan Sant, New York: Longman, 1982. x and 152 pp., figs., tables, maps, refs., and index. $30.00 cloth, $11.95 paper.     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed in this Article:
An Introduction to Planetary Physics W. M. Kaula. (Wiley & Son, New York, 490pp.+xvii, 135s.)
Géométrie Différentielle et Systèmes Extéieurs Y. Choquet-Bruhat. (Paris, Dunod, 328+xviii pp., 56F.)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews are in this Article Atlas of China's Provincial Highways and Communications. Beijing: Cartographic Publishing House, 1988.71 pp., maps, and tables. 8.00 Yuan (ISBN 7-5031-0052-4/P.6). Concise Atlas of China's Provincial Highways. Tianjin People's Publishing House and Xinhua, 1986. 68 pp., maps, and tables. 2.30 Yuan (no ISBN). Concise Atlas of China's Transportation and Communication. Tianjin: Tianjin People's Publishing House and China Cartographic Publishers, 1985. 136 pp., maps, and tables. 2.00 Yuan (ISBN 7-5032-0026-5/P.4). Concise Atlas of China's Transportation and Tourist Sights. Shanghai: Cartographic Publishing House, 1989. 100 pp., maps, and tables. 4.50 Yuan (ISBN 7-5031-0345-0 /K.178). Atlas for Travelers. Haerbin: Cartographic Publishing House, 1987.72 pp., maps, and tables. 2.80 Yuan (no ISBN). God and Production in a Guatemalan Town. SHELDON ANNIS. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1987. xii and 197 pp., maps, diags., tables, index, and biblio. No price (ISBN 0-292-72736-4). The Future Saskatchewan Small Town. EDMUND H. DALE, ED., Victoria: University Press (Western Geographical Series, Vol. 24), 1988. xv and 262 pp., maps, diags. No price, paper (ISBN 0-9 19838-14-6). The Socialist Third World: Urban Development and Territorial Planning. DEAN FORBES AND NIGEL THRIFT, EDS. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987. 333 pp., maps, diags., tables, index, biblio. $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-631-15616-X). $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-631-13442-S); Democracy in Kingston: A Social Movement in Urban Politics, 1965-1970. RICHARD HARRIS. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988. xv and 203 pp., maps, diags., index. $29.95 cloth (0-7735-0583-0). The Quiet Evolution: Power, Planning and Profits in New York State. MICHAEL K. HEIMAN. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1988. xiv and 333 pp., maps, index and biblio. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-275-92476-9). Zimbabwe: Energy Planning for National Development. R. H. HOSIER, ED. Energy, Environment and Development in Africa, Vol. 9. Sweden: Bohuslaningens AB, Uddevalla, 1986. xii and 206 pp., maps, diags., index and biblio. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 91-7106-256-4). Ocean Boundary Making: Regional Issues and Developments. DOUGLAS M. JOHNSTON AND PHILLIP M. SAUNDERS, EDS. London, New York, Sydney: Croom Helm, 1988.356 pp., maps, tables, chapter biblio., and index. $79.50 cloth (ISBN 0-7099-1495-4). A Nation Dividing: The Electoral Map of Great Britain 1979-1987. R. J. JOHNSTON, C. J. PATTIE, AND J. G. ALLSOPP. London: Longman, and New York: John Wiley, 1988. viii and 379 pp., maps, diags, index, and biblio. $34.95 (ISBN 0-470-21133-4). Demographic Behavior in the Past. JOHN E. KNODEL. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xxv and 587 pp., index and biblio. $59.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-32715-6). Tourism and Development in the Third World. JOHN LEA. London: Routledge, 1988. 88 pp., maps, diags., index and biblio. $8.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-00671-6). Atlas of Landforms of China. LI WEINENG, CHIEF ED. Beijing: The Publishing House of Surveying and Mapping, 1985. Available from Asian Research Service, P.O. Box 2232, G.P.O., Hong Kong ($120.00), or from Geo-Science Resources, Burlington, NC ($104.00). Atmospheric Ecology for Designers and Planners. WILLIAM P. LOWRY. McMinnville, OR: Peavine Publications, 1988.435 pp., maps, diags., tables, index and biblio. $26.75 paper (ISBN 0-929002- 07-5). Medical Geography. MELINDA S. MEADE, LER. New York: Guilford Press, 1988. ix and 340 pp., maps, diags., ref., and index. $35.00 (ISBN 0-89862-781-8). JOHN W. FLORIN, AND WILBERT M. GESLER. New York: Guilford Press, 1988. ix and 340 pp., maps, diags., ref., and index. $35.00 (ISBN 0-89862-781-8). Spatial Diffusion. RICHARD MORRILL, GARY L. GAILE, AND GRANT IAN THRALL. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1988.86 pp., figs., refs. $16.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8039-2852-1); $7.95 paper (0-8039-2684-7). Spatial Pricing and Differentiated Markets. GEORGE NORMAN. London and New York: Pion and Methuen, 1987. London Papers in Regional Science 16. 185 pp., index, and biblio. $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-85086-121-7). Spatial Autocorrelation. JOHN ODLAND. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1988. 88 pp., maps, diags., biblio. paper (ISBN 0-8039-2651-0). $16.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8039-2652-9); $7.95 paper (ISBN 0-8039-2651-0). An Historical Geography of Modern Australia: The Restive Fringe. JOSEPH M. POWELL. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xx and 400 pp., illus., tables, notes, biblio., and index. $54.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-25619-4).     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed in this Article:
Physical Geology G. Gorshkov and A. Yakushova (Translated by A. Gurevich) (Mir Publishers, Moscow, 1967. 586 pp., 30s., Central Books)
Solar-Terrestrial Physics Edited by J. W. King and W. S. Newman (Academic Press, New York, 390 pp. 90s, $16.50)
Methods in Palaeomagnetism     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Rebiews are in this article. Atlas of the Ecological Environment in the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Area . Beijing: Science Press, 1990. 192 pp. (English). An electronic, pc-based version is available. $100.00 cloth (ISBN 7-03-002 148-7P.422). Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans . MOLEFI K. ASANTE AND MARK T. MATTSON. New York: Mac-millan Publishing Company, 199 1. viii and 198 pp., maps, diags., tables, photos, rcfs., and index. $95.00 cloth (ISBN 0-02-89702 1-7) . Regional Landscapes of the United States and Canada , 4th Edition STEPHEN S. BlRDSALL AND JOHN P. FLORIN. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1991. vii and 519 pp., maps, diags., index, and bib-lio. $48.00 cloth (ISBN 0-47 1-61646-x). Map Use and Analysis . JOHN CAMPBELL Dubuque, IA: lVilliani C. Brown, lY91. xiv, 366pp., appendices, maps, diags., glos-sary, index. $39.15 paper (ISBN 0-697-11683-2). The Geography of Contemporary China, The Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade , TERRY CANNON AND ALAN JENKlNS, EDS. London and New York: Kou-tledge, Chapman & Hall, 1990. 316 pp., maps, diags, index. $69.95 cloth; $22.50 paper (ISRK O–F15-00103-X). Rural Development in the Third World , CHRIS DIXON. New York: Routledge, 1990. vii and 123 pp., maps, diags., index and review questions. $13.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-01597-9). Soil Erosion in a Coastal River Basin. A Case Study from the Philippines RANDOM DUROIS. Univ. of Chicago Committcc on Geographical Studies, Geography Research Paper No. 232, IYYO. xii and 138 pp. maps, diags., tables, index and biblio., $12.00 paper (ISBN 0-8Y065-139-6). The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom , JAMES S. DUNCAN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 229 pp., diags., apps., and index. $49.50 (ISBN 0-521-35305-X) Water Resources Planning . ANDREW A. DZURIK. Salage, Maryland: Kowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1990. xxii and 3 18 pp., map, diags., tables, app., glossary, index, and biblio., $39.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8476-7 39 1 -X). Earth's Natural Forces . KENNETH J. GREGORY, ED. New York: Oxford Uni-versity Press, 1990. 255 pp., maps, diags, glossary and index. $$45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-520860-9). Farming on the Edge; Saving Family Farms in Marin County, California . JOHN HART. Berkeley: University of (:alifornia Press, 1991. is and 174 pp., photos, list of interviea ees, and index. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 0-520-07055-0); $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-520-07 173-5). The Land That Feeds Us . JOHN FRASER HART. New York, W. W. Norton & Com-pany, 1991. 398 pp., 58 drawings, acknowl-edgments, index. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-393-029 54-9). Service Centres and Service Regions in Rhodesia . ROBIN HEATH. Harare, Zim-babwe: University of Zimbabwe Publications, 1990. xvii and 217 pp., maps, diags., photos, tables, biblio., and app. $39.00 pa-per (ISBN 0-908307-16-0). Voices of China . CHIN-CHUAN LEE, ed. New York: Guilford Press, 1990. xxii and 3 5 3 pp, index and biblio. $40.00 cloth (ISBN 0-89862-3 10-3); $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-89862-288-3). Atlas of United States Environmental Issues . ROREKI J. MASON AND MARK T. MATTSON. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990. xii and 252 pp., maps, graphs, index, bihlio. $80.00 (ISBN 0-02-89726 1-9). How to Lie with Maps . MARK MONMONIER. Chicago: University of (Ihicago Press, 1991. xi and 176 pp., maps, index and bibliography. $12.95 paper (ISBN 0-226-53415-4). Natural Resources: Allocation, Economics and Policy , 2nd Edition. JUDITH A. REES. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1990. xx and 499 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $77.00 cloth (ISBN 0-415-05 104-5); $25.00 paper (ISBN 0-415-05 103-7). The Soviet Far East: Geographical Perspectives on Development . ALAN RODGEKS, ED. London md New York: Routledge, 1990. xiv and 318 pp., maps, graphs, index and biblio. $52.50 cloth (ISBN 0-41 5-02406-4).     

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Books Reviewed in this Article:
Ground Water Problems Edited by E. Eriksson, Y. Gustavsson and K. Nilsson. (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1968, vi+223 pp., 100s.)     

Reviews

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Around the World Program: Malta, Japan, Australia, Madagascar, Switzerland, and Fiji, Hilary Lambert Hopper, series ed. Fort Pierce, Florida: McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company. 1996

Atlas of World Geography, Brett R. Gover and Ann T. Natunewicz, eds. Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally and Company. 1996 (revised 1999 printing). 176 pp. ISBN 0528177900 (paper).

The New Comparative World Atlas, Charles G. Lees, Jr., ed. Maplewood, New Jersey: Hammond Incorporated; 1998. 96 pp. ISBN 0843771003 (paper).

Political Geography: A New Introduction, Richard Muir, New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1997 316 pp. Maps and figures. ISBN 0470237449. $39.95 (paper)

The Southern Black Belt: A National Perspective, Ronald C. Wimberley, Libby V. Morris., Lexington, KY TVA Rural Studies, 1997. 49 pp. Illustrations, maps ISBN 0-9649746-2-2.

The Rural Landscape, John Fraser Hart, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 1998 408 pp., figures, illustrations, graphs, tables, bibliography, index. $35.95 cloth.     

Books,Atlases, & Maps Received

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R. Warwidk Armstrong, Editor and Project Director. ATLAS OF HAWAII. The University Press of Hawaii, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1973. 222 pages. Paper cover, $15.00.

Bernadine Bailey. GREENLAND IN PICTURES. Visual Geography Series, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1973. 64 pages. Paperback, $1.25.

Yi-Fu Tuan. TOPOPHILIA: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes and Values. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632, 260 pages. Cloth cover, $8.95, paper cover, $4.95.

Merrill M. Stuart. MASTER'S THESES IN GEOGRAPHY: AMERICAN AND CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES. Geographic and Area Study Publications, Tualatin, Oregon, 1973. 275 pages, Library bound $11.00, Paper back $7.00.

R. J. Johnston. SPATIAL STRUCTURES: Introducing the study of spatial systems in human geography. St. Martin's Press, New York, 7973. The Field of Geography. 137 pages. Cloth cover, $6.95.

Charles ReVelle, Penelope ReVelle. SOURCEBOOK ON THE ENVIRONMENT: The Scientific Perspective. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Mass. 02107, 1974. 332 pages. Paper back, N.P.

Raymond E. Crist, Charles M. Nissly. EAST FROM THE ANDES: Pioneer Settlements in the South American Heartland. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, 1974. 166 pages, Paper cover, $4.00.

Edited with an introduction by Louis H. Masotti and Jeffrey K. Hadden. SUBURBIA IN TRANSITION. New Viewpoints -A Division of Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, 1974. 345 pages. Paper back, $4.95.

Gordon Oosterman. THE PEOPLE: Three Indian Tribes of the Southwest. The National Union of Christian Schools, William 6. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1973. 117 pages. Paper, $2.45.

Spencer D. Parker. GHANA. Bellhaven House, Scarborough 707, Ontario, Canada, 1973. 96 pages. Paper, $3.95.

Chryssee MacCasler Perry Martin and Esmond Bradley Martin. QUEST FOR THE PAST: An Historical Guide to The Lamu Archipelago. Marketing and Publishing Ltd., 1973. 32 pages. Paper, N. P.     

Quinoa,A Potentially Important Food Crop of the Andes

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Sidney Licht (ed.). Medical Climatology. Elizabeth Licht Publishers, New Haven, Conn., 1964. xix and 753 pages, with tables, maps, diagrams and index. $16.00.

Allen K. Philbrick. This Human World. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1963. xii and 500 pages, illustrated, maps, tables, appendix, index. $7.95.

Winston W. Crouch and Beatrice Dinerman. Southern California Metropolis: A Study in Development of Government for a Metropolitan Area. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1963. $7.50.

Samuel N. Dicken and Forrest R. Pitts. Introduction to Human Geography. Blaisdell Publishing Co., New York, 1963. 468 pages. $9.75.

Allan G. Bogue. From Prairie to Corn Belt. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1963. 310 pages with table of contents, maps, diagrams, bibliography, and index. $6.95.

Eric P. Kelly and Dragos D. Kostick. The Land and People of Poland. Portraits of the Nations Series. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, New York, 1964. 128 pp., map and many illustrations. $2.93.     

Books in Brief

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Norman J. G. Pounds. EUROPE AND THE SOVIET UNION. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. 528 pages. $9.95.

T. R. Tregear. A GEOGRAPHY OF CHINA. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1965. 342 pages, bibliography, index. $7.95.

Michael Chisholm. GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1966. ix + 230 pages, 8 maps and diagrams, references. $6.50.

Charles H. Cotter. THE ASTRONOMICAL AND MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF GEOGRAPHY. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, 1966. 244 pages, 52 figures. $7.00.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews are in this Article Elementary Statistics for Geographers. Gerald M. Barber New York: The Guilford Press, 1988. xi and 513 pp., diags., tables, problems, refs., appendices, index. $37.50 cloth (ISBN 0-89862- 777-X). Introduction to World Vegetation. 2nd ed. Allan S. Collinson London: Un-win Hyman, 1988. x and 325 pp., maps, diags., photos, glossary, and indices. $21.95 paper (ISBN 0-04-581-031-1). $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-04-581-030-3); The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments. Denis Cosgrove and Stephen Daniels , EDS. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ix and 318 pp., maps, illus., index. $49.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521- 32437-8). Asian Urbanization: Problems and Processes. F. J. Costa , A. K. Dutt , L. J. C. Ma , AND A. G. Noble Berlin: Gebruder Borntraeger, 1988. XI and 165 pp., maps, diagrams, and index. N.p. cloth (ISBN 3-443-37007-1). Geographical Perspectives on the Maritime Provinces. Douglas Day , ED. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Saint Mary's University, 1988. ix and 218 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. $17.50 paper (ISBN 0-9693487-0-3). Neighborhoods in Transition: The Making of San Francisco's Ethnic and Nonconformist Communities. Brian J. Godfrey Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. xvii and 233 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. $13.95 paper (ISBN 0-520-09718-2). The Reenchantment of Science: Postmodern Proposals. David Ray Griffin , ED. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1988.173 pp. $34.50 cloth (ISBN 0-88706-784-0); $10.95 paper (ISBN 0-88706-785-9). The Urbanization of the Third World. Josef Gugler , ED. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xi and 421 pp., maps, diags., tables, and notes. $18.95 paper (ISBN 0-19-823249-4). The Carrier Wave. New Information Technology and the Geography of Innovation, 1846–2003. Peter Hall and Paschall Preston London and Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1988. xii and 305 pp., maps, diags., index and biblio. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 0-04-445081- 8). The Lincoln Highway: Main Street Across America. Drake Hokanson Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988. xvi and 147 pp., maps, photos, index, biblio. $32.50 hardbound (ISBN 0-87745-197-4). Route 66: The Highway and Its People. Quinta Scott and Susan Croce Kelly Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. xiv and 189 pp., photos, index, and biblio. $24.95 hardbound (ISBN 0-8061-2133-5). Zimbabwe: Industrial and Commercial Energy Use. R. H. Hosier , ED. Energy Environment and Development in Africa. Vol. 10. Stockholm: The Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Uppsala: The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies. 1988. 142 pp., tables, index, and references. N.P. cloth (ISBN 91-7106-277-7). Ownership and Productivity of Marine Fishery Resources. Elmer A. Keen Blacksburg, VA: The McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company, 1988. xii and 122 pp., maps, diags., glossary and suggested readings. $10.95 paper (ISBN 0-939923-05-X). Chinatowns: Towns within Cities in Canada. David Chuenyan Lai Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1988. xvii and 347 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $37.95 cloth (ISBN 0-7748-0309-6). Migration and Residential Mobility in the United States. Larry Long New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1988. xviii and 397 pp., maps, tables, apps., index, and biblio. $42.50 cloth (ISBN 0-87154-555-1). The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Volume I: Atlantic America, 1492–1800. D. W. Meinig New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1988. xxii and 500 pp., maps, illus., index, and biblio. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-300-03882-8). The Biogeography of Fire in the San Bernardino Mountains of California. Richard A. Minnich Berkeley: University of California Press (University of California Publications in Geography, Volume 28), 1988. v and 161 pp., maps, diags., apps., and biblio. $21.00 paper (ISBN 0-520-09728-9). Building Databases for Global Science. Helen Mounsey AND Roger F. Tomlinson , EDS. London and Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis, 1988. xv and 419 pp., maps, diags. £35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-85066-485-3). The Regional Dynamics of Language Differentiation in Belgium: A Study in Cultural-Political Geography. Alexander B. Murphy. Chicago: University of Chicago, Committee on Geographical Studies, 1988. (Geography Research Paper No. 227). xiv and 249 pp., maps, tables, chronology, index, and biblio. $12.00 paper (ISBN 0-89065- 132-9). Methods and Models in Demography. Colin Newell New York: Guilford,1988. xi and 217 pp., figs., tables, answers, refs. and index. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-89862-783-4). The Third World: States of Mind and Being. Jim Norwine AND Alfonso Gonzalez , EDS. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988. xi and 275 pp. $17.95 paper (ISBN 004-910121-8). Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649–1571. John H. Pryor Cambridge and New York:Cambridge University Press, 1988. xviii and 237 pp., tables, figures, index, and biblio. $39.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-34424-7). The Mbeere in Kenya. II. Botanical Identities and Uses. Bernard W. Riley and David Brokensha Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 1988. xxviii and 348 pp., maps, indices, biblio. $32.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8191-6999-4). Atlas of Wintering North American Birds. Terry Root Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. xxiv and 312 pp., maps, overlays, index, and biblio. $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-226-72539- 1); $35.00 paper (ISBN 0-226-72540-5). Kaw Valley Landscape. James R. Shortridge Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1988. xi and 240 pp., maps, line drawings, and index. $22.50 cloth (ISBN 0-7006-0382-2); $7.95 paper (ISBN 0-7006-0382-4). Public Problems: The Management of Urban Distress Christopher J. Smith New York: The Guilford Press, 1988. 238 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-89862-924-1). $40.00 cloth (ISBN 0-89862-782-6); Perspectives on Water: Uses and Abuses David H. Speidel , Lon C. Ruedisili , AND Allen F. Agnew , EDS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. x and 388 pp., maps, diags., tables, app. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 0-19-504247-6); $23.95 pa- per (ISBN 0-19-504248-4). Region and Regionalism in the United States: A Source Book for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Michael Steiner and Clarence Mondale New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988. xvii and 495 pp., index. $69.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8240-9048-9). Enhancing Agriculture in Africa: A Role for U.S. Development Assistance. US CONGRESS, OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY OF ASSESSMENT. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1988. vii and 328 pp., diags., index, and biblio. $14.00 paper (OTA-F-356).     

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Seismology and Plate Tectonics David Gubbins, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , 1990, 339pp, hard cover ISBN 0521 371414, £35, US $59.5, soft cover ISBN 0521 379954 £13.95, US $27.95.
Developments in four-dimensional geodesy. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol. 29 F. K. Brunner and C. Rizos (eds), Springer-Verlag, Berlin , 1990, x + 264, ISBN 3-540-52332-4, 0-387-52332-4, soft cover DM 62.
Theory of satellite geodesy and gravity field determination. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol. 25 F. Sansó and R. Rummel (eds), Springer-Verlag, Berlin , 1989, xii + 491 pp, ISBN 3-540-51528-3, 0-387-51528-3, soft cover DM 98.
Planetary Volcanism–A Study of Volcanic Activity in the Solar System Peter Cattermole, Ellis Horwood Publishers Ltd, Chichester , 1990, 443pp, ISBN 0745 805078, £35.
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Editors of Scholastic Magazines. Map Skills Project Book I and Book II. Scholastic Book Services, New York, 1964. Maps and drawings by David Lockhart; 32 pages in each book. $0.25 each.     

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Book Reviews are in this Article. Politics and Poverty: A Critique of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. JOHN ABBOTT. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. xi and 207 pp., tables, figs., refs., and index. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-415-06650-6). Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World. W. M. ADAMS. London and New York: Routledge, 1990. xiv and 257 pp., tables. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-08050-9). Inventing Places: Studies in Cultural Geography. KAY ANDERSON and FAY GALE, eds. New York: Halsted Press, 1992. xiii and 285 pp., maps, diags., photos, subject index, place index, and refs. $39.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-21871-1). Poverty, Natural Resources, and Public Policy in Central America; U.S.-Third World Policy Perspectives, No. 17. SHELDON ANNIS and contributors. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1992. ix and 197 pp., app., notes, and diags. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 1-56000-015-5); $15.95 paper (ISBN 1-56000-577-7). Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape. TREVOR J. BARNES and JAMES S. DUNCAN, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. xiv and 282 pp., maps, plates, diags., index, and biblio. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-06983-1). The Wine Regions of America: Geographical Reflections and Appraisals. JOHN J. BAXEVANIS. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Vinifera Wine Growers Journal, 1992. i and 386 pp., maps, diags., photos, index, and biblio. $50.00 paper (ISBN 0-922983-51-8). Contemporary Rural Systems in Transition. Volume 1. Agriculture and Environment. I. R. BOWLER, C. R. BRYANT, and M. D. NELLIS, eds. Wallingford, Oxon, UK: CAB International, 1992. xviii and 277 pp., maps, diags., index, and refs. $66.50 cloth (ISBN 0-85198-811-3). Contemporary Rural Systems in Transition. Volume 2. Economy and Society. I. R. BOWLER, C. R. BRYANT, and M. D. NELLIS, eds. Wallingford, Oxon, UK: CAB International, 1992. xx and 314 pp., maps, diags., index, refs. $76.00 cloth (ISBN 0-85198-812-1). Two volume set. $133.00 cloth (ISBN 0-85198-813-X). Place, Migration, and Development in the Third World: An Alternative View. LAWRENCE A. BROWN. New York: Routledge, 1991. xx and 252 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-05337-4). Monarchs, Ministers, and Maps: The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe. DAVID BUISSERET, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. xi and 189 pp., 8 colored and 74 black-and-white maps, endnotes, and index. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-226-07987-2). Geographic Information 1992/3 (Yearbook of Association for Geographic Information). JAMES CADOUX-HUDSON and IAN HEYWOOD, eds. London: Taylor and Francis, 1992. xv and 630 pp., maps, diags., index, and directory. $65.00 paper (ISBN 0-7480-0046-X.) The Characterization of Place. J. NICHOLAS ENTRIKIN. Wallace W. Atwood Lecture Series No. 5. Worcester, MA: Clark University Press, 1991. 43 pp. $5.00 paper (ISBN 0-914206-34-6). Environmental Epidemiology: Public Health and Hazardous Wastes. National Research Council, Committee on Environmental Epidemiology. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1991. 282 pp., diags., index, and biblio. cloth $29.95 (ISBN 0-309-04496-0). Building Cities That Work. EDMUND P. FOWLER. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1992. xv and 315 pp., figs., notes, index, and biblio. $44.95 (Canadian) cloth (ISBN 0-7735-0820-1). Soil Geomorphology , JOHN GERRARD. New York: Chapman and Hall. 1992, ix and 269 pp., maps, diags., tables, index, and biblio. $99.95 cloth (ISBN 0-412-44170-5); $31.50 paper (ISBN 0-412-44180-2). Historic Landscapes of Britain from the Air. ROBIN GLASSCOCK, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 256 pp. plates, diags., index, and biblio. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-521-325331). Rural Process-Pattern Relationships: Nomadization, Sedentarization, and Settlement Fixation. DAVID GROSSMAN. New York: Praeger, 1992. xvi and 213 pp., maps, diags., tables, index, and biblio. $55.00 cloth (ISBN 0-275-94084-5). Hallmark Tourist Events: Impacts, Management, and Planning. COLIN MICHAEL HALL. New York: Halsted Press, 1992. xiii and 215 pp., index, and biblio. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-740-21929-7). The History of Cartography (Volume 2, Book 1). Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies. J. B. HARLEY and DAVID WOODWARD, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. xxiv and 579 pp., maps, diags., app., biblio., and index. $125.00 cloth (ISBN 0-226-31635-1). City Images. HOK-LIN LEUNG. Kingston, Ontario: Ronald F. Fry and Company, 1992. 291 pp., photos, maps, notes, app., refs., and index. $28.95 paper (ISBN 0-919741-93-2). L'America Anglosassone. FRANCA FARNOCCHIA PETRI and ELIO MANZI. Torino, Italy: Unione Tipografica-Editrice Torinese, 1991. 346 pp., maps, diags., biblio., and index. (ISBN 88-02-04433-3). Coastal Erosion: Has Retreat Sounded? RUTHERFORD H. PLATT, H. CRANE MILLER, TIMOTHY BEATLEY, JENNIFER MELVILLE, and BRENDA G. MATHENIA. Boulder: Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, 1992. ii and 195 pp., index, photos, figs., and biblio. $10.00 paper (ISBN 1-877943-07-X). Elderly Migration and Population Redistribution. ANDREI ROGERS, ed. New York: Halsted Press, 1992. x and 254 pp., maps, diags., and index. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 1-85293-249-X). Atlas of American Sport. JOHN F. ROONEY, JR., and RICHARD PILLSBURY. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992. xv and 198 pp., maps, charts, tables, photos, biblio., and indexes. $80.00 cloth (ISBN 0-02-897351-8). Geomorphology of Rocky Coasts. TSUGUO SUNAMURA. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1992. xii and 302 pp., maps, diags., index, app., and biblio. $125.00 cloth (ISBN 0-471-91775-3). Development from Within: Survival in Rural Africa. D. R. FRASER TAYLOR and FIONA MACKENZIE, eds. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1992. xix and 258 pp., maps, diags., tables, biblio, and index. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-06991-2). The Regional Geography of the World-System: External Arena, Periphery, Semiperiphery, Core. CORNELIS PETER TERLOUW. Utrecht: Netherlands Geographical Studies, 1992. 232 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. Dfl 34.50 paper (ISBN 90-6809-156-5). Ecogeography and Rural Management: A Contribution to the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. JEAN TRICART and CONRAD KIEWIETDEJONGE. New York: Longman Scientific and Technical, 1992. xii and 267 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $39.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-21812-6). The Wilderness Underground: Caves of the Ozark Plateau. H. DWIGHT WEAVER. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992. xiv and 113 pp., glossary, index, and biblio. $28.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8262-0811-8). The Power of Maps. DENIS WOOD. New York: A Vertical Study of the Predicament of Peasants in North-Central Ethiopia. MESFIN WOLDE-MARIAM. Berne, Switzerland: Institute of Geography, University of Berne, 1991. xii and 220 pp., maps, diags., index, app., and biblio. (ISBN 3-906290-65-4). The Power of Maps. DENIS WOOD. New York: Guilford Press, 1992. 248 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-89862-492-4); $15.95 paper (ISBN 0-89862-493-2). Geographic Information Systems: Developments and Applications , LES WORRALL, ed. London: Belhaven Press, 1990. xi and 251 pp., maps and diags., tables, index, and biblio. $79.95 cloth (ISBN 1-85293-140-X).