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BIG SURF, DEEP DIVES, AND THE ISLANDS: My Life in the Ocean. By Ricky Grigg . MONTANA GHOST DANCE: Essays on Land and Life. By John B. Wright . BASEBALL, BARNS, AND BLUEGRASS: A Geography of American Folklife. Edited by George O. Carney . ATLAS OF THE IRISH RURAL LANDSCAPE. Edited by F. H. A. Aalen , Kevin Whelan , and Matthew Stout . THE TASTE OF AMERICAN PLACE: A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods. Edited by Barbara G. Shortridge and James R. Shortridge . NO FOREIGN FOOD: The American Diet in Time and Place. By Richard Pillsbury . ANIMAL GEOGRAPHIES: Place, Politics, and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands. Edited by Jennifer Wolch and Jody Emel . THE COTTON PLANTATION SOUTH SINCE THE CIVIL WAR. By Charles S. Aiken .     

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FINDING THE WALLS OF TROY: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik. By Susan Heuck Allen . THE WORLD OF ANDRÉ LE NÔTRE. By Thierry Mariage . Translated by Graham Larkin . “WHAT NATURE SUFFERS TO GROE”: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680–1920. By Mart A. Stewart . SURVEYING THE RECORD: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930. Edited by Edward C. Carter II. BEYOND THE NEON LIGHTS: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century. By Hanchao Lu . LIVING HERITAGE: Vernacular Environment in China. Edited by Kai ‐Yin FROM AZTEC TO HIGH TECH: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico‐United States Border. By Lawrence A. Herzog . SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN: An Environmental History of the Twentieth‐Century World. By J. R. McNeill .     

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SOCIETY IN TIME AND SPACE: A Geographical Perspective on Change. By Robert A. Dodgshon . CRITICAL GEOPOLITICS: The Politics of Writing Global Space. By Gearóid Ó Tuathail . THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF BANANAS: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean. By Lawrence S. Grossman . A FAVORED PLACE: San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, A.D. 500 to the Present. By Alfred H. Siemens . WISCONSIN LAND AND LIFE. Edited by Robert C. Ostergren and Thomas R. Vale . MAPS AND POLITICS. By Jeremy Black . THE HEROIC EARTH: Geopolitical Thought in Weimar Germany, 1918–1933. By David Thomas Murphy . ETHNIC FRONTIERS AND PERIPHERIES: Landscapes of Development and Inequality in Israel. Edited by Oren Yiftachel and Avinoam Meir . CONTEMPORARY ARGENTINA: A Geographical Perspective. By David J. Keeling . A CITY FOR ALL: Valuing Difference and Working with Diversity. Edited by Jo Beall . OUR URBAN FUTURE. New Paradigms for Equity and Sustainability. By Akhtar A. Badshah .     

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THE HUMBOLDT CURRENT: Nineteenth‐Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism. By Aaron Sachs WHITE ROADS OF THE YUCATÁN: Changing Social Landscapes of the Yucatec Maya. By Justine M. Shaw COLD WAR, DEADLY FEVERS: Malaria Eradication in Mexico, 1955–1975. By Marcos Cueto GOLDEN GULAG: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. By Ruth Wilson Gilmore BECOMING BRAZUCA: Brazilian Immigration to the United States. Edited by Clémence Jouët ‐Pastré and Leticia J. Braga     

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THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. By Lawrence Buell . HUMAN IMPACT ON THE EARTH. By William B. Meyer . ECOSYSTEM GEOGRAPHY. By Robert G. Bailey ; illustrated by Lev Ropes LAND USE AND SOCIETY: Geography, Law, and Public Policy. By Rutherford H. Platt . CAUGHT IN THE NET: The Conflict between Shrimpers and Conservationists. By Anthony V. Margavio and Craig J. Forsyth . BRING BACK THE BUFFALO! A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains. By Ernest Callenbach . GUIDE TO KANSAS ARCHITECTURE. By David H. Sachs and George Ehrlich . RELIGION AND WINE: A Cultural History of Wine Drinking in the United States. By Robert C. Fuller . THE PROMISE OF PARADISE: Recreational and Retirement Communities in the United States since 1950. By Hubert B. Stroud . ERRANT JOURNEYS: Adventure Travel in a Modern Age. By David Zurick . THE DUST ROSE LIKE SMOKE: The Subjugation of the Zulu and Sioux. By James O. Gump . THE PEOPLING OF AFRICA: A Geographic Interpretation. By James L. Newman . THE MAGIC MOUNTAINS: Hill Stations and the British Raj. By Dane Kennedy . THE GENIUS OF C. WARREN THORNTHWAITE, CLIMATOLOGIST-GEOGRAPHER. By John R. Mather and Marie Sanderson .     

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BOUNDARIES OF FAITH: Geographical Perspectives on Religious Fundamentalism. By Roger W. Stump . THE POWER OF GOLD: The History of an Obsession. By Peter L. Bernstein BETRAYAL OF TRUST: The Collapse of Global Public Health. By Laurie Garrett . WOMEN'S WORK? American Schoolteachers, 1650–1920. By Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo . GREAT FEUDS IN SCIENCE: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever. By Hal Hellman .     

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THE NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE. By Joseph S. Wood , with a contribution by Michael P. Steinitz . CAPROCK CANYONLANDS: Journeys into the Heart of the Southern Plains. By Dan Flores . LET THE COWBOY RIDE: Cattle Ranching in the American West. By Paul F. Starrs WANDERING PEOPLES: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850. By Cynthia Radding . RAINFOREST CITIES: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon. By John O. Browder and Brian J. Godfrey . THE ENCHANTED AMAZON RAIN FOREST: Stories from a Vanishing World. By Nigel J. H. Smith HISTORICAL ECOLOGY IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS: Prehistoric Environmental and Landscape Change. Edited by Patrick V. Kirch and Terry L. Hunt MAPPING MEN AND EMPIRE: A Geography of Adventure. By Richard Phillips . MAPPING AN EMPIRE: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765–1843. By Matthew H. Edney . CHARTING AN EMPIRE: Geography at the English Universities, 1580–1620. By Lesley B. Cormack . THE MYTH OF CONTINENTS: A Critique of Metageography. By Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen .     

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GARDENS OF NEW SPAIN: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America. By William W. Dunmire . CULTIVATED LANDSCAPES OF MIDDLE AMERICA ON THE EVE OF CONQUEST. By Thomas M. Whitmore and B. L. Turner II. EVERY FARM A FACTORY: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture. By Deborah Fitzgerald . THE CHANGING SCALE OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. By John Fraser Hart .     

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FEEDING THE WORLD: A Challenge for the Twenty‐First Century. By Vaclav Smil . IN THE NAME OF DEVELOPMENT: A Reflection on Nepal. By Nanda R. Shrestha . THE LOS ANGELES RIVER: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. By Blake Gumprecht . THE LOS ANGELES RIVER: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. By Blake Gumprecht . CAMPANHA GAÚCHA: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850–1920. THE SANITARY CITY: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. By Martin V. Melosi . VULCAN'S FURY: Man Against the Volcano. By Alwyn Scarth . THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST: Living with the Shores of Oregon and Washington. By Paul D. Komar .     

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WHERE THERE ARE MOUNTAINS: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians. By Donald Edward Davis. THE MONTEREY BAY SHORELINE GUIDE. By Jerry Emory PHILOSOPHY AND GEOGRAPHY III: Philosophies of Place. Edited by Andrew Light and Jonathan M. Smith. DELTA SUGAR: Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape. By John B. Rehder. SHADOWS IN THE FOREST: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia. THE RADIANCE OF FRANCE: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II. By Gabrielle Hecht. SECURE FROM RASH ASSAULT: Sustaining the Victorian Environment. By James Winter . THE WILD AND THE DOMESTIC: Animal Representation, Ecocriticism, and Western American Literature. By Barney Nelson     

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THE COUNTRY IN THE CITY: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area. By Richard Walker RETURN TO THE CENTER: Culture, Public Space, and City Building in a Global Era. By Lawrence A. Herzog GAINING GROUND: A HISTORY OF LANDMAKING IN BOSTON. By Nancy S. Seasholes THE FUTURE CITY ON THE INLAND SEA: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior. By Eric D. Olmanson ATLANTIC REVERBERATIONS: French Representations of an American Presidential Election. By Paul C. Adams     

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JUSTICE, NATURE AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF DIFFERENCE. By David Harvey POSSESSED BY THE PAST: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. By David Lowenthal . WILDERNESS AND THE CHANGING AMERICAN WEST. By Gundars Rudzitis . THE SPIRIT OF YELLOWSTONE: The Cultural Evolution of a National Park. By Judith L. Meyer STATE TRUST LANDS: History, Management, and Sustainable Use. By Jon A. Souder and Sally K. Fairfax HUMANATURE. By Peter Goin . HOMELAND TO HINTERLAND: The Changing World of the Red River Métis in the Nineteenth Century. By Gerhard J. Ens . CHANGING FORTUNES: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes. By Karl S. Zimmerer . KICKING OFF THE BOOTSTRAPS: Environment, Development, and Community Power in Puerto Rico. By Déborah Berman Santana . CENTRAL EUROPE: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends. By Lonnie R. Johnson . URBAN REGIMES AND STRATEGIES: Building Europe's Central Executive District in Brussels. By Alex G. Papadopoulos . LIBERATION ECOLOGIES: Environment, Development, Social Movements. Edited by Richard Peet and Michael Watts . COLONIALISM AND DEVELOPMENT: Britain and Its Tropical Colonies, 1850–1960. By Michael Havinden and David Meredith . SETTLEMENT ECOLOGY: The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture. By Glenn Davis Stone . THE WORK IN THE WORLD: Geographical Practice and the Written Word. By Michael R. Curry .     

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Book reviewed in this article: SEEING THROUGH MAPS: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View. By Ward L. Kaiser and Denis Wood . LANDSCAPE, NATURE, AND THE BODY POLITIC: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World. By Kenneth Olwig . OPENING THE OZARKS: A Historical Geography of Missouri's Ste. Genevieve District, 1760–1830. By Walter A. Schroeder . WETLANDS DRAINAGE, RIVER MODIFICATION, AND SECTORAL CONFLICT IN THE LOWER ILLINOIS VALLEY, 1890–1930. By John Thompson . ON THE BORDER: An Environmental History of San Antonio. Edited by Char Miller . WESTERN PLACES, AMERICAN MYTHS: How We Think about the West. Edited by Gary J. Hausladen . RANCHING WEST OF THE 100^TM MERIDIAN: Culture, Ecology, and Economics. Edited by Richard L. Knight , Wendell C. Gilgert , and Ed Marston .     

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Book reviewed in this article: GLOBAL DESERTIFICATION: Do Humans Cause Deserts? Edited by J. F. Reynolds and D. M. Stafford Smith . THE NILE. By Robert O. Collins . THE CHINESE DIASPORA: Space, Place, Mobility, and Identity. Edited by Laurence J. C. Ma and Carolyn Cartier . NEW CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPMENT AND MODERNIZATION: Hong Kong and the Asia‐Pacific Region in the New Millennium. Edited by Yue‐man Yeung . NEW ORLEANS: The Making of an Urban Landscape. By Peirce F. Lewis . CHARTING LOUISIANA: Five Hundred Years of Maps. Edited by Alfred E. Lemmon , John T. Magill , and Jason R. Wiese . HISTORICAL ATLAS OF CENTRAL AMERICA. By Carolyn Hall and Héctor Pérez Brignoli .     

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Book reviewed in this article: TRANSNATIONALISM AND NEW AFRICAN IMMIGRATION TO SOUTH AFRICA. Edited by Jonathan Crush and David A. McDonald . WALKING THE TIGHT ROPE: Informal Livelihoods and Social Networks in a West African City. By Ilda Lourenço ‐Lindell . EGYPT: An Economic Geography. By Fouad N. Ibrahim and Barbara Ibrahim . SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS IN KALAHARI ENVIRONMENTS: Contributions to Global Debates. Edited by Deborah Sporton and David S. G. Thomas . CLIMATE CHANGE & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Prospects for Developing Countries. Edited by Anil Markandya and Kirsten Halsnaes . THE STRAITS OF MALACCA: Gateway or Gauntlet? By Donald B. Freeman .     

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Book reviewed in this article: ENLIGHTENMENT GEOGRAPHY: The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650–1850. By Robert J. Mayhew A LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMED: The Ironmaking District of Salisbury, Connecticut. By Robert B. Gordon EMPIRE EXPRESS: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. By David Haward Bain NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863–1869. By Stephen E. Ambrose ADVENTURES IN THE BONE TRADE: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia's Afar Depression. By Jon Kalb MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS AND COMMUNITIES. By Don Funnell and Romola Parish VIRTUAL RIVERS: Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range. By Ellen E. Wohl CONCRETE AND CLAY: Reworking Nature in New York City. By Matthew Gandy THE GRIT BENEATH THE GLITTER: Tales from the Real Las Vegas. By Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis     

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POLITICAL ECOLOGY: A Critical Introduction. By Paul Robbins . CITIES, WAR, AND TERRORISM: Towards an Urban Geopolitics. Edited by Stephen Graham . THE CITY AS SUBURB: A History of Northeast Baltimore since 1660. By Eric L. Holcomb . HISPANIC SPACES, LATINO PLACES: Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America. Edited by Daniel D. Arreola . RHUMB LINES AND MAP WARS: A Social History of the Mercator Projection. By Mark Monmonier . THE POLITICAL MAPPING OF CYBERSPACE. By Jeremy W. Crampton . THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE INTERNET INDUSTRY Venture Capital, Dot‐Coms, and Local Knowledge. By Matthew A. Zook .     

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THE LIE OF THE LAND: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape. By Don Mitchell . LOST LANDSCAPES AND FAILED ECONOMIES: The Search for a Value of Place. By Thomas Michael Power . THE ORGANIC MACHINE: The Remaking of the Columbia River. By Richard White . ENTITLEMENTS TO NATURAL RESOURCES: Contours of Political Environmental Geography. By Ton Dietz . ECOLOGY AND EQUITY: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India. BY Madhav Gadgil and Ramchandra Guha . NEPAL: A Himalayan Kingdom in Transition. By Pradyumna P. Karan and Hiroshi Ishii . ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS: Ideas, Politics and Planning. By J. Douglas Porteous . PICTURING KNOWLEDGE: Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science. Edited by Brian S. Baigrie . TAKING MEASURES ACROSS THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE. By James Corner and Alex S. Mac Lean . SPACES OF IDENTITY: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries. By David Morley and Kevin Robins TREE MANAGEMENT IN FARMER STRATEGIES: Responses to Agricultural Intensification. Edited by J. E. Michael Arnold and Peter A. Dewees . THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1993: Causes, Impacts, and Responses. Edited by Stanley A. Chagnon . DECIDING TO BE LEGAL: A Maya Community in Houston. By Jacqueline Maria Hagan . THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA. Edited by W. M. Adams , A. S. Goudie , and A. R. Orme . THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM, GOMORRAH, AND JERICHO: Geological, Climatological, and Archaeological Background. By David Neev and K. O. Emery . THE FROZEN ECHO: Greenland and the Exploration of North America ca. a.d. 1000–1500. By Kirsten A. Seaver . OLIVES: The Life and Lore of the Noble Fruit. By Mort Rosenblum .     

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GOOD GROWING: Why Organic Farming Works. By Leslie A. Duram AGRARIAN DREAMS: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California. By Julie Guthman KEEPING IT LIVING: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America. Edited by Douglas Deur and Nancy L. Turner TOGETHER AT THE TABLE: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System. By Patricia Allen FRENCH BEANS AND FOOD SCARES: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age. By Susanne Freidberg DANGEROUS HARVEST: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes. Edited by Michael K. Steinberg , Joseph J. Hobbs , and Kent Mathewson SLASH‐AND‐BURN AGRICULTURE: The Search for Alternatives. Edited by Cheryl A. Palm , Stephen A. Vosti , Pedro Sanchez , and Polly J. Ericksen ISLE OF FIRE: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar. By Christian Kull     

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LIVING WITH NATURE'S EXTREMES: The Life of Gilbert Fowler White. By Robert E. Hinshaw . MANAGING WATER RESOURCES: Past and Present. Edited by Julie Trottier and Paul Slack . ENVIRONMENTALITY: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. By Arun Agrawal . ILLUSTRATED ATLAS OF THE HIMALAYA. By David Zurick and Julsun Pacheco , with Basanta Shrestha and Birendra Bajracharya . WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Edited by Pnina Motzafi ‐Haller . NATURE AND THE CITY: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles. By Gene Desfor and Roger Keil . THE STEAMER PARISH: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier. By Charles M. Good Jr. WAR EPIDEMICS: An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife, 1850–2000. By M. A. Smallman ‐Raynor and A. D. Cliff