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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.     

Geography: An Essential School Subject—Five Reasons Why

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Mapping the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation, Steve Pile, Nigel Thrift, eds., New York: Routledge. 1995. Bibliography, index. 414 pp. ISBN 0-415-10226-X. $25.00, paper.

Sonora: An Intimate Geography, David Yetman, Albuquerque, NM: The University of New Mexico Press. 1996. 248 pp. Bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8263-1701-4.

A Geography of Pennsylvania, E. Willard Miller, ed., University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1995. 406 pp. Tables, charts, index. ISBN 0-271-01342-7. $25.00, paperback.     

Green Costs,Red Ink: Determinants of Municipal Defensive Expenditures inOntario

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Understanding Peasant Agriculture: An Integrated Land-Use Model for the Punjab Joseph H. Astroth, Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago, Committee on Geographical Studies, 1990. (Geography Research Paper No. 223). ix and 173 pp., maps, photos, figs., apps., biblio., and index; $12.00 paper (ISBN 0-89065-127-2).

National Integration in Indonesia: Patterns and Policies Christine Drake. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. xvi and 354 pp., maps, diags., tables, index, and biblio. $35.00 cloth ISBN 0-8248- 1229-8).

Urban Economic Theory: Land Use and City Size. Masahisa Fujita. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. x and 366 pp., diag., graphs, biblio. notes, append, biblio., index. $65.00 cloth (ISBN 0-521-34662-2).

The Sugar Cane Industry: An Historical Geography from Its Origins to 1914. J. H. Galloway. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiii and 266 pp., maps, tables, diags., index, and biblio. $44.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-24853-1).

Government Policy and Industrial Change. David Gibbs, ED. New York: Routledge, 1989. xvi and 317 pp., 15 figs., 53 tables, index, and biblio. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-01032-2).

English Agriculture: An Historical Perspective. David Grigg. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989. vii and 256 pp. $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-631-16033-7).

London 2001. Peter Hall. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. xii and 226 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 0-04-4451 61 -X).

The Land that Became Israel: Studies in Historical Geography. Ruth Kark, ED. Translated from the Hebrew by Michael Gordon. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University and New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. x and 332 pp., maps, diags., plates. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-300- 04718-5).

Die Farmer-Genossenschaften in den USA – Eine agrargeographie Untersuchung. Werner Klohn. Vechta, Federal Republic of Germany: Vechtaer Druckerei, 1990. Vechtaer Arbeiten zur Geographie und Regionalwissenschaft, Band 9. 285 pp., maps, photos, diags., and biblio. 39.80 DM paper (ISBN 3-88441-083-0).

Agricultural Development in Japan: The Land Improvement District in Concept and Practice. Gil Latz. Chicago, IL University of Chicago Press, 1989. vii and 135 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $12.00 paper (ISBN 0-89065-129-9).

Land Use Planning Made Plain. Hok Lin Leung. Kingston, Ontario: Ronald P. Frye &; Company, 1989. xv and 237 pp., maps, diags., tables, append., index, and refs. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-919741-98-3).

Computers in Geography. David J. Maguire. New York: Halsted Press, 1989. xv and 248 pp., maps, photos, diags., index, and biblio. $31.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-21 194-6).

Maps with the News: The Development of American Journalistic Cartography. Mark Monmonier. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. xii and 331 pp., maps, illus., index, and biblio. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0-226-53411-1).

Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling. C. Dana Tomlin. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990. xviii and 249 pp., maps, diags., review questions, selected readings, appendix, index, $44.20 cloth (ISBN 0-13-350927-3).     

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Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes, Hugh Prince, Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. 1997. 412 pp. ISBN 0226682838. $21.00 (paper).

Worlds of Welfare: Understanding the Changing Geographies of Social Welfare Provision, Steven Pinch, New York, New York: Routledge. 1997. 167 pp. plus xiv ISBN 0415111897. $20.99 (paper).

The Earth Transformed: An Introduction to Human Impacts on the Environment, Andrew Goudie, Heather Viles, Maiden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers. 1997. 276 pp. ISBN 0631194657 $29.95 (paper).     

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Book reviews are in these Articles. Understanding Peasant Agriculture: An Integrated Land-Use Model for the Punjab Joseph H. Astroth , Jr . Chicago: University of Chicago, Committee on Geographical Studies, 1990. (Geography Research Paper No. 223). ix and 173 pp., maps, photos, figs., apps., biblio., and index; $12.00 paper (ISBN 0-89065-127-2). National Integration in Indonesia: Patterns and Policies Christine Drake . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. xvi and 354 pp., maps, diags., tables, index, and biblio. $35.00 cloth ISBN 0-8248- 1229-8). Urban Economic Theory: Land Use and City Size. Masahisa Fujita . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. x and 366 pp., diag., graphs, biblio. notes, append, biblio., index. $65.00 cloth (ISBN 0-521-34662-2). The Sugar Cane Industry: An Historical Geography from Its Origins to 1914. J. H. Galloway . Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiii and 266 pp., maps, tables, diags., index, and biblio. $44.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-24853-1). Government Policy and Industrial Change. David Gibbs , ED. New York: Routledge, 1989. xvi and 317 pp., 15 figs., 53 tables, index, and biblio. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-01032-2). English Agriculture: An Historical Perspective. David Grigg . New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989. vii and 256 pp. $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-631-16033-7). London 2001. Peter Hall . London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. xii and 226 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 0-04-4451 61 -X). The Land that Became Israel: Studies in Historical Geography. Ruth Kark , ED. Translated from the Hebrew by Michael Gordon . Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University and New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. x and 332 pp., maps, diags., plates. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-300- 04718-5). Die Farmer-Genossenschaften in den USA – Eine agrargeographie Untersuchung. Werner Klohn . Vechta, Federal Republic of Germany: Vechtaer Druckerei, 1990. Vechtaer Arbeiten zur Geographie und Regionalwissenschaft, Band 9. 285 pp., maps, photos, diags., and biblio. 39.80 DM paper (ISBN 3-88441-083-0). Agricultural Development in Japan: The Land Improvement District in Concept and Practice. Gil Latz . Chicago, IL University of Chicago Press, 1989. vii and 135 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $12.00 paper (ISBN 0-89065-129-9). Land Use Planning Made Plain. Hok Lin Leung . Kingston, Ontario: Ronald P. Frye & Company, 1989. xv and 237 pp., maps, diags., tables, append., index, and refs. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-919741-98-3). Computers in Geography. David J. Maguire . New York: Halsted Press, 1989. xv and 248 pp., maps, photos, diags., index, and biblio. $31.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-21 194-6). Maps with the News: The Development of American Journalistic Cartography. Mark Monmonier . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. xii and 331 pp., maps, illus., index, and biblio. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0-226-53411-1). Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling. C. Dana Tomlin . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990. xviii and 249 pp., maps, diags., review questions, selected readings, appendix, index, $44.20 cloth (ISBN 0-13-350927-3).     

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Geography and Social Justice: Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. 1994. 325 pp. $22.95, paper. ISBN 0-631-19026-0.

An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management: Washington, DC: Island Press. 1994. 210 pp. Bibliography, index. $29.95, paper. ISBN 1-55963-281-X.

Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press. 1994. Notes, bibliography, index. 352 pp. $50.00, cloth. $24.95, paper. ISBN 0-8165-1414-3.

Tourism: The State of the Art: New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1994. 867 pp. $79.95, cloth. ISBN 0-471-95092-0.

Drinking Water Quality: Problems and Solutions: New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1994. 315 pp. References, index. $59.95, cloth. ISBN 0-471-94817-9.     

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The Sounds of People and Places: A Geography of American Folk and Popular Music (3rd ed.), by George O. Carney, ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 1994. Index. 331 pp. ISBN 0-8476-7788-5. $60.00, cloth. $25.00. paper.

Culture, Form, and Place: Essays in Cultural and Historical Geography, by Kent Mathewson, ed. Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications, Lousiania State University. 1993. Vol. 32. References, figures, photographs. 356 pp. $24.95, paper. ISBN 0-938909-55-X.

Sovietrek: A Journey by Bicycle Across Russia, by Dan Buettner Minneapolis: Lerner Publications. 1994. Epilogue, pronunciation guide, glossary, and index. ISBN 0-8225-2950-5.104 pp. $16.95, hard.

The Making of Europe: The Peasantry of Europe, by Werner Rosener, translated by Thomas M. Barker Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. 1994. Notes, bibliography, and index. 235 pp. ISBN 0-631-17503-2.

Britannica Global Geography System, Geographic Inquiry into Global Issues, by A. David Hill, James M. Dunn, and Phil Klein, Program Developers Boulder, CO: Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corp. 1995.56 pp. Maps, photographs, tables, illustrations, excerpts from primary documents, models, transparencies, activities, glossary, and bibliographies. ISBN 0-78260980-5.     

And the Question Shall Determine the Method

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Rural Communities under Stress: Peasant Farmers and the State in Africa Jonathan Barker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. ix and 228 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $44.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-30867-4); $13.95 paper (ISBN 0-521-31358-9).

Atop the Urban Hierarchy. Robert A. Beauregard, ED. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1989. xx and 304 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $33.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8476-7554- 8).

Commonplaces. Essays on the Nature of Place. David W. Black, Donald Kunze, AND John Pickles, EDS. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989. iv and 140 pp., biblio. $18.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8191-7387-8).

The Behavioural Environment: Essays in Reflection, Application, and Re-evaluation. Frederick W. Boal AND David N. Livingstone, EDS. London and New York: Routledge, 1989. xx and 337 pp., maps, diags., photos, index. $62.50 cloth uation. (ISBN 0-415-00454-3).

The Road to Botany Bay. Paul Carter. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. xxv and 384 pp., maps, illus., notes, and index. $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-226-09516-9).

Research in Human Geography. John Eyles, ED. London and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. x and 210 pp., figs., tables, index, and biblio. $55.00 cloth (ISBN 0-631-15009-9).

Soil: Morphology, Genesis, and Classification. Delvin S. Faning AND Mary C.B. Faning. New York: Wiley, 1989, xx and 395 PP., diags. photos tables, maps, app., gloss., index, and biblio. $57.50 cloth (ISBN 0471-89248-3).

Development in Marginal Areas. Gerhard Gustafsson, ED. Karlstad, Sweden: University of Karlstad, 1989. ii and 168 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. N.p. paper (ISSN 0282-5309).

The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon.Susanna Hecht AND Alexander Cockburn. London and New York: Verso, 1989. x and 266 pp., maps, apps., one diag., index, gloss., and biblio. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0-86091-261-2).

Understanding Leisure and Recreation: Mapping the Past, Charting the Future. Edgar L. Jackson AND Thomas L. Burton, EDS. State College, PA: Venture Publishing, Inc. 1989. xiv and 653 pp. $31.95 cloth (ISBN 0-910251-34-7).

Maps of Meaning: An Introduction to Cultural Geography. Peter Jackson. London: Unwin and Hyman, 1989. xvii and 213 pp., maps, figs., photos, biblio, and index. $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-04-445365-5) and $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-040445366-3).

Remaking Human Geography. Audrey Koboyashi AND Suzanne Mackensie, EDS. Boston: Unwin and Hyman, 1989. xii and 273 pp., map, illus., tables, index, and biblio. $55.00 cloth (ISBN 0-04- 445324-8); $21.95 paper (ISBN 0-04- 445325-6).

Adapting to Drought: Farmers, Famines and Desertification in West Africa. Michael Mortimore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xxii and 299 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $59.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-32312-6).

Native American Architecture. Peter Nabokov AND Robert Easton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 431 pp., maps, photos, sketches, gloss., index, refs. $36.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-503781-2).

Explorations in the Understanding of Landscape: A Cultural Geography. William Norton. Contributions in Sociology, No. 77. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. xii and 201 pp., illus., tables, biblio., index. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 0-313-26494-5).

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. Francis Robinson, ED. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 520 pp., maps, diags., photos, gloss., biblio., index. $49.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-33451-9).

The Contemporary Atlas of China. Nathan Sivin, ED. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988. 200 pp, maps, diags., tables, and index. $39.95 (ISBN 0-395-47329-2).

Planned Development in the Socialist World. Graham Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. vi and 106 pp., maps, tables, figs., gloss., index, and biblio. $19.95 cloth (ISBN 0-521-30546-2).

The Evolution of Regional Economies: Entrepreneurship and Macroeconomic Change. Luis Suarez-Villa. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1989. xvii and 263 pp., tables, figs., apps., notes, biblio., and index. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-275-93 198-6).

Migrants in the Mexican North: Mobility, Economy, and Society in a Colonial World. Michael M. Swann. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, Dellplain Latin American Studies No. 24, 1989. xv and 202 pp., maps, tables, figs., biblio., app., and index. $28.50 (ISBN 0-8 133-7782-X).

Population and Resources in Western Intellectual Traditions. Michael S. Teitelbaum AND Jay M. Winter, EDS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. vii and 310 pp., $49.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-37538-X).

Ground Subsidence. A. C. Waltham. Glasgow and London: Blackie and Son; New York: Chapman and Hall, 1989. ix and 202 pp., maps, diags., photos, refs., and index. $95.00 (ISBN 0-412-01801-2).     

Reply to “Comments on Climatology: The Challenge for the Eighties Revisited”

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The Heated Debate: Greenhouse Predictions Versus Climate Reality. ROBERT C. BALLING JR. San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1992. xxxvi and 195 pp., diags., tables, index, and biblio. $21.95 cloth (ISBN 0-936488-47-6).

Mountain Weather and Climate, 2nd edition. ROGER G. BARRY. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1992. xx and 402 pp., maps. diags., photos, index, and biblio. $89.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-07112-7); $29.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-07113-5).

Late Quaternary Environmental Change: Physical and Human Perspectives. MARTIN BELL and MICHAEL J. C. WALKER. Essex, England: Longman Group, 1992. xiv and 273 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $39.95 paper (ISBN 0-582-04514-2).

Planning for Earthquakes. PHILIP R. BERKE and TIMOTHY BEATLEY. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xv and 210 pp., maps, diags., photos, tables, app., acronyms, index, and biblio. $38.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8018-4255-7).

Industrialization and Development in the Third World. RAJESH CHANDRA. London: Routledge, 1992. xvii and 124 pp., maps, figs., photos, and index. $14.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-01380-1).

Waste Location: Spatial Aspects of Waste Management, Hazards and Disposal. MICHAEL CLARK, DENIS SMITH, and ANDREW BLOWERS, eds. London: Routledge, 1992. xv and 257 pp., maps, diags., index, and refs. $85.00 cloth (ISBN 0-415-04824-9).

Water Diversion and Export: Learning from Canadian Experience. J. C. DAY and FRANK QUINN. Waterloo, Ontario: Department of Geography, University of Waterloo, 1992. xx and 215 pp., 14 maps, 4 diags., 17 tables, 12 photos, glossary, and biblio. $25.00 (Can.) paper (ISBN 0-921083-42-4).

The Native Population of the Americas in 1492, 2nd edition. WILLIAM M. DENEVAN, ed. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. xxxviii and 353 pp., maps, figs., tables, index, biblio. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-299-134-30-X); $14.95 paper (ISBN 0-299-13434-2).

Touring North America (series). ANTHONY R. DE SOUZA, ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. 13 volumes; pages varying from approximately 100 to approximately 300 each; maps, diags., indices, and biblios. $9.95 each paperback; $25.00 each volume in cloth; boxed gift set of all 13 volumes in paperback $129.95. (ISBNs for cloth and paperback editions range from 0-8135-1870-9 to 0-8135-1895-4 inclusive).

Urban Transport Planning: A Developmental Approach. HARRY T. DIMITRIOU. New York: Routledge, 1992. xviii and 346 pp., diags., index, and biblio. $92.50 cloth (ISBN 0-415-03857-X).

Colonialism and Development in the Contemporary World. CHRIS DIXON and MICHAEL HEFFERNAN, eds. Rutherford, NJ: Mansell, 1991. viii and 232 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $70.00 cloth (ISBN 0-7201-2072-1).

The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity. J. NICHOLAS ENTRIKIN. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xii and 196 pp., notes, and indices. $38.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8018-4083-X); $13.95 paper (ISBN 0-8018-4084-8).

The Women Outside: Meanings and Myths of Homelessness. STEPHANIE GOLDEN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. ix and 265 pp., index and biblio. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-520-07158-1).

The Transformation of Agriculture in the West. DAVID GRIGG. Oxford, England, and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1992. xiv and 141 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-631-17094-4).

Derelict Landscapes: The Wasting of America's Built Environment. JOHN A. JAKLE and DAVID WILSON. Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1992. xviii and 342 pp., illus., index, biblio. $65.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8476-7735-4); $23.50 paper (ISBN 0-8476-7736-2).

Iranian Cities: Formation and Development. MASOUD KHEIRABADI. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. xiv and 132 pp., maps, diags., photos, appendices, notes, glossary, biblio., and index. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-292-72468-3).

The Pentagon and the Cities. ANDREW KIRBY, ed. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1991. Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, vol. 40. x and 207 pp., tables, maps, index, and biblio. $43.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8039-3845-4); $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-8039-3846-2).

Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asia. ROBERT A. LEWIS, ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. xv and 323 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $69.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-07592-0).

Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatan Highlands, 1500–1821. W. GEORGE LOVELL. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. xxxviii and 279 pp., maps, diags., glossary, notes, index, and biblio. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-7735-0903-8).

Contested Lands: Conflict and Compromise in New Jersey's Pine Barrens. ROBERT J. MASON. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. xii and 257 pp., maps, tables, index, and biblio. $44.95 cloth (ISBN 0-87722-925-2).

Making Sense of Place: Children's Understanding of Large-Scale Environments. M. H. MATTHEWS. Savage, MD: Harvester Wheatsheaf, Barnes and Noble Books, 1992. xiv and 271 pp., maps, diags, tables, index, and biblio. $54.50 cloth (ISBN 0-389-20987-2).

Sources of Metropolitan Growth. EDWIN S. MILLS and JOHN F. MCDONALD, eds. New Brunswick: Center for Urban Policy Research Press, 1992. xxvii and 306 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 0-88285-135-7).

Resource Management in Developing Countries. PETER H. OMARAOJUNGU. Harlow, England: Longman, 1992. xvi and 213 pp., maps, diags., tables, index, and biblio. $39.95 paper (ISBN 0-582-30102-5).

A Moveable Shore: The Fate of the Connecticut Coast. PETER C. PATTON and JAMES M. KENT. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992. viii and 143 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8223-1128-3); $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-8223-1147-X).

Agricultural Reform in China: From Communes to Commodity Economy 1978–1990. SIMON G. POWELL. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1992. viii and 231 pp., maps, diags., tables, and biblio. $69.95 cloth (ISBN 0-7190-3382-9).

The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492–1992: A Regional Geography. BONHAM C. RICHARDSON. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xvi and 235 pp., maps, tables, index, and biblio. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-521-35186-3); $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-521-35977-5).

Scavengers, Recyclers, and Solutions for Solid Waste Management in Indonesia. DANIEL T. SICULAR. Berkeley: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1992. xii and 197 pp., maps, tables, photos, glossary, biblio., and index. $16.50 paper (ISBN 0-944613-13-6).

The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women. ELIZABETH WILSON. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. 191 pp., plates, index, and biblio. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-520-07850); $14.00 paper (ISBN 0-520-07864-0).

The Cultural Geography of the United States: A Revised Edition. WILBUR ZELINSKY. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1992. ix and 226 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $21.95 paper (ISBN 0-13-194424-X).     

Boston: A Center of Industry

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European Transport and Communications Networks: Policy Evolution and Change by David Banister, Roberta Capello, and Peter Nijkamp eds. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley &; Sons. 1995. xxiii plus 348pp. Figures, tables, maps, index, list of contributors. ISBN 0-471-95737.

Geographical Excursions in London by Hugh J. Gayler, Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 1996. 186 pp. Maps, photos. ISBN 0-7618-0328-9.

Rivers: Curriculum Guide by Bob Ashley, White Plains, NY: Dale Seymour Publishing. 1997. 230 pp. Appendices, glossary. ISBN 0-201-49368-3. $23.95, paper.     

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Book Reviews in this Article Rural Development in the United States: Connecting Theory, Practice, and Possibilities. WILLIAM A. GALSTON and KAREN J. BAEHLER. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1995. xiii and 353 pp., biblio. and index. $32.00 paper (ISBN 1-55963-326-3). Progress in Rural Policy and Planning, Volume 4. Edited by ANDREW W. GILG and Robert S. Dilley, Owen Furuseth, Geoff McDonald & Jonathan Murdoch. Chichester and New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994. xvi and 317 pp., maps, and diags. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94911-6). Postmodern Semiotics: Material Culture and the Forms of Postmodern Life. MARK GOTTDIENER. Cambridge, MA/Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. viii and 262 pp., photos, figs., and biblio. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-631-19215-8). Human Geography: Society, Space, and Social Science. DEREK GREGORY, RON MARTIN, and GRAHAM SMITH, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. x and 294 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-8166-2619-7). Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain. NICKY GREGSON and MICHELLE LOWE. London: Routledge, 1994. x and 327 pp., figs., tables, and biblio. $79.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-08530-6); $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-08531-4). Geography: History and Concepts: A Student's Guide. (2nd ed.) ARILD HOLTJENSEN. English adaptation and translation by Brian Fullerton. London: Paul Chapman Publishing Ltd.,1988. xii and 186 pages, diags., biblio., and index. ISBN 1-85396-011-x (paper). World Trade since 1431: Geography, Technology, and Capitalism. PETER J. HUGILL. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press,1993. xiii and 376 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-8018-5126-2). The Encyclopedia of New York City. KENNETH T. JACKSON, ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. xxi and 1,350 pp., illus., maps, tables, and index. $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-300-05536-6). Nations and States: A Geographic Background to World Affairs. THOMAS M. POULSON. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995. xv and 399 pp., maps, tables, and biblio. $64.00 cloth (ISBN 0–13–678913–7). Dividing the Land: Early American Beginnings of Our Private Property Mosaic. EDWARD T. PRICE. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Geography Research Paper No. 238. xvii and 428 pp., maps, diags., photos, tables, glossary, biblio., and index. $26.00 paper (ISBN 0-226-68065-7). Archaeology, Volcanism, and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica. PAYSON D. SHEETS and BRIAN R. McKEE, eds. Austin: University of Texas Press,1994. viii, 350 pp., photos, maps, diags., index, and biblio. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-292-77667-5). Beijing: The Nature and Planning of a Chinese Capital City. VICTOR F. S. SIT. New York and Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, xvi and 389 pp., maps, diags., tables, and biblio. $54.95 cloth (ISBN 0–471–94983–3). Innovations in GIS 1. MICHAEL F. WORBOYS, ed. Bristol, PA and London: Taylor & Francis, 1994. xiii and 267 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $95.00 cloth (ISBN 0-7484-0140-7); $44.00 paper (ISBN 0-7484-0141-5).     

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Managing and Marketing of Urban Development and Urban Life. GERHARD O. BRAUN, ed. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1994. Abhandlungen-Anthropogeographie, Bd. 52. xv and 687 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. DM 129.00 paper (ISBN 3-496-02560-3).

Evolution of Infectious Disease. PAUL W. EWALD. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. viii, 298 pp., diags., index, glossary, and biblio. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-506058-X).

Upstate Arcadia: Landscape, Aesthetics, and the Triumph of Social Differentiation in America. PETER J. HUGILL. Lanham, MD and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995. xvi and 255 pp., maps, tables, photos, biblio, and index. $61.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8476-7855-5); $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-8476-7856-3).

Urban Land Use Planning. 4th ed. EDWARD J. KAISER, DAVID R. GODSCHALK, and F. STEWART CHAPIN, JR. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. xv and 493 pp., tables, figs., and index. $40.00 cloth (ISBN 0-252-02101-0).

The Asian Pacific Rim and Globalization: Enterprise, Governance and Territoriality. RICHARD LE HERON and SAM OCK PARK, eds. Brookfield, VT: Avebury Publishing Group, 1995. xiv and 188 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. $55.95 cloth (ISBN 1-85628-894-3).

The Global Casino: An Introduction to Environmental Issues. NICK MIDDLETON. New York and London: Edward Arnold, 1995. 332 pp., maps, figs., and biblio. $26.95 paper (ISBN 0-340-59493-4).

A Geography of Pennsylvania. E. WIL-LARD MILLER, ed. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. xviii and 406 pp., maps, photos, tables, figs., biblio., and index. $75.00 cloth (ISBN 0-271-01017-7); $25.00 paper (ISBN 0-271-01342-7).

Mountain Environments and Geographic Information Systems. MARTIN F. PRICE and D. IAN HEYWOOD, eds. Bristol, PA, and London: Taylor &; Francis, 1994. xiv and 309 pp., figs., tables, maps, plates, biblio., and index. $95.00 cloth (ISBN 0-7484-0088-5).

Geographical Data Analysis. NIGEL WAL-FORD. New York and Chichester: John Wiley &; Sons, 1995. xi and 446 pp., apps., index, and biblio. $59.95 paper (ISBN 0-471-94162-X).     

Geography Associations and the Teacher

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The World Book Encyclopedia of People and Places.Chicago: World Book Inc. 1992. $174.00 (school price: $149.00).

The Spanish-American Homeland: Four Centuries in New Mexico's Rio ArribaBaltimore and London: 1992. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 294 pp. $39.95, cloth. ISBN 0-8018-3990-4.

Place, Modernity, and the Consumer's WorldBaltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1992. 35 illustrations, endnotes, author index, subject index, ISBN 0-8018-4336-7.

Environmental Hazards in the Valley of MexicoLincoln, Nebraska: National Council for Geographic Education, Great Plains National. 60 slides, annotations, bibliography, $70.00.

Asian Americans: An Interpretive HistoryBoston: Twayne Publisher. 1991. xv and 242 pp., Maps, photos, chronology, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8057-84373. $1 1.95, paperback.

Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic and Regional Survey     

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Book Reviews are in this article. All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions. EDWARD L. AYERS, PATRICIA NELSON LIMERICK, STEPHEN NISSENBAUM, and PETER S. ONUF. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. viii and 104 pp., notes, index. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8018–5206–4); $13.95 paper (ISBN 0–8018–5392–3). Developing the Environment: Problems and Management. C. J. BARROW. Essex, England: Longman Scientific and Technical; New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1995. xii and 313 pp.; maps, diags., ills., refs., and index. $39.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-23453-9). Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America. PAUL BOURKE and DONALD DeBATS. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xvii and 407 pp., maps, tables, apps., endnotes, and index. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8018-4950-0). Political Geography: The Discipline and Its Dimensions. 2nd ed. RAMESH DUTTA DIKSHIT. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill, 1995. xxii and 284 pp., maps, diags, and biblio. ISBN 0-07-462078-9 (paper). Geography and Air Transport. BRIAN GRAHAM. New York and Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1995. 288 pp., maps, tables, diags., index, and biblio. $74.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-95757-7). The Challenge of Geography. A Changing World: A Changing Discipline. R. J. JOHNSTON, ed. Cambridge, MA and Oxford, England: Blackwell, 1993. ix and 248 pp., diags. $64.95 cloth (ISBN 0-631-18713-8); $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-631-18714-6). Women, Work, and Place. AUDREY KOBAYASHI, ed. Buffalo, NY and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. xlv and 212 pp., index, biblios., graphs. $44.95 cloth (ISBN 0-7735-1225-X); $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-7735-1242-X). The Canadian Remote Sensing Contribution to Understanding Global Change. ELLSWORTH LeDREW, MURRAY STROME, and FRANK HEGYI, eds. Waterloo: Department of Geography, University of Waterloo, 1995. Department of Geography Publication Series, No. 38. xxviii and 434 pp., biblio., figs., glossary, images, index, and tables. $50.00 cloth (ISBN 0-921083-45-9). Historical Atlas of East Central Europe. PAUL ROBERT MAGOCSI, ed., with cartographic design by GEOFFREY J. MATTHEWS. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. xiv and 218 pp., maps, tables, appendix of map sources, biblio., and index. $39.95 paper (ISBN 0-295-97445-1). Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes, and Cultural Boundaries. DAVID MORLEY and KEVIN ROBINS. London: Routledge, 1995. 228 pp., biblio., and index. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-09596-4). Politics, Geography and “Political Geography”: A Critical Perspective. JOE PAINTER. New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Arnold, 1995. x and 206 pp., biblio., $44.95 cloth (ISBN 0-470-23544-6); $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-23543-8). Harare. Inheriting a Settler-Colonial City: Change or Continuity? CAROLE RAKODI. New York and Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1995. xiv and 298 pp., maps, photos, tables, biblio., and index. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94951-5). Introduction to Disjunctive Kriging and Non-Linear Geostatistics. JACQUES RIVOIRARD. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. 181 pp., with index. $48.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-874180-4). Multiregional Demography: Principles, Methods and Extensions. ANDREI ROGERS. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1995. xl and 236 pp., diags., and biblio., $54.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-95892-1). The Government of World Cities: The Future of the Metro Model. L. J. SHARPE, ed. New York and Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1995. 234 pp. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94982-5). Worlds of Desire, Realms of Power: A Cultural Geography. PAMELA SHURMERSMITH and KEVIN HANNAM. New York and London: Edward Arnold, 1994. vi and 250 pp. $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-340-59217-6). The Global Commons: A Regime Analysis. JOHN VOGLER. New York and Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1995. xix and 233 pp., map, diags., biblio., and index. $69.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-95716-X). The Cultural Dimension of Development: Indigenous Knowledge Systems. D. MICHAEL WARREN, L. JAN SLIKKERVEER, and DAVID BROKENSHA, eds. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1995. xviii and 582 pp., maps, figs., photos, tables, index, and biblio., $32.50 paper (ISBN 1-85339-251-0). The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920. KAREN WIGEN. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1995. xvi and 336 pp., maps, figs., tables, and index. $42.50 cloth (ISBN 0-520-08420-9). Geographic Information from Space: Processing and Applications of Geocoded Satellite Images. JONATHAN WILLIAMS. New York and Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1995. 210 pp., diags., glossary, index, and refs. $94.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-95833-6). Third World in the First: Development and Indigenous Peoples. ELSPETH A. YOUNG. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. xvii and 304 pp., maps, figs., plates, tables, index, and biblio., $79.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-05543-1); $22.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-11673-2). Exploring the Beloved Country: Geographic Forays into American Society and Culture. WILBUR ZELINSKY. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994. xiv and 604 pp., maps, figs., tables, biblio., and index. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-87745-484-1); $22.95 paper (ISBN 0-87745-483-3).     

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Book Reviews are in this article. Post-Fordism: A Reader. ASH AMIN, ed. Cambridge, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. x and 435 pp., tables, biblio. $59.00 cloth (ISBN 0-631-18856-8). Travel, Gender, and Imperialism: Mary Kingsley and West Africa. ALISON BLUNT. New York and London: Guilford Press, 1994. x and 190 pp., maps, illus., biblio., app., and index. $40.00 cloth (ISBN 0-89862-347-2); $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-89862-546-7). Writing Women and Space: Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies. ALISON BLUNT and GILLIAN ROSE, eds. New York and London: Guilford Press, 1994. ix and 256 pp., notes, illus., index, and biblio. $40.00 cloth (ISBN 0-89862-497-5); $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-89862-498-3). Birmingham: A Study in Geography, History and Planning. GORDON E. CHERRY. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1994. xiv and 254 pp. $79.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94900-0). The Atlas of Apartheid. A. J. CHRISTOPHER. London: Routledge; Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1994. xii and 212 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $25.00 paper (ISBN 0-415-10268-5). Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts. HARM J. DeBLIJ and PETER O. MULLER. New York: John Wiley Sons, 1994. xix and 591 pp., maps, photos, tables, apps., refs., glossary, gazetteer, and index. $57.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-58089-9). An Historical Geography of France. XAVIER DE PLANHOL with the collaboration of PAUL CLAVAL. Translated by Janet Lloyd. New York and Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxiv and 566 pp., maps, biblio., and index. $79.95 cloth (ISBN 0-521-32208-1). Limits of Representation. FRANCO FARINELLI, GUNNAR OLSSON, and DAGMAR REICHERT, eds. Munich: Accedo, 1994. 222 pp. ISBN 3-89265-017-9 (paper). Development and Environment: Sustaining People and Nature. DHARAM GHAI, ed. Cambridge, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. 263 pp., maps, index, and biblios. $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-631-19394-4). Place Promotion: The Use of Publicity and Marketing to Sell Towns and Regions. JOHN R. GOLD and STEPHEN V. WARD, eds. New York and Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1994. x and 268 pp., diags., tables, photos, biblio., and index. $54.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94834-9). Tourism and Politics: Policy, Power and Place. COLIN MICHAEL HALL. New York and Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1994. ix and 238 pp., diags., tables, and biblio. $54.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94919-1). Cultural Economies Past aand Present. RHODA H. HALPERIN. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. viii and 309 pp., diags., biblio., and index. $40.00 cloth (ISBN 0-292-73089-6); $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-292-73090-X). The History of Cartography. Vol. 2, Book 2: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies. J. B. HARLEY and DAVID WOODWARD, eds. Chicago and London: Univerity of Chicago Press, 1994. xxvii and 970 pp., illus., maps, biblio., and index. $150.00 cloth (ISBN 0-226-31637-8). Geography and National Identity. DAVID HOOSON, ed. Cambridge, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1994. x and 391 pp., maps and diags. $64.95 cloth (ISBN 0-631-18935-1); $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-631-18936-X). Who Pays the Price? The Sociocultural Context of Environmental Crisis. BARBARA ROSE JOHNSTON, ed. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1994. xvi and 249 pp., endnotes, and index. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 1-55963-302-6); $19.00 paper (ISBN 1-55963-303-4). SOME Truth with Maps: A Primer on Symbolization and Design. ALAN M. MacEACHREN. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 1994. iv and 129 pp., maps, diags, color insert, biblio., and suggestions for additional reading. $12.00 (AAG members) $15.00 (nonmembers), paper (ISBN 0-89291-214-6). Visualization in Modern Cartography. ALAN M. MacEACHREN and D. R. FRASER TAYLOR, eds. New York and Oxford: Elsevier Science, 1994. Modern Cartography Series, Vol. 2. xviii and 345 pp., biblio., figs., tables, and index. $110.00 cloth (ISBN 0-08-042416-3); $43.00 paper (ISBN 0-08-042415-5). Saving Nature's Legacy: Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity. REED F. NOSS and ALLEN Y. COOPERRIDER. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1994. xxvii + 416 pp., maps, diags., index, glossary, and biblio. $48.00 cloth (ISBN 1-55963-247-X); $27.50 paper (ISBN 1-55963-248-8). Poetry of the Universe: A Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos. ROBERT OSSERMAN. New York and London: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1995. xiv and 210 pp., maps, diags., notes, and index. $18.95 cloth (ISBN 0-385-47340-0). The Developing World: An Introduction. E.S. SIMPSON. Essex, England: Longman Scientific and Technical, 1994 (second ed.). xvii and 348 pp., maps, figs., tables, and biblio. $34.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-23387-7). Geography and Social Justice. DAVID M. SMITH. Cambridge, MA and Oxford: Blackwell. xvi and 325 pp. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-631-19025-2); $22.95 paper (ISBN 0-631-19026-0). Africa South of the Sahara: A Geogrphical Interpretation. ROBERT STOCK. New York and London: Guilford Press, 1995. x and 435 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. Cloth $46.75 (ISBN 0-89862-406-1). Geomorphology in the Tropics: A Study of Weathering and Denudation in Low Latitudes. MICHAEL F. THOMAS. New York and Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1994. xix and 460 pp., maps, diags., photos, biblio., and index. $150.00 cloth (ISBN 0-471-93035-0).     

Children's Understanding Of Regional Geography

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Teaching the Interpretation of Maps and Landscapes Through Examples From Four Books

Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge by Gillian Rose Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 205 pp. Paperback, $17.95. ISBN 0-8166-2417-6 (pb).     

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Book Reviews are in this Article We the People: An Atlas of American Ethnic Diversity . James Paul Allen and Eugene James Turner . New York: MacMillan, 1988. The Middle East: A Geographical Study . Second edition. Peter Beaumont , Gerald H. Blake , and J. Malcolm Wagstaff . New York: Halsted Press, 1988. xv and 623 pp., maps, diags., pictures, index, and biblio. $39.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-21040-0). The Cambridge Atlas of the Middle East and North Africa . Gerald Blake , John Dewdney , and Jonathan Mitchell , eds. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. vii and 124 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. $75.00 cloth (ISBN 0-521-242436). Regions and Regionalism in the United States . Michael Bradshaw . Jackson, MS, and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1988. x and 187 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-87805-339-5). The Road to Botany Bay . Paul Carter . New York: Knopf, 1988. xxv and 384 pp., maps, illus., index, and biblio. notes. $22.95 cloth (ISBN 0-394-57035-9). Right Before Your Eyes: Penetrating the Urban Environment . Grady Clay . Chicago: APA's Planners Press, 1988. 241 pp. $45.95 cloth; $24.95 paperback (ISBN 0-918286-47-6). The Geopolitics of Israel's Border Question . Saul B. Cohen . Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, Study No. 7. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987. i and 126 pp., maps, app. notes. $18 paper (ISBN 0-8133-0460-1). Severe and Unusual Weather . Joe R. Eagleman . Lenexa, KS: Trimedia Publishing Company, 1988. xi and 372 pp., maps, diags., tables, photos, index, and biblio. $29.95 paper (ISBN 0-442-26195-0). Fractals . Jens Feder . New York and London: Plenum Press, 1988. xv and 283 pp., maps, illus., color plates, index, and biblio. $49.50 cloth (ISBN 0-306-42851-2). British Columbia: Its Resources and People . Charles N. Forward , ed. Victoria: Department of Geography, University of Victoria, 1987. Western Geographical Series, Vol. 22. xxiii and 433 pps., maps, photos, diags. $18.00 paper (ISBN 0-919838-12-X). Agricultural Soil Loss: Processes, Policies, and Prospects . John M. Harlin and Gigi M. Berardi , eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987. ix and 369 pp., maps, diags., separate biblio. $32 paper (ISBN 0-8133-7194-5). Rural Development: A Geographical Perspective . Keith Hoggart and Henry Buller . London and New York: Croon Helm and Methuen, 1987. x and 317 pp., maps, diags., tables, index, and biblio. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-7099-3756-3). Atlas of the Aged in the People's Republic of China . H. E. Huide , ed. Beijing: Ditu Chubanshe, 1986. Maps, diags., tables, no pagination. RMB 20.30 (approx. US$7) cloth (no ISBN number). 90 Years and 535 Miles: Vegetation Changes Along the Mexican Border . Robert R. Humphrey . Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. v and 448 pp., maps, biblio. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8263-0945-3). Louisiana: A Geographical Portrait (2nd ed.) . Milton B. Newton , Jr. Baton Rouge, LA: Geoforensics, 1987. xiv and 325 pp., maps, diags., and index. $25.00 cloth; $$17.50 paper. Muslim World: Geography and Development . Mushtaqur Rahman , ed. New York: University Press of America, 1987. x and 202 pp., maps, diags., and index. $26.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8191-6558-1); $13.50 paper (ISBN 0-8191-6559-X). The Geomorphology of Rock Coasts . Alan S. Trenhaile . New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. ix and 384 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $70.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-823279-9). Comparative Farming Systems . B. L. Turner II and Stephen B. Brush , eds. New York: The Guilford Press, 1987. xiv and 428 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblios. $37.50 cloth (ISBN 0-89862-780-X). Cartographical Innovations: An International Handbook of Mapping Terms to 1900 . Helen M. Wallis and Arthur H. Robinson , eds. Tring, UK: Map Collector Publications in association with the International Cartographic Association, 1987. xx and 353 pp., 26 maps, indices, and biblio. $$42.00 cloth (ISBN 0-906430-04-6). The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change since 1492 . David Watts . Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xxii and 609 pp., maps, tables, diags., photos, index, and biblio. $49.50 cloth (ISBN 0-521-24555-9). Gesellschaft, Handlung und Raum – Grundlagen Handlungstheoretischer Sozialgeographie . Benno Werlen . Wiesbaden, West Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1987. x and 315 pp., diags., index, and biblio. DM56, paper (ISBN 3-515-04886-3). Siberia: Problems and Prospects for Regional Development . Alan Wood , ed. London: Croom Helm, 1987. vi and 233 pp., maps, tables, notes and references, and index. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-7099-3655-9).     

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Book Reviews are in this Articles. The Art and Science of Geography . VLADIMIR V. ANNENKOV and GEORGE DEMKO, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992. xiii and 159 pp., and index. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8133-8516-4). Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective . ALAN R. H. BAKER and GIDEON BIGER, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiv and 356 pp., maps, diags., photos, and index. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-521-41032). Historical Atlas of the American West . WARREN A. BECK and YNEZ D. HAASE. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. ix and 189 pp., maps, app., index, and biblio. $18.95 paper (ISBN 0-8061-2456-3). Rural Livelihoods: Crises and Responses . HENRY BERNSTEIN, BEN CROW, and HAZEL JOHNSON, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with The Open University, 1992. x and 324 pp., maps, photos, diags., tables, refs., and index. $65.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-877334-X); $19.00 paper (ISBN 0-19-877335-8). Global Finance and Urban Living: A Study of Metropolitan Change . LESLIE BUDD and SAM WHIMSTER, eds. New York: Routledge, 1992. xiv and 367 pp., plates, figs., tables, name index, subject index, and biblio. $79.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-07097-X); $25.00 paper (ISBN 0-415-03198-2). Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming. Committee on Science, Engineering , and Public Policy (U.S.). Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1991. xiii and 127 pp., figs., tables, apps., and index. $14.95 paper (ISBN 0-309-04440-5). Progress in Tourism, Recreation and Hospitality Management . C. P. COOPER and A. LOCKWOOD, eds. London: Belhaven Press, 1992. xvii and 281 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $49.00 cloth (ISBN 0-470-21922-X). The Dynamics of Cities: Ecological Determinism, Dualism and Chaos . DIMITRIOS DENDRINOS. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1992. xxiii and 389 pp., diags., tables, app., notes, biblio., and index. $59.95 cloth and paper (ISBN 0-415-07721-4). Periglacial Geomorphology: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Binghamton Symposium in Geomorphology . JOHN C. DIXON and ATHOL D. ABRAHAMS, eds. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1992. xii and 354 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. $135.00 cloth (ISBN 0-471-93342-2). Japanese Direct Investment in Canada: Recent Trends and Prospects . DAVID W. EDGINGTON. Vancouver: B.C. Geographical Series, Number 49, Department of Geography, 1992. vi and 110 pp., glossary, maps, diags., tables, and biblio. $9.35 paper (ISBN 0-919478-74-3). Urban and Regional Planning, 3rd edition . PETER HALL. New York: Routledge, 1992. xii and 250 pp., plates, figs., tables, and index. $64.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-07623-4); $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-07624-2). Deforestation in the Postwar Philippines . DAVID M. KUMMER. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. xvi and 155 pp., map, diags., tables, biblio., and index. $17.00 paper (ISBN 0-226-46169-6). Tensions at the Border . JONATHAN LEMCO, ed. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1992. xxii and 178 pp., map, diags., tables, chapter notes, and biblio. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-275-94001-2). Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism . MARTIN W. LEWIS. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992. vii and 288 pp., app., index, and biblio. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8223-1257-3). The Elusive Granary: Herder, Farmer, and State in Northern Kenya . PETER D. LITTLE. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiv and 210 pp., maps, plates, diags., index, and biblio. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-521-40552-1). Global Climate Change: Implications, Challenges and Mitigation Measures . S. K. MAJUMDAR, L. S. KALKSTEIN, B. M. YARNAL, E. W. MILLER, AND L. M. ROSENFELD, eds. Easton, PA: Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences, 1992. xvii and 566 pp., diags., and index. $40.00 cloth (ISBN-0-945809-07-7). Labour and Locality: Uneven Development and the Rural Labour Process . TERRY MARSDEN, PHILIP LOWE, and SARAH WHATMORE, eds. London: David Fulton Publishers, 1992. viii and 183 pp., maps, tables, figs., and biblio. $75 cloth (ISBN 1-85346-182-2). Land, Water, and Development: River Basin Systems and Their Sustainable Management . MALCOM NEWSON. London: Routledge, 1992. xxxi and 351 pp., figs., tables, plates, index, and biblio. $74.50 cloth (ISBN 0-415-05711-6); $29.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-08031-2). Health Services Privatization in Industrial Societies . JOSEPH L. SCARPACI, ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988. 321 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. $37.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8135-1437-1); $15.00 paper (ISBN 0-8135-1438-X). The English Rural Community: Image and Analysis . BRIAN SHORT, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. ix and 239 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-521-40537-9); $22.95 paper (ISBN 0-521-40567-X). Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster . KEITH SMITH. London: Routledge, 1992. xx and 324 pp, maps, diags., geographical index, subject index, and biblio. $82.50 cloth (ISBN 0-414-01216-3). Geomedical Systems: Intervention and Control . RICHARD THOMAS. London: Routledge, 1992. xvii and 314 pp., maps, diags., gloss., index, and biblio. $85.00 cloth (ISBN 0-415-07273-5); $27.50 paper (ISBN 0-415-07274-3). The Place of Geography . TIM UNWIN. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1992. xiv and 273 pp., diags., index, and biblio. $36.95 paper (ISBN 0-582-05107-X). Pioneers of Modern Geography; Translations Pertaining to German Geographers of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries , Geoscience and Man, Vol. 28. Robert C. West, translator and ed. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University, 1990. viii and 188 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $30.00 paper. (ISBN No. 0-938909-52-0). Urban Landscapes: International Perspectives . J. W. R. WHITEHAND and P. J. LARKHAM, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. xvi and 333 pp., maps, diags., photos, index, and biblio. $64.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-07074-0). Person, Place and Thing, Geoscience and Man , Vol. 31. SHUE TUCK WONG, ed. Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, 1992. x and 425 pp., maps, tables, diags., photos, and biblios. $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-938909-54-1).     

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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).