BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Portable Utopia: Glasgow and the United States 1820–1920. Bernard Aspinwall. Studies in Russian Historical Geography. James H. Bater and R. A. French, eds. Water and Sanitation: Economic and Sociological Perspectives. Peter G. Bourne, ed. Green Politics. Fritjof Capra and Charlene Spretnak. The Southern Cone: Realities of the Authoritarian State. César N. Caviedes. Women in Third World Development. Sue Ellen Charlton. Land Management: New Directions. David Chiddick and Alan Millington, eds. Geography and Ethnic Pluralism. Colin Clarke, David Ley, Ceri Peach, eds. Geomorphological Hazards in Los Angeles. R. U. Cooke. Regional Impacts of United States-Mexico Economic Relations. Alfonso Corona and Lay James Gibson. eds. Patterns of Jobs and Geographic Mobility. Torvald Gerger. Cities and Sickness: Health Care in Urban America. Ann Lennarson Greer and Scott Greer, eds. Neighborhoods: Their Place in Urban Life. Howard W. Hallman. Development and the Rural-Urban Divide. John Harriss and Mick Moore, eds. Patterns of Undocumented Migration: Mexico and the United States. Richard C. Jones, ed. Central Place Theory. Leslie J. King. The Geography of Western Europe: A Socio-economic Survey. Paul L. Knox. Regions and Resources: Strategies for Development. David T. Krisge, Daniel A. Seiver, Oliver S. Goldsmith and Michael J. Scott. Geography of Crowding and Human Response. A Study of Ahmedabad City. K. M. Kulkarni. Haciendo Pueblo. The Development of a Guadalajaran Suburb. Kathleen Logan. The Imperial Lion: Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management in Central Africa. Stewart A. Marks. Water in the Hispanic Southwest: A Social and Legal History, 1550–1850. Michael C. Meyer. Imlil: A Moroccan Mountain Community in Change. James A. Miller. Tourism in Canada: Selected Issues and Options. Peter E. Murphy, ed. David Harvey's Geography. John L. Paterson. Raster Scanning, Processing and Plotting of Cartographic Documents. Donna J. Peuquet and A. Raymond Boyle. The USSR and the Muslim World: Issues in Domestic and Foreign Policy. Yaacov Ro'i, ed. Environmental Perception and Behavior: An Inventory and Prospect. Thomas F. Saarinen, David Seamon, and James L. Sell. Incised channels, Morphology, Dynamics, and Control. Stanley A. Schumm, Michael D. Harvey, and Chester C. Watson. The Gap Between Rich and Poor: Contending Perspectives on the Political Economy of Development. Mitchell A. Seligson, ed. Twentieth-Century Richmond. Planning, Politics and Race. Christopher Silver. Land Conservation and Development: Examples of Land-Use Planning Projects and Programs. F. R. Steiner and H. N. van Lier, eds. Biogeography: Recent Advances and Future Directions. J. A. Taylor, ed. Late Quaternary Environments of the Soviet Union. A. A. Velichko, ed. H. E. Wright, Jr. and C. W. Barnosky, eds.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Geography and the Third World. International Seminar, 14–18 May 1980, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . Ishmail Ahmad and Jamaluddin Md Jahi, eds. The Growth Dilemma: Residents' Views and Local Population Change in the United States . Mark Baldassare. Sport and Place: A Geography of Sport in England, Scotland & Wales . John Bale. The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry . Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison. Selected Essays 1963–1975: Carl O. Sauer . Bob Callahen, ed. Housing and Planning in the Countryside . G. Clark. Conflict, Politics and the Urban Scene . Kevin R. Cox and R. J. Johnston, eds. Thematic Maps: Their Design and Production . David J. Cuff and Mark T. Mattson. Wine: A Geographic Appreciation . Harm Jan de Blij. USSR in Maps . J. C. Dewdney. Political Geography: A Contemporary Perspective . Ramesh D. Dikshit. Rethinking Human Adaptation . Rada Dyson-Hudson and Michael A. Little, eds. Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the indiana Dunes . J. Ronald Engel. Geography of the Biosphere . A. Furley and Walter W. Newey. Disaster and Reconstruction . Robert Geipel. Glasgow: The Making of a City . Andrew Gibb. Design for Arid Regions . Giden S. Golany, ed. Urbanization and Cancer Mortality: The United States Experience, 1950–1975 . Michael R. Greenberg. Geology in the Nineteenth Century: Changing Views of a Changing World . Mott T. Greene. Colonización y Destrucción de Bosques en Panamá . Stanley Heckadon Moreno and Alberto McKay, eds. Urban Geography: A First Approach . David T. Herbert and Colin J. Thomas. The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes . Tadahiko Higuchi. Climate from Tree Rings . M. K. Hughes, P. M. Kelly, J. R. Pilcher, and V. C. LaMarche, Jr., eds. The structure of Nineteenth Century Cities . James H. Johnson and Colin G. Pooley, eds. The American Planner: Biographies and Recollections . Donald A. Krueckeberg, ed. Urban Land Policy For the 1980s, the Message for State and Local Government . George Lefcoe, ed. Regional Planning: Evolution, Crisis and Prospects . Gill C. Lim, ed. Relevance and Ethics In Geography . Bruce Mitchell and Dianne Draper. China: The Geography of Development and Modernization . Clifton W. Pannell and Laurence J. C. MA. The Urban Retailing System . Robert B. Potter. Hants. Nonconventional Energy Resources . Philip R. Pryde. Caribbean Migrants: Environment and Human Survival on St. Kitts and Nevis . Bonham C. Richardson. Population and Resources . Harry Robinson. East Los Angeles: History of A Barrio . Ricardo Romo. Integrated Impact Assessment . Frederick A. Rossini and Alan L. Porter, eds. Environmental Aesthetics: Essays in Interpretation . Barry Sadler and Allen Carlson, eds. Earthwatch . Charles Sheffield. Field Techniques and Research Methods in Geography . Robert H. Stoddard. Haiti: Land of Poverty . Robert J. Tata. Weathering and Erosion: Sources and Methods in Geography . Stephen T. Trudgill. Once Beneath the Forest. Prehistoric Terracing in the Río Bec Region of the Maya Lowlands . B. L. Turner, II. The Historical Geography of Scotland since 1707 . David Turnock.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Development and Environment in Peninsular Malaysia . S. Robert Aiken, Colin H. Leigh, Thomas R. Leinbach, Michael R. Moss. The Rural-Urban Fringe: Canadian Perspectives . Ken B. Beesley and Lorne H. Russwurm, eds. Women and Development . Lourdes Benería, ed. The Border that Joins: Mexican Migrants and U.S. Responsibility . Peter G. Brown and Henry Shue, eds. Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development . Stanley D. Brunn and Jack L. Williams, eds. Time Resources, Society, and Ecology: On the Capacity for Human Interaction in Space and Time (Vol. I, Preindustrial Societies). Tommy Carlstein. Urban Geography . David Clark. Spanish City Planning in North America . Dora P. Crouch, Daniel J. Garr, and Axel I. Mundigo. Not On Our Street: Community Attitudes to Mental Health Care . M. J. Dear and S. M. Taylor Unequal growth: Urban and Regional Employment Change in the U.K. Stephen Fothergill and Graham Gudgin. Agricultural Land in an Urban Society . Owen J. Furuseth and John T. Pierce. The Petroleum Industry in Oil-Importing Developing Countries . Fariborz Ghadar. Historical Understanding in Geography, An Idealist Approach . Leonard Guelke. Regional Planning in Europe . R. Hudson and J. R. Lewis, eds. Remote Sensing for Resource Management . Chris J. Johannsen and James L. Sanders, eds. Geography and The State . R. J. Johnston. Texas Graveyards: a Cultural Legacy . Tlrry G. Jordan. The Politics of Location: An Introduction . Andrew Kirby. A Social Geography of the City . David Ley. Energy and the Future . Douglas MacLean and Peter Brown, eds. The Natural Environment of Newfoundland Past and Present . A. G. Macpherson and J. B. Macpherson, eds. Tourism: Economic, Physical and Social Impacts . Alister Mathieson and Geoffrey Wall. Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention . Lloyd J. Mercer. Progress in Rural Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Progress in Urban Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Models of Spatial Inequality: Settlement Patterns in Historical Archaeology . Robert Paynter. Natural Hazard Risk Assessment and Public Policy, Anticipating the Unexpected . William J. Petak and Arthur A. Atkisson. The Nature of Geomorphology . Alistair F. Pitty. Regional Conflict and National Policy . Kent A. Price Women and Spatial Change: Learning Resources for Social Science Courses . Arlene C. Rengert and Janice J. Monk, eds. Urban and Regional Analysis for Development Planning . Richard Rhoda. Rivers: Form and Process in Alluvial Channels . Keith Richards. This Remarkable Continent: An Atlas of United States and Canadian Society and Culture . John F. Rooney, Jr., Wilbur Zelinsky, and Dean R. Louder, gen. eds. The Origins of Open-Field Agriculture . Trevor Rowley, ed. Residential Location Determinants of the Older Population . Gundars Rudzitis. Borderland Sourcebook: A Guide to the Literature on Northern Mexico and the American Southwest . Ellwyn R. Stoddard, Richard L. Nostrand, and Jonathan P. West, eds. Arctic and Antarctic . David Sugden. Tall Timbers Ecology and Management Conference, February 22–24, 1979, Proceedings No. 16 . Graphic Communication and Design in Contemporary Cartography (Progress in Contemporary Cartography , Vol. II). D. R. Fraser Taylor, ed. Living with Energy Shortfall: A Future for American Towns and Cities . Jon Van Til. The United States: Habitation of Hope . J. Wreford Watson. Air Photo Interpretation for Archaeologists . D. R. Wilson. Urban and Rural Change in West Germany . Trevor Wild, ed. Population and Resources . Harry Robinson.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
NEW ZEALAND IN COLOUR. Photographs by Kenneth and Jean Bigwood; Text by James K. Baxter.
THE EARLY JOURNALS OF HENRY WILLIAMS 1826–40. Edited by Lawrence M. Rogers.z
SHEEP: PART II—SHEEPFARMING DEVELOPMENT AND SHEEP-BREEDS IN NEW ZEALAND. By P. G. Stevens.
HOW PEOPLE LIVE IN ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC. By R. Gerard Ward.
LATE-PLEISTOCENE ENVIRONMENTS OF NORTH PACIFIC NORTH AMERICA. By C.J. Heusser.
MAN'S ENVIRONMENTS. By W. G. East and G. M. Barrett.
ASIA. By R. R. Rawson and W. G. East.
THE BRITISH ISLES. By J. A. Morris.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: The Rice Economy of Asia . Randolph Barker and Robert W. Herdt with Beth Rose. Using Microcomputers: A Guidebook for Writers, Teachers, and Researchers in the Social Sciences . Blaine A. Erie—the Lake that Survived . Noel M. Burns. Geology and Society . Donald R. Coates. Caves and Karst of Kentucky . Percy H. Dougherty, ed. Altered Harvest: Agriculture, Genetics, and the Fate of the World's Food Supply . Jack Doyle. The Middle East and North Africa, A Political Geography . Alasdair Drysdale and Gerald H. Blake. Clamor at the Gates. The New American Immigration . Nathan Glazer, ed. Development and the Landowner: An analysis of the British experience . Robin Goodchild and Richard Munton. Discovering Landscape in England and Wales . Andrew Goudie and Rita Gardner. The Modern Plantation in the Third World . Edgar Graham and Ingrid Floering. Social Relations and Spatial Structures . Derek Gregory and John Urry, eds. The World Food Problem 1950–1980 . David Grigg. Costa Rica: A Geographical Interpretation in Historical Perspective . Carolyn Hall. The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization . David Harvey Consciousness and the Urban Experience: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization . David Harvey. Reviving Main Street . Deryck Holdsworth, ed. Rural Roads and Poverty Alleviation . John Howe and Peter Richards, eds. Uneven Development in Southern Europe: Studies of Accumulation, Class, Migration and the State . Ray Hudson and Jim Lewis, eds. Karst Geomorphology . J. N. Jennings. The Geomorphology of North-west England . R. H. Johnson, ed. Climate Impact Assessment: Studies of the Interaction of Climate and Society . Robert Kates, Jesse Ausubel, Mimi Berberian, eds. Public Service Provision and Urban Development . Andrew Kirby, Paul Knox, and Steven Pinch, ed. State and Market: The Politics of the Public and the Private . Jan-Erik Lane, ed. Living Cities . Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Urban Preservation Policies. World Climatic Systems . John G. Lockwood. Urban Ethnicity in the United States. New Immigrants and Old Minorities . Lionel Maldonaldo and Joan Moore, eds. Culture and Conservation: The Human Dimension in Environmental Planning . Jeffrey A. McNeely and David Pitt, eds. The Andean Past. Land, Societies, and Conflicts . Magnus Mörner. Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management . Norman Myers, ed. Progress in Industrial Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Progress in Political Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Rivers and Landscape . Geoff Petts and Ian Foster. Urbanization and Planning in the 3rd World: Spatial Perceptions and Public Participation . Robert B. Potter. One Island, Two Nations? A Political Geographical Analysis of the National Conflict in Ireland . D. G. Pringle. Circulation in Third World Countries . R. Mansell Prothero and Murray Chapman. The Ozarks Outdoors: A Guide for Fishermen, Hunters, and Tourists . Milton D. Rafferty. Suburban Burglary: A Time and a Place for Everything . George Rengert and John Wasilchick. Geomorphology and Soils . K.S. Richards, R.R. Arnett, and S. Ellis, eds. The Homes and Homeless of Post-War Britain . Frederick Shaw. Indochinese Refugees in America . Paul J. Strand and Woodrow Jones, Jr. Wild Horses and Sacred Cows . Richard Symanski. Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve . Philip G. Terrie. The Regional Economic Impact of Technological Change . A.T. Thwaites and R.P. Oakey, eds. The Good Life . Yi-Fu Tuan.     

Cartography and the Face of the Earth

MAP AND LANDSCAPE. By Dorothy Sylvester.
MAPS AND DIAGRAMS. By F. J. Monkhouse and H. R. Wilkinson.
THE LOOK OF MAPS. By Arthur H. Robinson.
ELEMENTS OF CARTOGRAPHY. By Arthur H. Robinson.
GEOGRAPHY FROM THE AIR. By F. Walker.
OUR WORLD FROM THE AIR. By E. A. Gutkind. London: Chatto and Windus, 1952, pp. 250.     

REVIEWS: A Hundred Years After

Book reviewed in this article:
GEOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. By Ferdinand von Hochstetter, translated by C. A. Fleming.
GUTHRIE-SMITH OF TUTIRA. By A. E. Woodhouse.
WEST COAST REGION. National Resources Survey, Part 1. Compiled by the Town and Country
TUWHARETOA: THE HISTORY OF THE MAORI PEOPLE OF THE TAUPO DISTRICT. By John Te H. Grace.
THE GREAT HARBOUR OF TARA: TRADITIONAL MAORI PLACE-NAMES AND SITES OF WELLINGTON HARBOUR AND ENVIRONS. By G. Leslie Adkin.
NORTHERN APPROACHES. By C. W. S. Moore.
EARLY DAYS IN CENTRAL OTAGO. By Robert Gilkison.
HANDBOOK TO THE ARTHUR'S PASS NATIONAL PARK. Christchurch: Arthur's Pass National Park Board, 1958
MOUNT COOK NATIONAL PARK HANDBOOK. Edited by W. P. Packard.
WORLD GEOGRAPHY. Edited by Otis W. Freeman and John W. Morris.
THE CONURBATIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN. By T. W. Freeman.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco . Janet Abu -Lughod . Marketplaces in a Developing Country: The Case of Western Nigeria . Isaac Ayinde Adalemo . Farming Development and Space: A World Agricultural Geography . Bernd Andreae . Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan . J. Clark Archer and Peter J. Taylor . Women and Space: Ground Rules and Social Maps . Shirley Ardener , ed. European Progress in Spatial Analysis . R. J. Bennett , ed. The Origins of Academic Geography in the United States . Brian W. Blouet Geographic Perspectives on Global Problems . Ronald Reed Boyce . Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty . Robert Chambers , Richard Longhurst and Arnold Pacey eds. The New Nationalism and the Use of Common Spaces: Issues in Marine Pollution and the Exploitation of Antarctica . Jonathan I. Charney , ed. Communications Tomorrow: The Coming of the Information Society . Edward Cornish , ed. The Design of Suburbia . Arthur Edwards . Explorer on the Northern Plains: Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warren's Preliminary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and Dakota in the Years 1855–56–57. With an Introduction by Frank N. Schubert . The Changing Climate: Responses of the Natural Flora and Fauna . Michael J. Ford . Essentials of Physical Geography . Robert E. Gabler , Robert J. Sager , Sheila Brazier , and Daniel L. Wise. The Road to Jaramillo . William Glen . Valued Environments . John R. Gold and Jacquelin Burgess , eds. Proximity and Preference: Problems in the Multidimensional Analysis of Large Data Sets . Reginald G. Golledge and John N. Rayner , eds. A Search for Common Ground . Peter Gould and Gunnar Olsson , eds. Geography: Its History and Concepts . Arild Holt -Jensen . A Population Geography . Huw R. Jones . The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography, 3rd ed. Terry G. Jordan and Lester Rowntree . Urban Social Geography: An Introduction . Paul Knox . The Anatomy of Job Loss: The How, Why and Where of Employment Decline . Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan . The Information Society as Post-Industial Society . Yoneji Masuda . Map Librarianship, 2nd ed. Harold Nichols . India: Cultural Patterns and Processes . Allen G. Noble and Ashok K. Dutt , eds. The God that Limps: Science and Technology in the Eighties . Colin Norman . Geography: An Introductory Perspective . Robert E. Norris , Keith D. Harries and John D. Vitek . The Politics of Technology Assessment . David M. O'Brien and Donald A. Marchand . Ethnic Segregation in Cities . Ceri Peach , Vaughan Robinson and Susan Smith , eds. Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980 . Bernard Quinn , Herman Anderson , Martin Bradley , Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver . Energy in Australia: Politics and Economics . Hugh Saddler . Development from Above or Below? The Dialectics of Regional Planning in Developing Countries . Walter B. Stóuhr and D. R. Fraser Taylor , eds. Human Impact on the Ecosystem . Joy Tivy and Greg O'Hare . Plants and People: Vegetation Change in North America . Thomas R. Vale . The Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography from Antiquity to the Space Age . John Noble Wilford .     

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books reviewed in this article: Analytical Tools Communication Networks: Toward a New Paradigm for Research . Everett M. Rogers and D. Lawrence Kincaid . Spatial Statistics . Brian D. Ripley . Industrial Location and Regional Systems: Spatial Organization in the Economic Sector . John Rees , Geoffrey J. D. Hewincs , and Howard A. Stafford , eds. Industrial Location: An Economic Geographical Analysis , 2nd ed. David M. Smith . Environmental Management and Resources The Protection of Farmland: A Reference Guidebook for State and Local Governments . Robert E. Coughlin , John C. Keene , J. Dixon Esseks , William Toner , and Lisa Rosennburger . Human Geography The Human Experience of Space and Place . Anne Buttimer and David Seaman , eds. Times, Spaces, and Places . Don Parkes and Nicel Thrift . Philosophy and Geographic Thought Geography, Ideology and Social Concern . D. R. Stoddart , ed. Physical Geography Soil Genesis and Classification . S. W. Buol , F. D. Hole , and R. j. Mccracken . Population and Migration An Introduction to Population Geography . William F. Hornby and Melvyn Jones . Regional and Urban Planning Territory and Function: The Evolution of Regional Planning . John Friedmann and Clyde Weaver . Regional Geography Regional Development in Western Europe , 2nd ed. Hugh D. Clout , ed. Social Geography Contemporary issues in the Geography of Health Care . David R. Phillips . Urban Geography and Settlement The Geography of American Cities . Risa Palm . Cities Under Stiess: The Fiscal Crisis of Urban America . Robert W. Burchell and David Listokin , eds. The Geography of Housing . Larry S. Bourne . Patterns of European Urbanisation Since 1500 . H. Schmal , ed. The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800-1975 . William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette , jr ., eds.     

The Direction of Settlement in the Prairie Provinces of Canada

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Norman J. G. Pounds, Editor, Geographical Essays on Eastern Europe. Indiana University Publications (Russian and East European Series, Vol. 24), Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., 1961. 159 pages with table of contents, maps and diagrams. $4.00.

Clyde F. Kohn (ed.). Urban Responses to Agricultural Change. Department of Publications, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1961. viii and 207 pages with table of contents, 58 tables, 11 maps, and 9 charts and graphs. No index. $4.00.

Clyde F. Kohn and Dorothy W. Drummond. The World Today: Its Patterns and Cultures. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 330 West 42nd Street, New York 36, N.Y. 1963. 626 pages with table of contents, maps, photographs, graphs, glossary and index. $6.88.

William E. Carter. The First Book of Bolivia. Franklin Watts, Inc., New York 22, N.Y., 1963. 82 pages with table of contents, map, photographs, glossary of Bolivian terms and index. $2.50.

Bryan H. Farrell. Power in New Zealand, A. H. &; A. W. Reed, Wellington, New Zealand, 1962. (North American agents: W. S. Heinman, 400 East 72nd St., New York 21.) 197 pages with table of contents, maps, photographs, appendix, glossary, reference notes, bibliography and index. $5.95.

Donald N. Wilbur. The Land and People of Ceylon, J. B. Lippincott Co., N.Y., 1963. 157 pages with table of contents, map, index, and photographs. $3.25.

Edward Madden Ainsworth. Beckoning Desert. Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1962. 264 pages, sketches. $5.95.

Edward C. Tabler, editor. Trade and Travel in Early Barotseland. University of California Press, Berkeley 4, Calif., 1963. 125 pages. $5.00.

L. Kellner. Alexander yon Humboldt. Oxford University Press, Inc., Fair Lawn, N.J., 1963. 247 pages. $5.75.

Lewis M. Alexander. Offshore Geography of Northwestern Europe. Rand McNally &; Co., Chicago, Ill., 1963. 162 pages. $5.00.

Patricia H. Suttles, editor. Elementary Teachers Guide to Free Curriculum Materials. Edncators Progress Service, Randolph, Wis., 1963. 342 pages with table of contents with index and illustrative units. $7.50.

Ruth Warren. The First Book of the Arab World. Franklin Watts, Inc., 575 Lexington Ave., New York 22, N.Y., 19G3. 65 pages with table of contents, pictures and index. $2.50.     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

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 .     

Books in Brief

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Polly Miller and Leon Gordon Miller. LOST HERITAGE OF ALASKA. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1967. 289 pages. $15.00.

R. Kay Gresswell. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. Praeger Surveys in Geography. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1967. viii + 504 pages. $7.00.

David E. Sopher. GEOGRAPHY OF RELIGIONS. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1967. 128 pages. Paperbound, $1.95. Clothbound, $4.50.

Howard G. Roepke, ed. READINGS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY. New York: 3 John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1967. 662 pages. $6.95. Paper, $4.95.     

Books in Brief

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Pierre Gourou. THE TROPICAL WORLD: ITS SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND ITS FUTURE STATUS. Translated by S. H. Beaver and E. D. Laborde. 4th edition. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1966. xii + 196 pages, 16 maps, 39 photographs, index. $5.00.

Harold D. Drummond and Ruth H. Stanley. JOURNEYS THROUGH THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Our World Today Series. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1966. 382 pages, Cloth, $5.24. Workbook, 144 pages, paperbound, $1.32.

Walter G. Neale. INDIA: THE SEARCH FOR UNITY, DEMOCRACY, AND PROGRESS. Searchlight Book No. 24, edited by George W. Hoffman and G. Etzel Pearcy. Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1965. 128 pp., maps, tables. $1.45.

ODYSSEY WORLD ATLAS. New York: Golden Press, Inc., 850 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. 1966. 317 pages. $19.95.     

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

Books reviewed in this article:
The Earth Its Origin, History and Physical Constitution Harold Jeffreys
Physics of the Earth's Interior Beno Gutenberg
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Vol. 3 Ed. L. H. Ahrens, F. Press, K. Rankama and S. K. Runcorn
Les Transformations de Mellin et de Hankel (Applications à la Physique Mathématique) S. Colombo
Geochemical Methods of Prospecting and Exploration for Petroleum and Natural Gas , A. A. Kartsev, Z. A. Tabasaranskii, M. I. Subbota and G. A. Mogilevskii, English translation edited by P. A. Witherspoon and W. D. Romey     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

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 .     

Geographic j Materials Received

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Paul F. Griffin, editor. GEOGRAPHY OF POPULATION. A TEACHER'S MANUAL. The 1970 Yearbook of The National Council for Geographic Education. Palo Alto, Calif.: Fearon Publishers, 1969. xiv + 370 pages, maps and charts. $9.50.

George W. Goddard (with DeWitt S. Copp). OVERVIEW, A LIFELONG ADVENTURE IN AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY. Garden City, New York: Doubleday &; Company, 1969. Photographs, index. 402 pages. $8.95.

Ronald U. Cooke and James H. Johnson, editors. TRENDS IN GEOGRAPHY, AN INTRODUCTORY SURVEY. Oxford and New York. The Pergamon Press, Ltd., 1969. xi + 287 pages. $6.25; flexicover, $4.00.

Robert E. Dickinson. THE MAKERS OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1969. Preface, indexes, photographs. 305 pages. $7.50.     

Activities Of American Geographers

Finnish Immigrants in America, 1880–1920. A. William Hoglund.

Geology of the Industrial Rocks and Minerals. Robert L. Bates.

Readings in Culturul Geography. Philip L. Wagner AND Marvin W. Mikesell, eds.

Anglo-America: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada. P. F. Griffin, R.N. Young, AND R.L. Chatham

Undergraduate Education in Foreign Affirs. Percy W. Bidwell.

Crevecoeur's Eighteenth-Century Travels in Pennsylvania and New York. Michel-Guillaume: Jean DE Crevecoeur. Percy G. Adams, trans. and ed.

Canada and the Canadians: Profile of a Modern Nation. Alistair Horne.

Four Thousund Years Ago: d Panorama of Life in the Second Millennium B.C. Geoffrey Bibby.

Interpretation of Aerial Photographs. T. Eugene Avery.

A Geography of the U.S.S R.: The Background to a Planned Economy. J.P. Cole AND F.C. German.

Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States, with a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah. John Wesley Powell. Wallace Stegner, ed.     

Oil,the European Dilemma,a Study in Economic and Political Geography

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Marion Clawson. Land for Americans. Resources for the Future Policy Background Series. Rand McNally and Co., P.O. Box 7600, Chicago 80, Ill., 1963. 141 pages with table of contents and black and white illustrations. $2.00.

Devereux Butcher. Exploring Our National Wildlife Refuges, 2nd edition. Houghton Mifflin Co., 2 Park St., Boston 7, Mass., 1963. 340 pages with bibliography, 342 photographs and a map. $6.50.

Jane Lyon. Clipper Ships and Clipper Captains. American Heritage Co., Inc., 551 Fifth Ave., New York 17, N.Y., 1963. 153 pages with color and black and white illustrations. $3.95.

UNESCO. A Review of the National Resources of the African Continent. International Documents Service, Columbia University Press, 2960 Broadway, New York 27, N.Y., 1963. $15.00.

Floyd Miller. Ahdoolo! The Biography of Matthew A. Henson. E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 201 Park Ave., S., New York 3, N.Y., 1963. 221 pages. $4.50.

Edna Mason Kaula. The Land and People of Tanganyika. J. B. Lippincott Co., E. Washington Sq., Philadelphia 5, Pa., 1963. 155 pages with table of contents, two maps, index and photographs. $2.93.

Henry M. Kendall, Robert M. Glendinning and Clifford H. MacFadden. Introduction to Geography, third edition. Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 750 Third Ave., New York 17, N.Y., 1962. 582 pages with table of contents, index and black and white photographs, maps and illustrations. $8.50.

C. William Harrison. The First Book of Wildlife Sanctuaries. Franklin Watts, Inc., 575 Lexington Ave., New York 22, N.Y., 1963. 61 pages with maps, black and white pictures and an appendix regarding some of the United States' national wildlife refuges. $2.50.

Denis Baly. Geographical Companion to the Bible. McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc., 330 West 42nd St., New York 36, N.Y., 1963. 196 pages with maps, photographs, place-names and subject index. $5.95.

David J. Bowen. The Land and People of Peru. J. B. Lippincott Co., E. Washington Sq., Philadelphia 5, Pa., 1963. 160 pages with table of contents, index, black and white photographs and one map. $2.93.

Victor E. Shelford. The Ecology of North America. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Ill., 1963. 610 pages. $10.00.

Richard F. Burton, edited by Fawn M. Brodie. The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. Alfred A. Knopf, 501 Madison Ave., New York 22, N.Y., 1963. 654 pages with table of contents, editor's introduction, appendices and index. $8.50.

Devereux Butcher. Exploring Our National Parks and Monuments (prepared under the auspices of the National Park Association), fifth edition, third revised printing. Houghton Mifflin Co., 2 Park St., Boston 7, Mass., 1963. 288 pages with table of contents, more than 300 colored and black and white pictures and three maps. $6.50.

Jacques M. May, M.D. “The Ecology of Malnutrition in Five Countries of East-Central Europe,” Studies in Medical Geography, Vol. 4. Hafner Publishing Co., 31 East Tenth St., New York 3, N.Y., 1963. 292 pages with table of contents, index and black and white maps. $10.50.

William G. Tyrrell. We New Yorkers. Oxford Book Co., 71 Fifth Ave., New York 3, N.Y., 1963. vi and 294 pages with table of contents, maps, photographs, drawings and index. $2.75 (net school price).     

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Arroyos and Environmental Change in the American South-West. By Ronald U. Cooke and Richard W. Reeves. Oxford Research Studies in Geography. London and New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 213, $18.75.

Uganda: The Asian Exiles. By Thomas and Margaret Melady. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1976. Pp. 86, $6.95.

Urban Japan: Its Foundations and Growth. By David Kornhauser. The World's Landscapes, ed. J. M. Houston. London and New York: Longman, 1976. Pp. xiii + 180, $15.00 and $7.50.

Our Landed Heritage: The Public Domain, 1776–1970. 2nd ed. By Roy M. Robbins. Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 1976.

The North American City. By Maurice Yeates and Barry Garner. 2nd ed. New York: Harper &; Row, 1976. Pp. xxv + 512, $13.95.

The Reasons for the Seasons: The Great Cosmic Megagalactic Trip Without Moving from your Chair. By Linda Allison. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Pp. 128, $6.95 and $3.95.