Book Reviews

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Rethinking the Region . By John Allen, Doreen Massey, and Allan Cochrane. New York: Routledge, 1998. Maps, montages, preface, bibliography, and index, x+159 pp. $25.99 paper.

Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States . By Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. Illustrations, acknowledgments, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index, xii+273 pp. $45 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Wide Skies: Finding a Home in the West . By Gary Holthaus. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997. Preface and acknowledgments. xix+167 pp. $16.95 paper.

Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West . By Paul F. Starrs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Maps, charts, tables, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, index, glossary, bibliographic essay, and index, xx+257 pp. $35.95 cloth.

The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala . By Mark Brazaitis. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998. Acknowledgments. 186 pp. $16.95 paper.

The Language of Landscape . By Anne Whiston Spirn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Introduction, prologue, notes, sources, acknowledgments, and index. 326 pp. $35 cloth.

Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory . Edited by Chris Rojek and John Urry. New York: Routledge, 1997. List of illustrations, notes on contributors, acknowledgments, bibliography, name index, and subject index. 214 pp. $22.99 paper.

Infectious Rhythm: Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture . By Barbara Browning. New York: Routledge, 1998. Acknowledgments, preface, notes, and index, xiv+234 pp. $18.99 paper.

New Frontiers of Space, Bodies, and Gender . By Rosa Ainley. New York: Routledge, 1998. List of illustrations, notes on contributors, acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography, and index, xvii+243 pp. $25.99 paper.

Explorations in Critical Human Geography . By Derek Gregory. Heidelberg: University of Heidelberg, 1998.122 pp. 25DM.

Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems . Edited by John Pickles. New York: Guilford Press, 1995. Preface and index, xvi+248 pp. $19.95 paper.