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BOOK REVIEWS

BOOK REVIEWS

Pages 116-140 | Published online: 15 Mar 2010
 

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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. -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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