Book Reviews

Abstract

Abstract Rock Weathering and Landform Evolution. D. A. Robinson and R. 6. G. Williams, eds. Reviewed by Ronald I. Dorn, Department of Geography, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Cold Climate Landforms. David J. A. Evans, ed. Reviewed by Susan W. S. Millar, Department of Geography, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut. The Climate and Weather of Florida. James A. Henry, Kenneth M. Portier and Jan Coyne. Reviewed by Anthony J. Vega, Department of Geography and Earth Science, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, Pennsylvania. Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives. Robert E. Ricklefs and Dolph Schluter, eds. Reviewed by Kenneth R. Young, Department of Geography, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland. The Tiwanaku: Portrait of an Andean Civilization. Alan L. Kolata. Reviewed by William Custav Gartner, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Living with Risk: The Geography of Technological Hazards. Susan L. Cutter. Reviewed by Martin J. Pasqualetti, Department of Geography, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America. Douglas L. Murray. Reviewed by J. Darrel Allender, Department of Geography, Political Science, and Sociology, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas. Environmental Resources and Constraints in the Former Soviet Republics. Philip R. Pryde, ed. Reviewed by Dale R. Lightfoot, Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. Environmental Security and Quality after Communism: Eastern Europe and the Soviet Successor States. Joan DeBardeleben and John Hannigan, eds. Reviewed by Anke K. Wessels, Department of Geography, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. Place/Culture/Representation. James Duncan and David Ley, eds. Reviewed by Kay Anderson, Department of Geography and Oceanography, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. Culture, Form, and Place: Essays in Cultural and Historical Geography. Kent Mathewson, ed. Reviewed by Philip L. Wagner, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The American Mosaic: The Impact of Space, Time, and Culture on American Politics. Daniel J. Elazar. Reviewed by Christopher L. Salter, Department of Geography, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. Giving Voice to Stones: Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature. Barbara McKean Parmenter. Reviewed by Roger Mark Selya, Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. Women, Work, and Place. Audrey Kobayashi, ed. Reviewed by Ann M. Oberhauser, Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, Morgan-town, West Virginia. The Resources of Poverty: Women and Survival in a Mexican City. Mercedes González de la Rocha. Reviewed by Altha J. Cravey, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Retail Change: Contemporary Issues. Rosemary D. F. Bromley and Colin J. Thomas, eds. Reviewed by 1. Andrew Slack, Department of Geography, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Managing Fast Growing Cities: New Approaches to Urban Planning and Management in the Developing World. N. Devas and C. Rakodi, eds. Reviewed by Ashok K. Dutt, Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective. Gareth Shaw and Allan M. Williams. Reviewed by John A. Jakle, Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois. The Promise of Paradise: Recreational and Retirement Communities in the United States since 1950. Hubert B. Stroud. Reviewed by Stephen M. Colant, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Planning at the Crossroads. James Simmie. Reviewed by H. Roger Hamilton, Environmental Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi. Chaos, Fractales et Dynamiques en Geographie. André Dauphiné. Reviewed by Michael Batty, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, United Kingdom. GPS Satellite Surveying.Alfred Leick Reviewed by Dean P. Lambert, Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. 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