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Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America . By Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2005. Foreword, preface, acknowledgments and index. viii+186 pp. $17.95 paper. ISBN: 0-8655-4861-7. Coal and Culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia . By William Faricy Condee. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005. List of illustrations, preface, notes, bibliography, and index, xii + 210 pp. $29.95 hardback. ISBN: 0-8214-1588-3. The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles . By David E. James. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. List of illustrations, acknowledgments, notes, and index, xiv+548 pp. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 0-520-24258-0. Landscape and Images . By John R. Stilgoe. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Preface, acknowledgments, notes on illustrations, and index, xiii+354 pp. $34.95 hardback. ISBN: 0-8139-2321-2. Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle Shape a New Urban Environment . By Larry R. Ford. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Foreword, notes, and index, x+240 pp. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 0-8122-1898-1. GIS Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences: Investigating Space and Place . By Steven J. Steinberg and Sheila L. Steinberg. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2006. List of boxes, figures, and tables, preface, glossary, web links, references, and index, xx+252 pp. $44.95 paper. ISBN: 0-7619-2873-1. Music, Space and Place: Popular Music and Cultural Identity . Edited by Sheila Whiteley, Andy Bennett, and Stan Hawkins. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. List of figures and music examples, list of contributors, acknowledgments, preface, bibliography, and index, xiv+224 pp. $94.95 hardback. ISBN: 0-7546-3737-9. Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes . Edited by Carolyn Cartier and Alan A. Lew. London: Routledge, 2CJ05. List of illustrations and contributors, acknowledgments, bibliography, and index. xii+340 pp. $24.99 paper. ISBN 0-415-19219-6.