Book Reviews

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Abstract Global Ecology: Environmental Change and Social Flexibility. Vaclav Smil. Reviewed by Brent Yarnal, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. Himalayan Environment: Pressure, Problems, Processes–12 Years of Research. Bruno Messerli, Thomas Hofer, Susanne Wymann, eds. Reviewed by Nigel J. R. Allan. Department of Environmental Design, University of California-Davis, Davis, California. Culture, Conflict, and Communication in the Wildland-Urban Interface. Alan W. Ewert, Deborah J. Chavez, Arthur W. Magill, eds. Reviewed by Laura Pulido and Jennifer Wolch, Department of Geography, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Farms, Mines and Main Streets. Uneven Development in a Dakota County. Caroline S. Tauxe. Reviewed by D. Aidan McQuillan, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Imagining Niagara: The Meaning and Making of Niagara Falls. Patrick V. McGreevy. Reviewed by Kurt Fuellhart, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. The American Landscape: Literary Sources and Documents, 3 Volumes. Graham Clarke, ed. Reviewed by William Wyckoff, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. Invisible Gardens: The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape. Peter Walker and Melanie Simo. Reviewed by George Henderson, Department of Geography and Regional Development, and Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. New World Regionalism: Literature in the Americas. Literature in the Americas. David M. Jordan. Reviewed by Jonathan M. Smith, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Essays on the Changing Images of the Southwest. Richard Francaviglia and David Narrett, eds. Reviewed by Eric P. Perramond, Department of Geography, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. Naming Canada: Stories about Place Names from Canadian Geographic. Alan Rayburn. Reviewed by Victor Konrad, Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program and Department of Geography, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. The Geography of Change in South Africa. Anthony Lemon, ed. Reviewed by Darrell P. Kruger, Department of Geosciences, Northeast Louisiana University, Monroe, Louisiana. The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller. Reviewed by Adrian J. Bailey, Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Tourism: The State of the Art. A. V. Seaton, ed. Reviewed by Keith G. Debbage, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greens-boro, North Carolina. City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn. William J. Mitchell Reviewed by Paul C. Adams, 322 SW. Fillmore, Topeka, Kansas. Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender, and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain. Nicky Gregson and Michelle Lowe. Reviewed by Doreen J. Mattingly, Departments of Geography and Women's Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, California. Ground Truth. The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems. John Pickles, ed. Reviewed by Neil Smith, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge. Gillian Rose. Reviewed by Karen Falconer Al-Hindi, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska. Historical Geography: Through the Gates of Space and Time. Robin A. Butlin. Reviewed by William Norton, Department of Geography, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Bastal Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas. George A. Collier with Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello. Translated by Frank Bardacke, Leslie Lopez, and the Watsonville Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Subcomandante Marcos; Introduction by John Ross, Afterword by Frank Bardacke. The Quest for the Other: Ethnic Tourism in San Cristóbal, Mexico. Pierre L. van den Berghe. Reviewed by Jill Brody, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 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