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The article reviews the book "Nordic Landscapes: Region and Belonging on the Northern Edge of Europe," edited by Michael Jones and Kenneth R. Olwig.

The article reviews the book "Geographies of Globalization: A Critical Introduction," by Andrew Herod.

The article reviews the book "Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town," by A. Tucker.

The article reviews the book "The People's Property? Power, Politics, and the Public," by L. A. Staeheli and D. Mitchell.

The article reviews the book "Muslims in Britain: Race, Place and Identity," edited by Peter Hopkins and Richard Gale.

The article reviews the book "Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism," edited by T. Winter, P. Teo, and T. C. Chang.

The article reviews the book "Political Geography: An Introduction to Space and Power," second edition, by J. Painter and A. Jeffrey.

The article reviews the book "Telling Young Lives: Portraits of Global Youth," edited by Craig Jeffrey and Jane Dyson.

The article reviews the book "Degrees Without Freedom? Education, Masculinities and Unemployment in North India," by Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffrey, and Roger Jeffrey.

The article reviews the book "Belonging: A Culture of Place," by Bell Hooks.

The article reviews the book "Readings in urban geography," edited by H. Mayer and C. Kohn.

The article reviews the book "Social Geography: A Critical Introduction," by Vincent J. del Casino.

The article reviews the book "War, Violence, and Population: Making the Body Count," by James A. Tyner.

The article reviews the book "Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities," by Linda McDowell.

The article reviews the book "Mobility," by Peter Adey.

The article reviews the book "Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya," by J. Wainwright.

Anderson, K. and Gale, F., editors, 1999: Cultural geographies. Harlow: Longman. xviii + 350 pp. £19.99 paper. ISBN: 0 582 81086 8. Bagnasco, A. and Le Galès, P., editors 2000: Cities in contemporary Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ix + 212 pp. £37.50/$59.95 cloth, £13.95/$22.95 paper. ISBN: 0 52166 2486 cloth, 0 52166 4888 paper. Balshaw, M. and Kennedy, L., editors 2000: Urban space and representation. London: Pluto Press. viii + 201 pp. £45.00 cloth, £14.99 paper. ISBN: 0 7453 1349 3 cloth, 0 7453 1344 2 paper. Bennett, M. and Teague, D., editors 1999: The nature of cities: ecocriticism and urban environments. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. vi + 311 pp. $19.95. ISBN: 0 8165 1949 8. Benton, L.M. and Short, J.M., editors 2000: Environmental discourse and practice – a reader. Oxford: Blackwell. xvi + 271 pp. £15.99 paper. ISBN: 0 631 21637 5. Blunt, A. and Wills, J. 2000: Dissident geographies: an introduction to radical ideas and practice. Harlow: Prentice Hall. ix + 212 pp. £18.99 paper. ISBN: 0 582 29489 4. . Dodds, K. and Atkinson, D., editors 2000: Geopolitical traditions: a century of geopolitical thought. London: Routledge. xvi + 392 pp. £55.00 cloth, £18.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 17248 9 cloth, 0 415 17249 9 paper. Fevre, R. and Thompson, A., editors 1999: Nation, identity and social theory: perspectives from Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 278 pp. £25.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 7083 1545 3. Final report of Urban Task Force, chaired by Lord Rogers of Riverside 1999: Towards an urban renaissance. London: Routledge. 328 pp. £19.99 paper. ISBN: 1 85112 165 X. Frantz, K. 1999: Indian reservations in the United States: territory, sovereignty, and socioeconomic change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Originally published as Frantz, K., 1993, Die Indianerreservationen in den USA, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.) 370 pp. £17.50/$25.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 226 26089 5. Graham, B., Ashworth, G.J. and Tunbridge, J.E. 2000: A geography of heritage: power, culture and economy. London: Arnold. viii + 284 pp. £45.00 cloth, £16.99 paper. ISBN: 0 340 67779 1 cloth, 0 340 67778 3 paper. Hall, P. 1999: Cities in civilization. Culture, innovation and urban order. London: Orion. xiv + 1170 pp. £16.99 paper. ISBN: 0 75380 815 3. Hay, C. 1999: The political economy of New Labour: labouring under false pretences? Manchester: Manchester University Press. xii + 242 pp. £45.00 cloth, £14.99 paper. ISBN: 0 71905 4818 cloth, 0 71905 4826 paper. Khadria, B. 1999: The migration of knowledge workers: second-generation effects of India’s brain drain. New Delhi/London: Sage. 241 pp. £27.50 cloth. ISBN: 81 7036 785 9 India; 0 7619 9320 7 USA. Low, N., Gleeson, B., Elander, I. and Lidskog, R., editors 2000: Consuming cities: the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio declaration. London: Routledge. xiii + 315 pp. £55.00 cloth, £19.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 18768 0 cloth, 0 415 18769 9 paper. Miranne, K. and Young, A. editors 2000: Gendering the city: women, boundaries, and visions of urban life. New York: Rowman & Littlefield. ix + 229 pp. £51.00 cloth, £18.95 paper. ISBN: 0 8476 945 0 cloth, 0 8476 9451 8 paper. Newman, D., editor 1999: Boundaries, territory and postmodernity. London: Frank Cass. 206 pp. £37.50 cloth, £16.50 paper. ISBN: 0 7146 4973 2 cloth, 0 7146 8033 8 paper. Soja, E.W. 2000: Postmetropolis: critical studies of cities and regions. Oxford: Blackwell. xx + 444 pp. £60/$62.95 cloth, £16.99/$26.95 paper. ISBN: 1 57718 000 2 cloth, 1 57718 001 1 paper. Tickle, A. and Welsh, I., editors 1998: Environment and society in eastern Europe. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman. xvi + 192 pp. £14.99 paper. ISBN: 0 582 22763 1. Westlund, H., Granberg, A. and Snickars, F., editors 2000: Regional development in Russia: past policies and future prospects. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. xxii + 205 pp. £49.95 cloth. ISBN: 1 84064 269 6. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adam, B. 1998: Timescapes of modernity. The environment and invisible hazards. London: Routledge. viii + 247 pp. £45.50 cloth, £14.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 16274 2 cloth, 0 415 16275 0 paper. Buechler, S.M. 2000: Social movements in advanced capitalism: the political economy and cultural construction of social activism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xiii + 240 pp. £15.99 paper. ISBN: 0 19 512604 1. Burch, D., Goss, J. and Lawrence, G., editors, 1999: Restructuring global and regional agricultures: transformation in Australasian agri-food economies and spaces. Aldershot: Ashgate. xix + 320 pp. £42.50 cloth. ISBN: 1 84014 975 2. Dasgupta, B. 1998: Structural adjustment, global trends and the new political economy of development. London and New York: Zed Books. 434 pp. £69.95 cloth, £14.95 paper. ISBN: 1 85649 595 7 cloth, 1 85649 596 5 paper. Doel, M. 1999: Poststructuralist geographies: the diabolical art of spatial science. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 229 pp. £47.95 cloth, £16.00 paper. ISBN: 0 7486 1242 4 cloth, 0 7486 1243 2 paper. Evans, G., editor, 1999: The end of class politics? Class voting in comparative context. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xvi + 364 pp. £17.99 paper. ISBN: 0 19 829634 7. Gardiner, V. and Matthews, H., editors, 2000: The changing geography of the United Kingdom. London: Routledge. xxiii + 503 pp. £19.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 17901 7. Mohan, J. 1999: A United Kingdom? Economic, social and political geographies. London: Arnold. xi + 258 pp. £15.99 paper. ISBN: 0 340 67752 X. Gupta, A. 1998: Postcolonial developments: agriculture in the making of modern India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. xv + 409 pp. $21.95 paper. ISBN: 0 8223 2213 7. Hall, C.M. and Page, S.J. 1999: The geography of tourism and recreation – environment, place and space. London and New York: Routledge. xvii + 309 pp. £15.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 16004 9. Harvey, D. 2000: Spaces of hope. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. x + 293 pp. £45.00 cloth, £14.95 paper. ISBN: 0 7486 1269 6 cloth, 0 7486 1268 8 paper. Hetherington, K. 1997: Badlands of modernity. London: Routledge. x + 164 pp. £45.00 cloth, £14.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 11469 1 cloth, 0 415 11470 5 paper. Laurie, N., Dwyer, C., Holloway, S. and Smith, F. 1999: Geographies of new femininities. Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education. xiii + 225 pp. £16.99 paper. ISBN: 0 582 32024 0. Lee, C.K. 1998: Gender and the economic miracle in south China: two worlds of factory women. Berkeley, CA, and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. xiv + 210 pp. £35.00 cloth, £12.95 paper. ISBN: 0 520 21125 1 cloth, 0 520 21127 8 paper. Lo, F.C. and Yeung, Y.M., editors, 1998: Globalization and the world of large cities. New York: United Nations University Press. xvi + 530 pp. US$34.95 paper. ISBN: 9 28080 999 7. MacCannell, D. 1999: The tourist: a new theory of the leisure class. Berkeley, CA, and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. 231 pp. £10.95 paper. ISBN: 0 52021 892 2 (originally published New York: Schocken Books, 1976). McNeill, D. 1999: Urban change and the European left: tales from the new Barcelona. London: Routledge. xi + 198 pp. £50.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 415 17062 1. Monti, D.J. Jr 1999: The American city: a social and cultural history. Oxford: Blackwell. viii + 391 pp. £55.00 (US$62.95) cloth, £16.99 (US$27.99) paper. ISBN: 1 55786 917 0 cloth, 1 55786 918 9 paper. Njoh, A.J. 1999: Urban planning, housing and spatial structures in sub-Saharan Africa. Aldershot: Ashgate. xvi + 270 pp. £39.95 cloth. ISBN: 0 7546 1094 2. Peet, R. 1998: Modern geographic thought. Oxford: Blackwell. ix + 345 pp. £60.00 cloth, £16.99 paper. ISBN: 1 55786 206 0 cloth, 1 55786 378 4 paper. Pitte, J.R. and Sanguin, A.L., editors, 1999: Géographie et liberté. Mélanges en hommage à Paul Claval. Paris: L’Harmattan. 758 pp. Ffr39.00 paper. ISBN: 2 7384 8575 8. Sittirak, S. 1998: The daughters of development: women in a changing environment. London: Zed Books. xix + 153 pp. £36.95 cloth, £12.95 paper. ISBN: 1 85649 587 6 cloth, 1 85649 588 4 paper. Turnock, D. 1998: An historical geography of railways in Great Britain and Ireland. Aldershot: Ashgate. xiv + 379 pp. £65.00 cloth. ISBN: 1 85928 450 7. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ackers, L. 1998: Shifting spaces. Women, citizenship and migration within the European Union. Bristol: The Policy Press. vii + 343 pp. £18.99 paper. ISBN: I 86134 038 9. Allen, J., Massey, D. and Pryke, M., editors, 1999: Unsettling cities: movement/settlement. London: Routledge and Milton Keynes: The Open University Press. ix + 354 pp. £16.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 20072 5. Allmendinger, P. and Chapman, M., editors, 1999: Planning beyond 2000. Chichester: John Wiley. vi + 309 pp. £22.50 paper. ISBN: 0 471 9442 6. Ball, M., Lizieri, C. and MacGregor, B.D. 1998: The economics of commercial property markets. London: Routledge. xiv + 402 pp. £65.00 cloth, £22.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 14992 4 cloth, 0 415 14993 2 paper. Hoyle, B. and Knowles, R., editors, 1998: Modern transport geography. Chichester: Wiley. viii + 376 pp. £19.99 paper. ISBN: 0 471 97777 2. Keyder, Ç., editor, 1999: Istanbul: between the global and the local. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. viii + 201 pp. US$59.00 cloth, US$24.99 paper. ISBN: 0 8476 9494 1 cloth, 0 8476 9495 X paper. Leap, W., editor, 1999: Public sex / gay space. New York: Columbia University Press. 287 pp. £40.00 cloth, £13.95 paper. ISBN: 0 231 10690 4 cloth, 0 231 10691 2 paper. Macnaghten, P. and Urry, J. 1998: Contested natures. London: Sage. 307 pp. £49.50 cloth, £15.99 paper. ISBN: 0 7619 5312 4 cloth, 0 7619 5313 2 paper. Malecki, E.J. and Oinas, P., editors, 1999: Making connections: technological learning and regional economic change. Aldershot: Ashgate. xiii + 282 pp. £39.95 cloth. ISBN: 1 84014 550 1. Marsden, T., Flynn, A. and Harrison, M. 2000: Consuming interests. The social provision of foods. London: UCL Press. xiv + 220 pp. £50.00 cloth, £16.99 paper. ISBN: 1 857 28899 8 cloth, 1 857 28900 5 paper. McLaughlin, A.M. and Maloney, W.A. 1999: The European automobile industry: multi-level governance, policy and politics. London: Routledge. xiii + 256 pp. £50.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 415 11329 6. Obosu-Mensah, K. 1999: Food production in urban areas: a study of urban agriculture in Accra, Ghana. Aldershot: Ashgate. xii + 231 pp. £39.95 cloth. ISBN: 0 7546 1029 2. Paasi, A. 1996: Territories, boundaries and consciousness: the changing geographies of the Finnish–Russian border. Chichester: Wiley. xii + 354 pp. £60.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 471 96119 1. Pandit, K. and Withers, S.D., editors, 1999: Migration and restructuring in the United States: a geographic perspective. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. viii + 354 pp. US$69.00 cloth, US$34.95 paper. ISBN: 0 8476 9392 9 cloth, 0 8476 9393 7 paper. Proctor, J.D. and Smith, D.M., editors, 1999: Geography and ethics. Journeys in a moral terrain. London: Routledge. xv + 303 pp. £55.00 cloth, £18.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 18968 3 cloth, 0 415 18969 1 paper. Reichl, A.J. 1999: Reconstructing Times Square. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. xii + 239 pp. £31.95 cloth, £15.95 paper. ISBN: 0 7006 0949 0 cloth, 0 7006 0950 4 paper. Robinson, J. 1996: The power of apartheid: state, power and space in South African cities. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. x + 250 pp. £19.99 paper. ISBN: 0 7506 2689 5. Schlör, J. 1999: Tel-Aviv: from dream to city. London: Reaktion Books. 340 pp. £19.95 (US$34.00) paper. ISBN: 1 86189 033 8. Shapiro, I. and Hacker-Gordon, C., editors, 1999: Democracy’s value. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xiii + 202 pp. £35.00 cloth, £12.95 paper. ISBN: 0 521 64357 0 cloth, 0 521 64388 0 paper. Shapiro, I. and Hacker-Gordon, C., editors, 1999: Democracy’s edges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xiii + 297 pp. £35.00 cloth, £12.95 paper. ISBN: 0 521 64356 2 cloth, 0 521 64389 9 paper. Shaw, D.J.B. 1999: Russia in the modern world: a new geography. Oxford: Blackwell. xii + 314 pp. £15.99 paper. ISBN: 0 631 181 342. Short, J.R. and Kim, Y.H. 1999: Globalization and the city. Harlow: Longman. xii + 169 pp. £18.99 paper. ISBN: 0 582 36912 6. Simon, D. and Närman, A., editors, 1999: Development as theory and practice: current perspectives on development and development co-operation. Harlow: Longman. x + 282 pp. ISBN: 0 582 41417 2. Smith, G., Law, V., Wilson, A., Bohr, A. and Allworth, E. 1998: Nation-building in the post-Soviet borderlands: the politics of national identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Allen, J.L., editor, 1997: A new world disclosed. Lincoln, NB, and London: University of Nebraska Press. xvii + 538 pp. £72.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 8032 1015 9. Barrow, C.J. 1999: Alternative irrigation: the promise of runoff agriculture. London: Earthscan. xvii + 172 pp. £40.00 cloth, £15.95 paper. ISBN: 1 85383 495 5 cloth, 1 85383 496 3 paper. Crang, M., Crang, P. and May, J., editors, 1999: Virtual geographies: bodies, space and relations. London: Routledge. 322 pp. £50.00 cloth, £15.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 16827 9 cloth, 0 415 16828 7 paper. Cravey, A.J. 1998: Women and work in Mexico’s maquiladoras. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. xii + 176 pp. US$52.00 cloth, US$19.95 paper. ISBN: 0 8476 8885 2 cloth, 0 8476 8886 0 paper. Fernández-Kelly, M.P. 1983: For we are sold, I and my people: women and industry in Mexico’s frontier. Albany, IN: State University of New York Press. Dodgshon, R.A. 1998: Society in time and space: a geographical perspective on change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xii + 230 pp. £37.50 cloth, £13.95 paper. ISBN: 0 521 59385 9 cloth, 0 521 59640 8 paper. Esping-Andersen, G. 1999: Social foundations of postindustrial economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ix + 207 pp. £40.00 cloth, £14.99 paper. ISBN: 0 19874 201 1 cloth, 0 19874 200 2 paper. Feagin, J.R. 1997: The new urban paradigm: critical perspectives on the city. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield. xiv + 357 pp. £46.00 cloth, £18.95 paper. ISBN: 0 8476 8498 9 cloth, 0 8476 8499 7 paper. Fyfe, N.R., editor, 1998: Images of the street: planning, identity and control in public space. London and New York: Routledge. xv + 286 pp. £16.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 15441 3. Gamble, A., Marsh, D. and Tant, T., editors, 1999: Marxism and social science. London: Macmillan. ix + 381 pp. £42.50 cloth, £13.99 paper. ISBN: 0 333 65595 8 cloth, 0 333 65596 6 paper. Goodman, D. and Watts, M.J., editors, 1997: Globalising food: agrarian questions and global restructuring. London: Routledge. xv + 383 pp. £50.00 cloth, £16.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 16252 1 cloth, 0 415 16253 X paper. Gould, P. 1999: Becoming a geographer. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. xvi + 350 pp. US$34.95 cloth. ISBN: 0 1856 0566 8. Harmon, A. 1999: Indians in the making: ethnic relations and Indian identities around Puget Sound. American Crossroads Series 3. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. xii + 393 pp. US$40.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 520 21176 6. Harré, R., Brockmeier, J. and Mühlhäusler, P. 1999: Greenspeak: a study of environmental discourse. London: Sage. xii + 204 pp. £41.00 cloth, £18.99 paper. ISBN: 0 7619 1704 7 cloth, 0 7619 1705 5 paper. Held, D., McGrew, A., Goldblatt, D. and Perraton, J. 1999: Global transformations: politics, economics and culture. Oxford: Polity. xxiv + 515 pp. £59.50 cloth, £16.99 paper. ISBN: 0 74561 498 1 cloth, 0 74561 499 X paper. Hollingsworth, J.R. and Boyer, R., editors, 1999: Contemporary capitalism: the embeddedness of institutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xvi + 493 pp. £45.00 cloth, £14.95 paper. ISBN: 0 521 56165 5 cloth, 0 521 65806 3 paper. Luke, T.W. 1997: Ecocritique: contesting the politics of nature, economy and culture. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minneapolis Press. US$19.95 paper. ISBN: 0 8166 2847 5. Matsumoto, V.J. and Allmendinger, B., editors, 1999: Over the edge: remapping the American west. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press. xii + 399 pp. £37.50 ($48.00) cloth, £13.95 ($19.95) paper. ISBN: 0 520 21148 0 cloth, 0 520 21149 9 paper. Pattison, G. 1999: Restructuring culture: identification of difference and the regulation of change in ex-mining communities. Aldershot: Ashgate. vi + 211 pp. £37.50 cloth. ISBN: 1 84014 330 4. Preston, P.W. 1998: Pacific Asia in the global system: an introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. vi + 283 pp. £50.00 cloth, £15.99 paper. ISBN: 0 631 20374 4 cloth, 0 631 20238 2 paper. Rostow, W.W. 1998: The great population spike and after: reflections on the 21st century. New York: Oxford University Press x + 228 pp. £26.99 cloth. ISBN: 0 19 511691 7. Scott, S. and Duncan, C.J. 1998: Human demography and disease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xvi + 354 pp. £50.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 521 62052 X. Southall, A. 1998: The city in time and space. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. x + 473 pp. £45.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 521 46211 8. van Grunsven, L., editor, 1998: Regional change in industrializing Asia. IGU Commission on the Organisation of Industrial Space. Aldershot: Ashgate. xiv + 238 pp. £37.50 cloth. ISBN: 1 840114 114 1. Wyckoff, W. 1999: Creating Colorado: t. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ben Jelloun, T. 1999: French hospitality: racism and North African immigrants. New York: Columbia University Press. 153 pp. £16.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 231 11376 5. Buttimer, A., Brunn Stanley, D. and Wardenga, U., editors, 1999: Text and image social construction of regional knowledge. Leipzig: Institute für Länderkunde. 302 pp. DM 39.00. ISBN: 3 86082 033 B. Byrne, D. 1999: Social exclusion. Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press. 158 pp. £45.00 cloth, £16.99 paper. ISBN: 0 335 19975 5 cloth, 0 335 19974 7 paper. Friman, R.H. and Andreas, P., editors, 1999: The illicit global economy and state power. New York: Rowman and Littlefield. viii + 207 pp. US$65.00 cloth, US$22.95 paper. ISBN: 0 8476 9303 1 cloth, 0 8476 9304 X paper. Gallent, N. and Tewdwr-Jones, M. 2000: Rural second homes in Europe: examining housing supply and planning control. Aldershot: Ashgate. x + 166 pp. £37.50 cloth. ISBN: 1 84014 582 X. Nogué, J. and Villanova, J.L., editors, 1999: España en Marruecos (1912–1956): discursos geográficos e intervención territorial. Lleida: Editorial Milenio. 570 pp. 3500 pesetas. ISBN: 84 89790 39 6. Ó Tuathail, G. and Dalby, S., editors, 1998: Rethinking geopolitics. London and New York: Routledge. xii + 333 pp, £18.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 17251 9. Papastergiadis, N. 2000: The turbulence of migration: globalization, deterritorialization and hybridity. Cambridge: Polity Press. viii + 246 pp. £50.00 cloth, £14.99 paper. ISBN: 0 7456 1430 2 cloth, 0 7456 1431 0 paper. Pomeranz, K. and Topik, S. 1999: The world that trade created. London: M.E. Sharp. xi + 256 pp. $34.95 cloth. ISBN: 0 7656 0249 0. Porter, P.W. and Sheppard, E.S. 1998: A world of difference: society, nature, development. London and New York: Guilford Press. xiv + 602 pp. £42.95 cloth, £22.95 paper. ISBN: 1 57230 071 X cloth, 1 57230 071 X paper. Prügl, E. 1999: The global construction of gender: home-based work in the political economy of the 20th century. New York: Columbia University Press. xi + 231 pp. £31.50 cloth, £12.00 paper. ISBN: 0 231 11560 1 cloth, 0 213 11561 X paper. Rietbergen, T.V. 1999: The internationalization of European insurance groups. Nederlandse Geografische Studies 250. Utrecht: The Royal Dutch Geographical Society/Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University. 206 pp. Dfl45.00. ISBN: 90 6809 272 3. Roberts, G.K. and Steadman, P. 1999: American cities and technology: wilderness to wired city. London: Routledge. xii + 267 pp. £60.00 cloth, £17.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 20083 0 cloth, 0 415 20084 9 paper. Robinson, C. 2000: Black Marxism: The making of the Black radical tradition. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. xxxiii + 436 pp. £19.95 paper. ISBN: 0 807 84829 8. Robinson, G.M., Loughran, R.J. and Tranter, P.J. 1999: Australia and New Zealand: economy, society and environment. London: Arnold. viii + 391 pp. £55.00 cloth, £18.99 paper. ISBN: 0 340 72032 8 cloth, 0 340 72033 6 paper. Rossiter, D.J., Johnston, R.J. and Pattie, C.J. 1999: The Boundary Commissions. Redrawing the UK’s map of parliamentary constituencies. Manchester: Manchester University Press. xiv + 429 pp. £35.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 7190 5083 9. Schneer, J. 1999: London 1900: the imperial metropolis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 336 pp. $29.95 cloth. ISBN: 0 300 07625 8. Smith, M.A. and Kollock, P., editors, 1999: Communities in cyberspace. London: Routledge. x + 322 pp. £17.99 paper. ISBN: 0 425 1940 8. Stratford, E., editor, 1999: Australian cultural geographies. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. xv + 192 pp. $AUS29.95 cloth. ISBN: 0 19 550608 1. Takahashi, L. 1998: Homelessness, AIDS and stigmatization: the NIMBY syndrome in the United States at the end of the twentieth century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xiv + 267 pp. £40.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 19 823362 0. Townsend, A.R. 1997: Making a living in Europe: human geographies of economic change. London: Routledge. xvii + 266 pp. £45.00 cloth, £14.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 14480 9 paper. 0 415 14479 5 cloth. Turok, I. and Edge, N. 1999: The jobs gap in Britain’s cities: employment loss and labour market consequences. Bristol: The Policy Press. xii + 63 pp. £13.95 paper. ISBN: 1 86134 160 1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'Gender and Migration (International Library of Studies of Migration, Volume 10),' edited by K. Willis and B. Yeoh.

The article reviews the book "The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography," by K.R. Cox, M. Low and J. Robinson.

The article reviews the book "Limits to privatization: how to avoid too much of a good thing: a report to the club of Rome," edited by E. U. von Weizsäcker, O. Young and M. Finger with M. Beisheim.

Reviews the book 'Cultural Economy: Cultural Analysis and Commercial Life,' edited by P. Du Gay and M. Pryke.

The article reviews the book "Social movements: an anthropological reader," edited by J. Nash.

Reviews books about human geography. 'Cities: Reimagining the Urban,' by A. Amin and N. Thrift; 'The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism,' by W.J. Baumol; 'Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth,' by T. Brass.

Tufte, E.R. 1997: Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative. Zurich: Graphics Press. 156 pp. US$45.00 paper. ISBN: 0 961 39212 6. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Development beyond neoliberalism? Governance, poverty reduction and political economy," by David Craig and Douglas Porter.

Reviews the book "Studies in Human Ecology," by G.A. Theodorson.

Reviews the book 'Service Industries in the Global Economy,' Volumes 1 and 2, edited by J.R. Bryson and P.W. Daniels.

Reviews books on geopolitics. 'The Changing Shape of the Balkans,' edited by F.W. Carter and H.T. Norris; 'Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century,' by R. Crampton and B. Crampton.

Reviews the book 'Nationalism and Rationality,' edited by A. Breton, G. Galeotti, P. Salmon and R. Wintrobe.

Reviews the book 'Body Cultures: Essays on Sport, Space and Identity, (Bale, J. and Philo, C., editors),' by H. Eichberg.

Reviews the book 'The Human Impact Reader: Readings and Case Studies,' edited by A. Goudie.

Reviews the book 'Environmental Management: Readings and Case Studies,' edited by L. Owen and T. Unwin.

The article reviews several books including "Politics: Critical Essays in Human Geography," edited by J. Agnew and V. Mamadouh, "Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography," edited by K. Anderson and B. Braun, "Development: Critical Essays in Human Geography," edited by S. Corbridge, part of the book series "book "Contemporary Foundations of Space and Place," edited by J. Agnew.

The article reviews the book "Publics & the City," by K. Iveson.

The article reviews the book "The Structure of Political Geography," edited by R. E. Kasperson and J. V. Minghi.

The article reviews the book "Cultural Quarters: Principles and Practice," by S. Roodhouse.

The article reviews two books "Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos," by G. Chesters and I. Welsh and "Civil Societies & Social Movements: Domestic, Transnational, Global," by R. D. Lipschutz.

The article reviews the book "A social geography of Belfast," by Emrys Jones.

The article reviews the book "British sociology seen from without and within," edited by A. H. Halsey and W. G. Runciman.

The article reviews two books, "Géographies plurielles. Les sciences géographiques au moment de l'émergence des sciences humaines, 1750-1850," edited by Hélène Blais and Isabelle Laboulais, and "Couvrir le monde. Un grand XXe siècle de géographie française," edited by Marie-Claire Robic.

The article reviews several books on human geography including "Geography and History: Bridging the Divide," by A. R. H. Baker, "Geography and Technology," by S.D. Brunn, S. L. Cutter, and J. W. Harrington, Jr., and "Practicing Human Geography," by P. Cloke, I. Cook, P. Crang, M. Goodwin, J. Painter, and C. Philo.

The article reviews the book "Innovation diffusion: a new perspective," by L.A. Brown.

The article reviews several books including "The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader," edited by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, "Aesthethics of the Natural Environment," by Emily Brady, and "The Boom and the Bubble: The US in the World Economy," by Robert B. Brenner.

The article reviews the books "Deglobalization: New Ideas for Running the World's Economy," by W. Bello and "Rethinking Globalization: Critical Issues and Policy Choices," by M. Khor.

The article reviews several books including "Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes–Perspectives From Philosophy, Geography and Architecture," edited by G. Backhaus and John Murungi, "The Globalization of Sexuality," by J. Binnie, "The New Economic Sociology: A Reader," edited by F. Dobbin, "French Beans and Food Scares: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age," by S. Freidberg, and "Reinventing Accountability: Making Democracy Work for Human Development," by A. M. Goetz and R. Jenkins.

Reviews books on human geography. "Science, Seeds and Cyborgs: Biotechnology and the Appropriation of Life," by F. Bowring; "State/Space: A Reader," edited by N. Brenner, B. Jessop, M. Jones, and G. MacLeod; Working Capital: Life and Labour in Contemporary London," by N. Buck, I. Gordon, P. Hall, M. Harloe, and M. Kleinman.