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Book Cover for: How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens, Hillary Angelo

How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens

Hillary Angelo
American Association of GeographersAmerican Association of Geographers

While Foster's "The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology" and Angelo's "How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens" may have little in common, Brasdefer's review essay weaves the two together in light of COVID-19 https://t.co/lmd3rjMsEK https://t.co/vgtuNaFeYA

Hardcover, 2021

$115.00Member price:$115.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean, Camilla Hawthorne

Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean

Camilla Hawthorne
American Association of GeographersAmerican Association of Geographers

Geographer @camillahawth speaks w/ @USC ethnographer & @HutchinsCenter Fellow @Reighangillam about Hawthorne’s new book Contesting Race & Citizenship: Youth #Politics in the Black Mediterranean (@cornellpress) on @NewBooksNetwork @NewBooksGeog #geography https://t.co/VkTEn7ooVu

Paperback, 2022

$31.95Member price:$31.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive, Jennifer Mae Hamilton

Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive

Jennifer Mae Hamilton
American Association of GeographersAmerican Association of Geographers

AAG Review of Books board member @sashacakes reflects on why and how two recent works, "Pollution Is Colonialism" and "Feminist Queer Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive," matter to her https://t.co/zcAAjtKjcC https://t.co/kpgLIWnghu

Paperback, 2021

$25.00Member price:$22.50 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky, Karl Raitz

Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky

Karl Raitz
American Association of GeographersAmerican Association of Geographers

Travel through the landscapes of Kentucky while learning about the economic geographies of bourbon in two new books by Raitz: "Bourbon's Backroads" and "Making Bourbon." 🥃 Post provides a review: https://t.co/60x9FL9uvx https://t.co/d5L1RBTiAa

Paperback, 2023

$40.00Member price:$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Homo Itinerans: Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan, Alessandro Monsutti

Homo Itinerans: Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan

Alessandro Monsutti
American Association of GeographersAmerican Association of Geographers

Presenting decades-long ethnographic research Monsutti's "Homo Itinerans: Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan" asserts that to understand Afghanistan we must understand transnational ties says reviewer @Oeppen https://t.co/WAhtRav79E https://t.co/Do5LEqbPrN

Paperback, 2023

$29.95Member price:$29.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier, Kristian Karlo Saguin

Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier

Kristian Karlo Saguin
American Association of GeographersAmerican Association of Geographers

Congratulations to Kristian Karlo Saguin of @upsystem for receiving the 2022 AAG Meridian Book Award! Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila’s Resource Frontier serves as a model for students seeking to examine urban places across the globe. https://t.co/ZF7Docodon https://t.co/UnOaOqSnL9

Paperback, 2022

$29.95Member price:$29.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore, Abigail Perkiss

Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore

Abigail Perkiss
American Association of GeographersAmerican Association of Geographers

10 years after #HurricaneSandy, Geographer @ChefStentor talks w/ historian @AbiPerk about her work to preserve stories of people who experienced the storm. *Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey’s Forgotten Shore* (@CornellPress), @NewBooksGeog @NewBooksNetwork https://t.co/WCGikMGJYb

Paperback, 2022

$22.95Member price:$22.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Postcards from the Baja California Border: Portraying Townscape and Place, 1900s-1950s, Daniel D. Arreola

Postcards from the Baja California Border: Portraying Townscape and Place, 1900s-1950s

Daniel D. Arreola
American Association of GeographersAmerican Association of Geographers

Congrats to Daniel Arreola of @ASU for receiving the 2022 AAG Globe Book Award! Postcards from the Baja California Border takes readers on a time-travel journey through border town histories & geographies while celebrating the visual intrigue of postcards. https://t.co/JDMclO6WIh https://t.co/AH8TSFF9gG

Hardcover, 2021

$52.00Member price:$52.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Climate Change Adaptation in Small Island Developing States, Martin J. Bush

Climate Change Adaptation in Small Island Developing States

Martin J. Bush
American Association of GeographersAmerican Association of Geographers

"Center[ing] on the human, social, and policy dimensions of climate change adaptation in small island developing states,” AAG member @island_scholar @colbycollege https://t.co/GAPhU97Pwd #climatechange #SIDS #EarthDay

Hardcover, 2018

$145.95Member price:$131.35 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration: A Participatory Visual Approach, Zoë O'Reilly

The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration: A Participatory Visual Approach

Zoë O'Reilly
American Association of GeographersAmerican Association of Geographers

Read three reviews of O’Reilly’s "The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration: A Participatory Visual Approach" from migration and asylum researchers in this written author meets critics forum: https://t.co/lrBowYI6mg cc @karenetill @malenehjacobsen

Paperback, 2020

$54.99Member price:$52.24 + Free shipping5% off