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Ethics, Place, and Environment

Books for Review

Ethics, Place and Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography seeks reviewers for the books listed below. Should you be interested in reviewing one of these titles (or desire more information about a book in order to know whether you might be interested), please email me.

Please let me know in which title you are interested and your relevant qualifications.

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Thank you,

Jonathan Maskit

Reviews Editor

Ethics, Place and Environment

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A. 1000 word reviews of single books

Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason

Gunnar Olsson

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007, xii + 584 pp., cloth, $40.00

Blue-Green Coalitions: Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities

Brian Mayer

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009, 232 pp, cloth, $55, paper, $19.95

Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes

Sharon K. Collinge

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 340 pp, $70, cloth

The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law and the Environment

Mark Sagoff

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, xi + 266 pp., cloth, $80.00, paper, $27.99

Ecoscapes: Geographical Patternings of Relations

Gary Backhaus, John Murungi

Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2006, xxxii + 241 pp., cloth, $70.00, $25.95, paper

Human Goodness

Yi-Fu Tuan

Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2008, xii +232 pp., cloth, $24.95

The Incompleat Eco-Philosopher: Essays from the Edge of Environmental Ethics

Anthony Weston

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 196 pp., $65.60 cloth, $21.95, paper

Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the Meanings of Palais Stonborough.

Roger Paden

Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2007, xiii+214 pp., cloth, $55.00, paper, $26.95

The Nature of Being Human: From Environmentalism to Consciousness

Harold Fromm

Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 299 pp, $35, cloth

The Nature of Home: Taking Root in a Place

Greta Gaard

Tuscon, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2007, ix + 224 pp. paper, $17.95

The Nature of the State: Excavating the Political Ecologies of the Modern State

Mark Whitehead, Rhys Jones, and Martin Jones

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, xiv + 234 pp., cloth $110.00

Nested Ecology: The Place of Humans in the Ecological Hierarchy

Edward T. Wimberley

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 245 pp, $60, cloth, $30, paper

The Origins of Modern Environmental Thought

J.E. de Steiguer

Tuscon, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2006, x + 256 pp., paper, $24.95

Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge

Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore (ed.)

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008, ix + 287 pp., cloth, $74.50, paper, $24.95

Reconnecting Lives to the Land: An Agenda for Critical Dialogue

Allison Hayes Conroy

Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Press, 2007, 235 pp., paper, $49.50

Representing Local Places and Raising Voices from Below

Toshio Mizuuchi (Ed.)

Osaka, Japan: for-you Ltd., 2003, 142 pp.

A Theory of General Ethics: Human Relationships, Nature, and the Built Environment

Warwick Fox

Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, x + 400 pp., paper $28.00

Understanding Urban Policy: A Critical Approach

Allan Cochrane

Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 178 pp., paper, $39.95

Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals

Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 188 pp., $26, cloth

B. 2000 word reviews of multiple books

Multiple Review B.1:

Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions

Susan A. Crate and Mark Nuttal (ed.)

Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 384 pp., $75 cloth, $34.95 paper

Political Theory and Global Climate Change

Steve Vanderheiden (ed.)

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008, 246 pp, paper, $24

Multiple Review B.2:

Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History

Ted Steinberg

New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, xvi +368 pp., paper, $39.95

Global Environmental History

I.G. Simmons

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 288 pp., cloth, $49.00

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