Interviews with Geographers about their New Books
https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/geography/
episode 660: Chet Van Duzer, "Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends" (Springer, 2019)
Van Duzer presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography...
episode 42: Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
episode 54: Emanuela Grama, "Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Grama explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the legacy of that project...
episode 141: Penelope Plaza Azuaje, “Culture as Renewable Oil: How Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture Coalesce in the Venezuelan Petrostate" (Routledge, 2018)
How do states use cultural policy?
episode 30: R. Cervero, E. Guerra, S. Al, "Beyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and Places" (Island Press, 2017)
"Beyond Mobility" is about prioritizing the needs and aspirations of people and the creation of great places...
episode 240: Margaret E. Schotte, "Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land...
episode 41: Serin D. Houston, "Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Houston’s finds three major social values--social justice, sustainability, and creativity—pervade policy creation in the city and condition privileges and oppressions...
episode 45: Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
episode 637: David Biggs, "Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam" (U Washington Press, 2018)
By now we all know that Vietnam is a country, not a war. But how have decades, and even centuries, of war impacted the land of this southeast Asian nation?
episode 81: J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...