books about: territory

books about: territory

books:

Territory

Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages

Saskia Sassen

Princeton University Press, 2008

An ambitious undertaking
Famous Chicago sociologist, Saskia Sassen, returns with an ambitious new book on cities as the main locus of globalization. Despite being quite long (almost 500 pages!), it's quite an engaging reading. For someone interested in expanding his/her knowledge on the ...

The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories

Indiana University Press, 2007

Weeping in Babylon
It's a rare reader who'll be able to get through The Unknown Black Book without having to walk away from it several times. The tragedies it documents are just too horrible to bear except in small doses. Both text and photographs stun the imagination and freeze the ...

Impossible Territories: An Unofficial Companion to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Jess Nevins

MonkeyBrain Books, 2008

Continuing the series of excellent companions to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
If you're on this page, it's most likely that you're a fan of Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. If so, and especially if you're a fan of the details, then these guidebooks are a godsend. I've been waiting for this one for quite some time, and it just ...

The Guide to the Territories of Halla (Pendragon)

D. J. MacHale

Aladdin, 2005

Loved it
My 10 year old son couldn't put this series down. He loved it. Highly recommend it!

Remembered (Fountain Creek Chronicles, Book 3)

Tamera Alexander

Bethany House, 2007

Remembered
REMEMBERED is the third book in the Fountain Creek Chronicles Series. It follows the life of Veronique Girard as she searches the Colorado Territory for her estranged father. Jack Brennan has turned from guiding families to the west, to become a freighter. After a ...

Security, Territory, Population (Lectures at the College De France)

Michel Foucault

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Indespensible
These are the complete course lectures in which Foucault developed his theory and history of "governmentality" as a discursive threshold of modern society. This volume is critical to any student of Foucault or government in general. To the Foucault student, it ...

Israel & the Palestinian Territories (Country Guide)

Michael Kohn

Lonely Planet, 2007

If you're interested in hitting the main attractions as well as some off the beaten path suggestions, this is the guide for you!
This is the second Lonely Planet guide that I have used and am pleased to report that I was not disappointed. This guide offered a perfect blend of history, culture, and touristy tid-bits. While I only used the Jerusalem and West Bank sections, this book is great for ...

Sarah's Quilt: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine and the Arizona Territories, 1906

Nancy E. Turner

St. Martin's Griffin, 2006

a truly satisfying sequel
I approached Sarah's Quilt with some hesitation as so often sequels just don't live up to the anticipation of the first book's enjoyment. Sarah's Quilt, however, did not disappoint. The characters of the story are so fleshed out in such subtle ways, I feel as if I ...

Cities: X Lines: Approaches to City and Open Territory Design

Actar D / Nicolodi Editore, 2007

Ambitious in scope and design
This ambitious production presents a well organized and defined typology of urban form. The ten categories comprising the 'x' in the title, are explained by way of a logical progression of contemporary case studies and historical precedents. Each chapter is divided ...

A Dream to Follow (Return to Red River #1)

Lauraine Snelling

Bethany House, 2001

great books
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. I hope there is a continued story here, I need to know the end of the love.

The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq

Patrick Cockburn

Verso, 2007

Outstanding journalism
This is a really first rate piece of journalism and beautifully written. Cockburn, like very few Western journalists, gets out into life as it truly is for ordinary Iraqis, not as it is portrayed from the Green Zone or sycophantic pro-American exiles that haven't lived ...

New Amsterdam

Elizabeth Bear

Far Territories, 2008

New Amsterdam
I started New Amsterdam because I live in New York, and because I was hoping to see some of those Iroquois war mages who kept the British back. I thought that would be interesting. The war mages don't appear in the book, but it's very good nevertheless. The vampire ...

Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth (The Wellek Library Lectures)
Elizabeth Grosz

Columbia University Press, 2008

Cultures of United States Imperialism (New Americanists)

Duke University Press, 1993

Foundational essays for a new school of thought
The only other reviewer (to date) has made a fair point about the density of the essays collected here and the relative obscurity of some of the subject matter. But he/she has missed the larger point of this whole volume by dwelling on the perceived shortcomings of a ...

Sarah's Quilt: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine And The Arizona Territories, 1906

Nancy E. Turner

Thomas Dunne Books, 2005

Sarah's Quilt
Having read "These is my words" a short time ago I could not wait until "Sarah's Quilt" arrived. Once again I became a part of Sarah's family. Nancy Turner again provides us with a portrait of woman of courage, heart and intense family loyalty. The grace and strength ...