Sprawlball demonstrates how basketball – that is, its professional incarnation in the NBA – has become a game of analytics.
Geography Book Reviews
Human Geography
Review | Horizon
Horizon by Barry Lopez can, perhaps, be best described as an intellectual autobiography by means of geography and the abiding truths of the natural world.
Human Geography
Review | Who Owns England?
The concentration of wealth – in England, particularly landed wealth – is a most serious issue.
Maps and GIS
Review | Scotland: Defending the Nation, Mapping the Military Landscape
‘Scotland: Defending the Nation, Mapping the Military Landscape’ is a comprehensive history of modern Scotland illustrated through such maps.
Physical Geography
Review | There is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
Mike Berners-Lee presents an ‘evidence-based practical guide to the make or break choices we face now’ in the Anthropocene age.
Geography 101
Review | Maps (Poetry)
This slim book reminds us that maps are not just lines and images on a surface – on paper or a globe – they are also emotional passages into the remembering and the meaning of our lives.
Geography 101, Human Geography
Review | The Longest Line on the Map
This book tells the story of how and why the Pan-American Highway was conceived and, poignantly, the why of a stubborn gap that remains unconnected.
Maps and GIS
Review | Oxford Atlas of the World, 25th Edition
The Oxford Atlas of the World, 25th edition, has a new feature on Tourism and Travel and new maps on armed conflicts around the world, as well as a new map on Antarctica using the latest data from the British Antarctic Survey.
Geography 101
Review | Medieval Ireland
Medieval Ireland is Clare Downham’s comprehensive synthesis of the current state-of-play of the history of medieval Ireland, 400-1500 A.D.
Maps and GIS
Review | Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library
Tom Harper’s Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library is a ‘definitive showcase’ of the national map collection of the British Library, one of the world’s largest with over four million maps dating from 15 B.C. to the present.
Human Geography
Review | Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
The book, Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire, examines theories of medicine and science within a colonial, racially-mixed population.
Human Geography
Review | The Ape that Understood the Universe
The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve is an engaging, intriguing, and ultimately most satisfying look into what the human mind can do and how it got that way.