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Reach Out and Touch Someone:
A Conference on Commercial Intimacy and Personalization
S. Ravi Rajan, Lise Sedrez, eds.
The Great Convergence: An Environmental History of BRICS.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xix + 442 pp.
$49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-947937-5. 
Reviewed by Lesley Masters (University of Derby) Published on H-Environment (June, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Susan Hough. The Great Quake Debate: The Crusader, the Skeptic, and the Rise of Modern Seismology. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps. 328 pp. $29.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-295-74737-8; $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74736-1.
Reviewed by Xiaoyu Liu (University College London) Published on H-Environment (June, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Lesley Wylie. The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature. Pitt Illuminations Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Illustrations. 232 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4625-0.
Reviewed by Oscar A. Pérez (Skidmore College) Published on H-Environment (June, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Chuck Warner.
Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The Improbable Career and Remarkable Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. 232 pp.
$24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7006-2773-8.
Jason W. Smith. To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 280 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4044-0.
Reviewed by Graeme Mack (University of California San Diego) Published on H-Environment (June, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Andy Horowitz's Katrina: A History, 1915-2015. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Katrina: A History, 1915-2015
Author: Andy Horowitz
Commenters: Robin McDowell, Craig Colten, Lynnell Thomas, Leslie M. Harris
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Thomas M. Lekan's Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti
Author: Thomas M. Lekan
Commentators: Chris Conte, Corinna Treitel, Jeff Schauer, Julie Weiskopf
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Dear Colleagues-
I am pleased to announce a new editon of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Andrew A. Robichaud's Animal City: The Domestication of America. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review vol. 11 no. 1 (2022)
Title: Animal City: The Domestication of America
Author: Andrew A. Robichaud
Commentators: Dawn Biehler, Frederick L. Brown, Joshua Specht, and Joanna Dean
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Perrin Selcer's The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth
Author: Perrin Selcer
Commenters: Megan Black, Sabine Höhler, Thomas Robertson, Libby Robin
