Don's Book & DVD Selections for 2008 

These are books about the physical and cultural world, geography, international and national travel.

Student audience: Geography, Politics, Community Education, History

1. 500 California place names : their origin and meaning / William Bright

2. A contemporary Cuba reader : reinventing the Revolution / edited by Phillip Brenner ... [et al.]

3. A woman's world again : true stories of world travel / edited by Marybeth Bond

4. Americas : the changing face of Latin America and the Caribbean / Peter Winn

5. Ancient Turkey : a traveller's history / Seton Lloyd

6. Apples are from Kazakhstan : the land that disappeared / Christopher Robbins

7. Beijing : from imperial capital to Olympic city / Lillian M. Li, Alison J. Dray-Novey, Haili Kong

8. Bhutan : hidden lands of happiness / text and photographs by John Wehrheim

9. Cartographia / Vincent Virga and the Library of Congress ; introduction by Ronald E. Grim ; afterword by James H. Billington

10. China A to Z : everything you need to know to understand Chinese customs and culture / May-lee Chai and Winberg Chai

11. China candid : the people on the People's Republic / Sang Ye ; edited by Geremie R. Barm_e with Miriam Lang

12. Costa Rica : a global studies handbook / Meg Tyler Mitchell and Scott Pentzer

13. Culture and customs of Nicaragua / Steven F. White and Esthela Calderón

14. Descending the dragon : my journey down the coast of Vietnam / Jon Bowermaster

15. Designed maps : a sourcebook for GIS users / Cynthia A. Brewer

16. Down the Nile : alone in a fisherman's skiff / Rosemary Mahoney

17. Ending slavery : how we free today's slaves / Kevin Bales

18. First stop in the New World : Mexico City, the capital of the 21st century / David Lida

19. Frommer's 500 places to see before they disappear / by Holly Hughes with Larry West

20. Here be yaks : travels in far western Tibet / Manosi Lahiri ; with a foreword by His Holiness The Dalai Lama

21. How the states got their shapes / Mark Stein

22. Inside the red mansion : on the trail of China's most wanted man / Oliver August

23. Mississippi / Ben Wynne

24. More London peculiars : being curious corners of a capital city / Peter Ashley

25. Mountain against the sea : essays on Palestinian society and culture / Salim Tamari

26. Owens Valley revisited : a reassessment of the West's first great water transfer / Gary D. Libecap

27. Pocket China atlas : maps and facts at your fingertips / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Robert Benewick

28. Religious nationalism : Hindus and Muslims in India / Peter Van der Veer

29. State by state : a panoramic portrait of America / edited by Matt Weiland & Sean Wilsey

30. Struggle and survival in the modern Middle East / [edited by] Edmund Burke III and David N. Yaghoubian

31. The 100 best worldwide vacations to enrich your life / Pam Grout

32. The absolutely worst places to live in America / Dave Gilmartin

33. The Anglo files : a field guide to the British / Sarah Lyall

34. The art of political murder : who killed the Bishop? / Francisco Goldman

35. The complete travel detective bible : the consummate insider tells you what you need to know in an increasingly complex world! / Peter Greenberg

36. The geography of bliss : one grump's search for the happiest places in the world / Eric Weiner

37. This land : a guide to western national forests / Robert H. Mohlenbrock

38. This land. A guide to eastern national forests / Robert H. Mohlenbrock

39. Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict : a primer / Phyllis Bennis

40. Understanding Vietnam / Neil L. Jamieson

41. Vaka moana : voyages of the ancestors : the discovery and settlement of the Pacific / edited by K.R. Howe

42. Why the Dalai Lama matters : his act of truth as the solution for China, Tibet, and the world / Robert Thurman