Schizoanalytic Cartographies is an ambitious and thought-provoking book that provides a detailed exposition of Guattari’s version of schizoanalysis, a form of analysis that he extracts from the debris of a reductionist psychoanalysis.

Is it possible to conceive of Geography as romantic? Is there a need for a ‘romantic geography’? These are the principal questions underpinning Yi-Fu Tuan’s most recent book, "Romantic Geography: In Search of the Sublime Landscape", in which he responds in the affirmative.

In Working Lives, Linda McDowell draws together over one hundred oral histories that she has collected in the course of various research projects since 1990s, to tell a sweeping story about women who have migrated to Britain from 1945-2007 to work in paid employment.

Daniel Campo’s The Accidental Playground is the result of an ethnographic action-oriented analysis focussed on the life course of a waterfront at Williamsburg’s Northside (also known as the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal, BEDT). The context of the study is related with the redevelopment of its neighbourhood during the New York’s revitalization programme launched in the early 1990s.

The Birth of Territory traces how the relations between land and power have been understood in a very wide range of texts from the period of classical Greece to seventeenth-century western Europe. For each period, Elden asks if it is meaningful to speak of writers as using a concept resembling the modern understanding of territory, that is of a bounded space as the object of rule.

In the accessible and engaging style that we have come to expect from Miller’s publications, Webcam explores the socio-cultural effects of the webcam from an anthropological perspective. That said, this book will appeal to scholars from much of the social sciences and beyond, for its contents and core arguments pose important questions for what it means to be human, and connect with others in an age of instant global communication.

Nelson’s interest lies in the Party’s development of strategies to facilitate a shift in medical authority over and within African American communities. The book thus focuses on the varied aspects of the Party’s health activism, which ranged from the assembly of ‘activist-run no-cost or low-cost clinics’ (2013: 18) and educational outreach to the building of genetic screening programmes and legal challenges to racialised violence research.

Temporary Work sheds intense beams of analytical light on the role of agencies, and of temporary work, both in the production of precarious employment and in the continuing, deepening and uneven connections between that precariousness and unfree labour relations. Temporary Work adopts a multidisciplinary, collaborative approach, combining insights from the fields of law, labour studies, feminist political economy and economic geography.

Based on my reading of Kelly Happe’s The Material Gene, the epigenetic turn may be less paradigm-shifting than it appears. In this ground-breaking book Happe questions whether any science concerned with race and genomics will not reinscribe problematic notions of race.

Free of the methodological melancholy that so often, and perhaps rightly, can come to inflect this kind of work, Hot Spotter’s Report is an unusual text. It is an utterly unique assessment of the American initiatives to remediate, resignify and manage, conceal and green, the chemical and radiotoxic remainders of cold war military nuclear production – with particular reference to facilities at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, and Rocky Flats, and the biopolitical management of the work force that supported these sites of production.