Based on six years of ethnographic work by the author when he was living and working in Tokyo, "Roppongi Crossing" explores the shifting socialities and rhythms of streetlife in one of the city’s most vibrant and notorious nightlife and entertainment districts.

In their book Turowski and Marciniak guide us through ‘the post-socialist, hybridized terrain where the democratic colours of western consumerism clash with the monochromatic anachronisms of the old socialist reality’ (page 15). These are their ‘streets of crocodiles’, a metaphor they borrow from the title of the celebrated Polish-Jewish author Bruno Schultz’s short story that figures 1920s Eastern European pseudo-Americanism and urban decay into the ‘miserable intimations of metropolitan splendor’ (page 13, quote from Schultz).

Given the growing recent engagement of geographers with visual methodologies, an approach which has been far more popular within the fields of anthropology and sociology, Bignante’s aim is to provide a series of exemplifications of the use of such methodologies within geographical research practice. The book’s intent, in other words, is to show why and how geographers should use visual techniques in their research activities.

The earth as a book: this is the ancient metaphor that animates The Paper Road, anthropologist Erik Mueggler’s majestic meditation upon the earth as a living, social, creative process. Through stories of encounters and relationships between two Western botanists and two generations of Naxi men from the village of Nvlvk’ö in southwest China spanning the first half of the twentieth century, Mueggler contemplates how experiences become archives, and archives order experience.

There is so much to carp about regarding "The Last Pictures", the new book by artist and experimental geographer Trevor Paglen, one doesn’t know quite where to begin. The entire notion of the book—or rather, of the project, because "The Last Pictures" is much more of a project than simply a book, the book merely being an adjunct to the project itself—is fraught with all the trappings of grandiosity inherent to any effort to create a monumental memento intended to convey to the future the essence of a civilization.