A whole big pile of books arrived over the last few months while I’ve been away. Some of them are ones I have chapters in; one I endorsed; most are ones I asked for in recompense for review work; some were sent to me by publishers (not entirely sure why); and some I actually paid for…

Bik van der Pol, Alissa Firth-Eagland and Urban Subjects (eds.), Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events (free pdf available here)

Agnew and Duncan (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography

Dillon and Neal (eds.), Foucault on Politics, Security and War (now in paperback)

Stephen Legg (ed.), Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos

Kirsch and Flint (eds.), Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies

Lieberman and Kaesler, Prehistoric Life: Evolution and the Fossil Record

Valerie Allen, On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages

Paul Edward Dutton, Charlemagne’s Mustache and other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age

Derek Hook, Foucault, Psychology and the Analytics of Power

Chloë Taylor, The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault

James A. Tyner, War, Violence and Population: Making the Body Count

Castree et. al. The Point is to Change It: Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis

Jeremy W. Crampton, Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS

Agnew and Livingstone (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Geographical Knowledge

Hubbard and Kitchin (eds.) Key Thinkers on Space and Place, 2nd edition

Ruben Zaiotti, Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers

Terrence L. Chapman, Securing Approval: Domestic Politics and Multilateral Authorization for War

Mark Vernon, How to Be An Agnostic

Bob Woodward, Obama’s Wars

Alain Badiou, The Communist Hypothesis

François Laruelle, Philosophies of Difference

François Laruelle, Future Christ

Alain Badiou, The Communist Hypothesis

Douzinas and Žižek (eds.), The Idea of Communism

Agamben et. al., Democracy in What State?

John Protevi, Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic

Jean-Luc Nancy, The Ground of the Image

Goran Therborn, The World: A Beginner’s Guide

Bruno Latour, The Making of Law

Bryant, Srnicek and Harman (eds.), The Speculative Turn (link takes you to the free pdf)

Justin E.H. Smith, Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Science of Life

Rondo Keele, Ockham Explained: From Razor to Rebellion

Martin Heidegger, Seminare Hegel-Schelling, Gesamtausgabe Band 86

Eugen Fink, Spiel als Weltsymbol, Gesamtausgabe Band 7

Michel Foucault, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir

Jacques Derrida, Séminaire: La Béte et le souverain volume II (2002-2003)