This article contains three book reviews. The reviewed books are: The Politics of Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization (2013) by Andy Merrifield; Elections to the European Parliament as Challenge for Democracy, European Integration and Democracy Series Vol. 2 (2013), Eds. Elżbieta Kużelewska and Dariusz Kloza; and, Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012: Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts (2012) by Tomas Kavaliauskas.