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Wayne V. McIntosh. 190. The Appeal of Civil Law: A Political-Economic Analysis of Litigation
Norma M. Riccucci. 1990. Women, Minorities, and Unions in the Public Sector
James R. Bowers. 1990. Regulating the Regulators: An Introduction to the Legislative Oversight of Administrative Rulemaking
William F. Shughart II. 1990. Antitrust Policy and Interest-Group Politics     

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Book Reviews in this Article: Danielle Jacquart and Claude Thomasset, Sexuality and Medicine in the Middle Ages,. David Levine, Reproducing Families. The political economy of English population history. Mikiso Hane, Reflections on the Way to the Callows: Rebel Women in Pre-war Japan. Sandra M Gilbert and Susan Gubar, No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. Nancy F. Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism. Brian Harrison, Prudent Revolutionaries, Portraits of British Feminists between the Wars. Birgit Sawyer and Anita Goransson (eds), Manliga strukturer och kvinnliga strategier. Susan Bridger, Women in the Soviet Countryside: women's roles in rural development in the Soviet Union. Veronica Strong-Boag, The New Day Recalled: Lives of Girls and Women in English Canada, 1919–1939.     

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Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics. By George F. Hourani. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xv plus 282 pp. $39.50, hard cover. Book reviewed in this article: Muslim Political Thought and Administration. By Haroon Khan Sherwani. New Delhi: Munshiram Manaharlal Publishers, 1981, first pub. 1942. xi plus 215 pp., Appendices. Index. Rs. 65. Islam: The Religious and Political Life of a World Community. Edited by Marjorie Kelly. New York: Praeger, 1984. xii plus 321 pp. Maps. Charts. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $12.95. paper. Studien zum Islamischen Recht. By Noel J. Coulson and Abdelwadoud Yehia [Veröffentlichungen der (Commission für Europarecht, Internationales und Auslàndisches Privatrecht, nr. 2]. Wien, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen, 1983. 37 pp. 6s. 70.—. Theodicy in Islamic Thought. The Dispute Over Al-Ghaz's “Best of All Possible Worlds. ” By Eric L. Ormsby. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xv plus 309 pp. $30.00. Die Wiederentdeckung des Propheten Muhammad: Eine Kritik am “christlichen” Abendland. By Günter Lüling. Erlangen: Hannelore Lülung, 1981. 423 pp. n.p. The Qur'an. The first American version. Translation and commentary by T.B. Irving (Al-Hajj Taim li). Brattleboro, Vermont: Amana Books, 1985. xliii plus 401 pp. n.p. The Jew As Ally of the Muslim, Medieval Roots of Anti-Semitism. By Allan Harris Cutler and Helen Elmquist Cutler. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986. x plus 577 pp. $50.00, hardcover. Knowledge and Power in Morocco: The Education of a Twentieth-Century Notable. By Dale F. Eickelman. [Princeton Studies on the Near East.] Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. xviii plus 202 pp. Photos. Tables. Maps. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $32.50. Algeria: The Revolution Institutionalized. By John P. Entelis. Boulder: Westview Press, 1986. xi plus 239 pp. Index. Maps. Illustrations. $30.00, hardcover. Syria: Modern State in an Ancient Land. By John F. Devlin. [Nations of the Contemporary Middle East.] Boulder and London: Westview Press and Croom Helm, 1983. 152 pp. $16.50. Error and Betrayal in Lebanon: An Analysis of Israel's Invasion of Lebanon and Implications for U.S.-Israeli Relations. By George W. Ball. Washington, D.C.: Foundation for Middle East Peace, 1984. 152 pp. n.p.     

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Books reviewed in this article: William P. Browne. 1988. Private Interests, Public Policy, and American Agriculture E.S. Savas. 1987. Privatization: The Key to Better Government Henry J. Aaron, Barry P. Bosworth, and Gary Burtless. 1988. Can America Afford to Grow Old? Paying for Social Security E. Wayne Nafziger. 1988. Inequality in Africa: Political Elites, Proletariats, Peasants, and the Poor     

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Local Area Personal Income, 1978–83, Volumes I-IX , by the U.S. Department of Commerce
Regional Growth and Decline in the United States , 2nd Edition, by Bernard L. Weinstein, Harold T. Gross, and John Rees.
Economic-Environmental Modeling in a National-Regional System: An Operational Approach with Multi-Layer Projection , by Wilhelmus A. Hafkamp.
Profit Cycles, Oligopoly, and Regional Development , by Ann R. Markusen.     

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Hank C. Jenkins-Smith. 1990. Democratic Politics and Policy Analysis
Braveman, Daan. 1989. Protecting Constitutional Freedoms: A Role for the Federal Courts
Fischer, Frank. 1990. Technocracy and the Politics of Expertise     

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Interregional Migration: Dynamic Theory and Comparative Analysis , edited by Wolfgang Weidlich and Gunter Haag. Behavioural Modelling in Geography and Planning , edited by Reginald G. Golledge and Harry Timmermans. Free Enterprise City: Houston in Political and Economic Perspective , by Joe R Feagin. The Rise of the Entrepreneurial State: State and Local Economic Development Policy in the United States , by Peter K. Eisinger. Societal Responses to Regional Climatic Change: Forecasting by Analogy , edited by Michael H. Glantz. Studies in the Economics of Central America , by Victor Bulmer-Thomas. Central America: The Future of Economic Integration , edited by George Irvin and Stuart Holland. Urbanization in Asia: Spatial Dimensions and Policy Issues , edited by Frank J. Costa, Ashok K. Dutt, Laurence J. C. Ma, and Allen Noble. Unemployment, Vacancies and Local Labor Markets , by Harry J. Holzer. Assisting Displaced Workers: Do the States Have a Better Idea? , by Duane E. Leigh. Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice , by Edward J. Blakely.     

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Books Reviewed in this article: al-Masih fi‘l-Qur'ān wa‘l-Tawrāt wa‘l-Injil. By ‘Abd al-Karim al-Kha?ib. ¹ Cairo: Dār al-Kutub al-?adltha, 1966. 584 pp., L. E. 1,000. Islamic History of the Middle East. By Wilson B. Bishai. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Inc., 1968. pp. 399. The Arab Cold War, 1958–1967 (Second Edition). By Malcolm Kerr. London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 169 pp. The Origins of Communism in Turkey. By George S. Harris. Stanford, California: Stanford University, The Hoover Institution, 1967. 215 pp. 12 photographs, map, end notes, appendices, bibliography, index. The Middle East: A Social Geography. By Stephen H. Longrigg. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company. First published 1963; paperback issued 1967. 288 pp. 4 maps. 69 photographs.     

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Al-IslāTm wa’ I-Mashya. By MustafāT Hasan al-Bikr. Maktabat DāTr Nashr al-ThaqāTfa, Alexandria, 1966. Baal Christ, and Mohammed: religion and revolution in North Africa. By John K. Cooley, John Murray, London, 1967. pp. xv plus 368. Egyptian Guilds in Modern Times. By Gabriel Baer. The Israel Oriental Society (Oriental Notes and Studies, No. 8), Jerusalem, 1964 pp. xviii plus 192. $ 4.50. The Trucia States: A Brief Economic Survey (Middle East Economic and Social Monographs, No. I). By K. G. Fenelon. Khayats, Beirut, 1967. pp. 94 The Province of Damascus 1723–1783. By Abdul-Grim Rafeq. Khayats, Beirut, 1966. pp. XV plus 370. Muslim Communities in Gujrat. By M. C. Misra. Asia Publishing House, New York, 1964. pp. xi plus 187. Bibliography and Index. Price not indicated.     

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Studies in a Masque (1883, 1893). By S. Lane-Poole. Reprint, Beirut: Khayats, 1966. Sad b. MansāTgr ibn KammāTna's Examination of (the Inquiries into the Three Faitha Edited by Moshe Perlmann. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1967. pp. xii plus 119. $ 4.00. Islamic Shiite Encyclopedia, Volume I. By Hassan Al-Amin. London: Luzac & Co., Ltd, 1967. 271 pp. 3.00. L'Egypte Moderne, by Nada Tomiche. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1966 (No. 569 in Series entitled, “Que Sais-Je?” Le Point des Connaissances ActuelleS). The Mgarian Insurrection: 1954–1962. By Edgar O'Ballance. Hamden, Conn, Archon Books, 1967. pp. 231. $ 7.00. English-Arabic Dictionary of Political, Diplomatic and Conference Terms. By M. Mansoor. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1961. pp. 352. Al-LisāTn al-^CArabi: Majallah dawryah lil-abhāTth al-lughawiyah wa-nashāTt al-tarjamah wa-al-ta rib al-alam al-^carabi. Published by Al-Maktab al-dāTim li-tansq al-ta^Crib, al-tāTbi^C li-jāTmi^cat al-duwal al^carabiyah. Rabat, Morocco, Vol. iv, for Rabi^c al-thāTn, 1386 (August, 1966). pp. 389. The Contribution of Arabic Language to Ancient Civilization. By Abdul-Hak Fadil (^CAbd al-Haqq FāTdil). Rabat: The Permanent Bureau of Arabisation in the Arab Counties, n.d. pp. 13.     

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Spatial Analysis: A Reader in Statistical Geography , by Brian J. L. Berry and Duane F. Marble (eds.).
The Economic Impact of TVA , by John R. Moore (ed.).
Programming Investment in the Process Industries: An Approach to Sectoral Planning , by David A. Kendrick.
Urbanization in Newly Developing Countries , by Gerald Breese.
Investments for Capacity Expansion - Size, Location and Time Phasing , by Alan S. Manne (ed.).
Linear and Convex Programming. , By S.I. Zukhovitskiy and L.I. Avdeyeva.     

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Econometric Analysis of Regional Systems: Explorations in Model Building and Policy Analysis , by Norman J. Glickman.
The Politics of Exclusion , by Michael N. Danielson.
Energy and the Environment: A Structural Analysis , by Anne P. Carter (ed).
Environmental Misuse in the Soviet Union , by Fred Singleton (ed.).     

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Fundamentals of Islam . By Haji Mirza Mehdi Pooya.
Islam and the Plight of Modern Man . By Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Recueil des sources arabes concernant I'Afrique Occidentale du VIII^e au XVl^e siècle (bild al-sdn) . Translation and notea by Joseph M. Cuoq, preface by Raymond Mauny.
Les Musulmans en Afriqua . By Joseph M. Cuoq.
Recueil d'Études sur les Moriscos Andalous en Tunisia . Edited by Miguel de Epalzs and Ramón Petit.
Riza Shah Pahlavi: The Resurrection and Reconstruction of Iran 1878–1944 . By Donald N. Wilber.
Mudror to Lauanne: Britain's Frontier in West Asia, 1916–1923 . By Briton Cooper Bosch.
Sources de I'Histoire de I'Afrique au Sud du Sahara dans les Archives et Bibliothèques française . II Bibliothèques Vol. 4 of Guide to the Sources of the History of Africa .