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Louis K. Bragaw, Managing a Federal Agency: The Hidden Stimulus
Raymond A. Shapek, Managing Federalism: Evolution and Development of the Grant-In-Aid System
Walter Williams with the assistance of Betty Jane Narver, Government by Agency: Lessons from the Social Program Grants-In-Aid Experience
Gilbert Steiner, The Futility of Family Policy
Z. I. Giraldo, Public Policy and the Family: Wives and Mothers in the Labor
Harold Wallach, editor, Approaches to Child and Family policy     

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Sam Peltzman, Regulation of Automobile Safety
George J. Stigler, The Citizen and the State: Essays on Regulation
William M. Wardell and Louis Lasagna, Regulation and Drug Development
William D. Coplin, Michael K. O'Leary, et al., Learninq Packaqes in the Policy Sciences
Daniel P. Harrison, Social Forecasting Methodology: Suggestion for Research
George K. Chacko, Technological Forecasting: Prospects, Problems and Policy     

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Rethinking Religion: Studies in the Hellenistic Process, J. Podemann Sorensen (ed.).
BRAD H. YOUNG: Jesus the Jewish Theologian.
ALLEN BRENT: Hippolytus and the Roman Church in the Third Century: Communities in Tension Before the Emergence of the Monarch-Bishop
BARBARA NEWMAN: From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature.
THOMAS A. KSELMAN: Death and the Afterlife in Modern France.
GRACE DAVIE: Religion in Britain since 1945: Believing without Belonging, Making Cotemporary Britain Series, A. Seldon (gen. ed.).     

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Underdevelopment and Industrialization in Tanzania: A Study of Perverse Capitalist Industrial Development , by Justinian Rweyemamu.     

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Industrial Location and Public Policy , edited by Henry W. Herzog, Jr. and Alan M. Schlottmann.
Deindustrialization and Regional Economic Transformation: The Experience of the United States , edited by Lloyd Rodwin and Hidehiko Sazanami.
Industrial Change and Regional Economic Transformation: The Experience of Western Europe , edited by Lloyd Rodwin and Hidehiko Sazanami.
Multicriteria Evaluation in Physical Planning , by Peter Nijkamp, Piet Rietveld, and Henk Voogd.
The Timber Bubble that Burst: Government Policy and the Bailout of 1984 , by Joe P. Mattey.
The Power of Geography How Territory Shapes Social Life , edited by Jennifer Wolch and Michael Dear.
From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980 , by Bruce J. Schulman.
The Changing Geography of the United Kingdom , edited by Ronald J. Johnston and Vince Gardiner.
London:A New Metropolitan Geography , edited by Keith Hoggart and David R. Green.
Development Dilemmas in Rural Thailand , by Philip Hirsch.
The Extended Metropolis: Settlement Transition in Asia , edited by Norton Ginsburg, Bruce Koppel, and T. G. McGee.
The Shek Kip Mei Syndrome: Economic Development and Public Housing in Hong Kong and Singapore , by Manuel Castells, Lee Goh, and R. Yin-Wang Kwok.     

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This article examines the transition from cultural industries to creative industries policies in the English regions between 1980 and 2010. It argues that audio-visual policy in this period is best understood as a trajectory: the gradual, differentiated, contested, but overall coherent development of a policy discourse and corresponding institutional structure. This trajectory can be mapped onto the wider political economy of the period: the transition from social-democratic reformism to neo-liberalism at the end of the 1970s and up to the present. This process has resulted in audio-visual policy being determined to a large degree by the perceived needs of commercial interests, up to the point where regional cultural policy is virtually indistinguishable from economic policy. The transition from cultural to creative industries reflects the development of the neo-liberal state in which cultural policy has been instrumentalised within the larger project of the privatisation of public assets and the shift of relative power from labour to capital.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Statistics for Spatial Data, by Noel Cressie. Applications of the Expansion Method, edited by John Paul Jones, III and Emilio Casetti. Sources of Metropolitan Growth, edited by Edwin S. Mills and John F. McDonald. Work, Wages, and Poverty Income Distribution in Post-Industrial Philadelphia, by Janice Fanning Madden and William J. Stull. The International Petrochemical Industry: Evolution and Location, by Keith Chapman. Industrialization, Economic Development, and the Regional Question in the Third World From Import Substitution to Flexible Production, by Michael Storper. The Capitalist Space Economy: Geographical Analysis after Ricardo, Marx and SrafFa, by Eric Sheppard and Trevor J. Barnes. Regional Economic Analysis of Innovation and Incubation, by Evert Jan Davelaar. Technology and the Garden: Research Parks and Regional Economic Development, by Michael I. Luger and Harvey A. Goldstein. Improving Access to Health Care: What Can the States Do?, edited by John Goddeeris and Andrew Hogan.     

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Mogens Buch-Hansen, Hans Folke, Steen Folke, Jette Gottlieb, Frank Hansen, Anna Marie Hellmers, Poul Kroijer, Bue Nielsen: Om Geograpfi. En Introduktionebog .     

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Decentralization: Sketches Toward a Rational Theory , by Manfred Kochen and Karl W. Deutsch.
Making Business Location Decisions , by Roger W. Schmenner.
City, Class and Capital: New Developments in the Political Economy of Cities and Regions , by Michael Harloe and Elizabeth Lebas (eds.).
Research in Real Estate , Volume 1, by C. F. Sirmans (ed.).
The Community as an Economic System , by Floyd K. Harmston.
History of Spatial Economic Theory , by Claude Ponsard.     

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＂With the possible exception of the Vedic-Hindu religion of India, the religion or religions associated with the ancient Greeks produced the world＇s most complex and sophisticated mythology.＂ On the basis of this, Lowell Edmunds expresses the following opinion in explaining his book title： ＂the title of this collection should imply both that Greek mythology admits a plurality of approaches and that those represented here may not be the only ones＂ （vii）.     

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Luchas de Clases por el Derecho a la Cuidad , by the Study Group "Jose Raimundo Russi," Editorial Ocho de Junio, Medellin, Colombia. Reviewed by Richard Hansis, Valparaiso University.     

《现代城市物质与社会空间的耦合》书评

当前,中国城市正处于剧烈变革之中,城市物质环境建设如火如荼,城市社会阶层与社会结构也面临着蜕变与重组,城市空间处于不断地转型与重构。