Book Notes

Books reviewed in this article: Erik Asard and W. Lance Bennett, Democracy and the Marketplace of Ideas: Communication and Government in Sweden and the United States. Andre Blais, Donald E. Blake, and Stephane Dion, Governments, Parties, and Public Sector Employees. William J. Breen, Labor Market Politics and the Great War: The Department of Labor, the States, and the First U.S. Employment Service, 1907–1933. James W. Button, Barbara A. Rienzo, and Kenneth D. Wald, Private Lives, Public Conflicts: Battles Over Gay Rights in American Communities. Lynton K. Caldwell and Robert V. Bartlett (Eds.), Environmental Policy: Transnational Issues and National Trends. John Carver, Boards That Make a Difference: A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations (2nd ed.). Larry N. Gerston, Public Policy Making: Process and Principles. Michele M. Hoyman, Power Steering: Global Automakers and the Transformation of Rural Communities. David L. Imbroscio, Reconstructing City Politics: Alternative Economic Development and Urban Regimes. Sheldon Kamieniecki, George A. Gonzalez, and Robert O. Vos (Eds.), Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability. Samuel Krislov, How Nations Choose Product Standards and Standards Change Nations. Brian K. Landsberg, Enforcing Civil Rights: Race Discrimination and the Department of Justice. Duncan MacRae, Jr. and Dale Whittington, Expert Advice for Policy Choice. William R. Nester, American Industrial Policy: Free or Managed Markets? William R. Nester, The War for America's Natural Resources. Howard Risher, Charles H. Fay, and Associates, New Strategies for Public Pay: Rethinking Government Compensation Programs.     

Book Notes

Books reviewed in this article: Donald L. Alexander (Ed.), Telecommunications Policy: Have Regulators Dialed the Wrong Number? John J. Audley, Green Politics and Global Trade: NAFTA and the Future of Environmental Politics. William I. Bacchus, The Price of American Foreign Policy: Congress, the Executive, and International Affairs Funding. Arnold Birenbaum, Managed Care: Made in America. Thomas A. Birkland, After Disaster; Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events. James Bowman and Donald Menzel (Eds.), Teaching Ethics and Values in Public Administration Programs. Robert J. Duffy, Nuclear Politics in America: A History and Theory of Government Regulation. Marianne Githens and Dorothy McBride Stetson (Eds.), Abortion Politics: Public Policy in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Christopher Howard, The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States Joan Johnson-Freese and Roger Handberg, Space, The Dormant Frontier: Changing the Paradigm for the 21st Century. Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, The Changing Federal Role in U.S. Health Care Policy. Yong S. Lee (Ed.), Technology Transfer and Public Policy. James Midgley, Social Welfare in Global Context. Nancy C. Roberts and Paula J. King, Transforming Public Policy: Dynamics of Policy Entrepreneurs hip and Innovation. Denise Scheberle, Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Implementation. David E. Wildasin (Ed.), Fiscal Aspects of Evolving Federations.     

Reviews

Books reviewed: P. Hay, Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought P. Kershaw, B. David, N. Tapper, D. Penny and J. Brown (eds), Bridging Wallace's Line: the Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Southeast Asian–Australian Region A. Sturman and R. Spronken–Smith, The Physical Environment: a New Zealand Perspective I.H. Burnley, The Impact of Immigration on Australia: a Demographic Approach A. Boncompagni, The World is Just Like a Village: Globalization and Transnationalism of Italian Migrants from Tuscany in Western Australia M.M. Cernea and C. McDowell (eds), Risks and Reconstruction: Experiences of Resettlers and Refugees A.C. Gatrell, Geographies of Health: an Introduction G. Valentine, Social Geographies. Space and Society     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: P. R. Ackroyd and C. R. Evans (Eds): The Cambridge History of the Bible, Vloume I, From the Beginnings to Jerome. T. E. Pollard : Johannine Christology and the Early Church (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, No. 13). James A. Brundage : Medieval Canon Law and the Crusader. Rufus B. Spain : At Ease in Zion: A Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865–1900. Hans Mol : Religion in Australia. A Sociological Investigation. G. J. Cuming (Ed.): The Mission of the Church and the Propagation of the Faith (Studies in Church History, Vol VI).     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Skuldelev Ships I: Topography, Archaeology, History, Conservation and Display (Ships and Boats of the North: 4.1), OLE CRUMLIN‐PEDERSEN, OLAF OLSEN (Eds) III‐starred Captains—Flinders and Baudin, ANTHONY J. BROWN Facing the Ocean. The Atlantic and its Peoples, 8000 BC‐AD 1500, BARRY CUNLIFFE Archaeology and Seafaring: the Indian Ocean in the Ancient Period (ICHR Monograph 1), HAMINSHU PRABHA RAY The Sea in Antiquity (BAR International Series 899), G. J. OLIVER, R. BROCK, T. J. CORNELL, S. HODKINSON (Eds) Lost Warships: an archaeological tour of war at sea, JAMES P. DELGADO ‘A ship cast away about Alderney’—Investigation of an Elizabethan shipwreck, JASON MONAGHAN and, MENSUN BOUND (Eds) Archeologisch onderzoek in het tracé van Willemsspoortunnel te Rotterdam. Sluizen en schepen in de dam van de Rotte (BOO Rbalans 4, 2 vols), M. van TRIERUM, A. CARMIGGELT, A. J. GUIRAN (Eds) Schutz des Kulturerbes unter Wasser (IKUWA conference 1999 proceedings), CHRISTOPHER BÖRKER et al. (Eds) Construzione navale antica, PIER0 DELL'AMICO The Voyages of the Discovery: the illustrated history of Scott's ship, ANN SAVOURS Chicago Maritime: An Illustrated History, DAVID M. YOUNG Deux siècles de constructions et chantiers navals (milieu XVIIe‐milieu XIXe) Proceedings of 124th Congrès des societés historiques et scientifiques, Nantes 1999), CHRISTIANE VILLAIN‐GANDOSSI (Ed.) Submarine Researches by C. A. Deane (1836), MICHAEL FARDELL & NIGEL PHILLIPS (Eds.), JOHN BEVAN Naval Guns: 500 years of Ship and Coastal Artillery, HANS MEHL Lords of the East—the East India Company and its ships 1600–1874, JEAN SUTTON CSS Alabama: Anatomy of a Confederate raider, ANDREW BOWCOCK The extraordinary voyage of Pytheas the Greek, BARRY CUNLIFFE Trincomalee— the last of Nelson's frigates, ANDREW LAMBERT Galleons and Galleys (Cassel's History of Warfare Series), JOHN F. GUIIMARTIN Jr.     

Book reviews

The Restless Urban Landscape. Paul L. Knox (Ed.), New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1993, 285pp.

Towards a New Economic Order: Postfordism, Ecology and Democracy. Alain Lipietz, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1992, 206pp.

London: A New Metropolitan Geography. Keith Hoggart and David R. Green (Eds), London, Edward Arnold, 1992, pbk.

Regional Innovation Policy: Case‐studies from the Ruhr Area, Baden‐Württemberg and the North East of England. Robert Hassink, Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen Rijksuniversiteit, 1992, 187pp., ISBN 90–6809–155–7.

Environmental Problems in Eastern Europe. F. W. Carter and D. Turnock (Eds), London, Routledge, 1993, 249 pp., ISBN 0–415–06229–2.

From Garden Cities to New Towns: Campaigning for town and Country Planning 1899–1946.. Dennis Hardy, London, E. and F. N. Spon, 1992, 340pp., £39.95 hbk.     

REVIEWS

Forms of Symbolic Action. Edited by R. F. Spencer. The Interpretation of Ritual. Edited by J. S. La Fontaine. The Curse of Souw: Principles of Daribi Clan Definition and Alliance in New Guinea. By Roy Wagner. The Politics of Dependence—Papua New Guinea 1968. A. L. Epstein, R. S. Parker and M. Reay (Eds.). Fighting with Food: Leadership, Values and Social Control in a Massim Society. By Michael W. Young. Proisxozdenie i Rannjaja istorija Aborigenov Avstralii. (Origin and Early History of the Aborigines of Australia.) By V. R. Kabo. The Army in Papua-New Guinea. The Journal of Pacific History. Vol. 6. J. W. Davidson and H. E. Maude (Eds.) Would-be Entrepreneurs. By Ruth S. Finney.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: John Singe The Torres Strait. People and History L.M. Allen, J.C. Altman and E. Owen (with assistance from W.S. Arthur) Aborigines in the Economy: A Select Annotated Bibliography of Policy-Relevant Research 1985–90 J. C. Altman (editor) Aboriginal Employment Equify by the Year 2000 Peter Jackson Maps of Meaning: An Introduction to Cultural Geography Andrew Goudie The Human Impact on the Natural Environmenr H. Bridgman Global Air Pollution: Problems for the 1990s P.E.V. Charman and B.W. Murphy (Eds.) Soils—Their Properties and Management: A Soil Conservation Handbook for New South Wales K. Pye and H. Tsoar Aeolian Sand and Sand Dunes     

Reviews

Books reviewed: L. Bondi, H. Avis, R. Bankey, A. Bingley, J. Davidson, R. Duffy, V. Einagel, A. Green, L. Johnston, S. Lilley, C. Listerborn, S. McEwan, M. Marshy, N. O’Connor, G. Rose, B. Vivat and N. Wood, Subjectivities, Knowledges, and Feminist Geo‐graphies: The Subjects and Ethics of Social Research L.C. Botterill and M. Fisher (eds), Beyond Drought. People, Policy and Perspectives J.S. Bridge, Rivers and Floodplains. Forms, Processes, and Sedimentary Record Carolyn Cartier, Globalizing South China Stephen Dovers and Su Wild River (eds), Managing Australia's Environment Antoinette M. Mannion, Dynamic World: Land‐cover and Land‐use Change P. Moss (ed.), Feminist Geography in Practice E. Pawson and T. Brooking (eds), Environmental Histories of New Zealand Ian Thomas, Environmental Impact Assessment in Australia: Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition J.F. Williams and R.J. Stimson (eds), International Urban Planning Settings: Lessons of Success     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Little, J., Peake, L. and Richardson, P. (Eds.) Women in Cities: Gender and the Urban Environment. Agnew, J., and Duncan, J. (Eds.), The Power of Place: bringing together geographical and sociological imaginations. Wood, S. (Ed.) The transformation of work? Skill, flexibility and the labour process. Hall, P. and Preston, P. The Carrier Wave: New Information Technology and the Geography of Innovation 1846–2003.     

Book reviews

The Regions and the European Community: The Regional Response to the Single Market in the Underdeveloped Areas. R. Leonardi (Ed.). London, Frank Cass, 1993, 274 pp, £27.50 hb, ISBN 0 7146 3460 3.

Technology Policy: Towards an Integration of Social and Ecological Concerns. George Aichholzer and Gerd Schienstock (Eds). Berlin and New York, De Gruyter, 1994, 418 pp, DM188.0, US$94.95, £59.35 hb, ISBN 3 11 13677 5.

Postmodern Cities and Spaces. Sophie Watson and Katherine Gibson (Eds). Oxford, Blackwell, 1994, VIII + 269 pp, £45.00 hb, ISBN 0 631 19403 7, £13.99 pb, ISBN 0 631 19404 5.

Gender, Planning and the Policy Process. Jo Little. Oxford, Pergamon, 1994, ix + 210 pp, £58.00 hb, ISBN 0 080404 812, ISBN 0 080404 807.

Women and Planning—Creating Gendered Realities. Clara H. Greed. London, Routledge, 1994, vii + 248 pp, £12.99 pb, ISBN 0 415077 810.

Perspectives Towards Sustainable Environmental Development. C. C. Williams and G. Haughton (Eds). Aldershot, Ashgate, 1994, xi + 200 pp, £35.00 hb, ISBN 1 85628 874 9.

Regional Networks, Border Regions and European Integration. Ricardo Cappellin and Peter W. Batey (Eds). London, Pion, 1995, 246 pp, £22.50/US$35.00 hb, ISBN 0 850 8 6124.

Design Review: Challenging Urban Aesthetic Control. Brenda Case Scheer and Wolfgang F. E. Preiser (Eds). New York and London, Chapman & Hall, 1994, vii‐219 pp, US$36.95 pb, ISBN 0 412 99161 6.     

BOOKS RECEIVED

Art Gallaher, Jr. and Harland Padfield, Eds. The Dying Community. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (School of American Research), 1980. xiv + 305 pp.

Nancy Dorian. Language Death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. xiv + 206 pp     

Book Notes

Per Lindskog and Jan Lundqvist, Why Poor Children Stay Sick. The Human Ecology of Child Health and Welfare in Rural Malawi. Research report no. 85. Uppsala: Nico Vink, The Telenovela and Emancipation: A Study on TV and Social Change in Brazil. Amsterdam: Rashid Amjad (ed.), To the Gulf and Back: Studies on the Economic Impact of Asian Labour Migration. New Delhi: Krishnalekha Sood, Trade and Economic Development; India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, New Delhi: ILO-ARTEP, Employment and Structural Change in Indian Industries: John A. Dixon, Richard A. Carpenter, Louise A. Fallon, Paul B. Sherman and Supachit Manipomoke, Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Development Projects. London: David C. Gordon, Images of the West: Third World Perspectives. Savage, MD:     

Reviews

D.R. Rothwell and R. Davis Antarctic Environmental Protection: a Collection of Australian and International Instruments G.J. Aplin Australians and their Environment: an Introduction to Environmental Studies J. Dargavel (ed.) Australia's Ever-Changing Forests III: Proceedings of the Third National Conference on Australian Forest History D. Slattery The Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks J.M. Jacobs Edge of Empire Postcolonialism and the City M. McKinnon with B. Bradley and R. Kirkpatrick (eds) New Zealand Historical Atlas: Ko Papatuanuku e Takoto Nei I.G. Thomas Environmental Impact Assessment in Australia: Theory and Practice D. Shearman and G. Sauer-Thompson Green or Gone A.S. Goudie (ed.) The Human Impact Reader: Readings and Case Studies G.C. Wescott Wilsons Promontory: Marine and National Park, Victoria     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Chang Ha‐Joon and Irene Grubel, Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manual Simon Bromley, Maureen Mackintosh, William Brown and Marc Wuyts (eds), Making the International: Economic Interdependence and the Political Order Ann Zammit, Development at Risk: Rethinking UN–Business Partnerships Giovanni Andrea Cornia (ed.), Inequality, Growth, and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization Dennis A. Rondinelli and G. Shabbir Cheema (eds), Reinventing Government for the Twenty‐First Century: State Capacity in a Globalizing Society Joel S. Migdal (ed.), Boundaries and Belongings: States and Societies in the Struggle to Shape Identities and Local Practices Vernon W. Ruttan, Social Science, Knowledge and Economic Development: An Institutional Design Perspective Greg Bankoff, Georg Frerks and Dorothea Hilhorst (eds), Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development & People Ruedi Baumgartner and Ruedi Hogger (eds), In Search of Sustainable Livelihoods Systems: Managing Resources and Change William D. Sunderlin, Ideology, Social Theory, and the Environment Steven R. Brechin, Peter R. Wilshusen, Crystal L. Fortwangler and Patrick C. West (eds), Contested Nature: Promoting International Biodiversity with Social Justice in the Twenty‐first Century Diane Russell and Camilla Harshbarger, Groundwork for Community‐Based Conservation: Strategies for Social Research James K. Boyce and Barry K. Shelley (eds), Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership Nick J. Freeman and Frank L. Bartels (eds), The Future of Foreign Investment in Southeast Asia Sharma, Kishor (ed.), Trade Policy, Growth and Poverty in Asian Developing Countries D. Bandyopadhyay and Amitava Mukherjee, New Issues in Panchayati Raj François Ruf and Frederic Lançon (eds), From Slash‐and‐Burn to Replanting: Green Revolutions in the Indonesian Uplands?     

Liberal Policy Debates and Their Consequences for African Americans

Marilyn E. Lashley and Melanie Njeri Jackson (Eds.), African Americans and the New Policy Consensus: Retreat of the Liberal State.     

Reviews

Books reviewed: S. Wahab and J. J. J. Pigram (eds), Tourism, Development and Growth the Challenge of Sustainability L. Sandercock, Towards Cosmopolis: Planning for Multicultural Cities S. Ryan, The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia J. M. Powell, Watering the Western Third Water, Land and Community in Western Australia, 1826–1998 M. C. Campbell, The Kingdom of the Ryans: the Irish in Southwest New South Wales, 1816ndash;1890 L. Sandercock (ed.), Making the Invisible: a Multicultural Planning History M. Ioannou, Barossa Journeys: into a Valley of Tradition N. R. Britton, J. McDonald and J. Oliver (eds), Insurance Liability and Loss Mitigation: Partners in Risk Resolution N. R. Britton and J. Oliver (eds), Financial Risk Management for Natural Catastrophes P. D. Nunn, Pacific Island Landscapes: Landscape and Geological Development of Southwest Pacific Islands, especially Fiji, Samoa and Tonga G. R. McGregor and S. Nieuwolt, Tropical Climatology: an Introduction to the Climates of the Low Latitudes T. M. Berra, A Natural History of Australia G. Cho, Geographic Information Systems and the Law: Mapping the Legal Frontiers     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Burning Bush. A Fire History of Australia Stephen J. Pyne Monsoonal Australia. Landscape, Ecology and Man in the Northern Lowlands C.D. Haynes, M.G. Ridpath and M.A.J. Williams (eds) Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia J. Connell and R. Howitt (eds.) Internal Migration in Australia 1981-86 Martin Bell, Produced for the Joint Commonwealth/State/Territory Population and Immigration Research Program Changing Places in New Zealand. A Geography of Restructuring Steve Britton, Richard Le Heron, and Eric Pawson Global Warming: Physics and Facts AIP Conference Proceedings 247, B.G. Levi, D. Hafemeister and R. Scribner, (Eds) Principles of Air Pollution Meteorology Tom Lyons and Bill Scott Money, Medicine, and Malpractice in American Society Jain Hay     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article:
Robert Beauregard (Ed.) Atop the Urban Hierarchy .
G. Cook (Ed.) The Future of Antarctica: Exploitation versus Preservation.
K. Suter Antarctica: Private Property or Public Heritage.
P. Simpson-Housley Antarctica: Exploration Perception and Metaphor.
Dharam Ghai and Jessica M. Vivian (Eds.) Grassroots Environmental Action: People's Participation in Sustainable Development.
A. Parker, M. Russo, D. Sommer and P. Yaeger (Eds.) Nationalisms and Sexualities . and Richard Walker The New Social Economy, Reworking the Division of Labor.
Andrew Sayer and Richard Walker The New Social Economy, Reworking the Division of Labor.