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Many unhappy returns; one man's quest to turn around the most unpopular organization in America.
Rossotti, Charles O. Harvard Bus. School Press, 2005 340 p. $2G.95 Rossotti is not alone in having managed 100,000 employees serving 180 million customers. He is also not alone in succeeding at turning an organization with significant political, management and technological problems into a modern business. His particular claim to fame is that he managed to do this in five years as head of the Internal Revenue Service. While he may not have succeeded at making us all love the IRS, he at the very least saw to it that significantly less of the two trillion dollars it collected each year went into sustaining outmoded operations, pathetically inadequate systems, and entrenched bad management. He describes how he made significant changes and also what remains to be changed, including the tax code and the way elected officials create budgets. m2381 2005-009764 0-8447-4234-1

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Classical sociological theoiy; rediscovering the promise of sociology.


Goodwin, Glenn A. and Joseph A. Scimecca. Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2006 327 p. $59.95 (pa) The source of social order and conflict, the relationship between consciousness and society, the proper sociological methods and practices, how sociology can help develop a society in which freedom can best be realizedthese are the questions addressed here. Goodwin (sociology, U. of La Verne) and Scimecca (sociology, George Mason U.) discuss these issues with reference to Comte, Martineau, Marx, Herbert Spencer, Durkheim, Simmel, Weber, George Herbert Mead, Jane Addams and Du Bois. In each case the authors include biographies for each, their intellectual contexts, and their sociological methods and thought, along with assessments of their infiuence on sociology. The final chapter summarizes the work of such classical American sociologists as Sumner, Ward, Ross, Kelley, Park and Ogburn. HM435 2005-003584 0-7425-2493-0

Toward fundamental tax reform.


Title main entry. Ed. by Alan J. Auerbach and Kevin A. Hassett. AEI Press, 2005 171 p. $20.00 (pa) The American Enterprise Institute invited nine American scholarsmany of them revolving through government positions from administration to administrationto a conference in Washington at an undisclosed date to present their ideas. Consumption tax, the excess burdens of taxes, and the elasticity of the labor supply and its consequences for tax policy are among the topics. 2004054311

An introduction to classical and contemporary social theoiy; a critical perspective, 3d ed.


Berberoglu, Berch. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 199 p. $24.00 (pa) This undergraduate or graduate text can also be used as a reference or supplement to support the texts in question. Berberoglu (sociology, U. of Nevada, Reno) has collected nine articles from classical social theorists, such as Marx and Engels on social class and class struggle, Durkheim on the social order, Weber on power, Freud on the development of society and Du Bois and Frasier on race, class and social emancipation. Contemporary social theorists include Parsons and Merton on functionalist theory. Mills on the power elite, Homans on social exchange, and recent developments in feminist theory and world systems. The volume closes with Harvey and Callinicos on postmodernism and its critics. HM435 2005-008612 0-7425-3548-7

The theory of environmental agreements and taxes; CO2 policy performance in comparative perspective.
Enevoldsen, Martin. (New horizons in environmental economics) Edward Elgar Pub. Co., 2005 294 p. $120.00 In analyzing the effects of green taxes and voluntary agreements on the behavior of industrial polluters and pollution abatement, Enevoldesn (public policy, U. of Aarhus, Denmark) hypothesizes that predictors of environmental policy performance must take into account the nature and institutional configuration of the policy instrument, that green takes will generally be more effective than equally well- designed voluntary agreements, and that voluntary environmental agreements will tend to suffer from free-rider problems unless the social capital stakes are high. He tests these hypotheses in the cases of Austrian, Danish, and Dutch CO2 policies towards industry over the last two decades and subjects the findings to econometric analysis. HJ7537 2005-042761 0-312-34357-4

Social things; an introduction to the sociological life, 3d ed.


Lemert, Charles. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 230 p. $20.00 (pa) Lemert (sociology, Wesleyan U.) describes his frustrations and accommodations to a life in sociology, along with the moments in which he and his discipline are one while examining the history of trends within sociology from the middle of the nineteenth to the last quarter of the twentieth, ending with the years in which he claims sociology discovered its "complicated vocation." Along with his pithy observations on why sociologists tended to think what and when, he is particularly acute in describing why globalization came at a time when it could only make poverty and deprivation, which were already on the rise, worse for more people, and what sociologists can do about the situation and still be human beings. HM445 2005-041952 0-333-77845-6

The pig book; how government wastes your money.


Citizens Against Government Waste. Thomas Dunne Books, 2005 187 p. $12.95 (pa) Put together by the group Citizens Against Government Waste, this volume documents some of the most egregious pork-barrel projects approved by the US Congress since 1991. For inclusion in the annual Congressional Pig Book from which this volume draws its material, projects must meet one of the following criteria: requested by only one chamber of Congress, not specifically authorized, not competitively awarded, not requested by the President, greatly exceeding the President's budget request or the previous year's funding, not the subject of congressional hearings, or served only a local or special interest

The arf of sociological argument.


Crow, Graham. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 208 p. $28.95 (pa) This introductory text examines the ways in which sociological arguments are constructed and presented. Individual chapters consider the work of eight major sociologists in different theoretical traditions from functionalism to feminism, including Karl Marx, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and Ann Oakley. Crow (sociology, U. of Southampton) contrasts the argumentative styles of these thinkers, encouraging readers to imagine themselves as participants in their sociological debates.

Your money or your life; the tyranny of global finance. 3d ed.


Toussaint, Eric. Haymarket Books, 2005 487 p. $18.00 Toussaint (president. Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt) condemns globalization as a politically-driven process that is inseparable from the deregulation of capital markets and the increased "financialization" of every nation's economy. It not only causes, but also depends on, increased inequality within and between countries and is part of a global offensive of capital against the labor of workers and small producers. He describes this process in relation to the Third World debt crisis, the activities of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and the growing "financialization" of industrial multinational corporations. The volume concludes with a discussion of alternatives to neoliberal globalization.

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Postmodernism is not what you think; why globalization threatens modernity, 2d ed.
Lemert, Charles C. Paradigm Publishers, 2005 195 p. $21.95 (pa) In the view of Lemert (sociology, Wesleyan U.), modernism is a culture that justifies the world-system of capitalism and its "extraction of surplus value on the basis of stolen resources and impoverished cheap labor." Postmodernism, then, can be seen as the conditions where modernism fails to cover up the dirty secrets of capitalist modernity. Seen in this positive light, postmodernism is driven by processes of globalization, and is the cultural corollary to a global political economy. This understanding of postmodernism and globalization underpins his wide-ranging discussion in which he addresses questions of the media and popular culture, identity politics, the science wars, politics and cultural studies, and structuralism and postculturalism. HM471 2005-018408 1-59451-168-3

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The postmodern significance of Max Weber's legacy; disenchanting disenchantment.


Koshul, Basit Bilal. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 176 p. $65.00 Koshul (religion, Concordia College) presents Weber as a postmodern thinker born too early rather than an Enlightenment thinker born too late, especially in his work on religion and science. Koshul believes Weber's work should not be taken simply as a study in the sociology of culture or of a methodology of the social sciences but instead should receive an integrated and relational reading to find new insights. He begins with a reading of Weber on the religion vs. science debate, then shows how Weber's thought on the fact/value and subject/object dichotomies and other issues shows how far Weber actually advanced toward postmodernism. Koshul closes with commentary on the progress of Weber scholarship itself from disenchantment to self^wareness. HM554 2005-011001 1-58826-361-4

Enriching the sociological imagination; how radical sociology changed ihe discipline, (reprint, 2004)
Title main entry. Ed. by Rhonda F. Levine. Paradigm Publishers, 2005 357 p. $28.95 (pa) This series debut volume refiects on 30 years of critical scholarship represented by Critical Sociology and its earlier incarnation. The Insurgent Sociologist. Levine (Colgate U.) introduces the evolution of the latter journal from 1969 as one of^ the few publications that covered the political struggles of radical/Marxist sociologists to represent the discipline's future directions in a globalized world. The book was first published in hardback in 2004 by Brill. HM471 2003-024372 0-7425-2464-7

The norms of war, cultural beliefs and modem conflict.


Farrell, Theo. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2005225 p. $49.95 Importing ideas from sociology's new institutionalism, the social and cultural history of warfare, and public international law, Farrell (Reader in War in the Modern World, King's College London, UK) presents a synthetic overview of how normspublic beliefs that are institutionalized in community discourse, doctrine, policies, and practiceshave shaped the way states organize for war, how societies mobilize for war, and how wars are waged. Military development in early 20th Century Ireland is used to explore the causal impact on norms of conventional warfare and civilian supremacy. German preparations for war in 1914 and 1939 are examined in terms of norms of military mobilization. The US is examined as a case study on the norms of nuclear weapons use. Finally, NATO's war in Yugoslavia is discussed in the context of norm violation and norm change in international law. HM584 87-7307-738-0

Savage state; welfare capitalism and inequality.


Martin, Edward J. and Rodolfo D. Torres. Rowman & Littlefield, 2004 183 p. $22.95 (pa) Martin (public policy and administration, California State U.-Long Beach) and Torres (Chicano-Latino studies and political science, U. of CaliforniaIrvine) draw on classical Marxist theory and critical postmodern frameworks to criticism welfare policy within the context of capitalism. They discuss the demise of US welfare policy, the role of the state in capitalist society, other welfare policy models, and alternative futures in the shadow of increased inequality. HM477 2005-042082 90-04-14363-7

Bauman before postmodemity; invitation, conversations and annotated bibliography, 1953-1989.


Tester, Keith and Michael Hviid Jacobsen. Aalborg University Press, 2005 226 p. $32.00 (pa) Viewed by Tester (cultural sociology, U. of Portsmouth, UK) and Jacobsen (sociology, Aalborg U. Denmark) as "one of the most important and significant social and cultural analysts of the present," Zygmunt Bauman is best known for his work on postmodernity. However, in recognition of his long career in sociology, this volume is dedicated to his earlier work (a sequel volume on his later work is planned). Three sections on the sociological imagination, socialism in Eastern Europe, and ideas presaging postmodernity each include an interview wdth Bauman and an annotated bibliography of his work in theses areas. These sections are bracketed by an "invitation" essay on the broad outlines of his work and a concluding assessment of his scholarly achievements. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Co. HM585 2004-051405 1-4039-4306-0

Diverse histories of American sociology.


Title main entry. Ed. by Anthony J. Blasi. Brill Academic Publishers, 2005 462 p. $49.00 (pa) Focusing on the history of sociological practice in the United States, 18 papers presented by Blasi (sociology, Tennessee State U.) examine sociology conducted for the purpose of reform, consider the sociological perspectives of American minorities, and narrate histories of organizations involved in conducting sociology. Specific topics include the contributions of female sociologists in the American South, the sociology of William J. Kerby of Catholic University, the development of clinical sociology, the evolution of the Caucus of Black Sociologists to the Association of Black Sociologists, the beginnings of sociology in Hawai'i, and the conduct of sociology in higher education. HM479 2004-029786 0-7591-0642-8

Dimensions of sociological theoiy.


Cheal, David. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 195 p. $28.95 (pa) Cheal (sociology, U. of Winnipeg) works through 200 years of theory for the benefit of students just starting their inquiry into sociological theory. He covers the units of analysis of inquiry, including the individual as opposed to social facts as explained by Mill and Durkheim, and interaction and the return of reductionism as found in Simmel, Schutz, Homains, Blau and Coieman. He has Durkheim, Merton, Parsons and Weber explain social life and Marx, Parsons and Habermas expound on social evolution, reserving Mannheim, Foucault and Dorothy Smith for the discussion on ideology. In the final section on structure and agency, Williams, O'Brien, Blumer and Goffman weigh in on social structure and alternatives while Bourdieu, Giddens and Bauman take on the issues of agency. HM585 2005-277530 0-7456-3257-2

Contempt of court; a scholar's battle for free speech from behind Dars.
Scarce, Rik. (Crossroads in qualitative inquiry series; v.6) AltaMira Press, 2005 223 p. $72.00 Scarce (sociology, Skidmore College) knew more than he could tell about a group of animal rights activists who had broken into a research library, a situation that came to a head in a Spokane, Washington courtroom. There he refused to testify before a grand jury and was imprisoned for contempt of court for five months. Scarce's training as an ethnologist and journalist served him well in jail as he kept a diary that details his life in the general population, their struggles with their situations and with him as an outsider, his perceptions about civil liberties and the justice system, the small things such as a blanket on which to play cards that come to mean much in confinement, and his new definitions of courage and forbearance.

An introduction to sociology, 3d ed.


Browne, Ken. Polity Press, 2005 470 p. $64.95 Browne's (sociology. North Warwickshire and Hinckley College) text for lower-level sociology students is organized by topic: class, wealth, gender, race, politics, media, crime, family, education (British), inequality in education, religion, work, leisure, population, health, and how to do research. The text is specifically geared towards GCSE boards study. There is no bibhography. Distributed by Blackwell Publishers.

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The Sage handbook of sociology.


Title main entry. Ed. by Craig Calhoun et al. Sage Publications, 2005 590 p. $130.00 This volume provides an overview of the field of sociology todayits underlying theories/methods, key sub-disciplines, and primary debates. In the introduction, the editors reflect on changes in global society that have affected the study of sociology over the last twenty years. The 32 contributions from European and American academics cover such topics as the diversity and insularity of sociological traditions; the sociology of consumption and lifestyle; and the politics of global inequality. HM585 2005-926691 0-495-00562-2

Empire of the senses; the sensual culture reader.


Title main entry. Ed. by David Howes. (Sensory formations) Berg Publishers, 2005 421 p. $84.95 This intriguing collection posits that the senses are the gateways of knowledge as well as instruments of power. The contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Alain Corbin and others place sensory experience at the forefront of cultural analysis. The essays take the reader into the sensory worlds of the medieval witch and the postmodern mall, a Japanese tea ceremony and a Boston homeless shelter. The volume includes a bibliography for "fifty ways to come to your senses," listing 50 books representing current sensory research in the humanities, social sciences and the arts. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan. HM621 2004-099513 0-76194799-X

Sociology; a global perspective, 6th ed.


Ferrante, Joan. Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2006 651 p. $75.95 (pa) Ferrante (Northern Kentucky University) uses very interesting examples to teach students about sociological theories and concepts, including the blood services industry, hand-holding in various countries, China's human rights record, international remittances, and Israeli settlements in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem and the question of "safe passage." Each chapter focuses on a particular country as a case study of the social issue examined. In the sixth edition, the economics and politics chapter examines Iraq while the education chapter discusses vocational schools in the EU. HM585 2005-921586 0-495-00460-X

Global modernization; rethinking the project of modernity.


Martinelli, Alberto. Sage Publications, 2005 158 p. $99.95 In the face of deep and thorough social transformations occurring in the age of globalization, says Martinella, sociologists must modify their perspective and work out new concepts, theories, and narratives based on increased comparative research. He warns that in order to avoid the common habit in social of just inventing new names for old patterns, it is also necessary to reassess, update, refine, and transform past concepts and theories. Among his topics are the classical theory of modernizing traditional Third World societies, critiques of it, and alternative approaches; modernity and its future; and globalization and modernity. HM621 2004008172

Social problems; readings with four questions, 2d ed.


Charon, Joel M. and Lee Garth Vigilant. Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2006 516 p. $37.95 (pa) Charon and Vigilant (both affiliated with Minnesota State U.- Moorhead) edit this collection of readings. Essays are divided into 11 topical sections examining the meaning of social problems, various aspects of social inequality, and issues related to crime, drugs, family, education, health care, politics, violence, and terrorism, as well as social problems related to population, aging, and the environment. Each part is prefaced with a summary of articles, and each article is introduced by a list of topics covered and followed by discussion questions. This second edition includes 15 new articles, and updated reading questions. HM585 2004-056952 0-333-79378-1

Illuminations from the past; trauma, memoiy, and histoiy in modem China.
Wang, Ban. (Cultural memory in the present) Stanford U. Press, 2004 311 p. $21.95 (pa) During the two decades of growing globalization and its underlying imperial paradigm, Wang (Chinese and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University) has become uncomfortable with the notion of universal norms and a universal history. What, he asks, will become of the national, local, and even family and individual memory? Taking modern Chinese culture as a case study, he sketches a trajectory in which memory and history proceed in tension and unison. HM626 2004-053385

Structuration theory.
stones, Rob. (Traditions in social theory series) Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 225 p. $28.95 (pa) Anthony Giddens's structuration theory, once a mainstay of social science, has come under significant criticism in recent years. Stones (sociology, U. of Essex) introduces structuration from the core and also works to provide a stronger framework for it that draws upon criticism, debates, defenses and refinements within the field. He describes the basic tenets of the theory, its distinctions and the limits of its scope, and its ontology, its influences, critics (friend and foe), and his development of it into a stronger form in terms of ontology, research focus, and the wider picture within the discipline. Stones uses Morawska's Insecure Prosperity and Ibsen's A Doll's House as case studies. HM621 2004-063591 O8058-5582-3 HM661 2004-304404 0-7619^365-X

The historical evolution of world-systems.


Title main entry. Ed. by Christopher Chase-Dunn and E.N. Anderson. (Evolutionary processes in world politics series) Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 213 p. $65.00 Mostly American sociologists and anthropologistsno historiansdescribe various aspects of the rise and fall of great powers in the modern and premodern world from the world-systems perspective. Their topics include Eurasian C-wave crises in the first millennium BC; urbanization and empire formation in world-systems since the Bronze Age; and contentious peasants, paternalist state, and arrested capitalism in China's long 18th century. The nine essays are revised from presentations at a 2002 conference in Riverside, California.

The business of culture; strategic perspectives on entertainment and media.


Title main entry. Ed. by Joseph Lampel et al. Lawrence Eribaum, 2006 328 p. $34.50 (pa) This collection edited by Lampel (City U. London, UK), Shamsie (Michigan State U., US), and Lant (New York U., US) brings together contributions by management scholars and researchers from the fields of strategy, organization theory, marketing, economic, sociology, and communication studies interrogating the strategies and organizational methods of the cultural industries. The papers examine the process of value creation in television, the Hollywood motion picture industry, and symphony orchestras; strategic positioning in the video game industry. Web-base periodicals, and television; the nature of the market for the music business, commercial music radio, and motion pictures; the role of technology in the early American film industry, the market for prerecorded music, and Internet media; and the impact of globalization in television and the Australian film industry.

Emotion in social life; the lost heart of society.


Layder, Derek. Sage Publications, 2005 128 p. $64.95 Layder (no affiliation given) examines the state of interpersonal control in modern society and its close relation to our emotional lives. He notes that power and control, whether benign or not, are among the most infiuential forces affecting daily life; and he addresses the types of behavior infiuenced by perceptions of power, such as social encounters vidth loved ones or strangers. Discussion includes the emotional consequences of a sense of loss of control. Layder closes by proposing topics for more research.

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Atlas of European values.


Title main entry. Ed. by Loek Halman et al. (European values studies; v.8) Brill Academic Publishers, 2005 139 p. $199.00 In the late 1970s a group of social researchers were interested in finding out whether Europe was still as culturally unified as it once had been under the influence of Christianity. They began a research project to measure European values, and organized a major cross- national survey in 1981 in 15 European Union member states. The survey was repeated in 1990 and 1999/2000, and this atlas summarizes the findings of the European Values Study in 2000. Beginning with a look at Europe as a whole, the book is divided into sections on family, work, religion, politics, society, and well-being. It is illustrated with maps, charts, and color photographs, and the appendix includes statistical information on geography, demography, economics, government. HM683 2005-008G08 0-7G19-338&^

Trust and rule.


Tilly, Charles. (Cambridge studies in comparative politics) Cambridge U. Pr., 2005 196 p. $55.00 Rightly fearing that unscrupulous rulers would break them up, seize their reserves or submit them to damaging forms of intervention, strong networks of trust, such as kinship groups, clandestine religious sects and trade diasporas, have historically insulated themselves from political control by a variety of strategies. Drawing on a vast range of comparisons over time and space, Tilly (social science, Columbia U.) examines the ways members of trust networks have evaded, compromised with or even aligned themselves with political regimes. His study of the evolution of trust networks into different political forms contributes to a more comprehensive view of democratization and de-democratization. HM786 2005-901043 l-il29-0129^

Organizing and organizations, 3d ed.


Fineman, Stephen et al. Sage Publications, 2005 458 p. $130.00 UK-based academics Fineman, Sims, and Gabriel present the latest edition of their textbook for students of organizational behavior and management on a wide range of courses. All chapters of the previous edition have been revised and updated and new chapters added on virtualify, motivating, buildings, and lifelong learning. The extensive thesaurus at the back of the book has also been greatly expanded, and is cross-referenced to enable students to study whole clusters of interrelated concepts. HM821 2005-003218 1-4129-15244

Reservation and affirmative action; models of social integration In India and the United States.
sharma, Arvind. S^gB Publications, 2005 194 p. $49.95 Sharma (comparative religion, McGill U., Montreal) compares the measures taken in the US and in India to overcome discrimination against groups of people: affirmative action for Blacks in the US, and reservations for Untouchables in India. He explores why the measures in India did not generate as much debate as those in the US; and analyzes the various arguments used to justify them in terms of religious, moral, ethical, and human rights discourse. HM706 2004-301271 0-7619^765-6

The Disneyization of society.


Bryman, Alan. Sage Publications, 2004 199 p. $36.95 (pa) According to Bryman (social research, U. of Loughborough, UK), more and more aspects of our society are exhibiting features associated with Disney theme parks. This process of "Disne}azation" is characterized by four dimensionstheming, hybrid consumption, merchandising, and performative laboreach of which is described and analyzed in separate chapters. He then argues that the successful operation of Disneyization requires control and surveillance and explores the way in which these operate in Disneyized institutions and practices. Finally, he examines the extent to which Disneyization should be seen as a harmful "systemscape" with homogenizing trends diffusing through the economy, culture, and society. HM7ie 2005-048225 0-205-45373-2

Worlds apart; social inec(ualities in a globfJ economy, 2d ed.


Sernau, Scott. Pine Forge Press, 2006 373 p. $54.95 (pa) Sernau (sociology, Indiana U.-South Bend) updates his textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate sociology students studying sodal stratification and inequality. His examples come from current headlines without oversimplifying difficult issues, and explain throughout how the ideas of the classical theorists provide a foundation for understanding current events. No date is noted for the first edition. HM843 2005-048712 1-59451-081-4

Incorporating diversit)^ rethinking assimilation in a multiculturaT age.


Title main entry. Ed. by Peter Kivisto. Paradigm Publishers, 2005 349 p. $29.95 (pa) Kivisto (sociology, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois) brings together a collection of 16 journal articles and book chapters providing migration and ethnic relations scholars a ready guide to key texts in the development of assimilation theory from its earliest formulation a century ago to the present day. In an introductory chapter, Kivisto provides an historical perspective on the current revival of the concept of assimilation in the field of sociology. The five essays that follow, dating from 1914 to 1964, trace the classical formulation of assimilation theory; six essays from the 1990s explore the reconsideration of the utility and validity of assimilation theory by a growing number of sociologists and historians during the 1990s; the remaining five essays from 1993-2003 address new directions. HM846 2004-030875 1-84520-090-X

Joining together, group theory and group skills, 9th ed.


Johnson, David W. and Frank P. Johnson. Allyn & Bacon, 2006 651 p. $77.40 (pa) This textbook brings together the theory on group dynamics, the research testing that theory, and structured exercises aimed at building practical group skills and illuminating the meaning of the theory and research presented. The ninth edition reflects new developments in effective small group research, constructive resolution of conflict, and creativity. HM736 2005-008159 1-4129-1534-1

Group communication pitfalls; overcoming barriers to an effecnve group experience.


Burtis, John O. and Paul D. Turman. Sage Publications, 2006 247 p. $74.95 Burtis and Turman, both from the University of Northern Iowa Communication Studies Department, approach groups as useful tools, and in this text they teach readers how to avoid predictable problems in implementing that tool. They employ the Breakdown-Conducive Group Framework as a lens through which to examine current small group communication literature. The text is written for the lay reader.

Magic, culture and the new economy.


Title main entry. Ed. by Orvar Lofgren and Robert Willim. Berg Publishers, 2005 145 p. $74.95 In the 1990s we were told the New Economy was going to be a Utopia built of networks, relationships, and enlightened globalization, or it was going to be a system of new and rigid class divisions and power redistribution among viciously competitive states and regions. This collection of ten articles describes how close we have come to both, either, or neither, with topics such as the mass marketing of serenity in the spa industry, the brokerage of biotechnology, the new business ethic, the cultural economics of boutique hotels, "added value" in commodities, and the disappearing/reappearing act expected of the new labor market. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan.

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Imagining the internet; personalities, predictions, perspectives.


Anderson, Janna Quitney. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 307 p. $28.00 (pa) By now, they said, we should all have flying cars and world peace, and we should he very busy replacing ourselves with machines. They also said the Internet would soon result in the end of both privacy and property. In all cases it is not entirely clear whether such changes are good or bad, or if they have or will come true. In this series of wideranging essays Anderson (communications, Elon U.) gives some perspective on why some dreams (or nightmares) about the technologies and societies of the future conflict with the reality, and why sociology, personalities and twists of fate are likely to keep fl3nng cars and the destruction of the concept of property on their respective drawing boards for the time being. HM851 0-7619-1338-2

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Cynicism from Diogenes to Dilbert.


Cutler, Ian. McFarland & Co., 2005 227 p. $35.00 (pa) Cutler, the manager of mental health and learning disability services in Cardiff, Wales, argues that cynicism is a progressive approach to social dilemmas and represents an enlightened understanding of the human condition. He describes the foundations of classical Greek cynicism and illustrates the varied faces of the cynic phenomenon in such disparate characters as Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Diogenes, the Dadaists, George Bataille and the creators of South Park. Cutler focuses on significant periods of historical change and the importance of c3Tiidsm to seminal social ideas. HM1013 2005-002567 1-4129-0557-5

Opening acts; performance in/as communication and cmturalstudies.


Title main entry. Ed. by Judith Hamera. Sage Publications, 2006 280 p. $69.95 American scholars of communication, performance, and theater outline concepts and contributors to performance-based research; link performance theory and methods to those in critical communication and cultural studies; and provide models of performance as a theoretical, methodological, and representational practice. Among their topics are owning culture in ethnographic research, tourist performance as research method, and remapping the canonical landmark. HM1033 1-84150-129-8

Internet sodetjr, the internet in everyday life.


Bakardjieva, Maria. Sage Publications, 2005 220 p. $69.95 Weary of the nerd-heavy mythology of the transformative power of the Net in academia and knowledge work, Bakardjieva (communication and culture, U. of Calgary) decided to carry out an ethnography of everyday Internet use. She wanted to approach the question of the Net's implications for society from the bottom up, starting with the daily experiences of ordinary Canadianspeople who didn't earn their livelihoods on or around computer networks and therefore didn't have to embrace the new technology. She narrates the stories of how these "ordinary users" came to have an Internet connection in their home and how its use took shape in a study in which her own mixed feelings about the technology's pervasiveness is a central character. HM851 2005-001815 1-84520-065-3

Audiences and publics; when cultural engagement matters for the public sphere.
Title main entry. Ed. by Sonia Livingstone. (Changing media, changing Europe; v.2) Intellect, Ltd., 2005 244 p. $39.95 (pa) When is an audience a public, ask these European media scholars and social scientists, and when is a public an audience. Their underlying contention is that understandings, values, and identities of the public, and the fora in which these are expressed, are increasingly mediated technologically, materially, and discursively. They explore whether and how this mediation of publics matters by examining the intersection between the public and media audiences. Distributed in the US by ISBN. HM1033 2005-009387 1-4129-1519-8

Virtual methods; issues in social research on the Internet.


Title main entry. Ed. by Christine Hine. Berg Publishers, 2005 242 p. $28.95 (pa) The title is a bit misleading: the discussion is not how to do social science on the Internet, but how to research social interactions that are mediated by information and communications technologies. Social scientists in Europe, North America, and Korea present case studies and reviews that explore methodological solutions to some of the new questions being asked in the age of distance interaction. The 14 studies are revised from presentations at a series of seminars in universities in southern England from 2001 to 2003. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan. HM881 2005-014998 0-7425-3807-9

The production of reality; essays emd readings on social interaction, 4th ed.
Title main entry. Ed. by Jodi O'Brien. Pine Eorge Press, 2006 550 p. $56.95 (pa) Combining micro and macro perspectives, O'Brien (sociology, Seattle University) introduces students to the major theories, concepts, and perspectives of contemporary social psychology in this text/reader for undergraduates studying psychology in sociology departments. Readings have been chosen from popular literature as well as peer-reviewed journals, and framing essays that introduce and enhance the readings in each section are included. Twenty of the 41 readings are new to this edition. Discussion and review questions are also new. HMH31 2005-004327 0-7391-1200-7

Frames of protest; social movements and the framing perspective.


Title main entry. Ed. by Hank Johnston and John A. Noakes. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 269 p. $32.95 (pa) In the large frame, protest movements respond to broad social or political injustices, and in the middle frame movements more often grow when challenging groups have more resources, but the sociologists here examine the small frame of social construction processes and their relation to social movement participation. Among their case studies are balance, neutralization, and range in collective action frame of the suf^ frage mobilization; official frames of the FBI, HUAC, and the Communist threat in Hollywood; and political opportunities and framing Puerto Rican identity in New York City. Some essays discuss theory and methodology. HM881 2005-047116 90-04-14583^

Horrible workers; Max Stimer, Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Johnson, and the Charles Manson circle; studies in moral experience and cultural expression.
Nielsen, Donald A. Lexington Books, 2005 119 p. $18.95 (pa) Nielsen (sociology, social work, and criminology; Morehead State U.) investigates moral experience and its relationship to cultural expression in four case studies originally written independently and framed by two general chapters. In particular, the flrst sets the theoretical frame, focusing especially on an interpretation of Emile Durkheim's paired concepts of egoism and altruism,, anomie and fatalism, and the sacred and profane.

Transforming globalization; challenges and opportunities in the post 9/11 era.


Title main entry. Ed. by Bruce Podobnik and Thomas Reifer. (Studies in critical social sciences; 3) Brill Academic Publishers, 2005 203 p. $84.00 Sociologists and other academics analyze the characteristics and prospects of a growing movement of resistance that is challenging neoliberal forms of globalization. Eleven contributions describe how workers, environmentalists, human rights activists, and other concerned citizens in the U.S. and around the world have joined together to protest against institutions such as the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank. The volume concludes with an examination of the challenges facing the global peace and justice movement in the post 9/11 world.

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People and their opinions; thinking critically about public opinion.


Shiraev, Eric and Richard Sobel. Longman, 2006 368 p. $42.00 (pa) This textbook introduces students to the field of public opinion. Professor Shiraev (political psychology, George Mason U.) and practitioner Sobel (Roper Center for Public Opinion Research) utilize a comparative perspective that examines trends in both American and international public opinion. Sample topics include the measurement of opinion; the stages of political socialization; and the impact of factors such as gender, class, and religion on opinion. HM1241 2004-005426 0-202-30746-8

Comparing modernities; pluralism versus homogenity, essays in homage to Shmuel N. Eisenstadt.


Title main entry. Ed. by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg. (International comparative social studies; v.lO) Brill Academic Publishers, 2005 744 p. $97.00 Have we come to the end of history? Are we in a position to engender and support different types of modernity? The contributors of these 32 essays tend toward the latter, but have another question: are the multiple modern societies engendered doomed to crash? The answer seems to be in whether such societies are pluralistic and open or totalistic and closed. In a series of theoretical evaluations and cases, the contributors examine the historical trajectory of modernity, the possibilities and tensions in the relationship between modernity and pluralism and the particular pressures of religion and nationalism on pluralism, surveys of modernity as expressed in India, Israel and Europe, the challenges of collective identities, and, in closing, the possibility of modernity as a program. HM1271 2004-030321 0-8018-8215-X

Rumor mills; the social impact of rumor and legend.


Title main entry. Ed. by Gary Alan Fine et al. (Sodal problems and social issues) AldineTransaction, 2005 268 p. $55.95 At the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa SerbeUoni in Bellagio on the shore of Lake Como (where many believe Jimmy Hoffa is buried), sociologists, folklorists, historians, psychologists, literary scholars, anthropologists, marketing researchers, and political scientists gathered for five days to explore the social and political dynamics of rumor and the related concept of urban or contemporary legend. They focus on the political and social context, including connections to social problems and concerns (e.g., riots, economic upheaval, government corruption, and corporate scandal), and on issues of truth, belief, history, public policy, and evidence. Topics include the Medieval myth of ritual murder hy proxy; humor as an integral part of the contemporary legend process; and negatory rumors such as rumors of death and rumors of bogus moon landings. HM1266 2004-057317 1^039-6872-1

Pluralism and liberal democracy.


Flathman, Richard E. Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2005 218 p. $40.00 Flathman (political science, Johns Hopkins U.) inquires into the bases, limits, and values of social and political pluralism in order to argument the discussion in political and social theory by introducing philosophical accounts and explanations of how and why pluralities develop, sustain themselves, meld into others, disaggregate, or disappear. He examines in particular the writing of pluralists William James, Hannah Arendt, Stuart Hampshire, and Michael Oaskeshott. HM1272 1-84371-104^4

Race, hybridity, and miscegenation; 3v.


Title main entry. Ed. by Robert Bernasconi and Kristie Dotson. (History of American thought) Thoemmes Press, 2005 670 p. $425.00 Bernasconi and Dotson (U. of Memphis), whose goal in publishing this collection of 19th-century texts is to assure that readers viall be aware of intellectual trends that were once widespread and influential, acknowledge in their introduction how shocking and disturbing many of" the texts are for the views they present on race. They also note how frequently the view of racial purity was couched in theological as well as scientific terms. The texts in volume one include several by Josiah C. Nott on hybridity of races and responses and related essays by other writers. Volume two contains eleven essays representing the debate over miscegenation. The 16 essays of volume three present views concerning the mixing of races and the future of the U.S. population. The editors provide an introduction to each volume. The volumes are not indexed. Distributed in the US by Continuum. HNll 2005-297260 0-7190-6731-6

Rethinking freedom; why freedom lost its meaning and what can De done to save it.
Alford, C. Fred. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 169 p. $22.95 (pa) Puzzled at the way the term "freedom" is used to describe every positive aspect of the United States, Alford (government, U. of Maryland, College Park) asked many people, particularly young people, about their definitions of freedom. This volume is a rebuttal to the majority of his respondents, who were not enthusiastic about freedom as an abstract ideal. Alford uses a range of philosophers and actual experiences of freedom to argue his position. HM1271 90-04-14652-0

Achieving peace or protecting human rights?; conflicting between norms regarding ethnic discrimination in the Dayton peace agreement.
Nystuen, Gro. (The Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights VtbraTy,
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Martinus-Nijhoff, 2005 296 p. $279.00 Nystuen (international humanitarian law, U. of Oslo) has been with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Afiairs since 1991, and participated in the European Union delegation to the negotiations that led to the Dayton Peace Agreement of 1995. Using that Agreement as a case study, she explores possible contradictions between human rights protection against ethnic discrimination, and provisions in peace settlements that might undermine such human rights. She seeks to determine the scope of conflict between these two sets of rules, and to assess on a general basis whether the non-fulfillment of human rights may be justified in order to secure peace, and if so, to what extent, under what circumstances, and for how long. The study is revised from her 2004 doctoral thesis in international law at the University of Oslo. Nijhoff is an imprint of Brill.

Popular protest in late medieval Europe; Italy, France, and Flanders.


Title main entry. Ed. by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (Manchester medieval sources) Manchester U. Pr., 2004 389 p. $24.95 (pa) The 204 documents Cohn (medieval history, U. of Glasgow) has selected extend from 1245 to 1424, but concentrate on what was called a contagion of revolts following the Black Death about 1355-82. Among them are chronicles, songs, poems, ordinances, laws, deliberations of city councils, royal remissions of grace, judicial records, family diaries, and even an art commission. A major goal is to assess the impact of the plague on popular protest. Distributed in the US by Palgrave. HN17 2004-026674 1-931859-15-9

The World Social Forum; strategies of resistance.


Leite, Jose Correa. Trans, by Traci Romine. Haymarket Books, 2005 262 p. $12.00 (pa) Leiteprofessor, journal editor, and member of the organization's Secretariat and International Councilprovides a historical survey of the World Sodal Forum, which was created in 2001 after 20,000 activists gathered in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The aim: an international movement for sodal, political, and economic justice.

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Global revolt; a guide to the movements against globalization.


Starr, Amory. Zed Books, 2005 264 p. $17.50 (pa) Not everyone is welcoming globalization with open arms. Activist Starr gives a history of the anti-globalization movement and collects its manifestos which range from easing developing nations' debt to eliminating borders, fostering anti-elitism and promoting solidarity. She delineates the movements' controversies, such as consumption politics and anarchism, gives a variety of tactics such as culture jamming, taking to the streets, pirate radio and suicide, and concludes that those who foster globalization are getting worried. Distributed by Palgrave. HN28 3004-056995 1-4039-0152-X

Foundations of social policy; social justice in human perspective, 2d ed.


Barusch, Amanda Smith. Brooks/Cole Publishing, 2006 484 p. $83.95 Writing for students of social work, Barusch (U. of Utah) presents a textbook that emphasizes the importance of social justice in its exploration of social policy. Afler briefly considering the theoretical and philosophical perspectives on social justice, she presents chapters that explore the ways that collective action has approached social security, poverty, physical illness, mental illness, and disability in the United States. She then turns to the concepts of discrimination and oppression, offering separate chapters on people of color, gay, lesbian, and transgendered individuals; children; and the elderly in the United States. Finally, she presents a discussion of the future of social work in an international context. HN60 2005-015673 1-59451-091-1

New theories of welfare.


Fitzpatrick, Tony. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 239 p. $34.95 (pa) Fitzpatrick (social and political theory, U. of Nottingham, UK) continues his effort to understand the social and political ideas that influence social polices and public reform in Britain. He considers modern conservatism versus social democracy, insecurities; information and society, genes and environments; governance, crime, and surveillance; culture and media; and other aspects. HN31 2005-048611 0-8213-6247-X

Second-rate nation; from the American dream to the American myth.


Sieber, Sam D. Paradigm Publishers, 2005 393 p. $24.95 (pa) Sociologist and historian Sieber retired from Columbia University then spent 30 years homesteading on a Caribbean island. In this, his first book since he returned to the US in 1999, he documents how fhe country has slid from greatness into mediocrity in such a short time. The economy, work, health, education, crime, the environment, foreign affairs, inequality, civil liberties, the media corporations, and democracy come under his scrutiny. A final chapter suggests recovery measures. HN90 2004-021118 0-7425-3702-1

Finding ^obal balance; common ground between the worlds of development and faith.
Title main entry. Ed. by Katherine Marshall and Lucy Keough. The World Bank, 2005 146 p. $25.00 (pa) The World Faiths Development Dialogue held its fourth gathering of religious and development leaders in Dublin in early 2004. Summaries of discussion are presented here on such matters as the many dimensions of equity tsunami realities, aftermath, and lessons; HIV/AIDS; women and youth; roots of conflict branches of peace; and the way forward. There is no index. HN39 2005-007640 1-59460-135-6

Civic communion; the rhetoric of community building.


Procter, David E. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 167 p. $69.00 Community-building, the very thought of it, gives ofT an aura of evangelism, a sense of a need to belong and to care. Yet how do those who build communities come to find each other out and communicate with each other, especially in rural areas? Proctor (speech communication, theater and dance, Kansas State U.) describe how they wind up in the same place at the same time in a variety of ways, whether as participants or planners of an event or as community volunteers. He covers the connection of communication and community and the search of rural communities for themselves, giving case studies of performing gender at local festivals, building communities through strategic planning, exhibiting collective memory, or even constructing community from conflict, giving the lessons learned from each. HN90 2004-018704 0-471-68334-5

Christianity and social change in Africa; essays in honor of J.D.Y. Peel.


Title main entry. Ed. by Toyin Falola. Carolina Academic Press, 2005 676 p. $65.00 Mostly anthropologists, but also contributors from the fields of religion and development, explore a broad range of themes touching on the African experience of Christianity, including religious expansion, the rise of Pentacostalism, and the use of new media and technologies to convert people and reform believers. The topics include expressions of past and present in Yoruba religious textiles, the cultural politics and nationalist history behind Wole Soyinka's Isara, Akadura and born-again Yoruba Christianity in London, and socializing and intellectual practice at the Swahili coast. HN49 2004-028326 0-7546-5106-1

Darknet; Holljrwood's war against the digital generation.


Lasica, J. D. John Wiley & Sons, 2005 308 p. $25.95 They hated the VCR. Ditto on the DVD, the iPOD and TiVo. It seems, according to grass-roots media expert Lasica, anything that allows independence of choice of thought, any technology that will reduce the market for what Hollywood has to offer generally gets into the hands of the consumer only because someone else figures he or she can make enough money on sales to ignore what entertainment execs have to say about said technology. He explains how the personal media market actually works, which cool toys Hollywood wants to ban or replace with their own products, and the dangers of allowing corporate control of media of any sort, even that considered pure entertainment. HN90 2005-004850 0-7425-4168-1

The experience of power in medieval Europe, 950-1350.


Title main entry. Ed. by Robert F. Berkhofer III et al. Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 292 p. $94.95 With a dedication to the historian Thomas N. Bisson, this collection of 17 essays seeks to provide some boundaries to the overly general application of the notion of power in historical studies through a focus on three of its aspects: the uses of power, relations of power, and discourses of power. Among the topics of individual papers are abbatial authority over lay agents, Jewish bailiffs in Aragon, changes in the powers of wives and widows near Montpellier, the political meaning and use of hostages in 13th-century Occitania, and Marian monarchy in 13th-century Castille. The 17 contributors are medieval historians in the U.S.

Framing class; media representations of wealth and poverty in America.


Kendall, Diana. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 277 p. $25.00 (pa) Focusing on newspaper articles and television entertainment programs Kendall (sociology, Baylor U.) explores how myths and negative stereotypes about the working class and the poor construct a reality that seemingly justifies the superior position of the upper-middle and upper classes, and establishes them as entitled to the privileged position in the stratification system.

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Polling America; an encyclopedia of public opinion; 2v.


Title main entry. Ed. by Samuel J. Best and Benjamin RadclifT. Greenwood Pr., 2005 927 p. $249.95 High school and undergraduate students as well as general readers will find a wealth of useful information concerning the ubiquitous practice of polling in the U.S. in this two-volume reference. Entries are included both on the perennial issues and on the process of polling (with the emphasis on the latter), so that readers will find entries on abortion, crime, gay rights, and trust in government as well as topics such as content analysis, coverage error, data integration, prospect theory, and weighting. Entries conclude with an annotated list for further reading and notes on websites. The contributors teach or are graduate students in political science; others compile and research public opinion for public and private institutions. HN90 2005-011463 0-7864-2144-4

The European social model; modernisation or evolution?


Adnett, Nick and Stephen Hardy. Edward Elgar Pub. Co., 2005 244 p. $95.00 Adnett (economics, Staffordshire U., UK) and Hardy (law, U. of Manchester, UK) trace the development of the European Social Model and consider whether its high level of social protection is sustainable in the modern economy. Arguing that the decline of Social Europe is not inevitable, they assess current employment regulations and suggest reforms that are aimed at promoting both economic and social development. Particular attention has been paid to issues of diversity as membership in the EU has broadened. HN380 2004-027234 0-7546-4360-3

Media, technology, and eveiyday life in Europe; from information to communication.


Title main entry. Ed. by Roger Silverstone. Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 233 p. $94.95 Between May 2000 and October 2003, senior and junior researchers in seven laboratories across Europe conducted a study to investigate what they called the realities and dynamics of the user friendly information society in Europe. The research was designed to explore the everyday lives and practices of Europeans as citizens and consumers as they made their way into the supposedly revolutionary new world of technologically driven social, political, and economic organization. Among their topics are inclusion and exclusion in the information society, consumption and quality of life in a digital world, and public policy implications for Europe's way to the information society. HN400 2004-056199 0-333-59924-1

The senior volunteer, where and how retired Americans can give back.
sharpe, Charles C. McFarland & Co., 2005 205 p. $35.00 (pa) Regarding the nation's "senior capital" as an under-utilized resource, a retired nursing educator reviews the American tradition of volunteering, its benefits, and volunteers' motivations. Sharpe discusses these factors in the context of population trends, a re- definition of retirement, and recent profile of volunteering. The guide lists national and international programs/organizations seeking onsite and virtual volunteers, and Internet resources for locating opportunities. HNllO 0-7748-1197-8

Negotiating identities in 19th and 20th-centuiy Montreal.


The Montreal History Group. Ed. by Bettina Bradbury and Tamara Myers. U. of British Columbia Press, 2005 310 p. $85.00 The Montreal History Group consists of scholars scattered across the country, who are able to hire many students to conduct research for articles such as the 11 that appear here. The themes covered are homes and homelessness; death, burial, and widowhood; youth, institutions, and identities; and selling and consumption. The emphasis is largely on the Scots, English, Irish, and Jews who would eventually be absorbed as anglophones, rather than the francophone Catholics who dominate most Quebec histories. The places, institutions, and processes considered fall between the realms of formal politics and family life, and encompass the streets, homes for vagrants and transients, cemeteries, small shops, high schools and universities, and the popular press. Distributed in the US by University of Washington Press. HN160 2004-026039 0-8018-8123-4

The radical right in Britain; social imperialism to the BNP.


Sykes, Alan. (British history in perspective) Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 184 p. $26.95 (pa) Leaving aside the question of hidden agendas, Sykes (U. of Adelaide) analyzes the characteristic ideas of the British Radical Right (distinguished from the "extreme" or "far" right) as they have developed over the years as a distinct political outlook. Locating the origins of the Radical Right in the late Victorian and Edwardian period "Church and King" movements, he traces its development up to the activities of the British Union of Fascists in contemporary times. HN400 2005-007478 0-7546-4209-7

Social exclusion in Great Britain; an empirical investigation and comparison with the EU.
Barnes, Matt. (Studies in cash & > care) Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 230 p. $99.95 Barnes (National Center for Social Research, UK) compares the problem of social exclusion in Great Britain with eleven other countries in the European Union. His analysis incorporates data from a study of British households that aimed to quantify levels of social exclusion and the composition of the socially excluded population. In addition to standard measures of poverty, he examines more relational measures of disadvantage such as neighborhood discontent and social isolation. The text is based upon his doctoral dissertation. HN523 2004-057313 1-4039-6855-1

The globalizers; development workers in action.


Jackson, Jeffrey T. Oohns Hopkins studies in globalization) Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2005 363 p. $55.00 Why are international experts working for development in less- industrialized countries? Using Honduras as a test case in nation- building, Jackson (sociology and anthropology, U. of Mississippi) finds the motives of development workers to be not entirely altruistic, in part because whose nation is being built and who are doing the building are charged issues. Writing from his field work in Honduras, including interviews with development workers from the street level to the top, Jackson first intended to build an ethnography of their professional culture, but found instead that they were part of a much larger enterprise, that being global governance. HN373 2004-048936 1^039-3995-0

Russia in the European context, 1789-1914; a member of the family.


Title main entry. Ed. by Susan P. McCafTray and Michael Melancon. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 238 p. $65.00 American and European historiansone Russiandescribe Russians who were either implicitly or explicitly preoccupied with their country's economic and social place in Europe during the long 19th century. They do not find unanimity, but do reveal an intelligentsia broadly engaged in the effort to identify essential features of modernity and the quest for a definition of European identity. Among the topics are the European context of Tsarist factory labor legislation in 1830-1914, and what the press reveals about Russia's outlook on the present and future in 1910-14.

European welfare states and supranational governance of social policy.


Johnson, Ailish. (St. Antony's series) Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 267 p. $85.00 Fears that the European Union would lead to social policy deregulation have proven unfounded. From EU history, primary documents and interviews with policy-makers, business and labor groups, and scholars, Johnson (trade policy analyst. Department of International Trade, Canada) examines the relationship between national and supranational social policy interests and institutions. Blending a comparative study of welfare state regime types and forms of governance (by law, by Social Dialogue, and by coordination), with a analysis of ways in which institutions promote cooperation regarding such areas as workplace health and safety, she identifies conditions conducive to creating new forms of supranational governance. Published in association with St. Anthony's College, Oxford.

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Is Israel one?; religion, nationalism, and multiculturalism confounded.


Ben Rafael, Eliezer and Yochanan Peres. Qewish identities in a changing world; v.5) Brill Academic Publishers, 2005 331 p. $170.00 In a era which is increasingly coming to acknowledge plurality, Israel stands out as a region of astonishing diversity, with many seemingly disparate groups defining identity, commonality and difference amongst themselves. Ben Rafael and Peres work from their extensive survey of 1999-2001 of secular middle-class Jews of Ashkenazi descent, Jews from North Africa and the Middle East, recent immigrants from the former USSR, the ultra-orthodox. West Bank settlers, Christian and Muslim Arabs, Druze, and foreign workers. They find that class does not seem to figure as much in Israeli nationalism than in that of other countries, that identity is a complex element of Israeli life, and that often one's origins elsewhere in the world determine one's community and one's place in Israeli society, creating a very elaborate sociocultural framework. HN683 2005-005599 0-7619-3358-1

Black and white together, FCAATSI: The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, 1958-1973.
Taffe, Sue. U. of Queensland Press, 2005 402 p. $24.95 (pa) Tafife (historical studies, Monash U., Australia) explores the history of FCAATSI and its precursor, the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement, whose founding members included both blacks and whites working together for social and legislative reform. The text traces the conception of the Federal Council in the 1950s as a national pressure group to gain rights for Aboriginal Australians; its birth at the inaugural conference in Adelaide in 1958; its mature campaigning work in the 1960s in a variety of areas including equal wages, social service benefits, and land rights; and its transition from a multiracial coalition to an indigenous organization during the 1970s. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HN981 0-8213-6310-7

Power, rights, and poverty; concepts and connections.


Title main entry. Ed. by Ruth Alsop. The World Bank, 2005 157 p. $20.00 (pa) Drawing from background materials and discussions from the working meeting held by the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development in March 2004, these papers and supplemental materials indicate that while empowerment is a significant contributor to progress, it is also equally significant in improving individuals' lives. The seven presenter papers concern concepts and applications such as the relationship among power, rights and poverty reduction, power relations and poverty reduction, "virtuous circles" of state-society interaction, measurement of empowerment by country, and empowerment at the local level. Supplemental materials include explanations of how to define power and measure empowerment, and a literature review. HQ21 2004-027132

Crisis and contention in Indian society.


Oommen, T.K. Sage Publications, 2005 244 p. $45.00 Indian society in the 20th century has generally been seen as having unity-in-diversity, and being democratic and secular, says sociologist Oommen, but towards the end of the century cracks in the consensus became discernible that led to contentions about the very nature of Indian society. He explores these in six talks and six seminar papers, six of them previously published. Maintaining the style of the talks, he presents them without notes, references, or index HN720 2005-011376 1-56518-225-1

Filipino cultural traits; Claro R. Ceniza lecutures.


Title main entry. Ed. by Rolando M. Gripaldo. (Cultural heritage and contemporary change. Series HID, South East Asia; v.4) Council/Research in Values..., 2005 251 p. $17.50 (pa) Gripaldo presents a collection often lectures delivered between December 2001 and March 2002 at De La Salle U., Manila, by ten faculty members of the De La Salle U. Philosophy Department in a combined effort to clarify the meanings of Filipino cultural traits or values. Four of the authors employ a phenomenological analytic method; six stress the method of logical analysis. The topics covered include concern for the other, Tagalog notions of shame and dignity; emotional strength and resiliency; peace of mind in the socio-political order, the debt of goodwill; taking care of others, meddling, and the feminist ethics of care; nonviolence; getting along well with people; sensitivity to feelings; and the notion of "come what may." HN773 2004-065409 1-4039-6930-2

The politics of lust.

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Ince, John. Prometheus Books, 2005 335 p. $16.00 (pa) Lawyer and journalist Ince specializes in laws pertaining to sexuality, and co-founded the Art of Loving, a sexuality center in Vancouver, British Columbia. Here he argues that people's in-born erotic hedonism are powerful irrational fears about their own sexuality and that of other people. He examines the condition social scientists call erotophobia, its impact on people's lives and culture, and the political system that imprints it in their minds. First published by Pivotal Press, Vancouver, in 2003. There is no index. HQ,27 2004026212 0-7890-2780-1

Rural resources and local livelihoods in Africa.


Title main entry. Ed. by Katherine Homewood. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 212 p. $65.00 British anthropologists who have worked or are working in sub-Sahara Africa analyze and try to clarify interactions of environment, land use, livelihoods, and natural resource management in African forests and savannas. They hope to develop a better understanding, approach, and methodology that will provide insights into people's natural resource use strategies, inform policy and management, and contribute to more secure livelihoods and welfare for local rural African populations. HN801 1-86888-303-5

Adolescence, sexuality, and the criminal law; multidisciplinaiy perspectives.


Title main entry. Ed. by Helmut Graupner and Vern L. BuUough. Haworth Pr., 2004 184 p. $49.95 Nine contributions from scholars and practitioners critically examine child sexual abuse laws in Europe and the U.S. that fail to distinguish between children and adolescents. Included are discussions of intergenerational sexual interaction, juvenile prostitution, and historical variations in the age of consent. The volume has been simultaneously co-published as Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, Vol. 16, Nos. 2/3, 2004. It consists primarily of papers presented at the 2002 conference of the International Society for the Treatment of Sex Offenders.
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Johannesburg; the maldng and shaping of the city.


Beavon, Keith. (Imagined South Africa) U. of South Africa Press, 2004 373 p. $35.00 (pa) Beavon (geography, U. of Pretoria) looks to convey a "sense of place" for the city of Johannesburg by sjmthesizing from a range of historical and political books and learned papers the geography of the city from its days as a mining camp to its present-day position as the premier metropolis of the African continent. His premise in outlining this urban geographywhere and how Johannesburg's residents live and workis that the problems and dysfunctions the city has endured at different stages build upon each other and can be neither understood nor remedied without a firm grasp of what's gone before. The study includes a number of b6=w photos and diagrams. Co- published by Brill and the U. of South Africa Press.

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Culture and the condom.


Title main entry. Ed. by Karen Anijar and Thuy Daojensen. (Complicated conversation; v.lO) Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2005 240 p. $29.95 (pa) In 17 provocative essays. North American scholars explore the controversial cultural roles of condoms as protection against STDs, the bane of conservatives who advocate abstinence as the only legitimate way to prevent AIDS and pregnancy, and as avant garde art and fashion (shown in illustrations). Anijar and Daojensen (both in curriculum and cultural studies, Arizona State U.) compile historical, gay, straight, female, male, African-American, and international perspectives.

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Sexuality^ and human rights; a global overview.


International Bar Association. Conference (2000: Amsterdam, Netherlands). Harrington Park Press, 2005 244 p. $49.95 "Human Rights: Help or Hindrance" was the title of the International Bar Association (IBA) Human Rights Law Committee session at which these papers were delivered, the first time the IBA considered the issue of the law and sexuality at its conference. The papers include descriptions of the International Lesbian and Gay Law Association and the Center for Research and Comparative Legal Studies on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) and topics such as sexuality and the International Human Rights Law, sexuality and the law in Australia, transsexuals and the European Human Rights Law, legal trends and legal contrasts in sexual orientation and gender identity in North America, sexuality and h u m a n rights in Asia, Europe and South Africa, and a review article about the changing relationship between laws and sexual identities. Published simultaneously as Journal of Homosexuality, Volume 48, Numbers 3 and 4, 2005. HQ7G 2005-009686 0-7619-3351-4

Our ladies of the tenderloin; Colorado's legends in lace.


Wommack, Linda R. Cajjton, 2005 175 p. $16.95 (pa) Recognizing the prostitutes of Colorado's frontier as no less pioneers than the trappers, cowboys, gunfighters, and early businessmen who were their clients, Wommack (also the author of From the Grave: A Roadside Guide to Colorado's Pioneer Cemeteries) looks at the women's daily lives and the significant role they played as an integral part of early mining and ranching communities. Plentifully illustrated in b6=w. HQ281 2005-004912 1-59451-09G-2

Trafficking and prostitution reconsidered; new perspectives on migration, sex work, and human rights.
Title main entry. Ed. by Kamala Kempadoo. Paradigm Publishers, 2005 247 p. $68.00 Activists and scholars engaged with women's issues and h u m a n rights try to clarify some confusion about the meaning of human trafficking and the impact measures taken to end it have on poor people around the world. Diverging from the views of global political leaders and the mainstream media, they explain how trafficking is conceptualized, redefined, and made operational by people who work in the field and value the rights and lives of the poor and marginalized. They draw from research and activism primarily in Asia since the 1990s, and focus on people's livelihood arrangements and survival strategies under new forms of globalization. HQ505 2004^)55047 0-7734-6298-8

Social work practice and men who have sex with men.
Joseph, Sherry. Sa^ Publications, 2005 312 p. $65.00 Joseph, who manages an HIV/AIDS program in New Delhi, notes that studies of marginalized groups such as men who have sex with men (MSM) are emerging in India. After sharing misperceptions he encountered in the course of his research, the author overviews HIV/AIDS efforts in the country, historical attitudes and scholarship on homosexuality. From an anonymous survey of MSM in formal support networks and life history case studies (appended) of a sample of the men surveyed, he profiles their stressors, coping strategies, and an affirmative social work model of individual and group level interventions. HQ,76 2004-303626 0-7190-6930-0

An English translation of Bachofen's Mutterrecht Mother right (1861); a study of the religious and juridical aspects of gynecocracy in me ancient world, v.4.
Bachofen, Johann Jakob. Trans, by David Partenheimer. Edwin Mellen Pr., 2005 68 p. $89.95 Partenheimer (English, Truman State U.) abridges and translates what he characterizes as the seminal document of the 19th century concerning the role of women in ancient societies, in which German legal scholar and judge Bachofen (1815-87) celebrates motherhood as the origin of h u m a n society, religion, morality, and decency. It explores maternal rights, birthrights, justice, laws, interest, authority, and privilege as aspects of mother right in ancient Lycia, Crete, Greece, Egypt, India, Central Asia, Northern Africa, and Spain. It concludes by connecting the ancient mother right with Christianity. Volume Four covers Elis, the Epizephyrian Locrians, and Lesbos. HQ,515 2004-013899 0-7619-2763-8

Tensions in the struggle for sexual minority rights in Europe; que(e)i7ing political practices.
Beger, Nicole J. Manchester U. Pr., 2004 252 p. $74.95 Working in the disciplines of politics, the law, and activism, educator and activist Beger investigates the major themes through which gay and lesbian politics are argued, conceptualized and staged in Europe, including anti-discrimination, human rights, marriage and family, social and economic participation, equality and age of consent. Starting from theory and politics, Beger examines sexual rights lobbying in European institutions, queer theory and political practice and their hybrid forms, strategies for civil rights, legal rights politics concerning gender identity, European citizenship and kinship and the work of the political activist as agent. Distributed by Palgrave. HQ117 92-9068-243-4

Handbook of world families.


Title main entry. Ed. by Bert N. Adams and Jan Trost. Sags Publications, 2005 649 p. $125.00 In common formats designed to facilitate comparison, social scientists from around the world describe typical families in 25 countries in Africa, Asia and the South Pacific, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. After introductions, chapters generally contain sections on family formation, fertility and socialization, gender, marriage, stresses and violence, divorce and remarriage, kinship, aging and death, family and other institutions, and special topics. In any particular case, a section may be omitted if the author has no expertise and cannot find reliable information, or if the topic is sufficiently covered in the introduction. Overall trends visible are the rise in divorce and decline in fertility, changing gender roles, and declining respect by children for their elders. HQ536 2005-005279 0-7619-8864-5

Fertile fields; trafficking in persons in Central Asia.


Title main entry. Ed. by Liz Kelly. Int'l Org. for Migration, 2005 121 p. $20.00 (pa) Calling it a methodological experiment, Kelly (child and woman abuse studies, London Metropolitan U.) designed the study, analyzed the data, and wrote the report. National researchers collected data in the five Central Asian Republics, and the International Organization for Migration acted as the intermediary. The report concludes that legacies of the past, limited political wiW, and current circumstances within and across the republics create a conducive context for human trafficking; and that without coherent and connected regional efforts, the problem is likely to intensify. There is no index. Distributed in the US by United Nations Publications. HQ121 2005-045589 0-7734-6114-0

Race and family; a structured approach.


Coles, Roberta L. Sage Publications, 2006 319 p. $54.95 (pa) In this undergraduate text. Coles (sociology, Marquette U.) finds marked similarities in the structures of families that cross racial lines, along with some significant and surprising differences. She begins with a brief history of the US family and the ways in which it has been studied, compares families across cultures and by gender, describes intergenerational relationships, and then examines African American, Native American, Latino, Asian and multiracial families. Coles takes an empirical approach to help readers consider how they consider information about families so they do not reinforce stereot3^es; with this in mind, she makes ample use of census and other primary data and guides readers through interpretations based on research rather than on gut reaction.

How modem governments made prostitution a social problem; creating a responsible protitute population.
Scott, John Geoffrey. (Studies in health and h u m a n services; v.54) Edwin Mellen Pr., 2005 306 p. $119.95 Attitudes toward prostitution have shifted substantially in the past few years, with arguments changing from moral issues to social issues to simply health issues. However Scott (sociology, U. of New England, Australia) notes that one theme that remains strong and unchanging is power, in particular the power of the state over women's minds and bodies. He examines the histories of prostitution in New South Wales and their different takes on power and truth, the role of "other" in the shift in attitude, the idea of appl3ang private remedies to public concerns, the emergence and complication of the male prostitute, and the shift fVom procreation to pleasure inherent in the business. Scott closes with an analysis of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the debate over prostitution.

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Framing the family, narrative and representation in the medieval and early modem periods.
Title main entry. Ed. by Rosalynn Voaden and Diane Wolfthal. (Medieval and renaissance texts and studies; v.28O) MRTS, 2005 305 p. $40.00 This collection grew out of a 2002 sjonposium on Framing the Family held at Arizona State University. The essays focus on diverse aspects of the family, such as the conjugal pair, the household, and the relationship of parent to child, of the couple to the extended family and of the nuclear family to the community. The volume as a whole explores the complex relationship between history and cultural production in the medieval and early modern family. HQ,734 2004-029254 0-7657-0377-7

Fathering and child outcomes.


Flouri, Elrini. John Wiley & Sons, 2005 221 p. $95.00 Psychology "discovered" the importance of the father to their children's development about 20 years ago, according to Flourini (Centre fbr Research into Parenting and Children, U. of Oxford). To frame her research since 2000 on fathering and child well- being, she examines the role of fatherhood from historical and role theory contexts. From her investigation of resident and nonresident father's involvement with their school-aged children utilizing data from major longitudinal UK studies, she identifies factors shaping their engagement level and influence on mental health, educational, social, and economic outcomes, and reasons fbr mixed findings on the impact of this relationship. HQ,756 2005-001529 0-7425-4569-5

The art of marriage maintenance.


Karasu, Sylvia R. and T. ByTam Karasu. Jason Aronson, 2005 243 p. $24.95 (pa) Karasu (psychiatry, Cornell U.) and Karasu (psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Albert Einstein School of Medicine) examine the psychological and biological differences between men and women and how stresses at various points in life, such as pregnancy and child- rearing, illnesses, af&irs, and even the resident obnoxious teenager can throw off a relationship. With plentiful examples and some pointed and sometimes surprising quotes, they cover how "the relationship," sex, power, and communication contribute or detract from a successful marriage, marriage in the baby years, the kid years, and the adolescence decades, midlife, and marriage as a cause of illness. They close by redefining marriage. HQ,734 2005-008164 0-7619-306O4

Situated fathering, a focus on phjrsical and social spaces.


Title main entry. Ed. by William Marsiglio et al. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 333 p. $29.95 (pa) Seeking to overcome sociology's neglect of the sociospatial dimension in family relations, Marsiglio (U. of Florida) introduces 14 chapters that treat fathering from this perspective. Contributors study fathers/stepfathers' roles in diverse contexts: from those absent from the home due to divorce, incarceration, truck driving, or military service, to MexicanAmerican and farm fathers in their communities. Chapters conclude with questions fbr future research. HQ,759 2005-004558 978-1-84310-362-2

Fostering now; messages fix)m research.


Sinclair, Ian. Jessica Kingsley Pub., 2005 174 p. $34.95 (pa) This volume provides an overview of recent research on fbster care in the UK. Drawing upon the varied experiences of fbster children, social workers, fbster carers, and parents, it identifies how placement outcomes are affected by factors such as fbster carers' parenting styles and children's gender, ethnicity, age, and physical and emotional health. Other issues addressed include (for example) the recruitment and support of relative carers (such as grandparents) and the effects of foster care on education. Sinclair is affihated with the Social Work Research and Development Unit at the U. of York. HQ759 2005-016474 0-415-94777-4

Engaging theories in family communication; multiple perspective.


Title main entry. Ed. by Dawn O. Braithwaite and Leslie A. Baxter. Sage Publications, 2006 364 p. $79.95 Designed fbr advanced undergraduates and graduate students in courses on personal relationships, communication theory, and applied communication, this text is the first to focus exclusively on family communication theory. Braithwaite and Baxter (communication studies, respectively, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln and U. of Iowa) provide an overview of theory and three meta-theoretical discourses to show students the current landscape of family communication research. The contributors then examine both classic and cutting-edge theories to guide future research. HQ,751 2005-003391 0-313-32791-2

The social economy of single motherhood; raising children in rural America.


Nelson, Margaret K. (Perspectives on gender) Routledge, 2005 253 p. $85.00 Working from interviews of 67 single mothers in Vermont, Nelson (sociology/anthropology, U. of Vermont) describes the lives of mothers made single by a wide range of circumstances resulting in a wide range of living conditions, the kind of support they expect and actually get, be it financial, emotional or social, and how they build their single-parent families. Nelson provides the details that emerged from the interviews, such as the fact that many relied on multiple, small sources of income, that the welfare system was relatively ineffective and usually inadequate when it was available, that health care was a prime concern and oflen out of reach, and that "falling in love again" may easily prove detrimental fbr these mothers and their children. HQ767 2005-013969 3-11-018421-4

The eugenics movement an encyclopedia.


Engs, Ruth Clifford. Greenwood Pr., 2005 279 p. $75.00 Engs (applied health science, Indiana U.-Bloomington) provides infbrmation concerning prominent people, organizations, publications, conferences, and concepts involved in the hereditarian and eugenics movements from the middle 19th century to 2005. Though she fbcuses on the early 20th-century in the US, she also discusses links between the past and present and with Britain and German, the other two countries most involved with the eugenic measures and debates. Among her topics are whether such techniques as cloning, genetic engineering, and genetic testing do or do not qualify as eugenics. HQ755 2004^65021 0-8058^807-X

Parenting, an ecological perspective, 2d ed.


Title main entry. Ed. by Tom Luster and Ljmn Okagaki. (Monographs in parenting) Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005 442 p. $42.50 (pa) Utilizing an ecological perspective (developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner) that sees children's development as influenced by the interaction they have over time with the people, objects, and symbols in their immediate environment, 13 papers analyze diflferences in parenting styles and their factors contributing to such differences. Presented by Luster (Michigan State U.) and Okagaki (Purdue U.), the papers first consider the influence of social cognition and developmental fkctors of personality and relationship on parenting. They then explore the effects of child characteristics, including developmental disabilities, on parenting. Contextual influences such as the marital relationship, personal social networks, work, neighborhoods, socioeconomie status, and ethnicity are examined in the next group of papers. The volume concludes with a summary of current controversies and future directions in research on parental socialization of child outcomes.

CUldhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; the results of a paradigm shift in the history of mentality.
Title main entry. Ed. by Albrecht Classen. Walter de Gruyter, 2005 444 p. $91.59 In these 19 articles, contributors explain how much has changed in what we understand about the relationship between parents and children in the Middle Ages. Far from considering their children as undersized adults, or holding them at a distance with as little emotional attachment as possible, it appears that both fathers and mothers had deep emotional ties with their offspring and were greatly concerned about their children's well-being and education. Topics such as the influence of monastic ideals on Carolingian conceptions of childhood, the rise of the cult of the Christ-Child, publication of children's literature and guides to child-rearing, evidence that girls were educated as well as boys, and case studies of the family lives of such as Margery Kemp and Isabeau of Bavaria prove that past concepts of familial relationships may have been tainted by scholarly prejudice against the Middle Ages.

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The development of the person; the Minnesota study of risk and adaptation from birth to adulthood.
Title main entry. Ed. by L. Alan Sroufe et al. Guilford Pr., 2005 384 p. $40.00 Intended for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students, this volume presents a coherent view of the individual's development from birth to adulthood. Sroufe et al (all U. of Minnesota) have spent 30 years on this comprehensive examination of children in their families, studying 180 children who were born into poverty, from the time of their birth through age 28. The book is divided into three sections, the first on understanding development, with information on comprehensive longitudinal research, an outline of the study, the conceptual and theoretical supports, and methods of assessment and follow-up. The second section addresses development and adaptation throughout infancy, childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. The third section is on development and psychopathology, including early experience and later emotional disturbance, clinical implications, and ongoing issues in social relationships. Appendices contain interview questions, a life stress scale, and outlines of longitudinal study assessments. HQ767 2004-061425 0-8058-5199-2

Media and the make-believe worlds of children; when Harry Potter meets Pok6mon in Disneyland. (CD-ROM included)
Title main entry. Ed. by Maya Gotz et al. (LEA's communication series) Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005 229 p. $24.50 (pa) Can popular media actually have positive influence on child development? Scholars discuss a comparative study of children in the US, Germany, Israel, and South Korea presented at international forums in the field of communication. They analyze how children's fantasy stories (presumably on the companion CD) creatively incorporate media "traces" of gender and culture. Gotz is with a German educational broadcasting company; co-editors are academics in the countries in which this project was conducted. HQ,789 2004-029609 0-7425-2988-6

Children's human rights; progress and challenges for children worldwide.


Title main entry. Ed. by Mark Ensalaco and Linda C. Majka. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 278 p. $29.95 (pa) This collection of original interdisciplinary research uses as its frame of reference the Convention of the Rights of the Child and the declarations and plans of action from the 1990 World Summit and the 2002 UN General Assembly special session on children. The researchers examine the global challenges to the well-being of children and the public policies, community initiatives and advocacy strategies that best protect children and promote their development. The concluding essay by Ensalaco (political science, U. of Dayton) and Majka (sociology, U. of Dayton) calls for an extension of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to children, beginning in the US. HQ,792 2004-023481 (V8135-3593-X

Developmental pathways through middle childhood; rethinking contexts and diversity as resources.
Title main entry. Ed. by Catherine R. Cooper et al. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005 356 p. $69.95 Fifteen studies penned by researchers from the MacArthur Research Network on Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood (e.g. ages 612) that examine how children and families shape and are shaped by diversity and economic, historical, political, cultural, and social contexts. Editors Cooper (U. of California at Santa Cruz), Coll (Brown U.), Bartko (U. of Michigan), Davis (U. of California at Los Angeles), and Chatman (U. of Chicago) present suggest that the contributions converge around the themes of how adults and children, through their perceptions and actions, connect resources across family, school, and community contexts; how low-income families and children and their teachers interpret and use contexts as resources for creating pathways through childhood; and how immigration affects children's emerging identities and pathways in their family, school, and community contexts. HQ774 1-4129-1035-8

Coining for capiteil; movies, marketing, and the transformation of childhood.


Kapur, Jyotsna. Rutgers U. Press, 2005 196 p. $21.95 (pa) Children in movies now live and manage by their wits in a world peopled by ineffective adults, says Kapur (cinema and photography. Southern Illinois U.); but those in movies only reflect the maturing of" children in society, who dress and behave like adults and have access to most of the same media as adults. In television, the Internet, and photography, the innocent romantic child of the past has been replaced in both avant-garde and commercial art by the sexually knowing child. HQ795 2005-009935 0-8261-2405-4

An introduction to early childhood; a multidisdplinary approach.


Title main entry. Ed. by Tim Waller. Paul Chapman Publ. Ltd., 2005 174 p. $57.95 Partially adapted from the curriculum for the Early Childhood Studies degree at the University College of Northampton, UK, this textbook is for beginning students of early childhood education. Nine chapters edited by Waller (Swansea University) tackle topics of children's rights, protection, special education, modern childhood, health, learning, researching children, and international theories. Contributors are from the UK. Distributed by Sage Publications. HQ,778 2004-022874 1-59385-138-3

Historical influences on lives &> aging.


Title main entry. Ed. by K. Warner Schaie and Glen Elder. (Societal impact on aging series) Springer Publishing Co., 2005 309 p. $54.95 Focusing on the ways lives are influenced by historical contexts such as immigration, war, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, the contributors of these six articles and accompanjing commentary describe historical changes in the course of lives in America, generational cohorts in immigration and incorporation, the influence of the transition from communism on the life course and aging, the affects of post service employment and lack of it amongst former Russian Army officers, the impact of the Second World War on Korean lives, and the well-being of low-income adults in a period of change in welfare and employment policies. HQ796 2005-015695 0-8204-7097-X

Child care and child development; results from the NICHD study of early child care and youth development.
Title main entry. Ed. by NICHD Early Child Care Research Network. Guilford Pr., 2005 474 p. $48.00 The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) reveals the results of an in-depth longitudinal study on the effects of nonmaternal (professional) child care on the development of children. Investigators around the country assessed participating children in terms of their social adjustment and family relationships; their cognitive and linguistic school readiness; and their growth and health. This volume presents some of the most significant scientific papers from the first several years of the study along with editorial commentary. HQ784 2004-484216 0^8264-7799-2

Talking adolescence; perspectives on communication in the teenage years.


Title main entry. Ed. by Angie Williams and Crispin Thurlow. (Language as social action; v.3) Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2005 292 p. $32.95 (pa) Twenty international academicsmainly from the U.S., U.K., and Australiacontribute 15 chapters examining the role of communication in structuring and facilitating the lives of young people. The collection challenges many popular assumptions about adolescence; a number of the authors are specifically concerned with confronting institutional and academic complicity in misrepresenting or disadvantaging young people. Coverage includes adult constructions of young people's communication, the practices and experiences of teenagers in communication within peer contexts, and adolescents' communication with adults. For students, researchers, and academics in communication studies.

Children and television.


Simpson, Brian. Continuum Publishing Group, 2004 207 p. $49.95 (pa) Concerned about the construction of childhood underlying claims that television harms children, Simpson (child law and children's rights, Keele U.) looks at market and regulatory forces that shape children and television law, the legal discourse and regulating concerning the relationship between children and television, violence, sex, advertising, and the new legal discourse on children's r i ^ t s and television in the interactive age.

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European cities, youth and the public sphere in the twentieth century.
Title main entry. Ed. by Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfried. (Historical urban studies) Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 162 p. $94.95 Drawing on a broad selection of methods and disciplines, these papers address attempts to regulate the political and moral behavior of youths in the rapidly expanding cities of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The contributors use a variety of case studies from across Europe to investigate the interactions between youth and authority and to show how they changed over time and across different countries. Individual topics include the corruption of rural youth in early 20thK;entury cities, the battles between Hitler Youth and working-class gangs in Nazi Germany, and youth and public spaces. HQ,799 2004-051404 1^039-1470-2

Gerotranscendence; a developmental theory of positive aging.


Tornstam, Lars. Springer Publishing Co., 2005 213 p. $39.95 Tornstam (social gerontology, Uppsala U.) describes a theory of aging that transcends the dualism of activity and disengagement, and explains how theory was developed from the unsatisfying mismatch of common assumptions within gerontology and some empirical findings. He does not claim that other theories within social gerontology are invalid, just that there are certain developmental patterns they do not cover properly. HQ1063 2005-O05102 1-59102-293-2

The eldercare 911 question and answer book.


Beerman, Susan and Judith Rappaport-Musson. Prometheus Books, 2005 304 p. $20.00 (pa) This is a companion volume to Eldercare 911: The Caregiver's Complete Handbook for Making Decisions. Featuring interactive worksheets and resource lists, it ofTers practical suggestions fbr coping with a variety of issues faced by caregivers on a daily basis. Sample topics include planning an intervention, saying no to know-it- alls, managing extended families, and avoiding burnout. The particular needs of working caregivers are also addressed. HQ1064 2005-004038 0-7890-2876-X

The life course; a sociological introduction.


Hunt, Stephen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 228 p. $29.95 (pa) Hunt (sociology, U. of West of England) incorporates current research findings and an historical overview in this introductory textbook on the life course as viewed in Western cultures. Coverage includes a review of theoretical accounts; social differentiation and determinants of the lift course, including age and age categories, class, gender, and ethnicitj^, reproduction, infancy, and parenting childhood issues; contemporary youth; relationships, sexualities, and family life; work, leisure, and consumption; the midlife years; aging, old age, and death. While the overall approach taken by Hunt is sociological, the author also considers the political and moral debates surrounding some of the changes in the lift HQ799 2005-005732 0-7890-2482-9

Challenges of aging on U.S. families; policy and practice implications.


Title main entry. Ed. by Richard K. Caputo, editor. Haworth Pr., 2005 221 p. $49.95 Caputo (social policy and research, Yeshiva U., New York) introduces trends and issues relating to the impact that aging baby boomers will have on their families and US society in general. In ten chapters, scholars discuss the psychological and socioeconomie implications of their research on family determinants of well-being and provocative issues of caregiving. E.g., should adult children should be required to care fbr aging parents, and should family caregivers be paid? Populations studied include long-married couples, grandparents, and African-Americans. Copublished simultaneously as Marriage & Family Review, v.37, nos.1/2, 2005. HQ,1073 2004-026842 1-84520-068-3

Parent-youth relations; cultural and cross-cultural perspectives.


Title main entry. Ed. by Gary W. Peterson et al. Haworth Pr., 2005 622 p. $109.95 Social scientists from around the world investigate how culture aflfects the relationship between parents and children. Some of the 28 contributions compare similarities and diflferences across societies or nations, while others explore family relationships within a single culture. Sample topics include the relationship between parenting behaviors and adolescent achievement in Chile and Ecuador, the prediction of the sexual behavior of Korean adolescents from individual and family factors; and the effects of financial hardship, inter-parental conflict, and maternal parenting in Germany. Previously published as Marriage and Family Review, Vol. 35, Nos. 3/4, 2003 and Vol. 36, Nos. 1/2/3/4, 2004. HQ1058 2005-003229 0-7546-4001-9

The culture of death.


Noys, Benjamin. Berg Publishers, 2005 166 p. $74.95 By culture of death, Noys (English, U. College Chichester) is not referring to the shrill political debates in the USone side citing war and execution and the other abortion and euthanasia. Rather he looks at the cultural trappings of death, investigating whether there is anything distinctive about it in contemporary Western society. He draws on a range of theorists and writers about modern death, and both high and popular art, literature, and film. His topics include the space of death, politicizing death, bioethics, and transgressive death. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan. HQ1073 2005-010226 978-0-8248-2910-0

Older widows and the life course; multiple narratives of hidden lives.
chambers, Pat. (New perspectives on ageing and later lift) Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 287 p. $99.95 Chambers (Keele U., UK) combines an analysis of existing literature with her own research among older widows. Her extensive interviews with 20 women reveal an experience of widowhood that is more multi- faceted than generally believed. In examining the women's perspectives on family, friends and their own lives. Chambers develops the concept of "multiple narratives" as a way of uncovering the complex and oflen hidden lives of older widows. She argues that these women's needs can only be addressed through an understanding of that complexity. HQ1061 2004014795 0-7890-188&*

Final days; Japanese culture and choice at the end of life.


Long, Susan Orpett. U. ^Hawai'i Pr., 2005 287 p. $45.00 Long (anthropology, John Carroll U., Cleveland) spent over a decade investigating the social and cultural nature of end-of^lift decisions in Japan, the nation with the world's longest lift expectancies and a distinctly postindustrial pattern of causes of death. Her ethnography of the final days of lift considers bioethical issues such as the words, metaphors, and narratives ordinary people draw on in thinking about what constitutes "a good death"; who makes decisions about a dying patient; the use of high-tech treatments at the end of life; debates about brain death and organ transplantation; and ways of dealing with dying, from hospices to euthanasia. HQ1075 2004-006504

Encyclopedia of ageism.
Title main entry. Ed. by Erdman Palmore et al. (Religion and mental health) Haworth Pr., 2005 347 p. $59.95 Palmore (medical sociology, emeritus. Duke U.), his co-editors, and 63 contributors review more than 125 aspects of ageismthe ways old people, particularly women, are dehumanized in medicine and the larger cultureand how to counter it. Topics are arranged alphabetically, from abuse in nursing homes to voice quality; a random sampling finds entries on age segregation, criminal victimization, face-lifls, Holly\vood, mandatory retirement of judges, pension bias, sexuality, and transportation. Each entry includes an overview and references.

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Title main entry. Ed. by Nadia Tazi. (Keywords series) Other Press LLC, 2004 167 p. $15.00 (pa) The series looks in turn at different fundamental notions from different cultural perspectives, others so far being identity, truth, and experience. Six social scientists here look at gender in Africa, America, the Arab world, China, Europe, and India. There is no index.

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Reconstructing gender, a multicultural anthology, 4th ed.


Title main entry. Ed. by Estelle Disch. McGraw-Hill, 2006 679 p. $55.00 (pa) This anthology for undergraduates demonstrates the ways that gender operates across numerous categories, including race, sexual orientation, class, age and disability. Disch (sociology, U. of Massachusetts, Boston) draws from a wide range of sources, such as research articles, essays and personal narratives, to provide accessible and provocative readings rej> resenting a plurality of perspectives and experiences. The fburth edition strengthens the emphasis on women's rights as human rights, gay marriage and the effects of welfare refbrm. It addresses immigration, health and war and includes a gender analysis of the events at Abu Ghraib. HQ1147 1-85182-888-5

Feminist methodologies for critical researchers; bridging differences. Sprague, Joey. (The gender lens series)
AltaMira Press, 2005 237 p. $72.00 After evaluating the epistemologies available to social science researcherspositivism, postmodernism, critical realism and standpoint theorySprague argues that sociological perspective leads to a preference fbr standpoint epistemology. She also examines both conventional and experimental ways of reporting research findings and proposes some strategies fbr developing research questions that serve social justice. She concludes with a call fbr transfbrmation in the social organization of research, from collaborative agendas to new terms of evaluation of scholarly productivity. HQ1186 2004-029788 0-7425-4174-6

Studies on medieval and early modem women; 4: Victims or viragos?


Title main entry. Ed. by Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless. (Studies on medieval and early modern women; 4) Four Courts Press, 2005 240 p. $65.00 This fburth volume of essays arising from the annual conference at Trinity College, Dublin, reflects ongoing debates in Irish universities about gender roles and the prevailing view that masculine and ftminine are not binary opposites. The topics range from individual powerful women, such as Emma of Normandy, Matilda of Tuscany, and Adela of Blois, to networks of female power, such as those in the 17th-century French and Spanish courts. The papers also discuss women who were involved in the medieval crusades and the wars in 17th-century Ireland, as well as debates by Protestant reformers and Scottish Enlightenment philosophers about the role of women. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HQ1149 2005-005217 0-313-32210-4

Telling our lives; conversations on solidarity and difference.


Furman, Frida Kerner et al. (Feminist constructions) Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 218 p. $26.95 (pa) Three women from working class Jewish, African-American, and IrishAmerican backgrounds connect across their diflferences through storytelhng and conversation. Now college professors, the authors discuss how their identities have been shaped by their cultural heritage as well as the impact of class on their educational experiences. The spiritual dynamics of academic work are also explored. The authors are Frida Kerner Furman (religious studies, DePaul University), Elizabeth A. Kelly (women's and gender studies, DePaul U.), and Linda Williamson Nelson (anthropology and writing, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey). HQ,1190 1-86134-691-3

Women's roles during the Renaissance.


Brown, Meg Lota and Kari Boyd McBride. (Women's roles through history) Greenwood Pr., 2005 335 p. $59.95 Women from roughly the thirteenth through the seventeenth centuries fund their conditions in life changing, sometimes rather rapidly. In some cases, they were prevented from a career in the Church because certain Protestant faiths prohibited them from entering religion; in others, they fbund they could operate businesses entirely on their own. Some were mathematicians while others were not allowed to learn to read. In nearly all cases, with the possible exceptions of queens regnant, their roles were subordinate to those of men, whether in work, the law, literature, or the arts. In this text fbr general readers, the authors cover a great deal of ground in a relatively limited space, but manage to describe the accomplishments of many of the women who formed the Renaissance one family or so at a time and on a day-to-day basis. HQ,1155 2004-054119 1-4039-6764-4

The Ann Oakley reader, gender, women and social science.


Oakley, Ann. Policy Press, 2005 306 p. $32.50 (pa) Germaine Greer, author of The Female Eunuch (1970), introduces this reader collecting 22 excerpts from mostly out-of-print works by feminist sociologist Oakley (U. of London). Writings represented include Sociology of Housework (1974) and From Here to Maternity (1981), as well as more recent reflections on how her work relates to issues in women's studies. References include a list of Oakley's vmtings. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HQ1190 1-85343-918-5

Gender, space and power, a new paradigm for the social sciences.
Vianello, Mino and Elena Caramazza. Free Association Books, 2005 167 p. $29.95 (pa) Vianello and Caramazza, who are not further identified, combine ideas from politics, sociology, biology, and therapy to explore gender aspects of the relationship between space and power. They begin by describing the representation of space and the construction of social reality, then suggest directions toward a new viewpoint in various social sciences. Only names are indexed. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HQ1233 2004-059128 l-i039-1506-7

Dialogue and difference; feminisms challenge globalization.


Title main entry. Ed. by Marguerite Waller and Sylvia Marcos. (Comparative feminist studies series) Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 259 p. $24.95 (pa) Feminist scholars and activists present diverse conceptual frameworks of transnational/transcultural fbrms of feminism. Waller (women's studies and comparative literature, U. of California, Riverside) and Marcos, a Mexican author/activist, introduce nine discourses treating efforts (e.g., international conferences. Courts of Women) to transcend First to Third World diflferences in addressing such global issues as violence against women and sex tourism. Several photos personalize the struggles. HQ1161 2004-011679 0-8204-7419-3

Gender, ethics and infonnation technology.


Adam, Alison. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 196 p. $74.95 Adam (information systems, U. of Salfbrd, UK) combines feminist ethics, politics, and legal theory to explore the gendered nature of computer ethics in problems such as data protection, cyberstalking, and privacy. The prevailing "hacker ethic," she finds, is largely a masculine, libertarian approach that elevates freedom of^ speech over the rights of vulnerable members of society. Her vision of a feminist cyberethics calls fbr a more caring, relational approach, in which men's and women's experiences are equally valued, than the individualistic, rationalistic, and often emotionless fbrms of ethical decision making that are now widespread in technology.

Casting gender, women and performance in intercultural contexts.


Title main entry. Ed. by Laura Lengel and John T. Warren. (Critical intercultural communication studies; v.7) Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2005 214 p. $29.95 (pa) US and European scholars of theater, communication, and women's studies consider such aspects and examples as writing nations on the margins, intercultural perfbrmances of doing time, Australia's perfbrming older women's circus, from local German women to intercultural theater, when white girls act black, and feminism and performances in the territory of ex-Yugoslavia.

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The agency of women in Asia.


Title main entry. Ed. by Lyn Parker. Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2005235 p. $22.00 (pa) In attempting give depth and reality to the representation of everyday lives of women in Asia, these papers work against tu^o, almost oppositional, representations of Asian women. The first common representation is of victimschild prostitutes, battered maids and mailorder brides and the second is the imagined subversive. Discarding these assumptions, the contributors assess the actual possibilities for and realizations of agency for women in various Asian cultures. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HQ123G 2004-057288 1-4039-6707-5

Solidarity's secret; the women who defeated Communism In Poland.


Penn, Shana. U. of Michigan Press, 2005 372 p. $34.95 Drawing on a decade of interviews, Perm (Union Theological Center in Berkeley, California) pieces together the huge, largely unstudied contributions of the Polish women whose pro-democracy work was obscured by the more public successes of their male counterparts. While prominent men like Lech Walesa were underground or in jail during the 1980s martial law years, it was women who worked behind the scenes to keep Walesa's face visible and Solidarity's name alive; they ran Solidarity and the main opposition newspaper, and they organized Poles at the grass rootsan area of civic activity that the Western press considered only marginally newsworthy. Perm's history uncovers what one of the women called Poland's "national secret." HQ1236 2004-028586 0-7546^168-6

Engendering human rights; cultural find socio-economic reauties in Africa.


Title main entry. Ed. by Obioma Nnaemeka and Joy Ngozi Ezeilo. (Comparative feminist studies series) Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 314 p. $65.00 Privileging the voices of African women in this collection addressing issues of human rights and gender, Nnaemeka (French and women's studies, Indiana U. at Indianapolis) and Ezeilo (executive director. Women's Aid Collective) present 14 essays that examine a diverse range of questions, including South African Apartheid and the reproductive rights of women, health as a basic human right, the rights of female children and adolescents under international human rights law, poverty and AIDS in Nigeria, gender stereotyping and sexual violence in Kenyan secondary schools, the socio-cultural context of female circumcision and the impact of the human rights discourse, and the prevalence of wife battering among workers in a Nigerian university. HQ1236 2005-011741 0-7391-1199-X

Turkey's engagement with global women's human rights.


Kardam, Nuket. (Gender in a global/local world) Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 197 p. $94.95 Kardam (Monterey Institute of International Studies) was born and raised in Turkey, and still spends several months a year there with her family, and so can describe changes in the country's policies and practices on women's human rights from both domestic and international perspectives. Using a constructivist perspective, she examines the intersection between global women's human rights norms and the complex and fragmented local gender regimes that exist in Turkey. She begins with the 19th<entury context of how gender identities developed as Western and Islamic values engaged each other in the Ottoman Empire and through the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. HQ,1236 2005-016341 0-7425-4992-5

Governing codes; gender, metaphor, and political identity.


Anderson, Karrin Vasby and Kristina Horn Sheeler. (Lexington studies in political communication) Lexington Books, 2005 243 p. $28.95 (pa) Familiar narratives and stereotypes about women and power often govern media portrayals of public women, containing and constraining them, say Anderson (speech communication, Colorado State U.) and Sheeler (communication studies, Indiana U. Purdue U.-Indianapolis). Conversely, they demonstrate how women mine the metaphorical landscape for rhetorical strategies they can use to accomplish their pragmatic goals. They examine the careers of Democrats Ann Richards and Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Republicans Christine Todd Whitman and Elizabeth Dole. HQ1236 2004-021375 0*135-3588-3

Women's rights in the Middle East and North Africa; citizenship and justice.
Title main entry. Ed. by Sameena Nazir and Leigh Tomppert. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 367 p. $30.00 (pa) Freedom House researchers worked on a major survey of women's rights in the Arab Middle East and North Africa from 2003-5. Intended to support efforts to empower women in this region, the survey findings are discussed in profiles with ratings and recommendations for 16 countries plus the Palestinian Authority and territories. While progress has been made, challenges remain in regard to legal discrimination, domestic violence, and access to advocacy groups. The survey questions and methodological notes are appended. Referenced but not indexed. HQ,1236 2005-021651 1-932716-10-6

Just advocacjr?; women's human rights, transnational feminisms, and the politics of representation.
Title main entry. Ed. by Wendy S. Hesford and Wendy Kozol. Rutgers U. Press, 2005 301 p. $24.95 (pa) Mostly American scholars of women's studies and English demonstrate how women and children are further subjugated when political or humanitarian groups represent them solely as victims and portray people helping them as paternal saviors. They look at human rights, trans/nationalism, and cultures of security^ human rights and the evidence of experience; and activist and official networks. HQ1236 2005-008489 0-7391-1228-7

Women's rights; the public/private dichotomy.


Title main entry. Ed. byjurate Motiejunaite. Int'l. Debate Educ. Assn. Pr., 2005 234 p. $24.95 (pa) Reprinted articles by scholars and activists provide debaters an initial resource on the practical and philosophical implications of the public/private divide, and the current thinking on the usefulness of the divide in protecting women's rights. The 12 articles cover definitions of public and private, women's human rights, and historical and contemporary contexts. They are not indexed. HQ1240 1-S76924-35-7

Reconceiving women's eduality in China; a critical examination of models ot sex equality.


Yuan, Lijun. Lexington Books, 2005 137 p. $20.00 (pa) Yuan (philosophy, Texas State U.) identifies four models of sex equality available to Chinese women in order to improve their statusthe traditional Confucian view, the liberal feminist formal view, Mao's view of women's equality in production, and the idea of equal opportunity in the economic transformation of the post-Mao periodand argues that all four have failed to advance the interests of women's full equahty because they lacked a deep concern for democracy. She attempts to provide such a model, which values democracy as an intrinsic value and is motivated by gender awareness and opposition to top-down ideologies.

On feminism find nationalism; Kartini's letters to Stella Zeehanderlaar, 1899-1903.


Kartini. Trans, by Joost Cot6. Monash Asia Institute, 2005 184 p. $29.95 (pa) Born into an aristocratic Javanese family, Raden Ayu Kartini (1879- 1904) became a prominent Indonesian writer on feminism and anti- colonialism. Fluent in Dutch, she carried on a correspondence with a number of European women during her life. This volume contains the results of one sudi correspondence, carried out with Stella Zeehandelaar, a young postal clerk in Amsterdam whose feminist and socialist ideas were, according to the translator's brief contextual introduction, typical for Dutch progressive circles of the time. In the letters Kartini reflects on issues of Indonesian nationalism and the position of women in Indonesian society. For this translation, an efifort has been made to restore, where possible, the portions of the letters deleted from the original 1911 publication of Kartini's letters to Zeehandelaar. Distributed in the US by ISBS.

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Sharing power, women, parliament, democracy.


Title main entry. Ed. by Yvonne Galligan and Manon Tremblay. Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 271 p. $99.95 Political science, economics, and women's studies are most represented as contributors from North America, Europe, and Australia try to explain the wide variations in women's parliamentary presence in different countries through a series of closely investigated country case studies carried out within a common framework. They characterize the 20 studies as representing democracies at various stages of development, ranging from the post-Communist transition democracies of Eastern Europe and the emerging democracies in Asia and Africa to the longestablished liberal democratic states in Europe, North America, and the Antipodes. HQ1391 2004-053522 1^039-6662-1

The lives of women; a new histoiy of Inquisitional Spain.


VoUendorf, Lisa. Vanderbilt University Pr., 2005 266 p. $39.95 The emerging Spanish nation sought to silence women, and fbr generations many thought it succeeded. However, VoUendorf (Spanish, California State U., Long Beach) has unearthed significant evidence that in fact women of all conditions who lived under the Spanish Inquisition spoke publicly and privately, competently operated households, businesses and convents, and advised kings and prelates. Evidence comes from the Inquisition testimony of an intersexual defendant, the same from a woman caught somewhere between Judaism and Catholicism, women in fiction and women onstage, nuns in the roles of writers and nuns in the roles of mothers, and single women who paid the price of independence. VoUendorf closes wath an analysis of women's education and the possibilities in further research. HQ1745 2004-063596 0-06-074042-6

Women, partisanship, and the Congress.


Jones Evans, Jocelyn. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 161 p. $65.00 Congress is no longer exclusively a boys' club, but the women there must operate, at least fbr a time, under its traditional culture. Evans (government, U. of West Florida) has conducted extensive interviews to produce this study about how women in Congress respond to the pressures of party loyalty and party expectations, political goals and reelection. In the process she seeks answers to basic questions: Does partisanship impact women's legislative behavior? Does in impact their experience in the district, or in the party organization? Do women in congress vote alike? She finds the answers to be complex, with the politics and cultures of districts and parties significant sources of complications. HQ1421 2005-046591 0-06-078122-X

The dancing girls of Lahore; selling love and saving dreams in Pakistan's ancient pleasure district.
Brovm, Louise. Fourth Estate, 2005 311 p. $23.95 By the standards of almost any culture, particularly their own, they are unclean. They are born into the business, and the sale of their virginity, and their daughters' virginity, is often necessary fbr their family's survival. Their lives are proscribed and in that smaU space oflen chaotic, especially when they dare to behave fbr one second like other women. Brown (sociology, Birmingham U.) writes with a novelist's sense of what is important in her account, taken from fbur years of diaries of her experiences living wath a family of prostitutes in Lahore, Pakistan. She does not flinch from the reality of the women's situation, but she is also sensitive to their ability to live on hope, in many cases, the hope of a time when they will not be bought and sold. HQ1785 2004-030703 1-84520-199-X

Hating women; America's hostile campaign against the fairer sex.


Boteach, Shmuley. ReganBooks, 2005 326 p. $25.95 Boteach, a rabbi and father of five daughters, is not sure which phenomenon to be more anguished by: the growing misogyny in American culture, or how little women seem to care. His wakeup manifesto outlines four female archetj^ses that have saturated popular culturethe brainless bimbo, the greedy gold-digger, the publicity-seeking prostitute, and the catty witch. "Here we are," he writes, "fbrty years after the women's liberation movement; women think they are freer than ever, when in reality the past few decades have produced a monolithic and degrading depiction of women as the carnal manifestations of male fantasy." His solutionputting women on a kind of pedestal of respectmay make some feminist readers uncomfbrtable; but, he argues, "in a world without ladies, there cannot be gentlemen." HQ1596 2004-478146 1-55111-608-1

Gender, religion and change in the Middle East, two hundred years of histoiy.
Title main entry. Ed. by Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud. (Cross-cultural perspectives on women; v.26) Berg Publishers, 2005 230 p. $25.00 (pa) Infbrmed by recent studies on gender and religion, contributors identified only by name look at Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Middle East over the past two centuries. They describe and discuss aspects of human experience, social reality, and institutional development and management, emphasizing how gender roles are negotiated in the religious communities and how these negotiations relate to social change. There seems to have been a previous edition in a different language. Distributed in the US by Palgrave MacmiUan. HQ1796 2004-063560 0-8214-1567-0

Criminals, idiots, women, and minors; Victorian writing by women on women, 2d ed.
Title main entry. Ed. by Susan Hamilton. Broadview Press, 2004 272 p. $21.95 (pa) The anthology's title is from Frances Power Cobbes' 1868 essay, in which she describes English women's lack of legal rights. Hamilton (English, U. of Alberta) provides an infbrmative introduction to essays from eight Victorian-era feminists and anti- feminists with diverse views on the "Woman Question" in Victorian England. Following each essay from mainstream rather than feminist periodicals is a biographical note, and primary and secondary sources. This update of the 1995 edition adds an essay by Cobbe on education for women and a chronology. Not indexed. HQ1599 2004-303617 1-4039-6754-7

African womanhood in colonial Kenya, 1900-50.


Kanogo, Tabitha. (Eastern African studies) Ohio University Press, 2005 268 p. $49.95 How they were treated, how they dressed, if they were to be educated, if and how they married, if they ever experienced sexual pleasure, and even if they were allowed to live were seemingly in the hands of African and British male authority figures. Yet Kenyan women in the first half of the twentieth century nevertheless managed to find their identities fbr themselves and establish at least some level of control over their own lives. Kanogo (history, U. of Califbrnia at Berkeley) describes the social and legal status of African women in late colonial times, particularly in Kenya, what was legally and culturally expected of them in terms of their sexuality, ethnicity, and status as a woman, their complex relationship with their own dowries and the family fbrces behind them, the influence of colonial and traditional medicine and like regulation on their roles as mothers, and the question of whether beings so debased could and should be educated. HQ1865 2004-063150 0-7734-6184-1

Women in England 1760-1914; a social history.


Steinbach, Susie. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 342 p. $39.95 Steinbach (history, Hamline U.) finds the women of England in the "long nineteenth century" were generally not fragile flowers of femininity or perpetual victims; in fact, they practiced contraception, ran family enterprises, businesses and nations, supported their places of worship and provided relief to those oppressed by racism and poverty, besides stating their personal beliefs on equal rights, including the vote. Making good use of primary sources, this study explores what women did and said in their roles as exemplars of working-class, middle-class and elite femininity; how they handled issues of sexuality and religion; how they were educated; and how they served in the politics of the nation.

Narratives and images of Pacific Island women.


Title main entry. Ed. by Debbie Hippolite Wright et al. (Women's studies; v.44) Edwin Mellen Pr., 2005 253 p. $119.95 Narratives averaging about five pages long edited from interviews reveal the lives, recollections and reflections, hopes, concerns, and challenges of Pacific Island women living in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the Cook Island, Fiji, Hawai'i, Samoa, Tonga, and More Islands. The oral history project In Her Own Voice: Pacific Island Women Speak was initiated by a women's research team from Brigham Young University-Hawai'i. Black-and-white snapshots, a glossary, and an index support the collection. Reference & Research Book News November 2005

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The secret history of freemasomy; its origins find connection to the Knights Templar.
Naudon, Paul. Trans, by Jon Graham. Inner Traditions International, 2005308 p. $16.95 (pa) Law scholar and Freemason Naudon finds that for all the books about the order, there has been no scientific history of its origin. He traces it to operative freemasonrythat is, actual buildersin classical times and through religious and secular organizations to modern times. The original Les origins de la Franc-Magonnerie: Le sacre et le metier was published by Editions Dervy, Paris, in 1991. HS3260 2005-009786 0-7391-1146-9

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C h a n ^ g cities; rethinking urban competitiveness, cohesion, and governance.


Title main entry. Ed. by Nick Buck et al. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 317 p. $32.95 (pa) In this collection of 15 interdisciplinary articles, contributors describe their work on such issues as changes in perceptions about the role of cities in economic life, new ways of thinking of about social cohesion, and the re-definition of what constitutes responsive governance by looking at both the conceptual level and among key sectors, processes and institutions. Topics include socio-economic changes recently observed in cities, the integration of cities, for example into "urban triangles," the role of knowledge and innovation in the competitiveness of cities, regional dynamics of financial services, linking place and social exclusion to study neighborhoods and poverty, gentrification, neighborhood participation, and labor markets. HT133 2004-025740 0-7546-5067-7

Youth mobilization in Vichy Indochina and its legacies, 1940 to 1970.


Raffin, Anne. (After the empire) Lexington Books, 2005 273 p. $70.00 In order to clarify the origins of modern techniques of mobilization and their effects on political changes and state building, Raflfln (National U. of Singapore) offers a historical sociology study of state-sponsored patriotic youth associations created during World War II in France and Indochina. She describes how Marshal P^tain instituted doctrines and institutions in France to respond to the 1940 defeat, and how these were mirrored in the colonies through youth movements and organizations designed to uphold French ideals and unify youngsters behind the French empire. HS3359 2004021999 0-89672-54&4

City status in the British Isles, 1830-2002.


Beckett, John. (Historical urban studies) Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 202 p. $94.95 In the US a city is an incorporated entity. In the UK, a city could be a place with a certain population, but that is not entirely true because some cities do not meet that criteria, or the site of a cathedral, but that was over with since 1888, or a geographic location thought to have the position of a city by its environs, but not really. It appears that the best way to become a city in the nineteenth century was to stand above the mill towns and working- class enclaves springing up, and in the twentieth it all had to do with promotion. Beckett (English regional history, U. of Nottingham) sorts out all the reasons why towns became cities under widely different criteria at various times, and explains that in any case, attitude seemed to count most of all. HT148 2004-022622 1-55876-303-1

Girl Scout collectors' guide; a histoiy of uniforms, insignia, publications, and memorabilia, 2d ed.
Degenhardt, Mary and Judith Kirsch. Texas Tech U. Press, 2005 586 p. $39.95 (pa) Degenhardt and Kirsch, both lifelong members of the Girl Scouts organization, present a comprehensive guide for members and general readers on the organization's uniforms and insignia since its founding in 1912 to 2003. A large amount of the commentary is on the history of the movement. Information on founder Juliet Gordon Low and on the National Equipment Service, which provides the uniforms and insignias, is followed by an explanation and chronological account of uniforms and insignia. Publications by and about the organization are discussed as well as a history of Girl Scout cookies, calendars and diaries, cameras, toys, postcards, posters, and national and world associations. Appendices present changes in the Girl Scout Promise and Law, list awards alphabetically and numerically, and include a glossary. The volume features photos and illustrations of catalogue covers, pins and patches, and uniforms. HT115 1-904350-28-3

The history of African cities south of the Sahara; from the origins to colonization.
Coquery-Vidrovitch, Catherine. Markus Wiener Pub., 2005 421 p. $28.95 (pa) Coquery-Vidrovitch (U. of Paris, France) traces the history of African cities from antiquity to the present age. She describes their origins and the subsequent accumulation and interpenetration of Islamic, Mediterranean, and Asian influences and the convergence of contact from the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. She stresses the importance of economics and cultural mediation in the evolution of the cities and catalogues the different types of cities that have existed over Africa's longue durie. Her hope is that the reader will come away from the work with an understanding of African urbanization as existing along a continuum, rather than as a process of ruptures. HT151 2005-043179 0-333-92935-7

Town and country in the Middle Ages; contrasts, contacts and interconnections, 1100-1500.
Title main entry. Ed. by Kate Giles and Christopher Dyer. (Society for Medieval Archaeology monograph; 22) Maney Publishing, 2005 330 p. $79.00 The April 2002 conference of the Society for Medieval Archaeology held at the University of York, focused on the central to late medieval periods, and was designed to connect urban and rural archaeology, and to encourage dialogue between the archaeologists, historians, and geographers who attended. The 16 papers cover inhabiting the medieval town and countryside; producing and consuming in town and country; and power, belief, and mentalities. Among specific topics are rural and urban houses 1100-1500, making and using pottery in town and country, and the earthly and spiritual topography of suburban hospitals. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HT123 2004-559156 1-56802-89&-2

Cityscapes; cultural readings in the material and symbolic dty.


Highmore, Ben. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 178 p. $28.95 (pa) Challenging the urge of cultural inquiry to explain and summarize, be exhaustive and conclusive, Highmore (cultural studies, U. of the West of England) describes various aspects of the dty in a manner that is not immediately translatable into assessment, valuation, and judgment. Among his topics are circulation, consumer choreography, control and confiict, mobility and movement in detective fiction, rhythm-analysis and urban culture. HT153 2001-096521 0-7546-4564-9

Habitus; a sense of place, 2d ed.


Title main entry. Ed. by Jean Hillier and Emma Rooksby. Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 427 p. $49.95 (pa) Hillier (U. of Newcastle) and Rooksby (Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australia) introduce the concept of "habitus," a sense of one's place in a society, developed by the late French activist sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Containing 19 essays based on a conference held in 2000 in Perth, this paperback edition of the 2002 text pays tribute to Bourdieu's vision of a more just society. Scholars apply habitus to governance, economic, and urban planning policies; and issues of identification (e.g., with the World Trade Center towers, by Australian aboriginal women).

Urban issues; selections from The CQ, researcher, 2d ed.


Title main entry. CO Press, 2005 270 p. $30.95 (pa) Containing reprints of 12 recent articles from The CQ Researcher, this volume surveys the fundamental challenges facing metropolitan areas in the United States. Some of the topics addressed include the living wage movement, racial discrimination, school funding reform, homeland security, and affordable housing. Each article provides historical background on the issue, allows readers to see issues from all sides and explains how they affect all levels of government as well as the lives of citizens.

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Designing social Innovation; planning, building, evaluating.


Title main entry. Ed. by Bob Martens and Alexander G. Keul. Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, 2005 312 p. $64.95 In these papers drawn from the International Association of PeopleEnvironment Studies in 2004 in Vienna, this collection addresses tools to improve the ways humans and their environment interact. The special topic is Eastern Europe, with papers addressing it as a "new old environment" accompanied by studies in Slovenia and Poland, followed by several articles each on environmental cognition, environmental quality, sustainability, simulations, evaluation and neighborhoods. Specific issues include toolkits for solving wayfinding problems in rural spaces, biodiversity conservation, residential water use, including children in urban planning, and building community-generating neighborhoods. HT166 2004-030116 0-754&4251-8

New York City, a vision of the future.


Fruchtman, Irwin and Donald MacLaren. 1st Books Library, 2002 145 p. $18.50 (pa) A vision for the renewal of New York takes on even greater importance in the wake of 9/11. per this engineer-writer team. These New Yorkers present specific proposals for redeveloping key infrastructure sites to accommodate a "regional city" of 20 million people projected by 2015, including improved airport access, subway lines, and economic development of waterfronts. HT169 2004025009 0-7546^253-4

City making and urban governance in the Americas; Curitiba and Portland.
Iraz^bal, Clara. (Design and the built environment) Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 335 p. $99.95 Urban governancethe relationship between civil society and the state, rulers, and ruledis an effective analytical tool for studying the levels of" citizen involvement and participation in the management of urban growth and the definition of the physical structure of cities, says Irazabal (U.of Southern California). She focuses on Curitiba, Parana in Brazil, and Portland, Oregon in the US, both of which have been recognized as having exemplary urban planning experiences, to explore governance dynamics and understand how certain urban governance and planning regimes trace their development paths in the attempts to enhance their levels of urban livability and democracy. HT169 1-86077-321-4

Spatial planning, urban form, and sustainable transport.


Title main entry. Ed. by Katie Williams. (Urban planning and environment) Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 226 p. $89.95 The density, shape, configuration, and other urban forms of cities are widely recognized to have an impact on elements of sustainability such as sodal equity, accessibility, ecology, economic performance, pollution, and health. The 12 papers presented here by Williams (Oxford Brookes U., UK) consider the relationship between urban form and sustainable transport. The papers investigate the relationship between urban form in combination with such factors as changing demographies, diflferent lifestyles, and land use on sustainable transport. They also empirically examine the impact of transport infrastructure on employment development, factors of urban form that affect petroleum consumption, and exposure to air pollution by car drivers in select European cities. The volume concludes with essays that consider planning policies to facilitate sustainable mobility and their operation and are based on research conducted in Australia and the United States. HT167 1-59237-076-4

Living back-to-back.
Upton, Chris. Phillimore, 2005 166 p. $40.00 The back-to-back was once the most common form of housing in England. Although a half^million of the homesbuilt in rows, courts, or blockshoused working people in Victorian cities, few remain standing today. Upton (history, Newman College of Higher Education, Birmingham, UK) took as the starting point for his popular history Court 15 in Birmingham, now a National Trust museum. Upton combines documentary evidence and oral history to describe the practical realities of life in a back-to-back as well as more conceptual matters like why Britain's population moved so readily into cities in the early 19th century, and moved away just as rapidly in the 1960s. The volume is well illustrated in sepia-tone bfe^w. HT169 2005-009756 0-7546-4364^6

America's top-rated cities; a statistical handbook; 2005, 12th ed.; 4v.


Title main entry. Grey House Pub., Inc., 2005 1901 p. $195.00 (pa) Covering 100 US cities that have been cited as best for business and living, this four-volume set presents statistical portraits of each municipality. Each volume covers a specific regionSouthern, Western, Central, and Easternand lists cities alphabetically. Entries begin with an essay on historical and contemporary background and a presentation of rankings given to the cities by magazines, studies, and other sources. They then present statistical tables covering such topics as city finances, demographics, economy, residential and commercial real estate, transportation, taxes, event sites, cost of living, health care, residential utilities, presidential election results, major employers, public safety, media, climate, hazardous waste, and air and water quality. The statistics have been gathered from such sources as the US government. The Tax Foundation, and the Society of Industrial and Ofifice Realtors. Also included are regional maps showing city boundaries and five appendixes presenting historical and current metropolitan area definitions; comparative statistics; and contact information for chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, and state departments of labor and employment. HT167 2004-117606 0-7546-4094-9

Making the digital diy, the early shaping of urban Internet space.
Aurigi, Alessandro. (Design and the built environment) Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 224 p. $99.95 Aurigi (U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) seeks to provide a snapshot of the deployment of digital public space (information and communication technology projects) in European cities and to demonstrate that such space has to come to terms with the social realities and urban spaces within which they develop. Detailed studies of the deployment of civic information networks in Bologna, Italy and Bristol, England are used as illustrative case material, but the general comparative European landscape is also considered. HT321 2005-924973 0-7546-4521-5

Beyond benefit cost analj^is; accounting for non-market values in planning evaluation.
Title main entry. Ed. by Donald Miller and Domenico Patassini. (Urban planning and environment) Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 314 p. $99.95 In benefit cost analysis, all effects must be expressed in monetary terms thus downplaying the importance of non-market values such as environmental quality. Aimed at researchers, elected officials, and professional planners, this text presents alternative approaches to the evaluation of urban planning options that take non-market values into account. It contains 16 contributions from international specialists explaining how methodologies such as effectiveness-cost and multicriteria analysis have been applied in developing special- issue plans, complex regional development strategies, and efforts to analyze the environmental justice aspects of major infrastructure projects. Some of the papers were originally presented at a 2003 workshop held at IUAV University in Venice, Italy.

European cities in the knowledge economjr, the cases of Amsterdam, Dortmund, Eindhoven, Helsinki, Manchester, Munich, Miinster, Rotterdam and 2:aragoza.
Berg, Leo Van et al. Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 367 p. $114.95 Four researchers from the European Institute for Comparative Research (Erasmus U., Rotterdam) analyze how nine cities have been impacted by the shift from the physical manufacture of products to the development of new products and production processes, the generation of new knowledge, and the devising of marketing concepts. One question pursued is what local government has done and can do to upgrade the local economy and guide it towards greater knowledge intensity. Among their findings are that some cities have a more explicit and comprehensive knowledge economy strategy than others, that some cities take a regional perspective in their strategies, and that technical workers tend to prefer their surroundings to be quiet than vibrant.

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Renewing urban communities; environment, citizenship and sustainability in Ireland.


Title main entry. Ed. by Niamh Moore and Mark Scott. Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 268 p. $94.95 A product of the Housing and Sustainable Communities Research Cluster at the Urban Institute Ireland, this collection examines the issue of urban sustainability for Ireland from a cross-disciplinary and cross- border perspective. After an introduction to the geographical and policy context in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, seven essays assess policy options for improving the physical, social, and economic sustainability of Irish urban area including discussion of^ land recycling of brownfields, the role of green space, reducing the demand for car travel in the Belfast metropolitan area, improvement of energy efficiency, cross-border urban expansion, and counterurbanization in the Dublin city region. The next five papers consist of case studies related to the implementation of Local Agenda 21, a program for locally meeting the goals of the United Nations' sustainable development program. Agenda 21. These case studies consider issues of social and ethnic segregation; the relationship between the state and civil society; resident associations, social capital, and collective action; and the provision of affordable housing. HT388 2005-008491 0-7546-4450-2

America's changing coasts; private rights and public trust.


Title main entry. Ed. by Diana M. Whitelaw 6= Gerald R. Visgilio. (Advances in ecological economics) Edward Elgar Pub. Co., 2005 248 p. $100.00 Whitelaw (conservation biology and environmental studies) and Visgilio (economics) present 14 papers based on a 2003 conference held at Connecticut College, New London, co-sponsored by The Nature Conservancy. In a more timely than ever discussion given the consequences of Hurricane Katrina, contributors address the problems inherent with US coastal areas being home to half the country's population on about 17 percent of the land. They discuss trends, legal issues, and policy implications of treating problems of disappearing wetlands, development, rising seas, and industrial contamination. One author challenges the assumption of economic analyses that the public's willingness to pay for environmental amenities remains constant. HT392 2004-106115 0-309-09176-4

A geospatial framework for the coastal zone; national needs for coastal mapping and charting.
Committee on National Needs for Coastal Mapping 6= Charting. National Research Council of the National Academies. National Academies Press, 2004 149 p. $30.00 (pa) In order to better manage US coastal regions, this National Research Council report makes recommendations on developing a central database on the land-water interface. Especially timely in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the study includes geospatial models, examples of successful projects, a summary of federal agencies' needs and activities, and color images gathered by the latest visualization techniques. The report is not indexed. HT653 2004-060072 0-582-36981-9

New economic spaces: new economic geographies.


Title main entry. Ed. by Richard Le Heron and James W. Harrington. (Dynamics of economic space) Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 235 p. $99.95 Nineteen empirical studies, presented by Le Heron (U. of Auckland, New Zealand) and Harrington (tJ. of Washington, US), explore "the ways in which institutional, technological, and policy innovations have created and attempt to affect the location of economic activity and the nature of economic development," using the term "new economic spaces" for the resultant patterns and "new economic geographies" for the ways in which observers have attempted to understand them. Topics include network, embeddedness, and cluster processes of new economic spaces in Korea; congregation versus clustering in high tech large firms in greater Vancouver, Canada; the formation of knowledge in the American and Japanese electronic musical instrument industries; international standards organization and capability maturity models as regulatory practices in offshore sofhvare outsourcing in Russia; geopolitical economy of global sjmdicated credit markets; state governance, regulatory processes, and entrepreneurship in Singapore's concentrating banking sector, foreign direct investment and economic change in the Yangtze Valley, China; and environmental symbiosis and renewal of old industrial districts in Japan. HT388 981-210-374-0

The birth of nobility; constructing aristocracy in England and France; 900-1300.


Crouch, David. Longman, 2005 361 p. $32.00 (pa) Crouch (medieval history, U. of HuU) takes on the considerable Anglophone and Francophone historiography of the rise and function of the medieval aristocracy, sorting all the arguments into elements of noble conduct, noble lineage, noble class and noble power, and comparing source material with current scholarship. In the process he develops a new way of looking at the nature of aristocracy in France and England in the time period, its rituals and myths, and some of the emotions it arouses in modern historians. HT867 2005-015943 1-85109-615-1

Paths to regionalisation; comparing experiences in East Asia and Europe.


Title main entry. Ed. by Sophie Boisseau du Rocher and Bertrand Fort. (Asia-Europe research series) Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2005157 p. $22.00 (pa) Eight papers from an October 2003 conference in Paris outline the different paths take toward region building. Political scientists and law scholars look at the ideas, dynamics, and means that contribute to changing a geographic area into a pohtically-constructed community, and moving from co-operation to a collective assertion of group solidarity. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HT388 2005-040831 1-84542-124-8

New slaveiy; a reference handbook, 2d ed.


Bales, Kevin. (ABC-CLIO's contemporary world issues series) ABC-CLIO, 2004 271 p. $50.00 Bales (sociology, Roehampton U., London) updates information on issues addressed in the 2000 edition. He traces the historical roots of contemporary forms of slavery; presents data, international laws, and testimony; and addresses such provocative questions as what our responsibility is for this global institution and whether prostitution is slavery. As president of Free the Slaves, US affiliate of Anti-Slavery International, the author includes a chronology, glossary, and extensive annotated list of resources for countering forced labor and exploitation. HT1163 2005-041634 0-7734r6129-9

Regions, land consumption and sustainable growth; assessing the impact of the public and private sectors.
Title main entry. Ed. by Oedzge Atzema et al. (New horizons in regional science) Edward Elgar Pub. Co., 2005 213 p. $85.00 In this collection of 11 articles, leading experts explore the respective roles of the public and private sectors in land markets and regional economics with an emphasis on examining the impact of government intervention, or lack of it, in attempts to attain sustainable growth. Although the case studies come primarily from The Netherlands and Israel, the contributors, whose articles originated in recent workshops on regional science in Utrecht, also consider development in the US, Canada and Europe rather than merely comparing policies and results in two regions. Beginning with a survey of private-public contributions to regional development and land-use planning, article topics include sustainable growth in infrastructure, institutional changes in housing markets, determinants of urban sprawl, clustering of sofhvare industries, privatization and deregulation of transport and aviation, permanent and temporary public land ownership, the economic value of open space, and spatial structures and policy. Each article includes its own references. Reference & Research. Book News November 2005

The African Institution (18O7-18270 and the antislavery movement in Great Britain.
Ackerson, Wayne. (Studies in British historjr, v.77) Edwin Mellen Pr., 2005 246 p. $109.95 Ackerson (African, Indian, and British Imperial history; Salisbury U.) begins the task of recognizing the African Institute as an important antislavery organization and its role not only in British abolitionism but also in humanitarianism in general. No archival materials survive, which he says may be a big reason no deep study of the organization has been undertaken so far, but there are plenty of primary sources, among them annual reports, personal letters, and correspondence of the Foreign Office and Colonial Office. The group formed in 1807 just afler the House of Lords and Commons passed the primary abolition act, and over the next two decades focused on such issues as enforcement, especially in Sierra Leone, and the naval suppression of the slave trade.

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Not wholly free; the concept of manumission and the status of manumitted slaves in the ancient Greek world.
Zelnick-Abramovitz, R. (Mnemos3me, bibliotheca classica Batava, Supplementum; 266) Brill Academic Publishers, 2005 385 p. $160.00 Was a manumitted slave truly free? Zelnick-Abramovitz makes this her central question and finds that evidence of the status of manumitted slaves is scanty and often enigmatic, that there were various degrees and methods of "freeing" slaves, that manumitted slaves formed a subgroup wdthin Greek society, and that while some of the laws about manumission were fairly exact, how they were applied to individual cases was not. She presents cases from primary sources showing how individual slaves came to be manumitted determined much of their later life, but how in any case they remained in a sort of gray zone between the slave and free. Considering how important slaves and former slaves were to the Greeks' economic and social lives, and also considering how even those considered "freed" were treated, it appears we must re-read what the Greeks had to say about the theory and workings of what they termed "democracy." HT1334 2004-063550 0-8214-1571-9

Race and ethnic relations; American and global perspectives, 7th ed.
Marger, Martin N. Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2006 638 p. $94.95 Marger (Michigan State U.) presents an introduction to the comparative socnology of race and ethnicity. He first explores the sociological basics of ethnic stratification, techniques of dominance (prejudice and discrimination), and patterns of ethnic relations. Ethnicity in the United States is explored in chapters on the foundations of the American ethnic hierarchy, and the ethnic experiences of Native, Italian, Jewish, African, Hispanic, and Asian Americans. Studies of ethnic relations in South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and Northern Ireland are included for comparative purposes. Also included are chapters on general issues of ethnic conflict and change in US and global contexts. HVll 2005926849 0-534-51610-6

Human service agencies; an orientation to fieldwork, 2d ed.


Alle-Corliss, Lupe & > Randy Alle-Corliss. Brooks/Cole Publishing, 2006 31 p. $64.95 (pa) Emphasizing basic concepts as well as technical aspects of agency work, Lupe Alle-Corliss and Randy Alle-Corliss, both affiliated with California State University-FuUerton, help beginning professionals deal with agency work in the human services. In this second edition, they provide expanded material on cultural competence, ethic:s, and technology issues of privacy. The text is appropriate for use in upper-division undergraduate and graduate fieldwork, practicum, internship, and prac:tice courses in areas including social work, counseling, psychology, and human resources. HVll 2004021202 0-754&4120-1

Ouidah; the social history of a West African slaving 'port', 1727-1892.


Law, Robin. (Western African studies) Ohio University Press, 2004 308 p. $49.95 It is amongst the most heartbreaking places on earth. In a little over 150 years a million people came to it in chains and lefl it in chains, many to die in the Middle Passage from the west coast of Africa across the Atlantic. Ouidah only stopped openly trading slaves when the French colonized it; from the eighteenth century until almost the twentieth it was second only to Luanda in selling human beings. Law (African history, U. of Stirling) describes the reasons it became a slave port, which include its conquest by the inland state of Dahomey, its continuation of the slave trade even when such trafTicking was illegal, and its attempted transition to shipping palm oil, largely in reaction to laws from colonial powers that made slavery less profitable or even completely illegal. HT1505 2004-056997 1^039-1916-6

Modem social work practice; teaching and learning in practice settings, 3d ed.
Doel, Mark and Steven M. Shardlow. Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 302 p. $99.95 Doel (socnal work, Sheffield Hallam University, UK) and Shardlow (social work. University of Salford, tJK) provide a guide for all of those engaged in teaching and learning social work practice, within the contexts of both the UK's new c:urriculum standards and its health and social care landscape. Focus is on the learning which takes place in the practice learning site. Chapters are in sections on foundations of practice, direct practice, agency practice, and themes of practice. Each chapter is introduced with an acrtivity or exercise designed to aid student learning in discrete aspects of practice. HVll 2005-922208 0-534-51413-8

Racism and public policy.


Title main entry. Ed. by Yusuf Bangura and Rodolfo Stavenhagen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 308 p. $85.00 This text is derived from presentations made by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) at an international conference on racism, racial discrimination and related intolerance held in Durban in 2001. Ten contributions written by 17 international academics and researchers are organized into two sections addressing racism and citizenship, and racism and social justice. A sampling of topics: the historical construction of race and citizenship in the tJ.S.; migrant workers and xenophobia in the Middle East; policing and human rights; Malaysia's new economic policy and "national unity"; the politics of land distribution and race relations in Southern Africa; and race, gender and social policy in Aotearoa/New Zealand. HT1521 2003-007313 0-8204-6800-2

The skills of helping individuals, families, groups, and communities, 5th ed. (CD-ROM included)
Shulman, Lawrence. Brooks/Cole Publishing, 2006 644 p. $90.95 Shulman (U. of Buffalo, State U. of New York) presents the fif\h edition of a textbook for use in first-year introductory courses on social work practice. The newest edition has been reduced from the 1999 edition's 800-plus pages to 600-plus. It incorporates new and updated material on emerging practice areas in social workthe AIDS epidemic, homelessness, substance abuse/addictions, and sexual violence; socnal policies, including managed care and welfare reform; a more thorough integration of Shulman's holistic theory of practice; considerations when dealing with oppressed and vulnerable populations; and updated discussion of the historical roots, values and ethics of the profession. The two accompanying CD-ROMs contain illustrations of identified skills and excerpts from an interactive workshop. HV29 2005-009045 0-925065-9^0

Critical issues in anti-racist research methodologies.


Title main entry. Ed. by George J. Sefa Dei and Gurpreet Singh Johal. (Counterpoints; v.252) Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2005 300 p. $34.95 (pa) Canadian researchers and practitioners in education, socnal work, and other social sciences explore such issues as how anti-racist research methodology differs from other methods of research investigation, the princnples of anti-racasm research, and the perils and benefits of antiracist research. Among their topics are indigenous knowledges and the politics of representation, ethical and political aspects of anti-racism research in churches, and the case for interventive in-depth interviewing.

Using statistical methods in social work practice; a complete SPSS guide.


Abu-Bader, Soleman Hassan. Lyceum Books, 2006 298 p. $49.95 (pa) This textbook for undergraduate and graduate sodal work students presents a ste|>by-step description of the processes social workers use to organize, analyze, and interpret their data. For each of 12 chapters, AbuBader (Howard U.) provides a detailed discussion of the use of Microsoft's Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) in computing appropriate statistics. Included in the appendices are data files, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Index, and a z-score table.

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Decision cases for generalist social work practice; thinking like a social worker.
Title main entry. Ed. by T. Laine Scales and Terry A Wolfer. Brooks/Cole Publishing, 2006 142 p. $38.95 (pa) Scales (Baylor University) and Wolftr (University of South Carolina) oflfer a collection of decision cases fbr BSW-Ievel students and foundations-level MSW students preparing for generalist practice. The cases are based on real cases, with only names changed, and come from many contexts of practice. The cases will help students understand the social policies and administrative contexts that influence their work, as well as diverse practice roles they will encounter in practice. There is no subject index. HV40 2005-221450 0-534-50629-1

Theories for direct social work practice.


Walsh, Joseph. Brooks/Cole Publishing, 2006 345 p. $51.95 (pa) Aimed at students in MSW programs, this volume covers eleven major theories and models that social workers commonly use in their assessment, planning, and intervention tasks with clients. Presented roughly in the order in which they were developed, these include ego psychology', object relations theory, cognitive theory, interpersonal therapy, and motivational interviewing. Each theory is assessed both for its therapeutic efiectiveness and how well it addresses issues of spirituality and social justice. HV91 2005-006386 (>87101-365-7

Generalist practice with organizations and communitites, 3d ed.


Kirst-Ashman, Karen K. and Grafton H. Hull. Brooks/Cole Publishing, 2006 526 p. $72.95 (pa) In this text for both undergraduates and graduates in social work, KirstAshman (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater) and Hull (University of Utah) review organizational and community social work theory and present real-world situations and case examples from a generalist perspective, emphasizing that micro, mezzo, and macro skills are interlinked. They provide step-by-step frameworks for initiating change in communities and for specific skills such as working with the media and fund-raising. This third edition features updated and new material on areas such as people with physical disabilities, organizations serving refugees, and social work in rural areas. HV40 2005-926911 0-534-63311-0

Pocket guide to essential human services.


Reamer, Frederic G. Natl. Assn./ Social Workers, 2005 165 p. $19.99 (pa) Reamer (social work, Rhode Island College) has served as a social worker in correctional and mental health settings, and has lectured and written extensively on a wide range of human service issues. He provides a concise guide for professionals, volunteers, and consumers. Following an overview of human services and ways to think about locating information and resources, the material is organized into sections reflecting major categories of needs that may arise during a person's life: income, housing, food, clothing, energy, transportation, health care, mental health, addictions, sexual orientation, family life education, children and adolescents, abuse and neglect, protective services, military personnel and veterans, immigrants and refugees, education and literacy, emplojonent assistance, aging and retirement, and legal services and dispute resolution. No subject index. HV91 2005-926923 0-534-35918-3

The macro practitioner's workbook; a step-by-step guide to effectiveness with organizations and conununities.
Ellis, Rodney A. et al. Brooks/Cole Publishing, 2006 283 p. $44.95 (pa) Macro practice in social work, in the formulation of authors Ellis (U. of Tennessee), Malloiy (Vanderbilt U.), Gould (Vanderbilt U.), and Shatila (Tennessee Department of Children's Services) are activities related to supervision, professional training, program writing, and similar realms. In this text, they ofYer step-by-step guidelines for completing a range of macro tasks that may be unfamiliar to the practitioner. They present 17 chapters organized into four units covering assessment, planning, and preparation for organizations and communities; efftctive communication for agencies, groups, and communities; effective recruiting and hiring and effective financial management and fundraising. HV40 1-86134-669-7

Social welfare programs; narratives from hard times.


Albert, Ra3TTiond and Louise Skolnik. Brooks/Cole Publishing, 2006 298 p. $45.95 (pa) Perhaps best effective as supplemental or preliminary reading prior to a student's first contact with those who need services or the indigent, this collection of stories and commentaries covers a range of aspects of social work, covering an introduction to the economic and political environment of the narratives and to the legislative process, temporary assistance to needy families, public housing and homelessness, unemployment insurance. Supplemental Security Income, food stamps, and Medicaid. The concluding chapter describes helping clients hope wath hard times, including the ambivalence in America toward those in need. The authors include a table of cases. HV95 2004-043798 0-398-07512-3

Social policy review 17; analysis and debate in social poHcy, 2005.
Title main entry. Ed. by Martin Powell et al. Policy Press, 2005 314 p. $42.50 (pa) Contributors from Britain, Canada, Ireland, France, and the US review recent developments in British social policy, with one excursion into what Europeans might think about the politics of US social policy during the 2004 election. They focus in turn on the five core social services in Britain, explore a range of issues about social policy, then narrow their analysis to social policies of New Labour. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HV40 2005-041951 1-4039-1622-5

Financial management for nonprofit human service organizations, 2d ed.


Mayers, Rajonond Sanchez. C.C. Thomas, 2004 335 p. $75.95 Mayers (social work, Rutgers, The State U. of New Jersey) presents an update of the earlier text. Financial Management for Nonprofit Human Service Agencies. The text covers the key concepts and skills in the financial management process non-financial managers of nonprofits need in order to communicate with the experts they depend on for financial decision making. Revisions in the second edition reflect changes in practice and in law in several areas: financial statements, audits and financial statement analysis, fundraising, internal control, investments, and grants. New topics have also been addedfees for services, purchase of service contracting, break- even analysis for costing services and activities, third-party payments, internet resourcesalong with a glossary. The text is also suitable as a college textbook; cases and exercises now appear in a separate student workbook available from the publisher.

Social work theories in contex^, creating frameworks for practice.


Healy, Karen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 238 p. $32.00 (pa) Healy (social work and applied human sciences, U. of Queensland, Australia) continues her project on the philosophical foundations of social work as introduced in her first book. Social Work Practices (2000) with a foUowup text outlining the key ideas underpinning the contemporary organizations of, and approaches to, practice. Written for social work practitioners, students, and educators, the text is based in part on "theory refresher" seminars that Healy began conducting in 2001, which introduce practitioners to formal theories for social work practice. Coverage includes identifying and analyzing the discourses that shape institutional contexts and the formal professional base of social work, and analysis of five key contemporary practice theoriesproblem solving system theories; the strengths perspective; anti-oppressive practice; and postmodern, poststructural, and postcolonial approaches.

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How manaigement matters; street-level bureaucrats and welfare reform.


Riccucci, Norma M. (Public management and change) Georgetown U. Press, 2005 190 p. $26.95 (pa) One of the primary changes intended by the passage of the 1996 federal welfare reform law (officially the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act) was to change the role of frontline welfare workers from eligibility determiners to employment coaches. Riccucci (public administration, Rutgers U.) presents her research about what actually happened. It appears that public managers in welfare offices were effective in signaling the expected changes to frontline workers, but the professional norms, work customs and occupational culture of the workers may have prevented them from completely following the signals they received. Riccucci offers explanations for this situation and also some practical solutions. HV95 2005-001759 0-88099-318-9

The economic life of refugees.


Jacobsen, Karen. Kumarian Press, 2005 131 p. $22.95 (pa) They squat in the hot dirt in droves and stare at the camera, ragged, hungry, scared, defiant, even angry, and the vast majority of us click over to the Drooling Idiot Channel more or less in self- defense. Jacobsen (nutrition science and policy, Tufls U.) faces refugees head-on where they are, in camps, urban areas, and in the West. She shows how they create livelihoods, their improvised monetary systems, the sub-economies they create near their settlements, the tools they need to get on with their lives, the official constraints they encounter in terms of emigration and support, and the work of humanitarian programs. She gives a model for refugee assistance which includes designated zones of residence, rights and obligations of host countries, and doing away with parallel services along with case studies. HV640 2005-041612 0-8122-3893-1

Welfare and work; experiences in six cities.


King, Christopher T. and Peter R. Mueser. W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2005 195 p. $17.00 (pa) This volume summarizes data from six large urban areas to identify changes in welfare participation and labor market involvement of female welfare recipients from the early 1990s through 1999. King and Mueser (Upjohn Institute for Employment Research) consider the role of demographic characteristics, economic factors, and policy regimes to explain welfare exit and employment rates for each city. They also identify some similarities and differences between these women and other low-wage workers who have not received welfare. HV238 2005-271974 1-4051-2116-5

Landscape of hope and despair, Palestinian refugee camps.


Peteet, Julie. (Ethnography of political violence) U. of Pennsylvania Pr., 2005 260 p. $55.00 This ethnography by Peteet (anthropology, U. of Louisville) examines how Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have constructed identities and understandings of place since their expulsion from Palestine in 1948. She begins with pair of chapters on the Zionist discourse of place and the construction of the refugee as an object and category of intervention by an international relief regime. In the remainder of the volume, covering the periods of 1950-1969; 1969-1982, the era of resistance and civil war, and the post-1982 period of the camp wars and subsequent marginalization of the refugees, she relates symbolic and material transformations of the space of the Palestinian refugee camps to local and global arrangements of power, arguing that "identities and place are mutually constitutive within the larger framework of spatial, institutional, and discursive forms of power." HV640 2005-013129 0-7391-1083-7

Making a European welfare state?; convergences and conflicts over European social policy.
Title main entry. Ed. by Peter Taylor-Gooby. (Broadening perspectives on social policy) Blackwell Publishing, 2004 162 p. $39.95 (pa) Social scientists from across Europe analyze welfare convergence in Europe through the theoretical and cross-national examination of developments at the European level, and case studies of particular policy areas and regional developments. They find that arguments that distinguish convergence from divergence risk over-simplifying processes in which developments in both directions co-exist. HV249 1-86134-594-1

The uprooted; improving humanitarian responses to forced migration.


Title main entry. Ed. by Susan F. Martin et al. (Program in migration and refugee studies) Lexington Books, 2005 294 p. $26.95 (pa) Scholars mostly with the Institute of the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University examine the current humanitarian regime in the context of developments in forced migration, and make recommendations to improve international, regional, national, and local responses. They focus on situations that involve complex mixes of refugees, internally displaced people, returnees, and other uprooted people. HV689 2005-008943 0-925065-68-4

Exploring social policy in the "new" Scotland.


Title main entry. Ed. by Gerry Mooney and Gill Scott. Policy Press, 2005 282 p. $29.95 (pa) Social scientists and people involved in social work explore what has happened in particular areas of social policy and welfare in Scotland since devolution, and consider what lessons devolution holds for policy analysis and public sector agencies. They have been concerned to address issues in such a way to be useful for the comparative analysis of social policy in the context of devolution elsewhere. Poverty, racial inequality, urban policy, criminal justice, and health care are among the areas they examine. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HV640 2004-021412 1-931859-17-5

Evidence-based practices for social workers; an interdisciplinary approach.


O'Hare, Thomas. Lyceum Books, 2005 679 p. $69.95 (pa) The managed care environment is driving social workers to use interventions supported by outcome research and to evaluate practice of those efforts. Striking a balance between empirical guideline adherence and practitioner fiexibility, O'Hare (Boston College) provides an evidencebased framework for working with clients with complex psychosocial problems, e.g. addiction, post- traumatic stress disorder, distressed couples, abused children. In chapters with case studies, he applies this framework in developing intervention plans and selecting multidimensional/functional assessments. Appendices include several assessment scales and contact information for support materials. HV699 2005-925901 0-534-55686-8

The dispossessed; chronicles of the desterrados of Colombia.


Molano, Alfredo. Trans, by Daniel Bland. Haymarket Books, 2005 250 p. $12.00 (pa) Columbian journalist and sociologist Molano has been writing about the social and cultural effects of the violence in his country for 20 years, but little of his work has been accessible in English. In Desterrados: cronicas del desarraigo, published in 2001 by El Ancore Editores, he draws on the traditional testimonio genre to allow Colombians displaced by violence to tell their stories. Bland, a Canadian journalist and filmmaker, lived and worked in Columbia during most of the 1990s, and his translation makes this work available in English.

Building family practice skills; methods, strategies, and tools.


Ragg, D. Mark. Brooks/Cole Publishing, 2006 508 p. $57.95 (pa) Providing an empirical foundation for treatment concepts, this textbook integrates research findings on family dynamics and treatment with current clinical thinking. Ragg (Eastern Michigan University) describes the various family theories, assessment methods for gathering data from family members, skills for soliciting family involvement, and both direct and indirect intervention change strategies. The pages are perforated and three-hole punched so they can be removed and put in a binder.

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Family treatment; evidence-based practice with populations at risk.


Janzen, Curtis et al. Brooks/Cole Publishing, 2006 367 p. $64.95 (pa) Restructuring their text to focus on evidence-based approaches and adding case studies for this edition, the authors write on behalf of social work practitioners about assessing, intervening in and treating a variety of family issues. After they describe the theoretical framework and general approaches, they cover evidence- based treatment of families headed by a single parent, those with aging members, those in poverty or experiencing income loss, those with members with persistent mental disorders or who are chronically ill, and those featuring child abuse and other family violence, substance abuse, and separation and divorce. They close with a description of treatment for the reconstituted family. All chapters include discussion questions and references. HV713 2004-026094 1-55766-808-6

Foster children; where they go and how they get on.


Sinclair, Ian et al. Jessica Kingsley Pub., 2005 288 p. $32.95 (pa) Three researchers from the Social Work Research and Development Unit at the U. of York analyze the outcomes of a large-scale study of foster children in the UK. Drawing extensively on the views of foster children themselves, the authors examine the reasons why children remain fostered or move to different settings, such as adoption or independent living. They then go on to describe how the children fare in these various settings and how they feel about what happens to them. HV1431 1-84392-065-4

Dealing with disaffection; young people, mentoring and social inclusion.


Newburn, Tim and Michael Shiner. Willan Publishing, 2005 223 p. $32.50 (pa) Although mentoring has become a popular method of addressing the problem of social exclusion among youth, remarkably little formal evidence supports it. To rectify this situation, Newburn and Shiner (both: Mannheim Center for Criminology, London School of Economics) present the largest study of youth mentoring programs in the UK. They note the situations in which mentoring seems to be most successful, but they believe mentoring needs to have a stronger foundation of theory, should not be subject to the cycles of political thinking, and should be studied carefully and regularly to discern both positive and negative affects. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HV1553 2005-013007 0-275-98226-2

The visit; observation, reflection, synthesis for training and relationship building. (CD-ROM included)
Axtmann, Annette and Annegret Dettwiler. Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co., 2005 - p. $44,95 (pa) Based on the experiences and observations of supervisors and frontline early childhood intervention program workers, this professional developmental resource shows how to work as a team in finding the strengths and challenges in both children and their families. It places the family visit within the context of practice and shows how it is integral to the service system, describes the theories and principles that guide the visit, the training direct care practitioners should receive, the role of the supervisor, and the ways in which the visit reduces costs while building trust and allows timely referral for special services. It includes sample observation and synthesis guides. HV741 2005-008153 1-4129-0413-7

Understanding disability; inclusion, access, diversity, and civil rights.


Jaeger, Paul T. and C3mthia Ann Bowman. Praeger, 2005 165 p. $49.95 When you are blind, you are perceived as every person who is blind, including the guy who climbed Everest and everybody's grandmother. The same goes for people in wheelchairs, the deaf, and those with learning challenges. Janger (information use management and policy, Florida State U.) and Bowman (literacy education, Ashland U.) take the road of the social theory of disability in describing the role of disability, discrimination, civil rights and immigration policy, physical and intellectual access, inequality in technology, representations of disability (including the cruelty common in mass media), future social issues, and the development of closed disability cultures. Their commentary, although rather general, may serve to enlighten those who do not think of the disabled as individuals vidth personal goals and needs. HV1795 2005-017204 1-59311^1^4

Social policy for children and families; a risk and resilience perspective.
Title main entry. Ed. by Jeffrey M. Jenson and Mark W. Fraser. Sage Publications, 2006 305 p. $42.95 (pa) In this text for undergraduate and graduate studesnt of sodal welfare policy, editors Jenson (social work, U. of Denver) and Fraser (social work, U. of North Carolina at Chapei Hill) discuss a risk and resilience framework for child, youth, and family policy in the first chapter and, in the last chapter, the integration of knowledge and principles into policy. In between are seven contributions on policies and programs relevant to child welfare, education, child mental health, disabled children, adolescent substance abuse, and juvenile justice. HV751 2004-026269 0-470-01219-G

Forty years of research, policy and practice in children's services; a festschrift for Roger Bullock.
Title main entry. Ed. by Nick Axford et al. John Wiley & Sons, 2005 224 p. $125.00 Practitioners and scholars of social services in Britain mark Bullock's retirement from four decades as a researcher by reflecting on the changing relationship during that time between research, policy, and practice in the areas that make up the new children's services and by noting the contribution to the field by the Dartington Social Research Unit, which he co-founded in 1968. Among the topics are children in residence, stability through adoption for children in care, the evolution of family support, research into the family justice system, European developments in juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, and where next for social research at Dartington. HV875 2005-006113 0-7619-3373-5

Making it worlq educating the blind/visually impaired student in the regular school.
Castellano, Carol. (Critical concerns in blindness) Information Age Publishing, 2005 227 p. $34.95 (pa) Some are beginning to understand that educating the blind and visually impaired exclusively in specnal schools or classrooms amounts to apartheid. Others are beginning to understand they must comply with the Individuals viath Disabilities Education Act. In either case teachers have more blind and visually impaired students in their classrooms, and are beginning to understand that teaching them is a creative process; the teacher learns to be more articulate, sensitive and realistic, and the student learns how to deal with the sighted world. Consultant Castellano emphasizes the positive in her pragmatic approach, addressing such issues as having correct expectations, using the skills and tools associated with blindness, assessing curriculum, and managing the classroom. Her text is unique in that it acknowledges the prejudices and misperceptions of the sighted, although it contains a few lapses into the medical model and the "poster child" mentality.

Adoption in India; policies and experiences.


Bhargava, Vinita. Sage Publications, 2005 283 p. $59.95 Bhargava (child development, U. of Delhi) combines the empirical work she did for her doctoral dissertation and her work in the field of adoption for over two decades as a parent, researcher, and policy maker. She shares narratives of many families in India about their journey of parenting an adopted child, exploring the connection between child development knowledge, beliefs, and practices. The study is intended to help other adoptive parents when they reach crossroads on the development pathway. It is not indexed.

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The blindness revolution; Jemigan in his own words.


Omvig, Jim H. (Critical concerns in blindness) Information Age Publishing, 2005 477 p. $34.95 (pa) To say Jernigan was a pioneer in the movement toward empowerment amongst the blind is like saying Mozart was pretty good at music. Jernigan's ideas, that the blind can and should speak for themselves and that blindness creates a minority subject to prejudice and discrimination, resulted in significant debates within the "blindness system," most often between the blind and those who sought to control them. Jernigan proved his theories in his tenure at the Iowa Commission for the Blind with practical ideas and programs that moved the blind from artificial children to employed and valued citizens. Jernigan's subsequent work in the National Federation of the Blind made it the premier organization involving the blind in civil rights. Omvig's assessment of the arguments and Jernigan's contributions is robust, and should be read by those who still consider the "medical model" in any way viable. HV2402 2005-040686 1-56368-320-2

Animals, politics, and morality, 2d ed.

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Garner, Robert. (Issues in environmental politics) Manchester U. Pr., 2004 285 p. $74.95 In this review of the literature, including the most recent for this edition. Garner shows how the orthodoxy that humans are morally superior to animals is surprisingly fragile and fraught with controversy, that changes necessary to granting a higher moral status to animals has considerable consequences to a culture that has treated animals as commodities, and that such movements as wildlife conservation, animal protection, and animal liberation have increased advocacy, policy and direct action even at the commercial level, such as in consumer demand for cruelty-free products. Distributed by Palgrave. HV4708 2004-013476 1-55753-377-6

Children and animals; exploring the roots of kindness and cruelty.


Ascione, Frank R. Purdue University Press, 2005 191 p. $49.95 For parents, teachers, clergy, law enforcement professionals, and others involved in the lives and care of children and adolescents, developmental psychologist Ascione explains the current scientific and professional understanding about the relationship between the maltreatment of animals and violence directed toward other people. HV4711 2005-009479 1-4051-1940-3

Advances in teaching sign language interpreters.


Title main entry. Ed. by Cynthia B. Roy. Gallaudet University Pr., 2005 216 p. $55.00 In this collection of ten articles, contributors describe their findings and experiences in teaching interpreters of American Sign Language. Topics include teaching observation techniques to interpreters, using the theories and concepts of discourse mapping, referring expressions for interpreting students, learning and recognizing what interpreters do in interaction, teaching interpreting students to identify omission potential, making the interpreting process come alive, teaching turn-taking and turn- yielding in meetings with deaf and hearing participants, using semantic understanding to reduce "false friends" (unsuitable idiomatic expressions) and retraining interpreters in telephone interpreting. Articles also include a case study of revision curriculum at Northwestern University. HV2717 2005-295815 0-7190-6987-4

In defense of animals; ihe second wave.


Title main entry. Ed. by Peter Singer. Blaekwell Publishing, 2006 248 p. $55.95 Animal rights activists in Europe, the US, and Australia some of them holding academic positions, describe the current state of the movement. Four essays are carried over or revised from the 1986 edition; the other 14 are new. They discuss underlying ideas such as utilitarianism and animals, and the scientific basis for assessing suffering in animals; the problems in research laboratories, farms, and zoos; and activists and their strategies both in general and in specific organizations and campaigns. HV4764 2004-062547 90-04-14311-4

To talk of many things; an autobiography.


OUerenshaw, Kathleen. Manchester U. Pr., 2004 269 p. $24.95 Dame Kathleen OUerenshaw of Manchester, England has achieved international renown both in mathematics and education policydespite the challenge of having been severely deaf from the age of eight. In this autobiography, this remarkable woman recounts the events of her life, from her undergraduate studies at Oxford U. in the 1930s through her many years of service in city government to her breakthrough research in solving the Rubik cube puzzle. Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave. HV3004 2005-010933 1-84310-131-9

Confronting cruelty, moral orthodoi^ and the challenge of the animal rights movement.
Munro, Lyle. (Human-animal studies; v.l) Brill Academic Publishers, 2005 218 p. $79.00 (pa) Munro (sociology, Monash U., Australia) examines grassroots activism and organizational advocacy of the animal movement in Australia, the UK and the U.S., to understand how and why people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own. Coverage includes an overview of the social constructionist perspective on social problems and its relevance to the animal problem; cruelty and compassion in a decent societ)^, the animal movement's diagnosis of cruelty in its campaigns against vivisection, blood sports, and factory farming exposure and interference strategies; and the mobilization of emotions to build support for the movement. The text is a revised version of Munro's doctoral dissertation; some sections are based on work that the author has previously published in books and scholarly journals. HV4764 2003-010534 0-7425-4993-3

Person centred planning and care management with people with learning disabilities.
Title main entry. Ed. by Paul Cambridge and Steven Carnaby. Jessica Kingsley Pub., 2005 240 p. $34.95 (pa) Since its first promotion and implementation in 2001. Person-centered planning (PCP) has been applied to a variety of settings. However, often PCP services become isolated from each other, both at the micro- and macro-levels. In these 14 articles, contributors describe integrating services for the benefit of people with learning disabilities, including critical reviews of past experiences. Topics include analyzing relationships between care management and PCP, managing the tensions between the interests of organizations and service users, promoting empowerment, involving young people, turning planning into services through total communication, addressing ethnicity, reviewing PCP results, considering direct pajmients, facing risk, and using PCP in the adult protection process. HV4050 2005-043244 0-8213-6069-8

Empty cages; facing the challenge of animal rights.


Regan, Tom. Rowman & LiUlefield, 2004 229 p. $16.95 (pa) In this companion volume to Animal Rights, Human Wrongs: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy, Regan (emeritus, philosophy. North Carolina State U. in Raleigh) turns to more concrete matters in his ongoing project to advance animal rights. He describes and denounces the violence against animals involved in turning them into food, clothes, performers, competitors (such as in hunting and rodeo), and tools.

The urban poor in Latin America.


Title main entry. Ed. by Marianne Fay. (Directions in develpment) The World Bank, 2005 266 p. $25.00 (pa) If you are poor in Latin America you are probably miserable, but at least you have plenty of company. About 175 million people, 36 percent of the region's population, live in poverty, and more than half of the poor live in cities. This collection of eight essays and reports fills in the details, including the experiences of the urban poor in the labor market, safe and decent shelter, violence and insecurity, public health, self-reliance, social capital and social safety nets, or lack of them. The essays point out the variety and depth of problems, the challenges past projects could and could not overcome, and the resulting restrictions to investment and development in the region.

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Preventing harmful substance use; the evidence base for policy ana practice.
Title main entry. Ed. by Tim Stockwell et al. John Wiley & Sons, 2005 476 p. $130.00 Advocating the need for a common evidence base of new research findings relating to risky drug use, the editors introduce the challenges of getting governments to base their prevention, regulatory, and treatment strategies on this knowledge. International experts review theory and research on risk and deterrence factors fbr substance abuse, and health impacts. They present case studies of interventions in diverse populations, and research and policy recommendations. Stockwell (U. of Victoria, BC). His co-editors are with Australian institutions and The Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (U. of California, Berkeley). HV5745 2004-028033 0-275-98239-4

Sense and nonsense about crime and drugs; a policy guide, 6th ed.
Walker, Samuel. (Wadsworth contemporary issues in crime and justice series) Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2006 333 p. $40.95 (pa) Walker (criminal justice, U. of Nebraska, Omaha) critically examines a number of commonly held beliefs about crime and criminal justicefinding that many of them have little basis in fact. In addition to pointing out the shortcomings of politically popular crime prevention policies (such as boot camps and restorative justice), he describes a number of evidence-based ways of creating a safer society. The final section is devoted to an exploration of myths and realities about drugs and crime. HV5825 2004-026622 0-15-101183-4

Peddling poison; the tobacco industry and kids.


Snell, Clete. (Criminal justice, delinquency, and corrections) Praeger, 2005 169 p. $44.95 Some 80 percent of those who use tobacco as adults began before they were 18. However, funds from the Master Settlement with the tobacco industry have enabled many states to develop anti-smoking programs that have resulted in a substantial decline in youth tobacco use. Snell (criminal justice, U. of Houston-Downtown) looks at big tobacco's history of hooking kids and summarizes the FDA's investigation of the industry's deceptive practices. He shows that the future of youth tobacco policy depends on the continued funding of prevention programs at the state and local level, and demonstrates how the industry is shifting its marketing approach to minority populations and developing nations. HV5746 2005-016991 0-7864-2212-2

A shadow in the dty, confessions of an undercover drug warrior.


Bowden, Charles. Harcourt, 2005 309 p. $24.00 Bowden, in nonfiction as noir as any novel Elmore Leonard ever wrote, details an enormous heroin bust orchestrated by a jaded undercover narcotics agent in an unidentified American city. His inside look at the US drug wars (and the mind of the cop he calls Joey O'Shay) depicts an underworld of violence, misery, and creeping uncertainty. Bowden's work has appeared in publications including GQ and Harper's; he's also the author of Down by the River. There's no index. HV5840 2005-412203 1-55130-231-4

The crime that pays; drug trafficking and organized crime in Canada.
Desroches, Frederick J. Canadian Scholars' Press, 2005 238 p. $24.95 (pa) This book grew out of discussions with a former high-level drug traf^ ficker turned student. Drawing on interviews with convicted drug traffickers and investigators including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Desroches (sociology and criminology, St. Jerome's U.; U. of Waterloo) covers definitional and legal issues, theories to account for syndicated crime, and social implications. References include court cases. HVG024 2003-115325 0-7619-7406-7

Women and smoking in America, 1880-1950.


Segrave, Kerry. McFarland & Co., 2005 245 p. $39.95 (pa) A modern revision of beauty and the beast, this social history traces the changes in practice and in public perception of women's smoking from early moral objections to recent advertisements wooing women smokers. Segrave, the author of several works of social history and popular culture, documents the cycles of opposition and encouragement these women experienced and the reasons for each shift. The text is supplemented with representative advertisements and film stills. HV5801 92-1-148203-8

Criminological research; understanding qualitative methods.


Noaks, Lesley and Emma Wincup. (Introducing qualitative methods) Sage Publications, 2004 196 p. $115.00 This contribution to the Introducing Qualitative Methods series is devoted to research in criminology and covers both types of qualitative methods and methodological debates. The authors offer chapters on the development of qualitative approaches to criminological research, the politics of criminological research, ethical dimensions, negotiating and sustaining access to interviewees, conducting interviews, ethnographic approaches, using documentary evidence, analyzing qualitative data, and case studies of researching substance abuse among young homeless people and researching private policing. HV6025 2005-923996 O-534-61567-8

World drug report 2005; 2v.


Title main entry. United Nations Publications, 2005 397 p. $70.00 (pa) Volume I (Analysis) of this annual report from the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention identifies current trends in four major world drug markets: opium/heroin, coca/cocaine, cannabis, and amphetamine-t)^e stimulants. It provides estimates of the financial value of illicit drug markets and discusses the connections between drug use and HIV/AIDS transmission. In Volume II, statistical data in the areas of drug production, seizures, prices, and consumption are given in the form of graphs and tables. HV5816 2004-029322 0-7391-0886-7

Smuggling as subversion; colonialism, Indian merchants, and toe politics of opium, 1790-1843.
Farooqui, Amar. Lexington Books, 2005 263 p. $65.00 Farooqui (modern Indian history, U. of Delhi) has expanded and updated the 1998 version, published by New Age International, New Delhi, taking into account research published during the intervening years on the history of narcotics, the colonial impact on attitudes to mood-altering drugs, and the origins of drug policies. He also expands the temporal range back to the early phase of the development of Malwa opium production and trade, and forward through the end of the First Opium War and the conquest of Sind.

Basics of research methods for criminal justice and criminology.


Maxfield, Michael G. and Earl Babbie. Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2006 361 p. $55.95 (pa) Distilling material from Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology (1995), Maxfield (Rutgers U.) and Babbie (Chapman U.) focus on the fundamentals of research methods and present a shorter, more concise textbook. Individual chapters cover theory and ethics in research; general issues in research design; concepts, operationalization, and measurement; experimental and quasi- experimental design; data collection and sampling; survey research; agency records, content analysis, and secondary data; evaluation research and policy analysis; and interpreting data.

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Community justice; issues for probation and criminal justice.


Title main entry. Ed. by Jane Winstone and Francis Pakes. Willan Publishing, 2005 310 p. $34.95 (pa) Aimed at students, this compilation brings together 16 essays by contributors mostly from the UK on aspects of community justice, defined as the collaboration of offenders, victims, crime prevention, and community groups to ensure community safety. Essays examine probation, the National Offender Management Service, the UK's Home Office perspective, working with the police, rehabilitation, and using schools in crime prevention. In addition, authors explore identifying anti-social behavior, youth justice, hate crime, mentally ill offenders, victims and vvitnesses, and research in the field. One chapter describes community justice in the Netherlands. Both Winston and Pakes are from the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HV6025 2005-003540 1-58360-549-5

Crime and culture; an historical perspective.


Title main entry. Ed. by Amy Gilman Srebnick and Ren6 IAy. (Advances in criminology) Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 225 p. $99.95 Historians and criminologists from Europe and North America explore how the history of crime can provide a way to study time, place, and culture, taking examples from Europe and the US from the 16th century to the late 20th. They use new approaches to understanding the meaning of crime in modern western culture, and highlight the new importance given to crime and criminal events in historical studies. Their themes are crime and the construction of historical narrative, discourse and narrative in the history of criminology, reconstructing events in police and criminal justice history, and representations of crime and criminals. HV6250 2005-001702 1-84310-195-5

Victims of crime; justice rebalanced?

Williams, Brian. Jessica Kingsley Pub., 2005 176 p. $28.95 (pa) Deviance and crime; theoiy, research, and policy, 3d ed. Since the 1960s, the interests of crime victims, previously of little concern, DeKeseredy, Walter S. et al. have become crucial to legislators and policy makers in many jurisdictions. Williams (community justice and victimology, DeMontfort U., Anderson Publishing Co., 2005 360 p. $39.95 (pa) Leicester, UK) explains the processes that have been involved in creating The authors (of Canada's U. of Ontario Institute of Technology and York U.) originally intended this book as the third edition of The Wrong Stuff: the shift and raises questions about the genuineness of the policy interest. In Introduction to the Sociological Study of Deviance but changed the title Noting that organizations claiming to represent victims have become increasingly visible and vocal, he looks at some of the associated advanas the focus shifted to theories, research, and policies omitted from the tages and drawbacks and shows how certain common themes have domfirst two editions. They describe the strain, social control, interactionist, inated this area of policy. He proposes a more balanced approach that ecological, and critical perspectives of the sociology of deviance, crime, takes into account both the needs of the victim and the responsibilities and social control, along with their sociological infiuences. They then of the offender. apply these perspectives to the topical issues of woman abuse, homicide, corporate crime, drug use and abuse, and gangs. The text concludes with HV6252 2005-013790 1-57607-915-5 a chapter on the relationship between theory and social policy. HV6025 1-84392-126-X

Illicit trafficking; a reference handbook.

Questioning crime and criminology.


Title main entry. Ed. by Moira Peelo and Keith Soothill. Willan Publishing, 2005 171 p. $27.50 (pa) Primarily written by Social Science professors at the University of Lancaster, the eight articles in this collection explore the history of criminology, academic knowledge about crime, and the current boundaries of criminology. Topics include previous general theories of crime, media representations, the relationship between inequality and crime, and social change. Distributed in the United States by ISBS. HV6046 2005-012805 1-933220-03-1

Kelly, Robert J. et al. (ABC-CLIO's contemporary world issues series) ABC-CLIO, 2005 260 p. $50.00 Covering the illegal trafficking of both people and goods, this reference handbook by Kelly (emeritus. City U. of New York), Maghan (director. Forum for Comparative Correction), and Serio (editor-in- chief. Crime and Justice International), explains the organization and operation of illicit trafficking and surveys problems and responses to the illegal activity. It also provides a chronology, biographical sketches of seventeen individuals involved in trafficking (including Osama Bin Laden, "Lucky" Luciano, and Pablo Escobar), statistics and reference documents, contact information for and descriptions of relevant agencies and organizations, and a guide to print and nonprint resources. HV6252 1-904385-05-2

In her own words; women offenders' views on crime and victimization, an anthology.
Title main entry. Ed. by Leanne Fiftal Alarid and Paul Cromwell. Roxbury Publishing Co., 2006 245 p. $40.95 (pa) Alarid (sociology/criminal justice, U. of Missouri-Kansas City) and Cromwell (criminal justice, Wichita State University) have assembled 22 ethnographic studies in this anthology for students of criminology or sociology. The contributing scholars interviewed female offenders using ethnographic and feminist research methods, and these interviews are abundantly quoted in the essays but not transcribed. Each section has an introduction, followed by four chapters and discussion questions. Larger sections cover the topics of victimization and criminalization; criminal behavior in relation to the family; crime in groups, including gangs and ethnicities; economic factors, sudi as prostitution and homelessness; and crime as a "rational choice." There is no index. HV6080 1-84392-101-4

Transnational and comparative criminology.


Title main entry. Ed. by James Sheptycki and Ali Wardak. Glasshouse Press, 2005 375 p. $39.00 (pa) There being no established paradigm for transnational and comparative criminology, one is invented for this anthology in hopes that it can form at last a beginning of one for the entire discipline. Criminologists from a wide geographical range discuss some of the central issues from an equally wide range of theories. The area studies cover Saudi Arabia, West Africa, post-apartheid South Africa, Singapore, and China 1949-99. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HV6322 2005-001188 0-87586-379-5

Genocide; approaches, case studies, and responses.


Title main entry. Ed. by Graham C. Kinloch and Raj P. Mohan. Algora Publishing, 2005 323 p. $22.95 (pa) Can genocide be a response to Westernization or resource inequities? Sociologists Kinloch (Florida State U.), who is from Zimbabwe, and Mohan (Auburn U., Alabama) treat genocide as a central issue in modern social science with policy implications. The 13 contributed chapters present conceptual, theoretical, and comparative approaches and case studies (e.g. of' Rwanda, Tibet, Northern Ireland). Analytical frameworks include comparative sociology, moral philosophy, and critical theory.

The forensic psychologist's casebook; psychological profiling and criminal investigation.


Title main entry. Ed. by Laurence Alison. Willan Publishing, 2005 410 p. $45.00 (pa) Law enforcement agencies are increasingly making use of offender profiling to get their man or woman, and thrillers, movies, and television are following along with dramatic retellings of gruesome cases solved with the help of the technique. Editor Alison (U. of Liverpool) and other forensic psychologists in the UK explore what profiling can do for criminal investigations in the real world and also explain what it can't achieve. Several chapters consider well- known cases from Jack the Ripper to modern-day murders. The intended audience is law enforcement officials, practitioners, students, and the interested public. Distributed in the US by ISBS.

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The changing face of terrorism.


Title main entry. Ed. by Rohan Gunaratna. Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2004174 p. $22.00 (pa) Eleven contributions from academics, journalists, and field operatives consider how terrorism has evolved from the Cold War to the present. Gunaratna (Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, Singapore) opens the volume with two papers discussing the new environment for terrorism and its mutation into a global phenomenon. Other topics include the British police response to terrorism; the use of the Internet for fundraising and propaganda; and lessons from the Al Qaeda videotape archive. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS. HV6431 2005-017025 1-84520-224-i

In the name of godthe Afghan connection and the U.S. war against terrorism: The story of the Afghan veterans as the masterminds behind 9/11.
Andersen, Lars Erslev and Jan Aagaard. U. Press of Southern Denmark, 2005253 p. $29.90 (pa) Anderson (history and Middle East studies, U. of Southern Denmark) and Aagaard, a case officer and analyst with the Danish Security Intelligence Service, begin by reviewing US Middle East policy from Reagan to W. Then they look at the theory of terrorism and its manifestation in the post-Cold War era, in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and in specific incidents and movements focusing ever more closely on the Afghan war and Osama bin Laden. Final chapters analyze the Pax Americana and the ongoing reaction to it. This international edition contains a new postscript, and was presumably translated from a Danish editions, for which no information is provided. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HV6431 92-1-033093-5

City of panic.
yirilio, Paul. Trans, by Julie Rose. (Culture machine series) Berg Publishers, 2005 148 p. $24.95 French architect and urban planner yerilio continues his cultural criticism beginning with a journey across and then beneath Paris. He points out evidence of how cides everywhere are being reconstructed through a campaign of panic: gated communities, policed shopping malls, the net of surveillance, and the media fabrication of a world of fear. Must all cities be war zones, he asks, must they all be the same. No data is provided for the publication of Villa panique. Rose is an award winning freelance translator. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan. Hy6431 2004-115487 0-7618-3066-9

National laws and regulations on the prevention and suppression of intemational terrorism, part 2; 2v.
Title main entry. (United Nations legislative series) United Nations Publications, 2005 712 p. $30.00 (pa) Compiled by the United Nation's Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs, this publication aims to enhance international cooperation in fighting terrorism by presenting those national legislation and regulations submitted by Member States that implement international conventions on terrorism or are relevant to the topic of international terrorism. These volumes cover laws and regulations submitted by 133 countries, from Albania to Yemen. Those materials submitted in French and English have been kept in their original languages, while the rest have been translated into English. HV6431 2005-043327 1-84376-064-9

Confronting terrorism financing.


Title main entry. Ed. by American Foreign Policy Council. Univ. Press of America, 2005 66 p. $16.00 (pa) This volume contains six presentations from a conference convened by the American Foreign Policy Council on the problem of preventing the financing of terrorism. The dynamics of terrorism financing are considered in papers discussing narco-terrorism, connections between terrorism and organized crime, and terrorist involvement in legitimate business. Other papers focus on "problem states," addressing issues arising in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, and Syria. Hy6431 2005-043053 0-8493-3023-8

Terrorism; 2v.
Title main entry. Ed. by Rosemary H.T. O'Kane. (An Elgar reference collection) Edward Elgar Pub. Co., 2005 951 p. $425.00 O'Kane (comparative political theory, Keele U., UK) has collected 46 previously published articles that span the gamut of issues concerning terrorism. The material is divided into thematic sections, with topics including concepts, regimes of terror, terrorist groups and religion, underlying causes of terrorist groups, the impact of new social movements, pyschological explanations, rational choice explanations, and counteracting terrorism. Among the authors represented are Donatella della Porta, Jerrold M. Post, Paul Wilkinson, Martha Crenshaw, and David C. Rapoport. O'Kane includes four of her own articles as well, including those on Cambodia; the causes of state construction in France, Russia, and China; and state building in Ethiopia, Iran, and Nicaragua. The articles are presented in facsimile of the original. Name index only. HV6431 2004-049006 1^039-6161-1

The counterterrorism handbook; tactics, procedures, and technicjuesm, 3d ed.


Bolz, Jr., Frank et al. (Practical aspects of criminal and forensic investigations; 41) CRC Press, 2005 401 p. $89.95 Bolz, Kenneth J. Dudonis, and David P. Schulzwho are not further identified, probably for security reasonsupdate from earlier editionsfor which no dates are cited, but apparently published before September 2001their guide for leaders in national, state, or local governments or in private organizations. They provide information and advice on who terrorists are, the purpose of terrorism, bomb defense planning, kidnapping, the threat of weapons of mass destruction, domestic terrorism, hostage incidents, getting back to normal in a post-blast environment, the role of the commander, and the command post. HV6431 2005-043961 0-398O7593-X

Terror, terrorism, and the human condition.


Webel, Charles P. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 156 p. $39.95 Webel (Walden U.) admits he may raise more questions than he answers in his examination of what it is about terror that attracts and repels us, how we need to rework our thinking about terror to get to its root causes in the human spirit, and how we should initiate taking reasoned action. He defines what we know about terrorism, well knowing it is indescribable, gives a brief history of it, knowing it is in some ways indescribable, and describes what it means to cope and to fail to cope with it. In the conclusion he imagines a world in which terror becomes absurd, whether in the form of terrorism itself or in the form of violent reaction to it. HV6431 2004-010571 1-59429-035-0

Hunting terrorists; a look at the psychopathology of terror.


Navarro, Joe. C.C. Thomas, 2005 104 p. $39.95 "If you look for bombs you will miss the terrorists." Navarro heard this almost 20 years ago, and he kept it in mind for the remainder of his 25year career in the FBI. He predicts terrorism will be the greatest challenge to society in this century, especially if we do not learn how to identify and neutralize terrorists before they act. Beginning by defining terror and putting it in perspective in American history, Navarro sorts terrorists into five basic groups (solo, state, nationalist, coalition, and religious) giving the perceptions and practices of each. His main purpose, however, is to describe what goes on in the minds of terrorists, such as uncompromising ideology, pathological thinking, irreconcilable fear, passionate hatred, and functional isolation and how they use these thoughts to come to the conclusion violence is prescribed.

Voices of terror, manifestos, writings, and manuals of Al Q^ida, Hamas, and other terroists from arounds the world and throughout the ages.
Title main entry. Ed. by Walter Laqueur. Reed Press, 2004 520 p. $19.95 (pa) The majority of this reader reprints 82 essays and pamphlets written as early as ancient times about resistance to despotism, conspiracy, revolution, partisan warfare, and guerilla doctrine. The final section gathers 26 statements and articles issued by current terrorist leaders in the Muslim and other parts of the world. No index is provided. Distributed by the New Press.

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Compensation for victims of terrorism.


Shapo, Marshall S. (Terrorism: Documents of international and local control; 2d series, v.l8) Oceana Publications, 2005 297 p. $99.00 Shapo (torts and product liability law. Northwestern U. School of Law) focuses on some of the most direct consequences of the events of 9/11: the losses of those injured and of the survivors of those killed on that day. He places those losses in a broader frame that encompasses the methods American society has chosen to decide whether and how to compensate victims of various kinds of injuries. Noting that the legislation that provided compensation had "many of the earmarks of the emergency response it was," Shapo both explains and questions the reasons for establishing a special compensation system for victims of particular events. HV6432 2005-012836 0-7890-2906-5

The 'war on truth; 9/11, disinformation, fmd the anatomy of terrorism.


Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq. Olive Branch Press, 2005 459 p. $20.00 (pa) Originally intending this volume as a simple updated edition of The War on Freedom: How & Why America Was Attacked, September li, ZOOl, Ahmed (executive director. Institute for Policy Research 6= Development) explains that the amount of material added to his analysis of the events of the September 11 attacks justified releasing the text as a completely new book. In the work, he argues that US and Western foreign policy is the root of all aspects of the origins of the attacks from CIA promotion of Bin Laden in the 1980s to the failure of the US national security apparatus on the day itself, suggesting that the attacks may have been engineered or allowed in order to mobilize public opinion so as to expand US hegemony. HV6433 2004-020622 1-85973-807-9

On the ground after September 11; mental health responses and practical knowledge gained.
Title main entry. Ed. by Yael Danieli and Robert L. Dingman. Haworth Maltreatment & Trauma, 2005 672 p. $89.99 These 108 personal accounts of the first days, weeks, and years after the events of September 11, 2001 include commentary on how contributors responded to the news, how they helped (or did not help) clients who were or felt they were personally affected by the events, and how they worked within existing or ad-hoc organizations to help others cope. Although some offerings are studies of an academic or professional nature, but many are poems, brief personal narratives, or informal assessments of organizations' effectiveness and even include an article on conducting private grief caused by a public event. The result is a rather wistful record of how people reacted to something they could not completely understand. HV6432 2005-003390 0-313-33213-4

Al-Q^da's Jihad in Europe; the Afghan-Bosnian network.


Kohlmann, Evan F. Berg Publishers, 2005 239 p. $19.95 (pa) Drawing on a wide range of open sources, Kohlmann, an international terrorism consultant in Washington, DC, tells how, in the Bosnian war of the early 1990s, the cream of Arab-Afghan jihadists tested their battle skills in the post-Soviet era and mobilized a new generation of hardened guerrilla zealots devoted to armed combat and Islamic fundamentalism. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan. HV6433 2004.019668 &.292-70679-0

When states kill; Latin America, the U.S., and technologies of terror.
Title main entry. Ed. by Cecilia Menjivar and Nestor Rodriguez. U. of Texas Press, 2005 374 p. $22.95 (pa) In a volume dedicated to "the victims of state terror in Latin America ...," sociologists Menjicar (Arizona State U.) and Rodriguez (U. of Houston) introduce the causes of state- sponsored violence in this diverse region and the roles the US has played in supporting sociopolitical control. In 13 essays, international scholars discuss the situation in specific countries. The editors address recent international justice-seeking responses. HV6439 2004-021754 0^214-1615-4

Terrorism; a documentary and reference guide.


Burns, Vincent and Kate Dempsey Peterson. Greenwood Pr., 2005 293 p. $75.00 Until 11 September 2001, most Americans never clenched their hands while being patted down at an airport, gritted their teeth when hearing of yet another security alert, or felt the blood drain from their hearts as they watched an airplane slice through a skyscraper. This collection of 70 documents focuses on what Americans now know or do not know about the primary sources of terrorism, and how that knowledge or lack of it has affected American life. Presented with commentary, photographs, media and government reactions, and background information such as the means of discovery, documents cover definitions of terrorism over history, domestic terrorism, the US reaction to Middle Eastern terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s, radical Islam and Al Qaeda. A collection relating to 9/11 ranges from a hijacker's note to the USA Patriot Act and UN responses. HV6432 2005-923897 0-534-64381-7

We are fighting the world; a histoiy of the Marashea gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999.
Kynoch, Gary. (New African histories series) Ohio University Press, 2005 200 p. $44.95 A specialist on crime, policing, and violence in urban South Africa, Kynoch (history, Dalhousie U., Nova Scotia) presents a comprehensive history of the African criminal society known as the Marashea or Russians, from its inception to the present. The original groups drew their strength from Basotho migrants who worked and lived on the Johannesburg area gold mines, or lived in the townships and worked in the city, he says. The story includes massive street battles and forced removal and dispersal during the 1950s, the Aliens Control Act of 1963, political violence and the end of Apartheid, and the continuing power of the gangs in many of South Africa's gold mining areas. HV6441 2004^58487 0-8160-5694-3

Terrorism and homeland security, 5th ed.


white, Jonathan R. Wadsworth Publishing Co., 200G 398 p. $48.95 Written for criminal justice students, this textbook explains the origins and types of modern terrorism, outlines the structure and spread of Jihadist networks, and examines the role of law enforcement, intelligence, and bureaucracy in homeland security. Previously published as Terrorism; an introduction, the fifth edition reduces the material on outdated terrorist groups in favor of active ones. HV6432 2005-018552 0.6330-3822-2

The mafia encyclopedia, 3d ed.


Sifakis, Carl. Facts On File, Inc., 2005 510 p. $65.00 This quick reference for students and general readers contains nearly 500 alphabetically arranged entries on the history, practices, culture, and people of the Mafia. Former crime reporter Sifakis opens the third edition with a neu' preface that assesses the position of the Mafia since the imprisonment of a number of mob leaders in the 1990s. Sample topics include the Bonanno crime family, syndicate leader Bugsy Siegel, outlaw bikers. Prohibition, Frank Sinatra, the "tommy" gun, the Chinese Mafia, and waterfront rackets. The volume is illustrated with more than 100 b6=w photographs and concludes with a chronology.

Trends in terrorism; threats to the United States and the future of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act.
Title main entry. Ed. by Peter Chalk and Robert Reville. RAND, 2005 75 p. $20.00 (pa) Providing a description of the evolving terrorist threat, this volume compares the underlying risk of attack to the architecture of financial protection that has been facilitated by the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), which will "sunset" in December 2005. The authors discuss the robustness of TRIA as a protection against the threats they describe and make recommendations for long-term solutions.

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Fighting in the streets; ethnic succession and urban unrest m twentieth-century America.
Herman, Max Arthur. Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2005 184 p. $29.95 (pa) Employing a comparative case method, Herman (sociology, Rutgers U.) examines six cases of race rioting from three distinct periods of the 20th century, and constructs from them a general explanatory model for urban unrest that he believes wall help assess the potential for future episodes of collective violence. Underlying the conflicts, he finds changes in populations: Black migration and White backlash in Chicago in 1919 and Detroit in 1943, White flight and Black power in Newark and Detroit in 1993, and new immigrants and Black resentment in Miami in 1980 and Los Angeles in 1992. He has not indexed his work. HVe505 2005-048224 0-425-20765-X

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Children in the global sex trade.


Davidson, Julia O'Connell. Polity Press, 2005 178 p. $59.95 Davidson (sociology, U. of Nottingham) looks at the deeper social, economic and psychological issues that comprise the sexual contract system of late-modern Western culture, and why children, who are considered outside of contract, are thought by some to be a refuge from what she terms the "existential horror" of that system. Davidson examines the socalled sanctity of the child, the anomaly of prostitution and its variability, the redefinition of slavery and freedom within the sex trade, the role of oppression, whether sexual or not, the dualism inherent in trafficking of adults and children, the relation between pedophilia and sexual politics, the problem of demand in prostitution and child sex tourism, and ways to reorder thinking about sexual politics and their relationship to both children and adults. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HV6592 2005-012791 1-59332-095-7

The human predator, a historical chronicle of serial murder and forensic investigation.
Ramsland, Katherine M. Berkley Publishing Group, 2005 306 p. $24.95 Challenging the assumption that serial killing is a part of and reaction to modern society, Ramsland (forensic psychology, DeSales U., Pennsylvania) presents evidence that the phenomenon has been around since the beginning of human history. She examines the evolving social attitudes that have affected serial murderers' motives, methods, and criminal careers in the context of their specific historical periods. HV6545 2005-003607 1-4129-1009-9

Civil commitment of sexual predators; a study in policy implementation.


Harris, Andrew J. (Criminal justice) LFB Scholarly Publishing, LLC, 2005272 p. $70.00 Harris (family medicine and community health, U. of Massachusetts Medical School) investigates a series of state laws and policies providing for the involuntary civil commitment to state custody of individuals defined as "sexually violent predators" (SVPs). Drawing on existing studies and on specific state experiences with SVP civil commitment policies, the text presents a prospective evaluation of such policies and their future viability by critically examining the policies' range of activities and processes through tedinical, legal, organizational, and fiscal lenses. HV6592 l-84392-08(W

Suicide; theoiy, practice, and investigation.


Holmes, Ronald M. and Stephen T. Holmes. Sage Publications, 2005 177 p. $74.95 This supplementary text for courses in criminology, psychology, and forensic science provides an accessible overview of the social problem and criminal justice concerns of suicide in the United States. Written by a professor of criminal justice and a coroner, it identifies different motivations for suicide and analyzes recent data on how its practice is afiected by variables such as gender, marital status, occupation, health, drug use, and religion. It also covers suicide investigation techniques used in the field and the laboratory. HV6546 2005-006318 1-59147-193-1

Illicit and illegal; sex, regulation and social control.


Phoenix, Joanna and Sarah Oerton. Willan Publishing, 2005 209 p. $32.50 (pa) Phoenix (sodology and criminology, U. of Bath) and Oerton (sociology, U. Glamorgan) examine the ways in which various sexual activities are controlled, regulated and made illegal and/or deviant and illicit. They also investigate the assumptions underpinning the regulation of sex and sexual relationships within contemporary British society. They argue that contrary to the common view that contemporary society is marked by increasing levels of sexual freedoms, more types of relationships and behaviors are being regulated and that a new sexual enterprise marked by moral authoritarianism underpins these extensions to sexual social control. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HV6626 2005-005674 0-754G-2506-0

Adolescent suicide; assessment and intenrention, 2d ed.


Berman, Alan L. et al. American Psychological Assn., 2006 456 p. $69.95 Updating the work to reflect current epidemiological data, changes in recent clinical understanding, and other advances, Berman (executive director, American Association of Suicidology), Jobes (psychology, Cathohc U. of America), and Silverman (senior advisor, National Suicide Prevention Resource Center) present a psychological monograph on the theory, research, practice, and intervention in the area of adolescent suicide. In turn, chapters treat epidemiology, the theoretical context, the empirical context, assessment, an "integrative-eclectic approach to treatment," standards of care and malpractice in suicide treatment, and prevention. Also included is a brand new chapter on survivors of suicide and "postvention." HV6546 1-920694-42-0

Family violence and police response; learning from research, policy, and practice in European countries.
Title main entry. Ed. by Wilma Smeenk and Marijke Malsch. (Advances in criminology) Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 263 p. $99.95 Twelve contributions from academics and researchers analyze and compare police response to domestic violence in various European countries. The authors also consider how organizational and institutional aspects such as police task performance and attitudes may influence victims' decisions regarding whether or not to report assaults or press charges. Coverage extends to discussions of recent legislation dealing with domestic violence and stalking. The editors are affiliated with the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. HV6626 1-86134-602-6

Come with daddy; child murder-suicide after family breakdown.


Johnson, Carolyn Harris. (Contemporary issues series) U. of Western Australia Pr., 2005 158 p. $31.50 (pa) Focusing on the sometimes tragic consequence of disputed custody/visitation rights cases, Johnson (social and cultural studies, U. of Western Australia) presents her exploratory study of familicide. Drawing on interviews with survivors from seven families, she identifies commonalities regarding why such horrific crimes occur and makes recommendations for greater awareness of danger signs. Appendices include the research questions and a glossary. Distributed in the US by ISBS.

Tackling men's violence in families; Nordic issues and dilenunas.


Title main entry. Ed. by Maria Eriksson et al. Policy Press, 2005 214 p. $37.50 (pa) Eleven contributions from academics and practitioners critically examine how men's violence in families is perceived and responded to in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. For example, editor Eriksson (gender studies, Goteborg U., Sweden) discusses how sodal workers deal with custody and related issues affecting abused children. Other topics include the role of voluntary women's shelters in the larger welfare system, and how gendered notions of parenthood contribute to a lack of focus on violent men as parents. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS.

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Understanding and preventing car theft.


Title main entry. Ed. by Michael G. Maxfield and Ronald V. Clarke. (Crime prevention studies; v.l7) Criminal Justice Press, 2004 248 p. $37.50 (pa) From a conference held at the Police Institute at Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice in October of 2003, Maxfield (criminal justice, Rutgers) and Clarke (series editor, Rutgers) compile 10 papers by scholars around the world on car thefl prevention studies in the UK, Australia, Europe, and the US. Papers are based on the following themes: bringing awareness to auto theft, how cars are concealed, designs that can reduce thefl, crime analysis, and publidty campaigns. Other papers investigate parking lot security, licensing, and a comparison of car safety and security. The book is aimed at law enforcement offidals. There is no index. HV6679 2004-022093 0-471-69469-X

Sources for the study of crime in Ireland, 1801-1921.


Griffin, Brian. (Maynooth research guides for Irish local history; no.9) Four Courts Press, 2004 94 p. $45.00 Griffm (history and Irish studies, Bath Spa U. College, England) offers researchers a guide to what he has found to be the more useful secondary and primary sources for crime in Ireland, particularly wellstudied aspects such as the agrarian disturbances of the 19th century and the violence of the War of Independence years. He does not explain his arrangement of sources, and does not provide an index, so the volume may be more useful as a tutorial than a reference. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HV7405 1-84392-078-6

Transforming international criminal justice; retributive and restorative justice in the trial process.
Findlay, Mark and Ralph Henham. Willan Publishing, 2005 413 p. $69.95 Findlay (criminal justice, U. of Sydney and Nottingham Law School) and Henham (criminal justice, Nottingham Law School) set out an agenda to transform international criminal trials and thereby the delivery of international criminal justice to victim communities. They begin by investigating the sodal theory supporting a model of the trial as a process of dedsion making, then comparatively analyze examples from the trial traditions that have most influenced the international trial process. Their radical argument is for the harmonization of restorative and retributive justice within international criminal justice, and suggest how the trial process can be transformed to that end. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HV7415 2005-925058 0-7546-2446-3

Preventing identity theft in your business; how to protect your business, customers, and employees.
Collins, Judith M. John Wiley & Sons, 2005 245 p. $39.95 About half of identity thefts are inside jobs according to Collins (industrial and organizational psychology; MSU Identity Theft Crime and Research Lab, Michigan State U.), who addresses this growing problem from a business perspective. After reviewing its nature, scope, and effects, the author presents exerdses to lead manager-employee teams toward a business information security program that complies with federal guidelines. Appendices include a security standard checklist, risk sources, the Pareto analysis method, resources, and identity thefl legislation supporters. HV6721 2005-050814 1-56980-274-2

Quantitative methods in criminology.

Title main entry. Ed. by ShawTi Bushway and David Weisburd. (International library of criminology, criminal justice and penology; second series) Smith, John L. Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 611 p. $275.00 In their selection of materials for this reader on quantitative criminology, Barricade Books, 2005 400 p. $24.95 the editors (both of the U. of Maryland) were motivated to demonstrate Smith traces the evolution of the gambling industry in Las Vegas, from the importation of techniques from other fields, introspection with its beginnings as a mafia-controlled den of vice through its transforregard to their application to spedfic criminological problems, and innomation into a mainstream tourist center. His narrative focuses on the vation in the development of new methodological and statistical ruthless corporate moguls (the "sharks") who have made their fortunes approaches. They present 23 journal reprints (originally published in the casino business. The volume is illustrated with b&Tv photos. A regular columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Smith is the author between 1963 and 2004) in sections that deal with research design and study outcomes, quantitative issues in sampling, issues in measurement, of several books. descriptive analysis of quantitative data, and causal modeling. Spedfic topics include deterrent effects of arrest for domestic assault; the affect HVe769 2005-041107 1-57675-315-8 of research design on study outcomes; case studies of missing data The great American jobs scam; corporate tax dodging and problems in criminological research; issues in the uses of offidal stathe myth of job creation. tistics; assessing the limits of longitudinal self-report data in the "AgeLeRoy, Greg. Crime Debate"; mapping gangs and gang violence in Boston; synthesis of Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005 290 p. $24.95 criminal careers and life course approaches via semiparametric mixed Poisson regression model and its empirical applications; longitudinal In the name of economic development, state and local governments in study of trajedories of crime at street segments in Seattle; and comparthe US are now granting $50 billion a year in tax breaks and other subative study of the preventive efifeds of mandatory sentendng laws for sidies to corporations in return for promises of more jobs and greater tax gun crimes. revenues. But LeRoy's impassioned analysis shows that companies are not following through on their end of the deal; in fact, companies frequently downsize or outsource after getting subsidies, and promised HV7419 2005-927130 0-534-61542-2 revenue increases often prove false or exaggerated. LeRoy, founder of a Comparative criminal justice systems, 3d ed. group called Good Jobs First, presents case studies that show how job Dammer, Harry R. and Erika Fairchild. subsidies are going awry. He suggests ways that states and dties can Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2006 432 p. $75.95 (pa) make the system more transparent and effective and hold businesses This text for upper-level undergraduates blends a strong emphasis on more accountable. comparison among spedfic justice systems with the use of six model countries, each exemplifying a different justice system arrangement that HV6789 2004-028510 0-8156-3080-8 affeds the criminal process. Previous courses in introdudory criminal Inventing black-on-black violence; discourse, space, and justice and government are recommended, but for students without this representation. background, criminal justice topics are introduced in simple terms. This Wilson, David. (Space, place, and society) third edition contains new chapters on juvenile justice and organized Syracuse U. Pr., 2005 193 p. $24.95 crime, and revised material on terrorism. Dammer is affiliated with the Wilson (geography, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) examines how University of Scranton. conservative and liberal discourses of "black-on-black violence" were constructed in the United States in the 1980s and describes their respective "fields of understanding" about dties, inner cities, African American youth, inner dty institutions, and urban politicians. He argues that both discourses coalesced around the concept of a dysfunctional underclass culture and considers why such an idea resonated with mainstream America. Finally, he documents how politidans and the media used the discourse of "black-on-black violence" pin the blame for a spreading crime panic on inner city black people.

Sharks in the desert; the founding fathers and current kings of Las Vegas.

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A fair hearing?; ethnic minorities in the criminal courts.


Shute, Stephen et al. Willan Publishing, 2005 160 p. $64.95 The authors report on a study sponsored by the Oxford Centre for Criminology and the University of Birmingham concerning defendants and witnesses in criminal courts. Based on observations of cases and interviews with more than 1000 people, the study examined the extent to which black and Asian people who had appeared in the Crown Court and magistrates' courts in Manchester, Birmingham and London perceived their treatment as unfair, whether they believed ethnic bias caused the unfairness, and their confidence in the courts. The authors conclude that more needs to be done to increase the confidence of ethnic minorities in the fairness in criminal courts. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HV7419 2005-006694 0-7619-2630-5

Community policing, national and international models and approaches.


Brogden, Mike and Preeti Nijhar. Willan Publishing, 2005 259 p. $32.50 (pa) Community-oriented polidng (COP) has been the buzzword in AngloAmerican law enforcement for the past two decades; recent years have seen the increasing export of COP to non-Western sodeties throughout the world. In this text, Brogden (U. of Lancaster, England) and Nijhar (U. of Wales, Bangor) examine the initial promises of COP; its successes and failures; its sources in Anglo-American sodeties and in South Asia; its transplantation toand lack of success inmore dependent, transitional and failed sodeties; and wider concerns with democratic polidng. The text includes detailed cases studies of South Africa and Northern Ireland. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS. HV7936 2005-006693 0-7619-3092-2

Understanding gender, crime, and justice.


Morash, Merry. Sage Publications, 2006 311 p. $39.95 (pa) In a textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses that deal with women and criminal justice, Morash (Michigan State U.) emphasizes contemporary knowledge needed to answer such questions as why there are pronounced gender differences in rates of criminal victimization, and whether gender infiuences the response of the criminal justice system and other parts of the community to offenders and crime victims. HV7921 2005929490 0-534-63222-X

Crime analysis and crime mapping. (CD-ROM included)


Boba, Rachel. Sage Publications, 2005 301 p. $47.95 (pa) To introduce undergraduates to crime analysis, Boba (criminology and criminal justice, Florida Atlantic U.) provides an overview of the field as well as guidelines for its practice. She presents key concepts, definitions, relevant criminological theories, and methods and techniques of tactical strategic and administrative crime analysis. The text includes exerdses, instructor materials and references to useful websites. The supplementary CD contains crime analysis software, data sets and exerdses. HV8073 2004-062031 0-398-07568-9

Police operations; theory and practice, 4th ed.


Hess, Karen M. & = Henry M. Wrobleski. Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2006 513 p. $93.95 Focusing on community-oriented and problem-oriented polidng, Hess and Wrobleski, both affiliated viath Normandale Community College, cover basic polidng prindples and practices in this accessible text for beginning students in criminal justice. Chapters are in sections on the context of police operations, basic police operations, spedalized operations, and officer issues such as health and ethics. This fourth edition contains expanded material on gangs and drugs, cultural diversity, and juvenile justice. HV7935 2005-015074 1-59345-266-7

Managing the investigative unit.


McDevitt, Daniel S. C.C. Thomas, 2005 196 p. $51.95 McDevitt has 31 years of experience in law enforcement and is currently chief of the Lansing, Illinois police department, a 140- member department in the south suburbs of Chicago. He presents a text for investigative managers and patrol officers and detectives interested in preparing themselves for supervisory or management positions. Coverage includes the basics of criminal investigations; the role of the patrol in the investigative process; organizing the investigative unit; rank, position, and status of investigators; selecting personnel; developing new investigators; supervising personnel; case management; managing confidential source programs; supervision of undercover personnel and raid and arrest planning performance evaluation; and managing marginal performers. HV8079 1-4224-0296-7

The police manager, 6th ed.


Lynch, Ronald G. and Scott R. Lynch. LexisNexis, 2005 379 p. $42.95 (pa) After an introduction to the history and philosophy of police management, this instructional textbook examines behavioral and functional aspects of police management including leadership styles, the organizational environment, workforce development, management planning, problem identification, management by objectives, productivity, and fiscal management. The chapters focus on spedal issues, covering the use of power and force, dvil habihty, accreditation, ethics, establishing a police presence in schools, and the use of an assessment center for identifying promotion candidates. HV7936 2005-012790 1-59332-125-2

Drugs and the law; detection, recognition 6 investigation, 3d ed.


Miller, Gary J. LexisNexis Gould Publications, 2005820 p. $51.95 (pa) Now retired from a career in California law enforcement. Miller offers people both inside and outside law enforcement a broad reference on such matters as drugs, crime, and violence; pharmacology, classification, and testing; central nervous system depressants; narcotic drugs of abuse; anabolic steroids; cannabis; the evolution (or just perhaps intelligent design) of drug law; drug trafficking, terrorism, and organized crime; and drug prevention and education. No dates are noted for previous editions. HV8079 2004-015883 0451-21443-9

Arrest discretion of police officers; the impact of varying organizational structures.


Groeneveld, Richard F. (Criminal justice) LPB Scholarly Publishing, LLC, 2005157 p. $58.00 In this study, police commander Groeneveld (Phoenix Police Department) assesses the influence of various types of organizational structures on the degree of discretion exerdsed by police officers in making field arrests. His analysis is based upon a review of the literature as well as the results ofa recent survey of large (over 200 officers) munidpal law enforcement agendes around the country. The agendes are grouped according to four variables: bureaucracy, professionalism, department size, and supervision.

Jihad in Brooklyn; the NYPD raid that stopped America's ftrst suicide bombers.
Katz, Samuel M. New American Library, 2005 326 p. $13.95 (pa) Katz, a spedalist in Middle Eastern security issues, traces the startling and little-known story of how members of the NYPD, operating from an insider tip but few other resources, prevented two erstwhile suidde bombers from taking out hundreds of commuters and a vital portion of the New York public transportation system in 1997. The story centers on good police instinds and perseverance rather on technology, largely because the NYPD had plenty of the former and virtually none of the latter, and gives readers critical information about how terrorists build themselves into bombers, build the bombs, and choose where to set them and themselves off.

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Murder 101; homicide and its investigation.


Snow, Robert L. Praeger, 2005 212 p. $44.95 Snow, a police captain in a major city's homicide department, describes how real-life cases work, from the meticulous work necessary to process physical evidence to investigation and interrogation techniques, developing suspects, working cold cases, and preparing fbr and participating in trials. He also includes a very good review of helping "secondary victims" (members of the community and victims' families) cope with the crime and its emotional consequences, including the realization that for many, "closure" will never be a possibility. HV8093 2004-059854 0-398-07561-1

Losing our heads; beheadings in literature and culture.


Janes, Regina. New York V. Pr., 2005 255 p. $22.00 (pa) There are many studies of particular beheadings in literature, says Janes (English, Skidmore College), but no general critical analysis of the phenomenon. She discusses the practice of beheading since prehistoric times, the curious disappearance of decapitation and its revival in Enlightenment England and France, and beheadings as tropes from John the Baptist and Salome to the present. HV8593 2005-047966 1-56584-971-X

Introduction to private investigation; essential knowledge and procedures for the private investigator, Zd ed.
Travers, Joseph Anthony. C.C. Thomas, 2005 285 p. $61.95 California State Licensed Investigator Travers, writing for readers with little to no experience in conducting private investigations, introduces the knowledge and procedures necessary to operate as a private investigator. He offers chapters on investigation concepts; narcotics; undercover investigation; surveillance; general investigation; interviews and interrogation; legal research; worker's compensation investigation; physical evidence; case preparation; courtroom testimony; criminal defense investigation; and bioethics, investigation, and the occult. All of the legal material is specific to the United States (and sometimes California). HV8141 2005-017987 1-59460^84-8

Torture; does it make us safer? is it forever ok?; a human rights perspective.


Title main entry. Ed. by Kenneth Roth et al. The New Press, 2005 218 p. $25.95 The editors (affiliated vidth Human Rights Watch) present 15 essays that examine the use of state-sponsored torture in the context of international law. Among the essays included are Senator John McCain's plea for the US to respect the Geneva Conventions; Human Rights Watch's Reed Brody on the road to the Abu Ghraib scandal; Juan M^ndez, the UN SecretaryGeneral's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide on his own experience as a victim of torture in Argentina; and Harvard University's Michael IgnatiefTon the moral arguments around torture. HV8688 1-904385-19-2

Governing paradoxes of restorative justice.


Pavlich, George. Glasshouse Press, 2005 142 p. $50.00 (pa) Can there actually be such a thing as "restorative justice"? Can victimofifender mediation do ainy\h.\ng more than give the offender more access to the victim? In this provocative treatment, Pavlich (sociology, U. of Alberta) works through he paradoxes inherent in the theories and practices of restorative justice, including whether this method of governance is actually different from more traditional techniques, whether there actually are "responsible ofifenders" who would benefit from working within this system and whether victims are actually "empowered" by participating. In the final analysis, Pavlich finds an alternative to either state punishment or restorative justice, one in which the concepts of victim and offender are moot. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HV8688 1-84392-132-4

Why law enforcement agencies fail; mapping the organizational fault lines in policing.
O'Hara, Patrick. Carolina Academic Press, 2005 228 p. $30.00 (pa) O'Hara (public administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and academic director of the NYPD Certificate Program) argues that the very nature of law enforcement organizations makes some of their problems inevitable. By analyzing a variety of cases, he shows how crises occur regularly along common structural and cultural fault lines in police agencies at every level of government. He also provides a pragmatic guide for handling crises, preventing their recurrence and restoring the legitimacy of the police in the communities they serve. HV8143 2004-115405 0-534-62620-3

Careers in crimineil justice and realted fields; from internship to promotion, 5th ed.
Harr, J. Scott and Karen M. Hess. Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2006 342 p. $32.95 (pa) Addressing both the public and the private sector, Harr (Concordia University-St. Paul) and Hess (Normandale Community College) discuss career opportunities throughout the criminal justice system, including law enforcement, courts, corrections, local, state, and federal agencies, and private security. Their advice spans specific careers, job seeking, promotions, and the career ladder. Essays by professionals offer insight into specific positions, and journal activities are included. HV8194 2004-399699 90-5867-354-5

New directions in restorative justice; issues, practice, evaluation.


Title main entry. Ed. by Elizabeth Elliott and Robert M. Gordon. Willan Publishing, 2005 310 p. $39.95 (pa) Based on papers from the 6th International Conference on Restorative Justice at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver in 2003, the essays in this book discuss the relatively new topic of restorative justice, a substitute for incarceration in which situations are returned to a restored state after the crime. Elliott (criminology, Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Gordon (criminology, Simon Fraser University, Canada) look at the subject in terms of theory, practice, and research. The 15 essays by international contributors examine topics concerning restorative justice and youth. Aboriginal justice, gender, victimization, elder abuse, and insurance companies. The last section covers evaluating restorative justice in different cases, such as in serious crime and with juvenile offenders. Essays have individual bibliographies. Distributed in the US by ISBS. HV8699 2005-922310 0-7546-2503-6

The impact of World War n on policing in north-west Europe.


Title main entry. Ed. by Cyrille Fijnaut. (Samenleving, criminaliteit & = strafrechtspleging; 27) Leuven U. Press, 2004 183 p. $59.50 (pa) This volume is the result of a symposium organized to provide a comparative framework for those concerned with the controversial actions of the Netherlands police during Nazi occupation. Case studies of the police in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom are included by editor Fijnaut (Catholic U. of Leuven, Belgium). The studies are primarily concerned with the political efftcts of policing in the individual countries, examining their role in state repression, issues of political purges within police institutions, and other such matters. Distributed in the US by Coronet Books.

Capital punishment; 2v.


Title main entry. Ed. by Austin Sarat. (The international library of essays in law and society) Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 1217 p. $450.00 Sarat (jurisprudence and political science, Amherst College, Mass.) has gathered 22 previously published articles that offtr thought- provoking views and interpretations on issues that influence those Sarat calls the "actors" in the process of applying the death penalty in the USthe victims, lawyers, judges, juries, and the Supreme Court. Articles are included by Paul G. Cassell, Wayne A. Logan, Stephen B. Bright, Michael Mello, Stephen P. Garvey, Margaret Jane Radin, and Carol S. and Jordan M. Steiker, among others. Sarat provides a lengthy introduction to the topic and the selected writings. The articles are reproduced in facsimile, with their original pagination and annotation (though the volumes are continuously paginated as well). Author index only.

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Death by design; capital punishment as social psychological system.


Haney, Craig. (American psychology-law society series) Oxford U. Press, 2005 329 p. $35.00 Death penalty researcher Haney (psychology, U. of Callftrnia-Santa Cruz) approaches the legitimacy of the death penalty from the perspective of average citizens who often form beliefs and express preferences about the use of capital punishment in the hope of making society safer, and who, as voters and jurors, sometimes deliberate and render decision about whether and when it should be imposed. HV8G99 2004-061125 0-7546-2400-5

Mental health screening and assessment in juvenile justice.


Title main entry. Ed. by Thomas Grisso et al. Guilford Pr., 2005 397 p. $50.00 The juvenile justice system has two clear obligations: to identify mental health needs among youths in custody and to develop emergency systems of care. In this collection of 23 articles, contributors aim to assist the system in fulfilling these new mandates by explaining screening and assessment, the multidimensional brief screening tools used in triage and other early stages of contact, specialized tools for assessing substance abuse, trauma and AD/HD, comprehensive assessment instruments such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, tools to assess risk for violence and recidivism, and tools used in forensics. HV9069 1-84392-111-1

Hie death penalty, influences and outcomes; 2v.


Title main entry. Ed. by Austin Sarat. (The international library of criminology, criminal justice, and penology; 2d series) Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005 972 p. $450.00 Sarat (jurisprudence and political science, Amherst College, Mass.), who has also published a similar set of volumes on capital punishment viath this publisher, has collected 26 articles on various aspects of the death penalty, something he personally opposes. Intended to promote thought and discussion, the articles are grouped into the topics of philosophical and policy perspectives, public opinion, the cultural life of capital punishment, outcomes of fairness, outcomes of racial discrimination, international and comparative views, and the future of capital punishment. Authors include Jack Greenberg, Hugo Adam Bedau, William Bowers, Samuel R. Gross, and James S. Liebman, as well as Sarat, who authored or co-authored four articles included here. The articles are printed in facsimile. There is a name, but no subject index. HV8699 2004-020835 0-8135-3584-0

Rougher justice; anti-sodal behaviour and young people.


Squires, Peter and Dawn E. Stephen. Willan Publishing, 2005 238 p. $32.50 (pa) Among some in British society, the anti-social behavior of young people has become a top concern in recent years. Based upon the findings of several interrelated research projects conducted by the authors, this volume analyzes contemporary discourses on youth crime and disorder in the UK. Squires and Stephen (both: criminology, U. of Brighton) critique new public policies aimed at curbing anti-social behavior and reveal how enforcement and criminalization processes are disproportionately impacting the youth of the lower social classes. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS. HV9104 2005-922301 0-534-52158-4

Hidden victims; the effects of the death penalty^ on families of the accused.
sharp, Susan F. (Critical issues in crime and society) Rutgers U. Press, 2005 224 p. $23.95 (pa) Sharp (sociology, U. of Oklahoma) challenges the accepted perspective of murderers as heinous and sub-human, by identifying them as brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, daughters, sons or friends. Through a series of interviews with families of the accused, she illustrates the complicated and isolated grieving process they experience when a family member is sentenced to death. Sharp argues from a sociological approach that highlights parallel experiences and coping mechanisms. HV8699 2004-030280 0-7425-2336-5

Juvenile justice; the system, process, and law.


Del Carmen, Rolando V. and Chad R. Trulson. Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2006 512 p. $80.95 Addressing state to state differences, this textbook outlines the juvenile justice system in the United States and walks through the five stages in the juvenile justice process: initial contact, intake, adjudication, disposition, and aftercare. Summaries of the major juvenile cases decided by the Supreme Court and an analysis of the death penalty for juveniles are provided. HV9104 2004^114181 0-7618-3063^

Social control at Opportunity Boys' Home; how staff control juvenile inmates.
Price, Paul-Jahi Christopher. Univ. Press of America, 2005 170 p. $28.00 (pa) Applying social control theory. Price (sociology, Pasadena City College) presents on ethnographic study of the concerns of residents and frontline staff at a community-based group home for male juvenile offenders. He examines such issues as how order is negotiated and how the institution effects self-perception. He concludes that youth respond to authority when staff maintain control because they seek order, and that this has implications for other relationships. Methodological notes and staff report forms are appended. HV9278 2004-026937 0-7890-2821-2

Murdering myths; the stoiy behind the death penalty.


Kay, Judith W. (Polemics) Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 209 p. $24.95 (pa) Kay (religion, U. of Puget Sound) looks at beliefs about crime and punishment in the US and concludes that Americans share a counterproductive idea of justicethat punishment corrects bad behavior, that suffering pays for crimes, and that victims' desire for revenge is natural and inevitable. She finds distortions in views on both the political lefl and the right that amount to a common difficulty: distinguishing a person from his or her conditioning. Drawing on interviews with victims and perpetrators, she shows how these cultural beliefs harm criminals, victims, and society, and she points to a different way of understanding and practicing justice. HV8706 1-84392-093-X

Rehabilitation issues, problems, and prospects in boot camp.


Title main entry. Ed. by Brent B. Benda &> Nathaniel J. Pallone. Haworth Pr., 2005 214 p. $39.95 Ten contributions from academics and practitioners address some of the controversial issues surrounding the use of "boot camps" as an alternative to traditional correctional institutions. Drawing upon recent research on the camps and their graduates, the authors evaluate their effectiveness in rehabilitating offenders of various ages, genders, and races. They also consider political arguments for and against boot camps and compare their costs to those of other institutions. The volume has been simultaneously co-published as Journal of Qffender Rehabilitation, Vol. 40, Nos. 3/4, 2005.

The effects of imprisonment.


Title main entry. Ed. by Alison Liebling and Shadd Maruna. (Cambridge criminal justice series) Willan Publishing, 2005 492 p. $69.95 The number of prisoners in the UK, US, and other nations continues to rise, accompanied by growing claims for the reforming effects of imprisonment and a diminished memory of the post-World War II consensus about the damaging effects of such institutions. International contributors revisit the question of whether prisons harm their inhabitants, their employees, prisoners' families, and others. They examine the social, psychological, behavioral, and emotional impacts of incarceration. The editors are criminologists associated with the U. of Cambridge, UK Distributed in the US by ISBS.

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Reforming community penalties.


Rex, Sue. Willan Publishing, 2005 184 p. $55.00 Rex (Institute of Criminology, U. of Cambridge) explores the role of community service in criminal sentencing in the UK. She presents the results of a survey in which she asked stakeholders such as lay magistrates, probation staff, offenders, and victims their views regarding the purpose of punishment. She then relates these findings to theories of punishment put forth by von Hirsch (1993) and Duff (2001). Finally, she explains how the idea of communication may be used to make punishment in the community setting more constructive. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS. HV9466 2005-007278 0-8147-i783-3

Prisons; inside the new America; from Vemooykill Creek to Abu Ghraib, 2d ed.
Matlin, David. North Atlanti/: Books, 2005 143 p. $14.95 (pa) Beginning in 1985, writer Matlin spent a decade teaching in a college-level prison education program in New York State. What he vvatnessed there at Vernooykill Creek gave the lie to George W. Bush's assertion that the torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison was the result of a few soldiers who had "disregarded our values." Matlin describes his experiences while teaching in prison, mixing his personal anecdotes of the degradation and abuse of the American penal system with analysis of the growth of the American prison-industrial complex. HV9950 2005-925892

Punishment, prisons, and patriarch}^ liberty and power in the early American republic.
Kann, Mark E. New York U. Pr., 2005 337 p. $50.00 Kann (political science and history, U. of Southern California) explores the paradox that the first generation of Americans, having espoused liberty, indeed fought a war for it, also called for the long-term imprisonment of people they considered prone to vice, disorder, and crime, including immigrants, African Americans, women, and the lower classes. Their ideal of liberty, he says, did not go so far as to jeopardize patriarchy, and so even today freedom-loving Americans rarely question a penitentiary system that incarcerates two million and threatens over twice that many. HV9468 2005-008454 1-57441-199-3

Criminal justice, 7th ed,

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Samaha, Joel. Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2006 608 p. $110.95 This textbook for undergraduates explains how the U.S. criminal justice system works. Particular attention is paid to the balance between crime control and the protection of individual liberties. The seventh edition features updated coverage of topics such as racial profiling, "three-strikes" laws, and the USA PATRIOT Act. A glossary of terms and the text of the U.S. Constitution are found in the appendix. HV9950 2004-059825 0-398-07559-X

Criminal justice technology in the 21st century, 2d ed.


Title main entry. Ed. by Laura J. Moriarty. C.C. Thomas, 2005 311 p. $64.95 Fourteen contributions from academics and practitioners look at technological issues in the field of criminal justice. Topics include an evaluation of computer-based training for DNA evidence collection; the technology and training needs of rural law enforcement; and videoconferencing as an alternative to physical courtroom appearances. The final section is devoted to the problem of computer-related crimes such as identity theft. The second edition contains over 50% new material. Editor Moriarty teaches criminal justice at Virginia Commonwealth University. HV9950 2004-113583 0-761&-2987-3

Walking George; the life of George John Beto and the rise of the modem Texas prison system.
Horton, David M. and George R. Nielsen. (North Texas crime and criminal justice series; no.5) Univ. of North Texas Press, 2005 257 p. $29.95 George Beto (1916-1991) is best known for his contributions to criminal justice, but his accomplishments extended beyond this field. In their biography, two of his former students, Horton (criminal justice, St. Edward's U., Austin) and Nielsen (history, Concordia U., retired), examine Beto's many achievements in the disciplines education and criminal justice and his ability to wed the two whenever possible. They append Beto's address to the Valparaiso U. School of Law on prison administration, as well as the e i ^ t h amendment and a list of Beto's writings. HV9470 2004-062659 1-56991-223-8

Penology, justice and liberty; are you a man or a mouse?


McEleney, James C. and Barbara Lavin McEleney. Univ. Press of America, 2005 148 p. $25.00 (pa) James (sociology and criminal justice, St. Thomas Aquinas College, New York) and Barbara (criminal justice and political science, Marist College, New York) discuss various theories and practices regarding what is done and what ought to be done with people convicted of having committed a crime. They consider free-will versus determinism (thus the man or mouse), deterrence, rehabilitation, retribution, and how to undo the disaster they see the US penal system being. HV9950 1-84392-125-1

Stressed outl; strategies for living and working with stress in corrections, 2d ed.
Cornelius, Gary F. Amer. Correctional Assoc, 2005 196 p. $20.00 (pa) Experienced officer and instructor Cornelius writes for the benefit of those working in corrections, probation, parole, counseling, corrections health care, juvenile casework who are seeking to manage the kind of stress they experience in their daily lives. He focuses on the pragmatic and the particular stresses of the corrections professions, while keeping an eye on general theory and techniques that have also worked in other situations, such as recognizing stress and its sources, managing time, keeping fit, and setting goals. He includes a questionnaire geared toward corrections officers, sample charts, exercise guide, information on diet, relaxation exercises, and positive-coping methods. HV9471 2004-062333 1-56991-218-1

Policing Scotland.
Title main entry. Ed. by Daniel Donnelly and Kenneth Scott. Willan Publishing, 2005 286 p. $32.50 (pa) Aimed at both academic and lay readers, this volume investigates the nature of policing in contemporary Scotland. It opens with an overview of how policing is organized at both local and national levels and a discussion of the impact of recent political changes. The remaining contributions analyze police operations in four key areas: crime and disorder, operational policing in the communit)?; drugs and crime; and youth crime. The editors are affiliated with the Scottish Center for Police Studies at Bell College, Hamilton. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS. HV9960 2005-008569 0-7425-3675-0

Corrections; past, present, and future.


Stinchcomb, Jeanne B. Amer. Correctional Assoc, 2005 616 p. $60.00 (pa) Stinchcomb (criminology, Florida Atlantic University) overviews the nature and scope of corrections, characterizes the types of offenders incarcerated and the services provided to them, and walks through the institutional procedures for keeping prisoners in custody and providing treatment. The textbook addresses the challenges of managing female and juvenile populations, outlines the laws governing prisoner rights, and defines the objectives of parole.

Ruling Russia; law, crime, and justice in a changing society.


Title main entry. Ed. by William Alex Pridemore. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 325 p. $85.00 Criminology, law, sociology, political science, and demographics are among the perspectives of Western and Russian contributors as they analyze how the wide-ranging transition in Russia has influenced legal developments and the rule of law, changing patterns and nature of crime, and the criminal justice system. Writing for informed but not specialized readers, they consider such aspects as the creation of an independent judiciary and the changing nature of courts and the courtroom, efficient crime groups versus irresolute societies and uncoordinated states in Russia's effort to combat human trafficking, and harmreduction programs and the Russian legal system in relation to injecting drug use and HIV. Reference & Research Book News November 2005

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