BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: J. C. Waterlow, D. G. Armstrong, Leslie Fowden, and Ralph Riley (eds.), Feeding a World Population of More Than Eight Billion People: A Challenge to Science Daniel Callahan, False Hopes: Why America's Quest for Perfect Health Is a Recipe for Failure Alain Bideau, Bertrand Desjardins, and Héctor Pérez Brignoli (eds.), Infant and Child Mortality in the Past Noël Bonneuil, Transformation of the French Demographic Landscape, 1806–1906 J. Clarke and D. Noin (eds.), Population and Environment in Arid Regions Gad G. Gilbar, Population Dilemmas in the Middle East: Essays in Political Demography and Economy James L. Newman, The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation