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TANGLED RELATIONSHIPS: MANAGING BOUNDARY ISSUES IN THE HUMAN SERVICES. By Frederic G. Reamer. New York: Columbia University Press 2001. 214 pp. $45.00 (hard), $22.50 (paper). Reviewed by Patricia O'Donnell, DSW

SPIRITUALITY WITHIN RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE. Edited by Mary Van Hook, Beryl Hugen, and Marian Aguilar. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Press, 2001. 300 pp. $43.95. Reviewed by Chris Stewart, PhD

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: DECISION CASES WITH TEACHING NOTES. Edited by T. Laine Scales, Terry A. Wolfer, David A. Sherwood, Diana R. Garland, Beryl Hugen, and Sharon Pitman. Alexandria, VA: Council on Social Work Education, 2002. 219 pp. $29.95 (paper). Reviewed by Michael J. Sheridan

THEINVISIBLECARINGHAND:AMERICANCONGREGATIONS AND THE PROVISION OF WELFARE. By Ram A. Cnaan, with Stephanie C. Boddie, Femida Handy, Gaynor Yancey, and Richard Schneider. New York: New York University Press, 2002. 328 pp. $60 (hard), $19.50 (paper)., Reviewed by Bruce D. Friedman

UNDERSTANDING POVERTY Edited by Sheldon H. Danziger and Robert H. Haveman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. 566 pp. $55.00 (hard), $24.95 (paper). Reviewed by Edward J. Ryle     

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THE LITTLE BOOK OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE. By Howard Zehr. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2002. 71pp. $4.95 (paper).

THE NEW WESTMINSTER DICTIONARY OF CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY. Edited by Philip Sheldrake. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005. 680pp. $49.95.

FAITH, MEDICINE, AND SCIENCE: A FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOR OF DR. DAVID B.LARSON. Edited by Jeff Levin and Harold G. Koenig. New York: The Haworth Pastoral Press, 2005. 321 pp. $49.95, $34.95 (paper). Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah.

EXPLORING THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE IN THE 12-STEP PROGRAM OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: SPIRITUS CONTRA SPIRITUM. By Jeff Sandoz. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Meilen Press, 2004. 221 pp. $109.95.

STAMPED WITH THE IMAGE OF GOD: AFRICAN AMERICANS AS GOD'S IMAGE IN BLACK. Edited by Cyprian Davis, OSB, and Jamie Phelps, OP. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2003. 156 pp. $50 (hard), $25 (paper).     

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SPIRITUALITY AND THE BLACK HELPING TRADITION IN SOCIAL WORK. By Elmer P. Martin and Joanne M. Martin.Washington, DC: National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Press, 2002. 296 pp. $39.99 (paper). Reviewed by Sandra Edmonds Crewe.

THE DHARMA OF JESUS: GEORGE M. SOARES-PRABHU. Edited by Francis Xavier D'Sa, Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2003. 296 pp. $30.00 (paper). Reviewed by Edward R. Canda.

UNDERSTANDING POVERTY. Edited by Sheldon H. Danziger and Robert H. Haveman, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. 566 pp. $55.00 (hard), $24.95 (paper). Reviewed by Edward J. Ryle

MODERN PSYCHOLOGY AND ANCIENT WISDOM: PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING PRACTICES FROM THE WORLD'S RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS. By Sharon G. Mijares. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Inc. 2003. 259 pp., $49.95(hard), 29.95(paper). Reviewed by David Derezotes     

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RECLAIMING THE BODY IN CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY. By Thomas Ryan (Ed.). New York: Paulist Press, 2004, 179 pp., $16.95 (paper). Reviewed by David Derezotes.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH CHILDREN'S RIGHTS. By Martin Guggenheim. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 306 pp., $27.95. Reviewed by Anne E. Schneiders.

COMPENDIUM OF THE SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH. By Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Washington, DC: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2005. 446pp., $24.95 (paper). Reviewed by Reverend Eugene Cahouet.     

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IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY: RETHINKING FAMILY VALUES IN THE POSTMODERN AGE. Judith Stacey. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996, 194 pp., ISBN 0-8070-0432-4, $22.00 hardcover. Reviewed by Valerie S. Mannis.

CONFESSIONS OF A LOST MOTHER. Elisa M. Barton. Baltimore, MD: Gateway, 1996, 157 pp., ISBN 0-9650795-0-3, $14.95 paper. Reviewed by Karen Schmid.

THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD: THE LEAST DETRIMENTAL ALTERNATIVE. Joseph Goldstein, Albert J. Solnit, Sonja Goldstein, and the late Anna Freud. New York: The Free Press, 1996, 311 pp., ISBN 0-684-82337-3, $35.00 hardcover. Reviewed by Renee Garfinkel.     

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LESBIAN LEGAL THEORY REMAINS UNDOMESTICATED. SAPPHO GOES TO LAW SCHOOL: FRAGMENTS IN LESBIAN LEGAL THEORY. Robson, Ruthann. NY: Columbia University Press, 1998, 303 pp., $17.50 paper, ISBN 0-231-10561-4; $49.50 cloth, ISBN 0-231-10560-6. Reviewed by Martha T. Zingo.

TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT POLITICS, THE INTERLOCKING NATURE OF OPPRESSIONS, RESISTANCE AND THE VALUE OF BLACK LESBIAN LIVES. THE TRUTH THAT NEVER HURTS: WRITINGS ON RACE, GENDER, AND FREEDOM, Smith, Barbara. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. Reviewed by Kim Vaz.

LESBIAN COUPLES ARE FAMILIES, TOO. THE LESBIAN FAMILY LIFE CYCLE (2nd Ed.). Slater, Suzanne. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999, Hardcover, $25.00; Paperback, $14.95. Reviewed by Anna Myers.

THE MANY FACES OF ANNE. FEMALE FORTUNE: LAND, GENDER AND AUTHORITY: THE ANNE LISTER DIARIES AND OTHER WRITINGS 1833-36. Liddington, Jill. New York: Rivers Oram Press, 1998, $50. Reviewed by Mary Eichbauer.

THE EVOLUTION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION: EMBRACING A FAMILY PERSPECTIVE. LESBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL IDENTITIES IN FAMILIES: PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES. Patterson, Charlotte J., and Anthony R. D'Augelli (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Reviewed by Phillip Hammack.

TRU ADVENTURES. CHIMNEY ROCK BLUES. McClellan, Janet. Naiad Press,Inc., 1999, $11.95. Reviewed by Ann E. Maloney.

WIDENING THE LENS. MARGARET MEAD AND RUTH BENEDICT: THE KINSHIP OF WOMEN. Lapsley, Hilary. University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, $39.95 cloth. Reviewed by Kimberly F. Balsam.

GAY AND LESBIAN RELATIONSHIPS: COMMITMENT, CEREMONIES, AND MARRIAGE. FROM THIS DAY FORWARD: COMMITMENT, MARRIAGE, AND FAMILY IN LESBIAN AND GAY RELATIONSHIPS. Stiers, Gretchen A. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, $24.95. Reviewed by Robin E. Roy.

ROMANCING THE GENERATION GAP. DAWN OF THE DANCE. Martin, Marianne K. Tallahassee, FL: The Naiad Press,Inc., 1999, $11.95. SILVER THREADS. Denison, Lyn. Tallahassee, FL: The Naiad Press,Inc., 1999, $11.95. Reviewed by Margaret Soenser Breen.     

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HANDBOOK OF DEMENTIA: PSYCHOLOGICAL, NEUROLOGICAL, AND PSYCHIATRIC PERSPECTIVES. Edited by Peter A. Lichtenberg, Daniel L. Murman, & Alan M. Mellow. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2003, 440 pp., ISBN 0-471-41982-6. Reviewed by Doug Messinero.

ESSENTIALS OF CRISIS COUNSELING AND INTERVENTION. Donald E. Wiger and Kathy J. Harowski. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003, 221 pages, $34.95 paperback. ISBN 0-471-41755-6. Reviewed by Geraldine R. Brinkley.

HANDBOOK OF DEPRESSION. Edited by Ian H. Gotlib and Constance L. Hammen. New York/London: The Guildford Press, 2002. Reviewed by Karen Judd.     

The Why,What, and How of Teaching Children Social Skills

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The History of Peace: A Short Account of the Organized Movements For International Peace, By A. C. F. Beales, Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press, New York, 1931. viii, 355 pp. Reviewed by: Lloyd W. Truman.

England in the Age of the American Revolution. By L. B. Namier. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1930, viii, 518 pp. $8.50.

The Black Death and Men of Learning. By Anna M. Campbell. Columbia University Press, New York, 1931, xii, 210 pp. $3.00.

The Voyageur. By Grace Lee Nute. D. Appleton &; Co., New York, 1931. ix. 299 pp. With wood-cut illustrations and end-paper maps. $3.00.

They That Take the Sword. By Esmé Wingfield-Stratford. William Morrow and Company, New York, 1931, xiv, 424 pp. $4.00. Reviewed by: Courtney R. Hall.

Modern Europe and the World. By Ralph Flenley, University of Toronto, Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1931. xvi, 567 pp. Reviewed by: John Hall Stewart.

The March of Civilization: Modern World, 1453–1931. By Jesse E. Wrench. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1931. Pp. XVII, 486. $2.00. Reviewed by: Edgar B. Wesley.

Henry Dundas, First Viscount Melville, 1742–1811. By Holden Turber. Oxford University Press, New York, 1931. xi, 331 pp. $6.00. Reviewed by: Charles F. Mullett.

Beyond the Sublime Porte. By Barnette Miller. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1931. XIX, 281 pp. $5.00. Reviewed by: Margaret Willis.

King Charles II. By Arthur Bryant. Longmans, Green &; Co., New York, 1931. xi, 448 pp. $3.50.

Annals of the New York Stage. By George C. D. Odell. Columbia University Press, New York, 1927–1931. Seven volumes. Vol. I (To 1798), xiii, 496 pp.; Vol. II (1798-1821), vii 8, 643 pp.; Vol. III (1821-1834), xii, 747 pp.; Vol. IV (1834-1843), xii, 757 pp.; Vol. V (1843-1850), xiii, 655 pp.; Vol. VI (1850-1857), xiii, 676 pp.; Vol. VII (1857-1865), xv 793 pp.     

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CONFRONTING OPPRESSION, RESTORING JUSTICE: FROM POLICY ANALYSIS TO SOCIAL ACTION By Katherine van Wormer. Alexandria, VA: CSWEPress, 2004. 254pp. $36.95 (paper). Reviewed by Linda Plitt Donaldson.

GEORGE G. HIGGINS AND THE QUEST FOR WORKER JUSTICE: THE EVOLUTION OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT IN AMERICA. By John J. O'Brien. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. 396pp. $32.95 (paper). Reviewed by William J. Hutchison.

BUT THEY ALL COME BACK: FACING THE CHALLENGES OF PRISONER REENTRY. By Jeremy Travis. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 2005. 391 pp. $32.50 (paper). Reviewed by Frederick G. Reamer.     

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Deflated Democracy: The Phantom Public. By Walter Lippmann. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. 1925. $2.05. $2.00. Reviewed by: Read Bain

Deflated Democracy: British Politics in Transition. By Edward M. Sait and David P. Barrows. The World Book Company, Yon-kers, New York. 1925. XVI, 319 pp. $1.80. Reviewed by: A. Gordon Dewey

Deflated Democracy: New Aspects of Politics. By Charles E. Merriam. The Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1925. pp. 247. $2.50. Reviewed by: R. C. Atkinson

Deflated Democracy: The Character of Races. By Ellsworth Huntington. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1924. pp. v, 393. $5.00. Reviewed by: S. C. GilFillan

Deflated Democracy: Our Rural Heritage. By James Mickel Williams. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1925. pp. xi, 246. Bruce L. Melvin     

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PSYCHE, SYNAPSE, AND SUBSTANCE: THE ROLE OF NEUROBIOLOGY IN EMOTIONS, BEHAVIOR, THINKING, AND ADDICTION FOR NON-SCIENmm Harriette C. Johnson. Greenfield, MA: Deerfield Valley Publishing, 1999, it + 74pp., $29.50. Reviewed by Elizabeth A. D. Amico Joseph S. D. Amico.

DRUGS, THE BRAIN, AND BEHAVIOR: THE PHARMACOLOGY OF ABUSE AND DEPENDENCY. John Brick, PhD and Carlton Erickson, PhD. New York: The Haworth Press, Inc., 1998, 165pp. + notes, bibliography and index. Reviewed by Ted R. Watkins.     

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THE SIXTEEN-TRILLION-DOLLAR MISTAKE, by Bruce Jansson. ISBN: 0-231-11432-X, Columbia University Press, 2001. $29.00. Reviewed by David Woody III.

FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL POLICY: SOCIAL JUSTICE, PUBLIC PROGRAMS AND THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION, by Amanda Smith Barusch. ISBN 0-87581-447-6, F.E. Peacock Publishers, Inc., 2002. Reviewed by Diane Carol Holliman.

THE GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK, by Godfrey Hodgson. ISBN 0-395-860423, Houghton-Mifflin, 2000, $38.00. Reviewed by George Haskett.

WHO SPEAKS FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN, by Carol DeVita and Rachael Mosher-Williams, editors. ISBN 0-87766-704-7, Urban Institute, 2001, $26.50. Reviewed by John G. McNutt.

THE INVISIBLE CARING HAND: AMERICAN CONGREGATIONS AND THE PROVISION OF WELFARE, by Ram Cnaan. ISBN 0-814-71618-0, New York University Press, 2002, 340 pages, $19.50. Reviewed by Melanie Wilson.     

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PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF ASIAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: DIVERSITY WITHIN DIVERSITY. Namkee G. Choi, Editor. New York: The Haworth Press, Inc. 2001, 340 pp., hardbound. Reviewed by Rita Takahashi.

RACIAL PROFILING: ELIMINATING THE CONFUSION BETWEEN RACIAL AND CRIMINAL PROFILING AND CLARIFYING WHAT CONSTITUTES UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION AND PERSECUTION. Darin D. Fredrickson and Raymond P. Siljander. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 2002. Reviewed by Diane S. Young.     

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VIOLENCE IN GOD'S NAME: RELIGION IN AN AGE OF CONFLICT. By Oliver McTernan. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2003. 192pp., $20.00 (paper).

RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY, AND AGING: A SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVE. By Harry R. Moody (Ed.). Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Inc. 2005. 350pp., $39.95 (paper).

A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. By E. H. Gombrich. New Haven, CT: Yale University press, 2005. 284 pp., $25.00 Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah.

THE CATHOLIC WORKER MOVEMENT: INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL ORIGINS. By Mark and Louise Zwick. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2005. 358pp., $29.95 (paper).     

Peep show establishments,police activity,public place,and time: A study of secondary effects in San Diego,California

DISORDERS OF SEXUAL DESIRE AND OTHER NEW CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES IN SEX THERAPY . (The New Sex Therapy, Volume II.). Helen S. Kaplan. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1979; 257 pages; $17.50.

CHRISTIANITY, SOCIAL TOLERANCE, AND HOMOSEXUALITY: GAY PEOPLE IN WESTERN EUROPE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY . John Boswell. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1980; 424 pages; $27.50.

THE UNMENTIONABLE VICE: HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE LATER MEDIEVAL PERIOD . Michael Goodich. Santa Barbara, CA: Ross‐Erikson, 1979; 164 pages; $6.95.

TABU HOMOSEXUALITÄT: DIE GESCHICHTE EINES VORURTEILS . Gisela Bleibtreu‐Ehrenberg. Frankfurt a. M.: S. Fischer, 1978; 443 pages; DM 29.80.

AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HOMOSEXUALITY (in two volumes). Vern L. Bullough, W. Dorr Legg, Barrett W. Elcano, and James Kepner. New York &; London: Garland Publishing, 1976; 405 and 468 pages; $88.

PORNOGRAPHY: THE CONFLICT OVER SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIALS IN THE UNITED STATES . Greg Byerly and Rick Rubin. New York: Garland Publishing, 1980; 188 pages; $20.

SEXUALMEDIZIN IN DER PRAXIS . Wolf Eicher. Stuttgart &; New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1980; 590 pages; DM 178.00.     

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SMART AND SASSY: THE STRENGTHS OF INNER-CITY BLACK GIRLS. Joyce West Stevens. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. Reviewed by Needha Boutte'-Queen.     

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MAKE THEM GO AWAY: CLINT EASTWOOD, CHRISTOPHER REEVE AND THE CASE AGAINST DISABILITY RIGHTS. Mary Johnson. Louisville, KY: Avocado Press, 2003, pp. 296. Reviewed by Jean A. Musick.

INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN THE ADDICTIONS. Edited by S. Lala Ashenberg Straussner and Larry Harrison. New York: The Haworth Press, Inc., 2003, pp. 161. Reviewed by Jean A. Musick.

A MATTER OF DIGNITY: CHANGING THE WORLD OF THE DISABLED. Andrew Potok. Danvers, MA: Bantam Books, 2003, pp. 320. Reviewed by Jean A. Musick.

THE RAGGED EDGE MAGAZINE. Edited by Mary Johnson. Louisville, KY: Avocado Press. Reviewed by Jean A. Musick.     

The politics of Agudas Yisroel in inter‐war Poland

Yitzhak Arad, Ghetto in Flames. The Struggle and Destruction of the Jews in Vilna in the Holocaust. New York: Holocaust Library, 1982. 500pp. Index. $8.95.

Lucjan Dobroszycki (ed.). The Chronicle of the Lódz Ghetto, 1941–1944. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. lxviii +551pp. Index. £25.

Yisrael Gutman, The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943. Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Brighton (UK): Harvester Press, 1982. xviii + ‐487pp. Index. £28.

Shmuel Krakowski, The War of the Doomed. Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942–1944. New York and London: Holmes and Meier, 1984. xii +340pp. Index.     

Toward a New Mississippi history

Political Culture in the Nineteenth‐Century South: Mississippi, 1830–1900. BRADLEY G. BOND. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1995. 342 pp., notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. ISBN 0–807–1976–8.

Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770–1860. CHRISTOPHER MORRIS. New York: Oxford University Press. 1995. 258 pp., notes, illustrations, appendices, index. $35.00. ISBN 0–19–508366–0.

"Worse than Slavery:”; Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. DAVID M. OSHINSKY. New York: Free Press. 1996. 306 pp., notes, illustrations, index. $25.00.

Mississippi: An American Journey. ANTHONY WALTON. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1996. 279 pp., illustrations. $24.00.     

The fate of Belarusian and Yiddish in the Soviet and Post‐Soviet periods

A New ‘Tsar Liberator'?. Seweryn Bialer, Politics, Society, and Nationality Inside Gorbachev's Russia. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1989. xv +241pp. Bibl. Index.

Michael Rywkin, Soviet Society Today. New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1989. xii +234pp. Bibl. Index.

Glasnost on Latvian Jewry. Literatūra un Māksla (Literature and Art), no. 48 (2294), Riga, November 1988.

Openness or Concealment?. Raymond Hutchings. Soviet Secrecy and Non‐Secrecy. London: Mac‐millan Press, 1987. 292pp. Bibl. Index. £29.50.

The Making of Czech Jewry. Hillel J. Kieval. The Making of Czech Jewry: National Conflict and Jewish Society in Bohemia 1870–1918. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. x + 279pp. Notes. Bibl. Index. $25.00.