International Adoption

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THE COMPLETE LIFEBOOK WORKBOOK, by Jim Mooney. Aurora: Adoption Strategies Publishers, 1996, Paperback (no price or ISBN printed on book). Reviewed by Kendra Corr Roberson.

LIFEBOOKS: CREATING A TREASURE FOR THE ADOPTED CHILD, by Beth O'Malley. Winthrop: Adoption-Works Publishers, 2000, paperback, ISBN 0-9701832-7-5, $13.95. Reviewed by Kendra Corr Roberson.

ADOPTION LIFEBOOK: A BRIDGE TO YOUR CHILD'S BEGINNINGS, by Cindy Probst. Boston: Boston Adoption Press, 2001, paperbacks, ISBN 0-9717496-0-4, $12.95. Reviewed by Kendra Corr Roberson.     

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Representing reality: issues and concepts in documentary by Bill Nichols. Bloomington and Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 1991. $39.95 cloth. ISBN: 0–253–34060–8. $17.50 paper. ISBN: 0–253–20681–2.     

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A PASSAGE TO THE HEART: WRITINGS FROM FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN FROM CHINA. Klatzkin, Amy (Ed.). Saint Paul, MN: Yeong & Yeong Book Co., 1999, 341 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-9638472-2-8, $19.95. Reviewed by Patricia Irwin Johnston.

I WISH FOR YOU A BEAUTIFUL LIFE: LETTERS FROM THE KOREAN BIRTH MOTHERS OF AE RAN WON TO THEIR CHILDREN. Dorow, Sara (Ed.). Saint Paul, MN: Yeong & Yeong Book Co., 1999, 135 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-9638472-2-8, $18.95. Reviewed by Patricia Irwin Johnston.

PARENTS AT LAST: CELEBRATING ADOPTION AND THE NEW PATHWAYS TO PARENTHOOD. Peck, Cynthia V. N., and Wendy Wilkinson. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 1998, 160 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-609-60290-X, $27.50. Reviewed by Patricia Irwin Johnston.

CLINICAL AND PRACTICE ISSUES IN ADOPTION: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN ADOPTEES PLACED AS INFANTS AND AS OLDER CHILDREN. Groza, Victor and Karen F. Rosenberg (Eds.). Westport, CT: Praeger, 175 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-275-95816-7, $55.00. Reviewed by Ulrich Mueller.

KINSHIP FOSTER CARE: POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH. Hegar, Rebecca L., and Maria Scannapieco (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, Hardcover ISBN 0195109392, $45. Paperback ISBN 0195109406, $19.95. Reviewed by Ulrich Mueller.     

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Nobody in Charge: Essays on the Future of Leadership, Harlan Cleveland, (2002) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, ISBN 0-7879-6153-1, 268 pp. $27.95/£17.50 (hbk).

Technological Change and Organizational Action, David Preece and Juha Laurila (eds.), 2003 London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-26591-6, 221 pp., £60 (hbk)     

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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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ADDICTION IS A CHOICE. Jeffrey Schaler. Chi cago, IL: Open Court Publishing Company, 2000, 179pp. ISBN 0-8126-9404-X, Paper $19.95, ISBN 0-8126-9043-1, Cloth $42.95. Reviewed by Tom Greanias.

COYOTE SPEAKS: CREATIVE STRATEGIES FOR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS TREATING ALCOHOLICS AND ADDICTS. Jacques Rutsky. Jason Aronson Inc., 1998, 236pages. Paperback, $32. Reviewed by Rob ertA. Schnei der.     

Studying Another Culture through Children’s Games

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Laurel Holliday, ed. Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries. New York: Pocket Books, 409 pp. Hardback, $20.00. ISBN 0–671–52054–7. Paperback, $12.95. ISBN 0–671–52055–5. 1995. Reviewed by Samuel Totten.

Maita Floyd. Stolen Years, In My Little Corner of the World. Phoenix, Arizona: Eskualdun Publishers. $12.95. 1996. Reviewed by Carol Danks.

Julie Hamston and Kath Murdoch. Integrating Socially: Planning Integrated Units of Work for Social Education. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1996. 169 pages. Soft cover. ISBN 0–435–08899–8. Reviewed by John Douglas Hoge.     

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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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ADOPTION WISDOM: A GUIDE TO THE ISSUES AND FEELINGS OF ADOPTION. Russell, Marlou. Santa Monica, CA: Broken Branch Productions, 1996, 204 pp., ISBN 1-888511-12-5, $14.95 paper. Reviewed by Tracy Simonson.

CHILDREN IN LONG-TERM FOSTER CARE: EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT. McAuley, Colette. Aldershot: Avebury, 1996, 196 pp., ISBN 1-85972-252-0, $59.95 hardcover. Reviewed by Karen Schmid.     

Gay Dads: Transitions to Adoptive Fatherhood by Abbie E. Goldberg

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PATTY'S JOURNEY FROM ORPHANAGE TO ADOPTION AND REUNION. Norling, Donna Scott. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996, 208pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-8166-2866-1, $17.95 cloth. Reviewed by Karen Schmid.

KINSHIP WITH STRANGERS: ADOPTION AND INTERPRETATIONS OF KINSHIP IN AMERICAN CULTURE. Modell, Judith S. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, 286 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-520-08118-8, $35.00 cloth. Reviewed by Karen Schmid.     

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ADOPTION, IDENTITY, AND KINSHIP: THE DEBATE OVER SEALED BIRTH RECORDS. Wegar, Katarina. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997, 169 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-300-06759-3, $22.50 cloth. Reviewed by Karen Schmid.

SUCCESSFUL ADOPTIVE FAMILIES: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF SPECIAL NEEDS ADOPTION. Groze, Victor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publisher Group, 1996, 184 pp., Hardcover ISBN 0-275-95343-2, $49.95. Reviewed by Manfred van Dulmen.     

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Robert Levy, Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). 407pp. Illustrations. Index. ISBN 0–520–22395–0 (cloth). $35     

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‘Mirror Opposites’. Steven E. Aschheim, Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800–1923. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. xxxi + 331pp. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0–299–09110–4

Hoping to Live in Harmony. Henry Abramson, A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917–1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute and Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, 1999, xxi + 255pp. Bibl. Index. Illus. $34.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper)

A Jewish‐Russian Hybrid. Dovid Knut, Sobranniye sochineniia (Collected Works) (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Vol. 1. 1997, 417pp.; Vol. 2, 1998, 719pp. Compiled by Vladimir Khazan. Appendices. Index

Russian Jewish Intellectuals in America. Steven Cassedy, To the Other Shore: The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. xxiii + 197 pp. Illus. Index. ISBN: 0691–02975‐X.     

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’Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction’: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782–1865. Midori Takagi. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia. 1999. xi, 187 pp. $37.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–8139–1834–0.

Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. Barbara J. Heath. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 1999. x, 81 pp. $12.50 (paper). ISBN 0–8139–1867–7.

Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and ‘Race’ in New England, 1780–1860. Joannk Pope Melish. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1998. xvii, 296 pp. £26.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–8014–3413–0.

American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture. Audrey A. Fisch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. x, 139pp. £35.00/$59.95. (cloth). ISBN 0–521–66026–2.

Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1618–1782. Virginia Bernhard. Columbia. Missouri: University of Missouri Press. 1999. xviii, 316pp. £29.95. ISBN 0–8262–1227–1.

Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society. Hilary McD. Becklks. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers; Princeton: Marcus Weiner Publishers; Oxford: James Currey Publishers. 1999. xxv, 211 pp. £15.95 (paper). ISBN: 976–8123–78–8.

Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833–1874. Christopher Schmidt‐Nowara. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1999. xiii, 239 pp. $50.00(cloth). ISBN 0–8229–4089–2; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0–8229–5690 X.

Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in Nineteenth‐Century San Juan, Puerto Rico. Teresita MartíNez‐Vergne. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1999. xv, 235 pp. $32.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–292–75220–2; $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–75221–0.

The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History. Edited by Bridget Brereton and Kevin Yelvington. Kingston and Gainesville: The Press, University of the West Indies and the University Press of Florida. 1999. xxiii, 319 pp. $49.95 (cloth) ISBN 0–8130–1696–7; $30.00 (paper) ISBN 976–640–030‐X.     

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ADOPTION, edited by J. L. Johnson and G. Grant (2005). Boston: Pearson Allyn & Bacon, ISBN: 0-205-38954-6, 144 pp., $16.00. Reviewed by Laura Boisen.     

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MANAGED CARE IN HUMAN SERVICES. Edited by Stephen P. Wernet. Lyceum Books, 1999, $39.95. ISBN 0925065307. Reviewed by Marguerite G. Rosenthal.

DAMNED LIES AND STATISTICS. UNTANGLING NUMBERS FROM THE MEDIA, POLITICIANS AND ACTIVISTS. By Joel Best. University of California Press, 2001, $19.95. ISBN 0520219783. Reviewed by Richard Hoefer.     

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Fire in the Eyes of Youth: The Humanities in American Education, Edited by Randolph Jennings. St. Paul, Minnesota: Occasional Press, 1993. 156 pp. Paperbound. ISBN 0-939962-10-1. $10, plus $3 P&;H. Reviewed by Rodney F. Allen.     

Internet Resources on the Nonprofit Sector for Social Policy Research

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UNMAKING GOLIATH: COMMUNITY CONTROL IN THE FACE OF GLOBAL CAPITAL. J. DeFillippis. New York: Routledge, 2003. 208 pp. Hardcover. $125.00. ISBN: 0415945240. Reviewed by Judith M. Dunlop     

Polish‐Jewish Relations: An Issue of Extraordinary Complexity

Joshua D. Zimmerman (ed.), Contested Memories: Poles and Jews During the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. University of Rutgers Press, 2003, 226pp. Maps. Index. $35.00 cloth. ISBN 0–8135–3158–6     

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HUMANISTIC DESIGN OF ASSISTED LIVING. By John P. Marsden. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-8018-8031-9, MSP $49.95 Reviewed by Doris L. Milke