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The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790. Rhys Isaac>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1982. xxxii, 451pp. $29.50 & $9.95.

After Africa. Extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries concerning the Slaves, their Manners, and Customs in the British West Indies. Introduced and edited by Roger D. Abrahams and John F. Szwed, assisted by Leslie Barker and Adrian Stackhouse. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 1983. ix, 444 pp. £10.95 (Pp); £40.00 (Cl).

Another Dimension‐to the Black Diaspora: Diet, Disease, and Racism. Kenneth F. Kiple and Virginia Himmelsteib King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1981. xix, 295pp. $29.95.

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States. Joel Williamson. New York: The Free Press. 1980. xvi + 221pp. Notes and index. $16.95.     

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Building community: a history of the Port Adelaide Central Mission Brian Dickey and Elaine Martin (1999), Port Adelaide Central Mission Inc: Adelaide

Dogs, kids & homeswest: The story of Tkalka Boorda Aboriginal community John Scougall and Ricky Osborne (1998), Curtin Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Perth

Social work as community development: A management model for social change (2nd edition) Stephen Clarke (2000), Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 0 7546 1111 60

Multicultural queer: Australian narrativesPeter A. Jackson and Gerard Sullivan (eds) (1999), Haworth Press, New York 233 pp.

Towards poverty alleviation in Australia: A first step Manohar Pawar and John McClinton (2000), Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 70pp. $22.00 (paperback)

Working with involuntary clients: A guide to practice C. Trotter (1999), Allen & Unwin, Sydney ISBN 1 86448 498 5 162 pp. $29.95 (paperback)

Learning to Love Lorraine Rose (2000), Acer Press, Victoria, $24.95 (paperback)

The task planner: An intervention resource for human service professionals William J. Reid (2000), Columbia University Press, New York ISBN 0 231 10647 5 $22.50 (paperback)

Deeper dimensions: culture, youth and mental health Marie Bashir and David Bennett (eds) (2000), Transcultural Mental Health Centre, Parramatta 181pp. $20.00 (paperback)

The many-sided triangle: Adoption in Australia Audrey Marshall and Margaret McDonald (2001), Melbourne University Press ISBN 0 522 84943 1 300pp. $32.95 (paperback)

Working with men in the human services Bob Pearse and Peter Camilleri (eds), Allen & Unwin, Sydney ISBN 1 86508 480 8 248 pp. $29.95 (paperback)

Professional expertise: Practice theory and education for working in uncertainty Jan Fook, Martin Ryan and Linette Hawkins (2000), Whiting and Brich, London ISBN 1 86177 029 4 £35.00 (hardback)

Social policy in the post-welfare state: Australians on the threshold of the 21st century Adam Jamrozik (2001), Psarson Education, Sydney ISBN 0 7339 9905 0 $44.95 (paperback)

Promoting Resilience… A resource guide on working with children in the care system Robbie Gilligan (2001), British Agencies for Adoption & Fostering, London ISBN 1 873868 92 8 69pp. (paperback)     

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Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations. Gavriel Salomon (Ed.), Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 275 pages, $49.95.

The Computer as Medium. Peter Bøgh Andersen, Berit Holmqvist, & Jens F. Jensen (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 495 pages. $54.95.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Benton, T. and Craib, I., Philosophy of Social Science. The Philosophical Foundations of Social Thought Briggs, Asa, Michael Young: Social Entrepreneur Domanski, Henryk On the Verge of Convergence Gershuny, J., Changing Times: Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society Giddens, Anthony (ed.), The Global Third Way Debate Polity 2001 Hodson, Randy, Dignity at Work Lin, Nan, Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and Action Pahl, Ray, On Friendship Savage, Mike, Class Analysis and Social Transformation Slater, D. and Tonkiss, F., Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory Svallfors, Stefan and Taylor‐Gooby, Peter (eds), The End of the Welfare State? Responses to State Retrenchment Routledge Willis, Paul, The Ethnographic Imagination     

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Book reviewed in this article: Own or Other Culture John Okely, New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: racisms and multiculture in young lives Les Back, Consumption and Identity at Work Paul du Gay, Gender, Culture and Organizational Change: Putting theory into practice Catherine Itzin and Janet Newman (eds), Good enough Mothering? Feminist Perspectives on Lone Mothering E.B. Silvam (ed.), Citizenship Today: The Contemporary Relevance of T. H. Marshall Martin Bulmer and Anthony M. Rees (eds), Democracy and the Global Order. From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance David Held, Conflicts about class: debating inequality in late industrialism. D.J. Lee and B.S. Turner (eds), Medicine, Health and Risk: Sociological Approaches Jonathon Gabe (ed.), Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis Barry Barnes, War Stories – The Culture of Foreign Correspondents Mark Pedelty,     

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Book reviewed in this article: Confessions of a Reluctant Theorist W.G. Runciman Frameworks of Power Stewart R. Clegg Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond Douglas Kellner The Sublime Object of Ideology Slavoj Žižek Understanding contemporary Ireland: State, Class and Development in the Republic of Ireland R. Breen, D.F. Hannan, D.B. Rottman and C.T. Whelan History and Ethnicity Elizabeth Tonkin, Maryon McDonald, and Malcolm Chapman John H. Goldthorpe: Consensus and Controversy J. Clark, C. Modgil, and S. Modgil Divided Societies: Class Struggle in Contemporary Capitalism Ralph Miliband The Blackcoated Worker: A Study in Class Consciousness (2nd edition) Management and Labour in Europe: The Industrial Enterprise in Germany, Britain and France Christel Lane, Edward Elgar Unpacking the Fashion Industry Annie Phizacklea Feminization of the Labour Force Jane Jenson, Elisabeth Hagen and Ceallaigh Reddy (eds) Women, Crime and Poverty Pat Carlen. The Workings of the Household Lydia Morris Literacy and Popular Culture: England 1750–1914 David Vincent The Hidden Musicians. Music-Making in an English Town Ruth Finnegan Making Sense of Sport Ellis Cashmore     

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Michael Grenfell and David Jones, Bourdieu and Education: Acts of Practical Theory
Thomas Osborne. Aspects of Enlightenment: Social theory and the Ethics of Truth
Luc Boltanski, Distant Suffering Morality, Media and Politics
Silvan S. Schweber, In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist
Irving Velody and Robin Williams, The Politics of Constructionism
Martin Hecht, Duncker and Humblot, Modernität und Bürgerlichkeit. Max Webers Freiheitslehre im Vergleich mit den politischen Ideen von Alexis de Tocqueville und Jean‐Jacques Rousseau
Kim K.P. Johnson and Sharron J. Lennon, Appearance and Power