Book reviews and books received

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Occupational medicine: Principles and Practical Applications, Edited by Carl Zenz, Chicago, Year Book Medical Publishers Inc., 2nd edn, (1988). [Pp. xxiii + 1273.] £ 94. ISBN 0-8151-9865-5.

Working Lives in Catering, By Yiannis Gabriel, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul (1988). [Pp. viii + 190.] £ 19.95. ISBN 0-7102-0923-1.

Stress and Breast Cancer, Edited by Cary L. Cooper, Chichester, Wiley (1988). [Pp. x + 219.] £ 22.50. ISBN 0-471-91744-3.

Managing organisational change: human factors and automation, By Fred Fallik, London, Taylor & Francis (1988). [Pp. xiv + 157.] £ 28.00, ISBN 0-85066-363-6 (hardback); £ 14.00, ISBN 0-850366-363-8 (paperback).

Managing organisational change: human factors and automation, By Fred Fallik, London, Taylor & Francis (1988). [Pp. xiv + 157.] £ 28.00, ISBN 0-85066-363-6 (hardback); £ 14.00, ISBN 0-850366-363-8 (paperback).

The Indebted Society. Credit and default in the 1980s, By Janet Ford, London, Routledge 81 Kegan Paul, (1988). [Pp. xi + 208.] £ 12.95. ISBN 0-415-00757-7.     

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The Healthy Organization-Fairness, Ethics and Effective Management By Susannewell, Routledge, London, 1996 L12.99 (pbk). ISBN 04-151-03274 [vit + 216 pp.].

Workplace Health : Employee Fitness and Exercise Edited by JOHN KERR, TOM COXand AMANDA GRIFFITHS, Taylor &; Francis, London, 1996. A36.00 (hbk), ISBN 07484-0142-3. £17.95 (pbk). ISBN 07484-0143-1. [xiv+ 187 pp.].     

Books for review

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Stress Master By Kichard Terry Lovelace, New York, Wiley (1990). £9.95 (paperback).

Stressors and the Adjustment Disorders Edited by Joseph D. Noshpitz and R. Dean Coddington. New York, Wiley (1990). £55.15 (hardback).

Personality and Disease Edited by Howard S. Friedman, New York, Wiley (1990). £28.30 (hardback).

Anxiety: Psychobiological and Clinical Perspectives, Edited by N. Sartorious, V. Andreoli, G. Cassano, L. Eisenberg, P. Kielholz, P. Pancheri and G. Racagni, New York, Hemisphere (1990). A37-00 (hardback).

Thriving on Stress, By Jane Cranwell-Ward, London, Routledge (1990). A6.95 (paperback).

Corporations, Businesses and Families Edited by Roma S. Hanks and Marvin B. Sussman (1991). ISBN-0-86656-863-8 [viii+244 pp.] $29.95 (hardback).

A Change of Attitude: A n Introduction to Holistic Health Care By Ckawfokd Kemp, Acme Publishing Co., South Darenth. ISBN-1-85595-000-6 [81 pp.] £2.95.

Career Stress in Changing Times Edited by James Campbell Quick, Robert E. Hess, Jared Hekmalin and Jonathan D. Quick, The Haworth Press, New York, (1990). ISBN-0-86656-956-1 [xvii+261 pp.] $34.95 (hardback).

Occupational Stress in a Caring Profession, By Jocelyn Handy, Avebury, Aldershot. ISBN-0-566-07047-2 [vii+ 246 pp.] £29.50 (hardback).

Homesickness, Cognition and Health. By Shirley Fisher, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hove. ISBN-0-86377-120-3 [xv+ 152 pp.] £19.95 (hardback).

Personality and Stress: Individual Dtgerences in the Stress Process. Edited by Cary L. Cooper and Roy Payne, Wiley, Chichester (1991). ISBN-O-471-93063-6 [xi+289 pp.] £39.95 (hardback).

Efective Problem Solving, By Dave Francis, London, Routledge (1990). ISBN 0-415-05357-9. [ix+ 128 pp.] £6.99.     

Book reviews and book received

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Handbook of Occupational Medicine. Edited by Robertj. McCunney, Boston, Little, Brown and Co (1989). [Pp. xxiv+511.] £15.95. ISBN 0-316-55528-2 (paperback).

Lgestyle, Stress and the Mitchell Method of Relaxation [Video]. By Laura Mitchell, Leeds, International Stress and Tension Control Society (1989). £19.50.

Crisis Intervention Verbatim. By Nira Kfir, New York, Hemisphere/London, Taylor & Francis (1989). [Pp. xxv + 169.] £18.00. ISBN 0-89116-837-0 (hardback).

Total Back Care By Cristopher R. Hayne, Health Right Series, London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd (1987). [Pp. xiii + 144.] £3.95. ISBN 0 460 02439 6.

Adaptive Physiology to Stressftrl Environments Edited by Shlomo Samueloff and Mohamed K. Yousef,Boca Raton, Florida, CKC Press (1987). [Pp. x+212.] £104.00, US$130.00. ISBN 0 8493 6458 2.

Psychophysiology and the Electronic Workplace Edited by Anthony Gale and Bruce Christie, Chichester, Wiley (1987). [Pp. x +351.] £36.50. ISBN 0 471 91373 7.

Environmental Ergonomics: Sustaining Human Perfrmance in Harsh Environments Edited by Igor B. Mekjavic, Eric W. Banister and James B. Morrison, London, Taylor & Francis (1988). [Pp. xiv+412.] £39.00. ISBN 0-85066-400-4 (hardback).     

Book reviews and books received

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Noise and Human Efficiency By Michel Loeb, Chichester, Wiley (1986). [Pp. xiii + 269]. £28.00. ISBN 0–471-10287-3.

Time and Human Interaction—Toward a Social Psychology of Time By Joseph E. McGrath and Janice R. Kelly, New York, Guilford Press (1986). [Pp. viii + 183.] £17.95. ISBN 0-89862-111-9.

International Reviews of Ergonomics: Current Trends in Human Factors Research and Practice. Volume 1 Edited by David J. Oborne, London, New York and Philadelphia, Taylor & Francis (1987). [Pp. 221 + iv.] £30.00. ISBN 0-85066-359-8.

Culture Shock: Psychological Reactions to Unfamiliar Environments By Adrian Furnham and Stephen Bochner, London and New York, Methuen (1986) [Pp. 298 + xx.) Hardback £25.00, paperback £9.95. ISBNs 0-416-36670-8 (hardback) and 0-416-36680-5 (paperback).

Hyperperformance—the A.I.M. Strategy for Releasing your Business Potential By Errol R. Korn, George J. Pratt (with Peter T. Lambrou), New York, John Wiley and Sons (1987). [Pp. xi + 195.] £17.95. ISBN 0-471-85344-5.

The Impact of Working Hours and other Factors on Production and Employment By Yngve Åberg, Aldershot, Gower Publishing (1987). [Pp. viii + 166.] £22.50. ISBN 0-566-05480-9.     

News and information

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Recent Developments in Job Analysis Edited by Kurt Landau and Walter Rohmert, London, Taylor &; Francis (1989). [Pp. 350] £30.00. ISBN 0-85066-790-9.

Cumulative Trauma Disorders—A Manual for Musc14loskeletal Diseases of the Upper Limbs Edited by Vern Putz-Anderson, London, Taylor &; Francis (1988). [Pp. xi+151.] £7.50. ISBN 0-85066-405-5.

Human Skills (2nd edn). Edited by Dennis H. Holding, Chichester, John Wiley &; Sons (1989). [Pp. xiii+334.] £34.95. ISBN 0471 -92076-2.

Living with Stress. A Guide for Ministers and Church Leaders Edited by Sarah Horsman, Lutterworth, P.O. Box 60, Cambridge CBl 2NT (1989). [Pp. 105.1 £5.95. ISBN 0-7188-2772-4.     

Book reviews

Self development for managers—thriving on stress, By Jane Cranwell-Ward, Routledge, London, 1990. £6.95 (pbk). ISBN 0415-04465-0 [142 PP.].

Causes, coping and consequences of stress at work, Edited by Cary L. Cooper and Roy Payne, Wiley, Chichester, 2nd edn 1988, Reprinted 1990. £29.95 (hbk). ISBN 0-471-94453-X [430 PP.].     

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Corporate Assessment, By A. Furnham and B. Gunter, Routledge, London, 1993. £19.99 (hbk). ISBN 0-425-08118-1 [xiii + 293 pp].     

Book reviews and books received

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Clergy under Stress: A study of homosexual and heterosexual clergy in the Church of England. By Dr Ben Fletcher Mowbray, London 1990. £6.95 (pbk). ISBN 0-264-67196-1.

Making Shiftwork Tolerable By T. H. Monk and S. Folkard Taylor &; Francis. London, 1992. vii + 94 pp. £11.50. ISBN 0-85966-822-0.

Diving and Subaquatic Medicine, By Carl Edmonds, Chiwtopher Lowry, and John Pennefather, 3rd edn Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, Oxford. (1992). pp xii + 565. 049.50     

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A Guide to the Organisation and Operation of In-Plant Occupational Health Services by Jean Spencer Felton, Boston/Toronto/London, Little Brown and Company (1990). [Pp. xi + 571.] £70·00. ISBN 0–316-27775–4.     

Book reviews

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The Ergonomics of Working Postures N. Corlett, J. Wilson and I. Manenica, London, Philadelphia, Taylor & Francis (1986). Pp.ix + 429. £42.00. ISBN 0 85066 338 5.

Workplaces—The Psychology of the Physical Environment in Offices and Factories Eric Sundstrom, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (1986). Pp.xv+456. Paperback £12.50, ISBN 0 521 31947 1. Hardback £32.50, ISBN 0 521 26545 2.

Burnout–The Cost of Caring Christina Maslach, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice (1982). Pp. 192. US $7.95. Hardback, ISBN 0 13 091249 2. Paperback, ISBN 0 13 091231 X.

Stress in Teaching J. Dunham, Beckenham, Croom-Helm (1986). Pp. 192. £8.95. ISBN 0 7099 45329.     

Book reviews

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The Changing Nature of Personnel Management L. MacKay and D. Torrington, London, IPM (1986). Pp. 186. £20. ISBN 0 85292 377 5.

Handbook of Stress, Reactivity and Cardiovascular Disease Edited by K. A. Matthews, S. M. Weiss, T. Detre, T. M. Dembroski, B. Falkner, S. B. Manuck and R. B. Williams, New York, Wiley (1986). Pp. xvi + 527. £46.50. ISBN 0 471 82219 1

Ergonomics in Computerized Offices E. Grandjean, London, Taylor & Francis (1987). Pp. viii + 227. £25: cloth ISBN 0 85066 349 0. £11.50: paperback. ISBN 0 85066 350 4.

New Technology and Human Error Edited by J. Rasmussen, K. Duncan and J. Leplat, Chichester, Wiley (1987). Pp. xvi + 354. £34. ISBN 0 471 91044 9.

Social Work Stress and Intervention S. Fineman, Aldershot, Gower (1985). Pp. 192. £15. ISBN 0 566 00664 2.

Health and Industry: A Behavioral Medicine Perspective Edited by Michael F. Cataldo and Thomas J. Coates. New York, Wiley (1986). Pp. xxiv + 477. £43.20. ISBN 0 471 80921 7.     

Book reviews and books received

Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace By R. H. Kenen, Harrington Park, New York, 1993. $19.95 (pbk). ISBN 1-56023-006-1 [xvii ± 306 pp.].

Stress, Coping, and Health. A Situation-Behavior Approach By Meinrad Perres and Michael Reicherts, Hogrefe&Huber, Seattle, 1992. $39.00 (pbk). ISBN 0-88937-065-6 [vi ± 233 pp.].

Health Psychology: Stress, Behaviour and Disease By D. Carrol, Falmer (Taylor&Francis), London, 1992. £32.00. ISBN 1-85000-841-8 (hbk); £11.95, ISBN 1-85000-842-6 (pbk) [viii ± 129 pp.].     

Book reviews and books received

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Cognitive Aspects of Computer Supported Tasks By Yvonne Waern, Chichester, Wiley (1989). [Pp. xxii + 327.] 29.95. ISBN 0 471 91141 0.

Handbook of Psychology and Health. Volume V Stress Edited by Andrew Baum and Jerome E. Singer, New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (1987). [Pp. xiv+357.] A29.95. ISBN 0 89859 209 7.     

Book review

Beyond Burnout. By CARY CHERNISS, New York and London: Routledge, 1995. £12.99 (pbk). ISBN 0-415-91206-7 [xiv + 234 pp.].     

Book reviews and books received

Ergonomics in Rehabilitation. Edited by Anil Mital and Waldemak Karwowski, London, Taylor & Francis (1988). [Pp. viii+318.] £30.00. ISBN 0-85066-456-X.

L'homme stresse, by Jean Rivolier, Paris, Psychologie d'aujourd'hui (1989). [Pp. 297.1 175FF. ISBN 2-13-042249-7.

L'illusion prychmomatique, by Robert Dantzer, Paris, Editions Odile Jacob (1990). [Pp. 315.1 130FF. ISBN 2-7381-0069-4.

People and Computers: How to Evaluate your Company's New Technology Chris Clegg, Peter Warr, Thomas Green, Andrew Monk, Nigelg Kemp, Gordon Allison and Mark Lansdale in collaboration with Colin Potts, Reg Sell, and Ian Cole. Ellis Horwood (1988) [Pp. 245.1 £32.50. ISBN 0-7458-0419-5.

Employment, Stress, and Family Functioning By Julian Barling, Chichester, John Wiley & Sons (1990). [Pp. xiii+286.] £39.00. ISBN 0-471-91773-7 (Wiley Series on Studics in Occupational Stress).     

Book reviews

Job Relocation. Managing people on the move By A. Munton, N. Forster, Y.Altman and L. Greenbury. Wiley, Chichester, 1993. £16.95 (pbk). ISBN 0-471-93728-2.[xvii + 168]

Corporations, Businesses and Families Edited by R. S. Hanks and M. B. Sussman, The Howarth Press, 1990. $29.95 (pbk). ISBN 0-86656-863-8. [Viii + 244]

Stress Master By Richard Terry Lovelace. John Wiley, New York 1990. £9.95. ISBN 0-471-51729-9.     

Book reviews

Cross-Cultural Anxiety: Volume 4, Edited by Charles D. Spielberger, Rogeuo Diaz-Guerrero and Jan Strelau, Hemisphere Publishing, Washington, DC (1990), pp. 227, £36.00, ISBN 0-891 16-940-7.

Anxiety and the Heart Edited by D. G. Byrne and Ray Rosenman, Hemisphere Publishing, Washington, DC (1990), pp. 513, £40.00, ISBN 0-891 16-860-5.

Work, Stress, Disease and Life Expectancy by Ben C. Futche,. John Wiley, Chichester (1991). pp. xi+255, £39 (hard). ISBN 0-471 -91970-5.     

Book reviews and books received

Work Psychology: Understanding Human Behaviour in the Workplace John Arnold, Ivan T. Robertson, and Cary L. Cooper, Pitman, London (1990), pp. 329.

Promoting Health and Productivity in the Computerized Office: Models of Successful Ergonomic Interventions. Edited by Steven Sauter, Marvin Dainopp,and Michael Smith, Taylor & Francis, London (1990), pp. xiv+248, £35.00 (hbk). ISBN 0085066-756-9.

On the Move: The Psychology of Change and Transition. Edited by Shirley Fisher and Cary L. Coooper, John Wiley, Chichester (1990), pp. xiv+337, £45.00 (hbk). ISBN 0-471-92815-1.

Human-Robot Interaction Edited by Mansour Rahimi and Waldemar Karwowski. Taylor & Francis, London (1992), pp. viii+378. £49.50 (hard). ISBN 0-85066-809-3.

The Meaning and Measurement of Social Support Edited by HANS O. F. Veiel and Urs Baumann. Hemisphere, London (1992), pp. xiv+327, £42.50. ISBN 1-56032-063-X.     

Book reviews and book received

Handbook of Occupational Medicine. Edited by Robertj. McCunney, Boston, Little, Brown and Co (1989). [Pp. xxiv+511.] £15.95. ISBN 0-316-55528-2 (paperback).

Lgestyle, Stress and the Mitchell Method of Relaxation [Video]. By Laura Mitchell, Leeds, International Stress and Tension Control Society (1989). £19.50.

Crisis Intervention Verbatim. By Nira Kfir, New York, Hemisphere/London, Taylor & Francis (1989). [Pp. xxv + 169.] £18.00. ISBN 0-89116-837-0 (hardback).

Total Back Care By Cristopher R. Hayne, Health Right Series, London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd (1987). [Pp. xiii + 144.] £3.95. ISBN 0 460 02439 6.

Adaptive Physiology to Stressftrl Environments Edited by Shlomo Samueloff and Mohamed K. Yousef,Boca Raton, Florida, CKC Press (1987). [Pp. x+212.] £104.00, US$130.00. ISBN 0 8493 6458 2.

Psychophysiology and the Electronic Workplace Edited by Anthony Gale and Bruce Christie, Chichester, Wiley (1987). [Pp. x +351.] £36.50. ISBN 0 471 91373 7.

Environmental Ergonomics: Sustaining Human Perfrmance in Harsh Environments Edited by Igor B. Mekjavic, Eric W. Banister and James B. Morrison, London, Taylor & Francis (1988). [Pp. xiv+412.] £39.00. ISBN 0-85066-400-4 (hardback).