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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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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.     

Book Reviews

Indonesia: the making of a culture. James J. Fox (ed.). 286pp, maps, figures, tables, bibliographies. (Vol. 1 in Indonesia: Australian Perspectives. James J. Fox, Ross Garnaut, Peter McCawley, J.A.C. Mackie (eds).) Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. 1980. $10.

Mekeo: inequality and ambivalence in a village society. Epeli Hau’ofa. x, 3 39pp., maps, figures, tables, plates, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Canberra: Australian National University Press. 1981. $19.50.

Tribal communities in rural areas. Elspeth Young, xxiii, 230pp., maps, figures, tables, bibliography. (The Aboriginal Component in the Australian Economy, no. 1.) Canberra: Development Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. 1981. $9.

Women in India and Nepal. Michael Allen and S.N. Mukerjee (eds). xiii, 286pp., figures, bibliographies, index. Canberra: The Australian National University (Monographs on South Asia no. 8). 1982. $10.     

BRIEF REVIEWS

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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).     

The Movement Of People And The Adoption Of Other Cultures: the neodiffusionism of Ammerman and Cavalli-Sforza

ROXANA WATERSON The living house: an anthropology of architecture in South-East Asia. Singapore: Oxford University Press. 1990. xix, 263pp., bibliography, colour plates, figures, index, maps. $49.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 19 588941 X.

BARRETT L. McCORMICK Political reform in post-Mao China: democracy and bureaucracy in a Leninist state. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1990. xiii, 222pp., select bibliography, index. US$34.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 520 06765 7.

UNNI WIKAN Behind the veil in Arabia: women in Oman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1991. xiii, 314 pp., illustrations, appendix, references, index. US$14.95 (paper) ISBN 0 226 89683 8.

JANA SAWTCKI Disciplining Foucault: feminism, power and the body. New York &; London: Routiedge. 1991. xiii, 130pp., notes, index. $25.95 (paper) ISBN 0 415 90188 X.

LAMONT LINDSTROM Knowledge and power in a South Pacific society (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry). Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1990. xvi, 224pp., references, index. US$29.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 87474 365 6; US$16.95 (paper) ISBN 0 87474 357 5.

MICHAEL J. LEAHY Explorations into highland New Guinea 1930-1935 (edited by Douglas E. Jones and with a foreword by Jane C. Goodale). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 1991. xiii, 254pp., plates, index. US$19.95 (paper) ISBN 0 8173 0446 0.

EDWARD L. SCHIEFFLIN and ROBERT CRITTENDEN (with contributions by Bryant Allan et al.) Like people you see in a dream: first contact in six Papuan societies. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1991. xviii, 325pp., notes, maps, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, index. $39.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 08047 1662 5; $12.95 (paper) ISBN 0 08047 1899 7.

MARION MELK-KOCH Auf der Suche nach der menschlichen Gesellschaft: Richard Thurnwald. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag. 1989. 352pp., maps, plates, bibliography. DM68 (hardback) ISBN 3 496 003276 6.

JOHN CONNELL and RICHARD HOWITT (eds) Mining and indigenous peoples in Australasia. Sydney: Sydney University Press in association with Oxford University Press. 1991. x, 205pp., maps, figures, tables, references, index. $22.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 424 00177 2.

L.M. ALLEN, J.C. ALTMAN and E. OWEN (with assistance from W.S. Arthur) Aborigines in the economy: a select annotated bibliography of policy-relevant research 1985-90. Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (Research Monograph No. 1). xxii, pp.242, appendixes, indexes. $20.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 7315 1199 9.

EDWARD SAPIR The collected works of Edward Sapir, Vol. 5: American Indian languages, 1 (volume editor William Bright). Berlin &; New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 1990. 584pp., plate, map, appendix, references. DM220 or US$99 (bound) ISBN 3 11 012327 4.

DICK GEERAERTS (editor-in-chief) Cognitive Linguistics Volume 1(1). Berlin &; New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 1990. 174pp., DM42 (single issue, paper) DM154 (4 issues) ISSN 0936 5907.

WILLIAM F. HANKS Referential practice: language and lived space among the Maya. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1990. xxiii, 580pp., tables, plates, references, indexes. US$27.50 (paper) ISBN 0 226 31546 0; US$65 (hardback) ISBN 0 226 31545 2.     

Register of research in social work

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Child Support A Practitioner'S Guide Jan Bowen (1994), Law Book Co., North Ryde, 293 pp. $ 45.00 (paper)

The Independent Social Security Handbook, Welfare Rights Centre (1994), Pluto Press, Leichhardt, 575 pp. $ 29.95 (paper)

Cultures Of Crime And Violence: The Australian Experience Bessant, J. Carrington, K. and Cook, S. (eds.), La Trobe University Press, in association with the Victorian Law Foundation, Melbourne. 221 pp. $ 24.95 (paper) Australia.

Leaving The Fold: A Guide For Former Fundamentalists And Others Leaving Their Religion M. Winell (1993) New Harbinger Publications, Inc. Oakland, CA. 297pp. $ 22.95 (paper) (Available direct from the distributor Boobook Publications, PO Box 163, Tea Gardens NSW 2324, phone (049) 970 811 or through all good bookshops.) Reriatha Reed Social Work Student La Trobe University Albury/Wodonga Campus     

Book notes

THE SOCIETAL SUBJECT edited by N. Engelsted, M. Hedegaard, B. Karpatscholf, and A. Mortensen. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1993. $26.00.

UNDERSTANDING PRACTICE: PERSPECTIVES ON ACTIVITY AND CONTEXT edited by S. Chaiklin and J. Lave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. $59.95.

THE CULTURAL‐HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF VERBAL THINKING by Peeter Tulviste (Translated by M. J. Hall; Preface by M. Cole). Commack, NY: NOVA Science Publishers, 1991. 183 pp. + notes and references. $39.00.     

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.     

White ‘ladies’, coloured ‘favourites’ and black ‘wenches’; some considerations on sex,race and class factors in social relations in white Creole Society in the British Caribbean

The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier. By Alan Gallay. Athens &; London: University of Georgia Press, 19S9, xx, 282 pp. $35.00.

Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808. By Rachel N. Klein. Chapel Hill &; London: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1990. vii, 331 pp. $34.95.

Women and Sisters: Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. By Jean Fagan Yellin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. ix, 226 pp. £20.00/$29.95.

Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform. By Lengougeon. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press. 1990. xiii, 408 pp. $45.00.

Race and Revolution. By Gary B. Nash. Madison: Madison House, 1990. 212pp. $27.95.

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. Edited by B.A. Botkin. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1990. xl, 297 pp. $14.95 (paper).

Religion and the Radical Republican Movement 1860–1870. By Victor B. Howard. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. 297 pp. $32.00.

Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920. By Willard B. Gatewood. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1990. cii; 450 pp. $39.95.

Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830–1848. By Dale W. Tomich. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xiv, 353pp.

Indenture and Exile: The Indo‐Caribbean Experience. Edited by Frank Birbal‐Singh. Tsar, Toronto, 1989. 264 pp. £10.00.     

Book reviews

Review Symposium: Cross‐Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development. P.M. Greenfield & R. R. Cocking (Eds.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994. 431 pp. $89.95, $39.95 (paper).

Understanding Practice. S. Chaiklin and J. Lave (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 414 pp. $59.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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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.     

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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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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.     

Pertinent Pamphlets

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History of Our Own Times: These Eventful Years, the Twentieth Century in the Making. Two vols., 692 and 695 pp. Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., London and New York, 1924. $11.50. Edited by Franklin H. Hooper.

History of Our Own Times: History of Modern Europe, 1878–1919. By G. P. Gooch. Henry Holt &; Co., New York, 1923. 728 pp. $5.00.

History of Our Own Times: Europe Since 1815. By Charles Downer Hazen. Henry Holt &; Co., New York, 1923. Two vols., 1202 pp. $8.00.

History of Our Own Times: Europe Since 1918. By Herbert Adams Gibbons. The Century Co., New York, 1923. 622 pp. $3.00.

History of Our Own Times: The Growth of the United States. By Ralph Volney Harlow. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1925. xv, 862 pp. $4.00. Reviewed by: W. Randall Waterman.

History of Our Own Times: The History of the Foreign Policy of the United States. By Randolph Greenfield Adams. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924. xv, 490 pp. Reviewed by: Lindsay Rogers

The English-Speaking Nations. By G. W. Morris and L. S. Wood. The Oxford University Press, American Branch, New York, 1924. xx, 396 pp. $1.20. Reviewed by: Howard Robinson

An Introduction to Church History. By Rev. Peter Gullday, Ph.D., Professor of Church History, Catholic University of America. B. Herder Book Co., St. Louis, 1925. vii, 350 pp. $2.00. Reviewed by: Thomas Peardon

The Turco-Egyptian Question in the Relations of England, France and Russia, 1832–1841. By F. S. Rodkey. Urbans, The University of Illinois, 1924. 274 pp. Reviewed by: Edward Mead Earle

Historical Terms and Facts. By Francis S. Betten. Allyn and Bacon, Boston, 1924. 165 pp. $1.00. Reviewed by: Malcolm E. MacGillivray

The first volume of Elie Hal$eAvy's well-known Histoire du peuple anglias au XIXe siecle has been translated into English by E. I. Watkin and D. A. Barber and appears under the title, A History of the English People in 1815 (New York, Harcourt, Brace &; Company, 1924. xvi, 576 pp. $6.00).     

Reviews

‘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.     

Illegal use—a pilot study

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MOTHERS AND FATHERS SPEAK Norma Tracey (1993), Apollo Books, Sydney. 235pp. $25.00 (paper)

STRUCTURAL SOCIAL WORK Robert Mullaly (1993), McLelland and Stewart Inc., Toronto, Canada. 240pp. $40.00 approx. (paper)

HUMAN SERVICES PRACTICE, EVALUATION AND COMPUTERS Paula Nurius and Walter Hudson (1993), Brooks/Cole Publishing, Pacific Grove, California. $82.95 (paper)

UNDERSTANDING AGEING: IMAGES, ATTITUDES AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE Simon Biggs (1993), Open University Press, Buckingham. 195pp, $45.00 (paper)

A GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGICAL PRACTICE IN GERIATRIC LONG-TERM CARE Peter A. Lichtenberg (1994), The Haworth Press, NY. 209pp, $US34.95 (paper)

OPTIONS FOR THE ELDERLY AND THOSE WHO CARE FOR THEM Glenda Banks (1994), Hale &; Iremonger, Sydney. 175pp, $16.95 (naner)     

On the limits of “wired identity” in the age of global media

Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes, and Cultural Boundaries. David Morley and Kevin Robins. London: Routledge, 1995.257pp.; $55.00 (cloth) $17.95 (paper).

Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events. McKenzie Wark. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.253 pp.; $29.95 (cloth) $14.95 (paper).     

BOOK REVIEWS

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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.     

Book Reviews

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Poverty and Health – Working with Families Clare Blackburn (1991) Open University Press, Buckingham, 176pp. $34.95 (paper)

Improving Health and Welfare Work with Families in Poverty Clare Blackburn (1992), Open University Press, Buckingham, 128pp. $45.00 (paper)

The Presence of the Past – Male Violence in the Family Jan Horsfall (1991) Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 167pp. $18.95 (paper)

Working for Change – the Movement Against Domestic Violence Heather McGregor and Andrew Hopkins (1991) Allen and Unwin. Sydney, 150pp. $19.95 (paper)

Family Violence – Everybody's Business, Somebody's Life Family Violence Professional Education Taskforce (1991) Federation Press, Sydney, 268pp. $25.00 (paper)

Tell Me I'm Here Anne Deveson (1991) Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, 268pp. $14.95 (paper).     

Defining the Nonprofit Sector Cross-Nationally

Defining the Nonprofit Sector: A Cross-National Analysis, by Lester M. Salamon and Helmut K. Anheier. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. 526 pp., $29.95 paperback. The Nonprofit Sector in France, by Edith Archambault. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. 324 pp., $27.95 paperback. The Nonprofit Sector in Italy, edited by Gian Paolo Barbetta. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. 309 pp., $59.95. The Nonprofit Sector in Sweden, by Tommy Lundstrom and Filip Wijkstrom. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. 345 pp., $69.95.