Book reviews

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Working With Families Gill Gore11 Barnes. Macmillan, BASW Practical Social Work series, 1984. (Reviewed by Elizabeth E. Irvine)

Working With Self-Help Groups

Ann Richardson. Bedford Square Press. £2.50. (Reviewed by Philip Dundon)

Education For Clinical Social Work Practice: Continuity and Change

Louise Bandler Ed. Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1983. Price not stated. (Reviewed by Kenneth K. Smith)

Growing Together: Innovatory Work With A Whole Family.

Smith Joan, Family Service Units, 1985. £3.00. (Reviewed by Elizabeth Smith)     

BOOK REVIEWS

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Social Work As Art: Making Sense For Good Practice

Hugh England. Allen and Unwin, 1986. £5.95 (Reviewed by Elizabeth E. Irvine

“Special Needs In Ordinary Classrooms”

Gerda Hanko. Blackwell, 1985. pp 153. £15 hardback, £6.50 paperback. (Reviewed by Elizabeth E. Irvine.)

Psychology For Social Workers

Herbert, Martin (Ed.) British Psychological Society/Macmillan, 1986. £7.95 paperback. (Reviewed by Pauline Cummings)

Growing Out Of Crime: Society and Young People In Trouble

Rutherford, Andrew. Penguin, 1986. £3.95 (Reviewed by Elizabeth Smith)

Basic Psychotherapy

Parry, Richard. Churchill Livingstone, 1986. £4.95 (Reviewed by Elizabeth Smith)

Christian Ministry To The Sick

Coyle, Tom (Ed.) Geoffrey Chapman, London. £5.95. (Reviewed by George Bright)

International Journal Of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 66, 1985, Part 3

Symington, N. Phantasy effects that which it represents. (Abstracted by Monica Lanman)

International Review Of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 12, 1985, Part 2.

Steinder, J. Turning a blind eye: the cover up for Oedipus. (Abstracted by Monica Lanman)     

Book reviews

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SOCIAL WORK THEORY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS, by M.A. Yelloly, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Ltd. 1980, 231 pp. £5.50 (Reviewed by Monica Lanman)

FAMILIES AT RISK, edited by Nicola Madge, Heinemann Educational, 1983, 227 pp., Paperback £6.50 (Reviewed by Elizabeth Smith)

MATERNAL BONDING, by W. Sluckin, M. Herbert and A. Sluckin, Oxford: Blackwell, 1983, 102 pp., £3.95; Hardback £12.50 (Reviewed by Elizabeth E. Irvine)

SEX AND THE SOCIAL WORKER, by Leonard Davis, London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. Community Care Practice Handbooks, No. 14 1983, 115 pp. £3.25 (Reviewed by Frances W. Chase) of his care in a sexual manner. I quote, out of context, but relevant, from the last paragraph of the first chapter.     

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LITTLE CLIFF AND THE PORCH PEOPLE. By Clifton L. Taulbert, illustrated by E.B. Lewis, 29 pages (Dial Books for Young Readers, 1999). Reviewed by Elizabeth Larkin

IT'S NOT WORTH MAKING A TZIMMES OVER! By Betsy R. Rosenthal, illustrated by Ruth Rivers, 30 pages (Albert Whitman, 2006). Reviewed by Elizabeth Larkin     

BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS

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GENERATIONS IN TOUCH: LINKING THE OLD AND THE YOUNG IN A TOKYO NEIGHBORHOOD. By Leng Leng Thang. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001, 209pp., pbk £10.95 ISBN 0 8014 8732 3., by Leng Leng Thang Reviewed by Stephen W. Ellis.

LEGACY:INSPIRINGSOCIALCHANGEINTHEU.S.ANDABROAD.A Film by Tod Lending. Reviewed by Jaia Peterson     

Book Reviews

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Marianne Walters, Betty Carter, Peggy Papp Olga Silverstein, Guildford Press, 1988 (Reviewed by Gerti Wilford)

Dr. Estella V Welldon, Free Association Books 1988 £10.95 pbk.     

Book Reviews

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Human Services at Risk: Administrative Strategies for Survival , edited by Felice Davidson Permutter. Boston, MA: Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Company, 1984. Reviewed by Mona Struhsaker Schatz

Supervising Student Internships in Human Services , edited by Carlton E. Munson. New York: The Haworth Press, 1984. Reviewed by Harvey Bertcher

Transactional Analysis for Social Workers and Counsellors: An Introduction , by Elizabeth Pitman. London and Boston: Library of Social Work, Routhledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. Reviewed by Edward G. Kuhlmann

Ages in Conflict: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Inequality Between Old and Young , by Nancy Foner. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Reviewed by Bruce A. Thyer

Clinical Social Work in Health Settings , by Thomas Owen Carlton. New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1984. Reviewed by John R. Ball     

BOOK REVIEWS

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GENDER AND ADDICTIONS: MEN AND WOMEN IN TREATMENT. Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner and Elizabeth Zelvin (Eds.) Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., 1997. Reviewed by Michael Beechem.

COUNSELING FEMALE OFFENDERS AND VICTIMS: A STRENGTHS-RESTORATIVE APPROACH, van Wormer, Katherine. New York: Springer Publishing Co., 2001, 390pp., ISBN 0-8261-11395-1, Hardcover. Reviewed by Ted R. Watkins.     

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THE NEW UPROOTED: SINGLE MOTHERS IN URBAN LIFE. Elizabeth A. Mulroy. Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1997, 188pages. Reviewed by Alfrieda Daly.     

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THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: FROM CHARITY TO CONFRONTATION. Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2001. Reviewed by Roland Meinert.

From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy (2nd Ed.). Richard K. Scotch. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2001. Reviewed by John T. Pardeck.

INTEGRATING DISABILITY CONTENT IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION: A CURRICULUM RESOURCE. Stephen French Gilson (Senior Editor) and Elizabeth DePoy, Heather MacDuffie, and Katherine Meyershon (Contributing Editors). Washington, D.C.: The Council on Social Work Education, Inc., 2002. Reviewed by John T. Pardeck.     

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CHILD WELFARE: A MULTICULTURAL FOCUS. Neil A Cohen and Contributors. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2000. Reviewed by Carrie Jefferson Smith.

BEING BLACK IN AMERICA TODAY: A MULTIPERSPECTIVE REVIEW OF THE PROBLEM. Norman Q. Brill, M.D, Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1999. Reviewed by Joshua Kirven.     

Organizing for Disaster Preparedness

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MANAGING AND ORGANIZATIONS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THEORY AND PRACTICE, by Stewart Clegg, Martin Kornberger, and Tyrone Pitsis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005, ISBN: 0-761-94389-7, 562 pp. Reviewed by Karun K. Singh.

DESIGNING AND PLANNING PROGRAMS FOR NONPROFIT AND GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS, by Edward J. Pawlak and Robert D. Vinter. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass, 2004, ISBN: 0-787-97412-9, 288 pp. Reviewed by Judith M. Rockway.

ROOTS TO POWER: A MANUAL FOR GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING (SECOND EDITION), by Lee Staples. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004, ISBN: 0-275-96998-3, 392 pp. Reviewed by Elizabeth Beck.     

Two Ways to Think About Intergenerational Program Development

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Verdi. By Jannell Cannon. New York: Harcourt Children's Books, 1997, ISBN 0-15-201028-9. Reviewed by Elizabeth Larkin.     

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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.     

Review article: National and racial minorities in total war

Ansel Adams, Manzanar (London: Secker & Warburg, 1989). xx + 167pp. £15.

Joseph Kennedy, British Civilians and the Japanese War in Malaya and Singapore, 1941–45 (London: Macmillan, 1987). xii + 167pp. £29.50.

Tony Kushner, The Persistence of Prejudice: Antisemitism in British Society During the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989). ix + 257pp. £29.95.

François Lafitte, The Internment of Aliens (London: Libris, 1988, 1990). xxiv + 266pp. £24.95 hb; £8.95 pb.

Abraham Lewin, A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988, 1990). vi + 310pp. £14.95 hb, £4.99 pb.

Frederick C. Luebke, Germans in Brazil: A Comparative History of Cultural Conflict During World War I (London: Louisiana State University Press, 1987). xii + 248pp. £30.90.

Graham A. Smith, When Jim Crow Met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War II Britain (London: I.B. Taurus, 1987). 265pp. £14.95.     

Our Martial Mythology

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American Economic History. By Harold Underwood Faulkner. Reviewed by Harry J. Carman

Nationalism and Religion in America, 1774–1789. By E. F. Humphrey. Chipman Law Publishing Co., Boston, 1924. viii, 536 pp. Reviewed by Dixon Ryan Fox

English Society in the Eighteenth Century as Influenced from Oversea. By Jay Barrett Botsford. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924. 388 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by Judith Blow Williams

The Great Betrayal. By Edward Hale Bierstadt, with the editorial assistance of Helen Davidson Creighton. Foreword by Edward Capps. Robert McBride and Company, New York, 1924. xvi, 345 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by Edward Mead Earle

The United States Government. By Everett Kimball, Professor of Government in Smith College. Ginn and Company, New York, 1924. v, 785 pp. $3.60. Reviewed by Schuyler C. Wallace     

Review essay: Slavery now: Unfree labour and modern capitalism

Capitalism and Unfree Labour: Anomaly or Necessity? Robert Miles. London and New York: Tavistock Publications. 1987. 250pp. £10.95 pbk.

The New Helots: Migrants in the International Division of Labour. Robin Cohen. Aldershot: Gower Publishing Co. 1987. 290pp. £8.95 pbk; £27.50 hbk.

Sugar and Modern Slavery: A Tale of Two Countries. Roger Plant. London: Zed Press, 1987. 177pp. £7.95 pbk; £24.95 hbk.

Slavery in the Twentieth Century. Roger Sawyer. London and New York: Routledge &; Kegan Paul. 1986. 274pp. £15.95 hbk.     

Current Puelications Received

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Europe in Our Time: 1914 to the Present. Revised Edition. By Robert Ergang. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1953. Pp. 576. $6.00. Reviewed by Bernard C. Weber.

The Big Change (America Transforms Itself.) By Frederick Lewis Allen. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952. Pp. 290. $4.00. Reviewed by Joseph M. Gottschalk.

Wellsprings of Democracy. By John M. Brewer. New York: Philosophical Library. Hallmark-Hubner Press, Inc., 1952. Pp. xii, 232. $4.50. Reviewed by J. F. Santee.

Crime in Modern Society. By Mabel A. Elliott. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952. Pp. xvi, 874. $6.00. Reviewed by Jerry A. Neprash.

The Keystone State. Geography, History and Government. By Arthur D. Graeff. Philadelphia, Pa.: John C. Winston Company, 1953. Pp. xxiv, 380. $3.60. Reviewed by David W. Harr.

The Life and Times of Daniel Lindley. By Edwin W. Smith. New York: Library Publishers, 1952. Pp. xiii, 456. $5.50. Reviewed by Wilfred T. Grenfell.

Soviet Civilization, By Corliss Lamont. New York: Philosophical Library, 1952. Pp. x, 433. $5.00. Reviewed by Richard H. Bauer.

The Suez Canal in World Affairs. By Hugh J. Schoufield. New York: Philosophical Library, 1953. Pp. xvi, 174. $4.50.     

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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.     

Essay in review

Ceri Peach, Vaughan Robinson and Susan Smith (eds.), Ethnic Segregation in Cities. (London, Croom Helm, 1981). Pp.258. £12.95.

Peter Ratcliffe, Racism and Reaction: A Profile of Handsworth. (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981). Pp.xvi + 388. £12.50.