Book reviews

The Anthropology of Europe: Identity and Boundaries in Conflict. Victoria A. Goddard, Josep R. Llobera and Cris Shore, eds. Oxford: Berg Publishers Ltd, 1994. 310 pp. $45.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).

Inside European Identities: Ethnography in Western Europe. Sharon MacDonald, ed., Oxford: Berg Publishers Ltd, 1993. 247pp. $ 49.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).     

Sham slam

SHAM: How the Self‐Help Movement Made America Helpless, by Steve Salerno. New York: Crown Publishers, 2005. 288 pp., $24.95 cloth, $13.95 paper.     

Jamaica's Maroons

The Maroons of Jamaica 1655–1796: A History of Resistance, Collaboration & Betrayal. By MAVIS C. CAMPBELL. Granby, Mass., USA: Bergin & Harvey Publishers, 1988. vii, 296pp. $49.95.

In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750–86. By DOUGLAS HALL. London: Macmillan, 1989. xxi, 322pp. £9.95.     

Book reviews

’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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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CONFRONTING OPPRESSION, RESTORING JUSTICE: FROM POLICY ANALYSIS TO SOCIAL ACTION By Katherine van Wormer. Alexandria, VA: CSWEPress, 2004. 254pp. $36.95 (paper). Reviewed by Linda Plitt Donaldson.

GEORGE G. HIGGINS AND THE QUEST FOR WORKER JUSTICE: THE EVOLUTION OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT IN AMERICA. By John J. O'Brien. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. 396pp. $32.95 (paper). Reviewed by William J. Hutchison.

BUT THEY ALL COME BACK: FACING THE CHALLENGES OF PRISONER REENTRY. By Jeremy Travis. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 2005. 391 pp. $32.50 (paper). Reviewed by Frederick G. Reamer.     

In search of a lost people: Jews in present‐day Ukrainian historiography

A Relationship on Two Levels. Galia Golan, The Soviet Union and the Palestine Liberation Organization. An Uneasy Alliance. New York: Praeger, 1980. vii + 289pp. £15.25.

The Soviet ‘Black Book’ on the Holocaust. Vasily Grossman and Ilya Ehrenburg (comp. and eds.), Chernaya kniga (The Black Book), annotated and indexed by Mark Kipnis and Hayah Lifshits. Jerusalem: Tarbut Publishers, 1980. xx‐vii + 547pp. Illus. Name Index. Place Index.

A Valuable Account of Jewish Heroism. Reuben Ainsztein, The Warsaw Ghetto Revolt. New York: Holocaust Library, 1979. 238pp. Bibl. $4.95.

The Reality of National Bolshevism. Mikhail Agursky, Ideologiya natsional‐bolshevizma (The Ideology of National Bolshevism). Introduction by Leonard Schapiro. Paris: YMCA Press, 1980. 321pp. Notes. Bibliography.

Communist Zionism in the USSR. Baruch Gurevitz, National Communism in the Soviet Union, 1918–28. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1980. xiii+ 121pp.     

Soviet Antisemitism after Stalin

William Korey, Russian Antisemitism, Pamyat, and the Demonology of Zionism (Studies in Antisemitism 2). Chur (Switzerland): Harwood Academic Publishers for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1995. Notes. Bibl. Ind. x+243pp. £35.00: £17.00 (pbk)

Semyon Reznik, The Nazification of Russia: Antisemitism in the Post‐Soviet Era. Washington DC: Challenge Publications 1996. Notes. Ind. 276pp. £14.50: $15.95 (pbk). Distributed in the UK by Gazelle Books Services Ltd, Lancaster

Matthias Messmer, Sowjetischer and postkommunistischer Antisemitismus: Entwicklungen in Russland, der Ukraine und Litauen (Konstanzer Schriften zur Schoah und Judaica). With a foreword by Walter Laqueur. Notes. Append. Bibl. Ind. Konstanz: Hartung‐Gorre 1997. viii+533+7pp. DM72.00 (pbk)     

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 Complete Guide to Women's Health

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The Complete Guide to Women's Health, Bruce Shephard and Carol Shephard. Tampa, Florida, Mariner Publishers, 1982, 421 pp.     

Cultural History Between Structure And Contingency: the Manus example

Carrier, James and Achsah Carrier. Wage, trade, and exchange in Melanesia: a Manus society in the modern state. (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, vol. 7, edited by G.H. Herdt, FJ. Porter Poole and D. Tuzin.) Berkeley: University of California Press. 1989. xvii, 257pp., tables, references, index. ISBN 0 520 06389 9.

Carrier, Achsah and James Carrier. Structure and process in a Melanesian society: Ponam's progress in the twentieth century. (Studies in Anthropology and History, vol. 1, edited by N. Thomas.) Chun Harwood Academic Publishers. 1991. xxii, 261pp., appendices, glossary, references, author and subject index. ISBN 3 7186 5149 1.     

In memoriam

Carter, Carol Sue (Ed.) Hormones and Sexual Behavior. Stroudsburg, Pa: Dowden, Hutchingson &; Ross, Inc. 1974. 362 pp. $20.00

Colton, Helen. “Sex After the Sexual Revolution,” New York: Association Press, 1972, pp. 256.

Felstein, Ivor. Sex in Later Life. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1973. 144 pp. $1.45.

Lesse, Stanley, M.D. To Be or Not to Be an Illness? That is the Question—Or—The Status of Homosexuality. American Journal of Psychotherapy, XXVIII, Nr 1, Jan. 1974.

Libby, R. W. and Robert N. Whitehurst (Eds.) Renovating Marriage. Danville, Cal.: Consensus Publishers, 1973. pp 366 (paper bound)

Martinson, Floyd M. Infant and Child Sexuality: A Sociological Perspective. St. Peter, Minn 56082: The Book Mark, GAC, 1973. 146 pages, $3.60.

Person, Ethel, M.D. and Lionel Ovesey, M.D. The Transsexual Syndrome in Males. I. Primary Transsexualism. Am. J. Psychotherapy, XXVIII # 1, 1974.

Ribal, Joseph E. Learning Sex Roles, American and Scandinavian Contrasts. San Francisco, Calif.: Canfield Press (a Division of Harper and Row, New York). 1973 pp. 270 (paper bound)

Vanggaard, Thorkil. Phallós. A Symboland its History in the Male World. New York: International Universities Press, 1973. 208 pages, 28 illustrations. $9.00.

Wolfers, David and Wolfers, Helen. Vasectomy and Vasectomania, Mayflower Books, Ltd., Frogmore, St. Albans, Hertshire AL2 2NF, 1974, 266 pages, $1.95, (soft cover).

Zubin, Joseph &; John Money (Ed.) Contemporary Sexual Behavior‐Critical issues in 1970s. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1973, 468 pages, $15.00.     

From race to ethnic identity: South central Africa,social anthropology and the shadow of the holocaust 1

The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930 by William Beinart, Johannesburg. Ravan: New History of Southern Africa Series, No. 3, 1983, pp. xi + 220. R11.50

The Land Belongs To Us: The Pedi Polity, the Boers and the British in theNineteenth Century Transvaal, by Peter Delius. Johannesburg, Ravan: New History of Southern Africa Series, 1983, pp. xii + 278. R11.50

The Agrarian Question and Reformism in Latin America by Alain de Janvry. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.306 pp.

The Crisis in South Africa: Class Defence. Class Revolution by John S Saul and Stephen Gelb, New York: Monthly review Press, 1981.156 pp.     

Reviews and abstracts

Felstein, Ivor. Sex and the longer life. London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press. 1970. pp. 143, $4.95.

Gallino, Tilde Giani. Il sesso e l'adolescente (Sex and the adolescent). Torino, Italy: Ediscientifica S.F.A. Settore Editoriale, 1971. Student text 103 pp. 2500 lire. Instructor's manual 60 pp. 2000 lire.

Greenwald, Harold and Ruth Greenwald (Eds.). The Sex‐Life Letters, Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, Inc. 1972, Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc., N.Y. XXV & 436 pp.

Kuiper, P. C., M.D. The Neuroses. A Psychoanalytic Survey. New York: International Universities Press, 1972. 261 pages. $9.00.

Lieberman, Bernhardt (Ed.). Human Sexual Behavior—A Book of Readings. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1971. 444 pages.

Martin, Del and Phyllis Lyon. San Francisco, California: Glide Publications, 1972. 283 pp; hardcover $7.95.

Neubardt, Selig, M.D. and Harold Schulman, M.D. Techniques of Abortion. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Co. 172 pages. $11.50.

Orth, Penelope. An Enviable Position. New York: David McKay Co., 1972. 303 pages. $7.95.

Zatuchini, Gerald I. (Ed). Post‐partum Planning: A Report on the International Program. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1970. XXX and 477 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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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.     

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.     

Book Reviews

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Ideologies of Caring: Rethinking Community and Collectivism, by Gillian Dalley. Houndmills: Mac-Millan Education, 1988. $ 18.50. 165 pp., Paper. Reviewed By Brij Mohan

Bridges of Respect: Creating Support for Lesbian and Gay Youth, by Katherine Whitlock. American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, PA, 1988. $7.50. 97 pp. Reviewed By Ski Hunter

Courage and Love, by Gisela Konopka. Burgess Printing Company: Edina, Minnesota. 1988. $11.95. 337 pp. Reviewed By Ruth R. Middleman

Social Work Day to Day: The Experience of Generalist Social Work Practice, by Carolyn Cressy Wells. Longman: New York, 1989 2nd Ed. 205 pp. Reviewed By Elbert Siegel

Learning Through Field Instruction: A Guide for Teachers and Students, by Martha L. Urbanowski and Margaret M. Dwyer. Family Service America: Milwaukee, WI, 1988. $15.95. 180pp. Reviewed By Miriam S. Raskin

Dependency and Poverty: Old Problems in a New World, by June Axinn and Mark J. Stern. Lexington Books: Massachusetts, 1988. 178 pp. Reviewed By Frank R. Baskind     

Reviews and abstracts

Dalsace, Jean, and Dourlen Rollier, Anne‐Marie. L'Avortement. Tournai: Casterman, 1970.

Goldman, George D. and Milman, Donald S. Modern Woman: Her Psychology and Sexuality. Charles C Thomas, Publisher, Springfield, Ill. 1969, xviii + 275 pages.

Hartman, William E., Fithian, Marilyn and Johnson, Donald. Nudist Society. An Authoritative, Complete Study of Nudism in America. Illustrated. Crown Publishers, Inc. New York, 1970, 432 pp.

Huhphreys, Laud. Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co. 180 pages. Price: $5.95.

Legman, G. Oragenitalism. Oral Techniques in Genital Excitation. New York: Julian Press, 1969. 319 pages. Price §15.00     

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.     

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.     

Sport in changing times and places

Bale, J. 2003 Sports Geography London : Routledge 196 pp. £ 21.99
Eitzen, S. 2003 Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport Oxford : Rowan & Littlefield Publishers 187 pp. £ 17.95
Hill, J. 2002 Sport, Leisure & Culture in Twentieth Century Britain Basingstoke , Palgrave 232 pp. £ 15.99
Houlihan, B. 2003 Sport & Society, A Student Introduction London : Sage Publications 379 pp. £ 19.99
Sugden, J. and Tomlinson, A. 2002 Power Games: A Critical Sociology of Sport London : Routledge 304 pp. £ 21.99