Two Books on Mergers and Alliances in Nonprofits

Forging Nonprofit Alliances, by Jane Arsenault. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass, 1998. 198 pp., $25.95 cloth. Nonprofit Mergers and Alliances: A Strategic Planning Guide, by Thomas A. McLaughlin. New York: Wiley Nonprofit Series, 1998. 288 pp., $49.95 cloth.     

The why and how of volunteering

Volunteers: A Social Profile, by Marc A. Musick and John Wilson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. 680 pp., $39.95 cloth. The Decision to Volunteer: Why People Give Their Time and How You Can Engage Them, by Beth Gazley and Monica Dignam. Washington, D.C.: ASAE and the Center for Association Leadership, 2008. 144 pp., $89.85 paper. Challenges in Volunteer Management, edited by Matthew Liao‐Troth. Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age, 2008. 292 pp., $73.99 cloth, $39.99 paper.     

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).     

Fundraising and strategic focus

The Five Strategies for Fundraising Success: A Mission‐Based Guide to Achieving Your Goals, by Mal Warwick. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass, 2000. 293 pp. $30.00 cloth.     

Book reviews

Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace. Kevin A. Yelvington. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. 286 pp., 31 tables, 4 figures. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper in U.S.

Tourism, Ethnicity, and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies. Michel Picard and Robert E. Wood, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.259 pp., index, photos, tables. $47 hardcover, $23 paperback in U.S.     

The Fuss About NGOs—Are They Worth It?

Beyond the Magic Bullet: NGO Performance and Accountability in the Post-Cold War World, edited by Michael Edwards and David Hulme. West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press, with Save the Children, 1996. 286 pp., $38.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. NGOs, States, and Donors: Too Close for Comfort? edited by David Hulme and Michael Edwards. New York: St. Martin's Press, with Save the Children, 1997. 300 pp., $59.95 cloth. Nongovernmental Organizations and Health in Developing Countries, by Andrew Green and Ann Matthias. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. 225 pp., $59.95 cloth.     

Managing Public Relations for Nonprofits

Making the News: A Guide for Nonprofits and Activists, by Jason Salzman. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998. 320 pp., $19.95 paper. Strategic Communications for Nonprofit Organizations: Seven Steps to Creating a Successful Plan, by Janel M. Radtke. New York: Wiley, 1998. 256 pp., $49.95 paper.     

Humanistic Leadership in the 1990s: Heart,Soul, and Head

The Leader of the Future: New Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the Next Era, edited by Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, and Richard Beckhard. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass, 1996. 319 pp., $25.00 cloth. Leading with Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit, by Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995. 195 pp., $20.00 cloth. Leading and Managing the Expressive Dimension: Harnessing the Hidden Power Source of the Nonprofit Sector, by David E. Mason. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996. 323 pp., $29.95 cloth.     

Four Books on Nonprofit Boards and Governance

Governing Boards, by Cyril O. Houle. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass, 1997. 223 pp., $21.95 paper. Boards That Make a Difference: A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations, by John Carver. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997, 241 pp., $28.95 cloth. Perfect Nonprofit Boards: Myths, Paradoxes, and Paradigms, by Stephen R. Block. Needham Heights, Mass.: Simon & Schuster, 1998, 149 pp., $21.95 paper. Nonprofit Boards: Roles, Responsibilities, and Performance, by Diane J. Duca. New York: Wiley, 1996, 192 pp., $29.95 cloth.     

Understanding Congregations as Voluntary Organizations

Congregation and Community, by Nancy Tatom Ammerman. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997. 434 pp., $55.00 cloth, $24.00 paper. Organizing God's Work: Challenges for Churches and Synagogues, by Margaret Harris. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. 236 pp., $59.95 cloth.     

Has the Time Come to Reevaluate Evaluation? or,Who Will Be Accountable for Accountability?

Evaluation with Power: A New Approach to Organizational Effectiveness, Empowerment, and Excellence, by Sandra Trice Gray and Associates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. 178 pp., $28.95 cloth (vinyl). Measuring the Performance of Human Services Programs, by Lawrence L. Martin and Peter M. Kettner. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996. 138 pp., $44.50 cloth, $21.95 paper. Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy, by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. 256 pp., $22.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. Outcomes Measurement in the Human Services: Cross-Cutting Issues and Methods, edited by Edward J. Mullen and Jennifer L. Magnabosco. Washington, D.C.: National Association of Social Workers, 1997. 337 pp., $29.55 for members of the National Association of Social Workers, $36.95 for nonmembers, paper. The Best of Intentions: The Triumphs and Failures of the Great Society Under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, by Irwin Unger. New York: Doubleday, 1996. Out of print.     

Playing hardball

Hardball Lobbying for Nonprofits: Real Advocacy for Nonprofits in the New Century, by Barry Hessenius. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 222 pp., $65.00 cloth. Lobbying for Social Change (3rd ed.), by Willard C. Richan. Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Press, 2006. 320 pp., $59.95 cloth, $32.95 paper.     

Nonprofit and Social Marketing

Marketing Social Change: Changing Behavior to Promote Health, Social Development, and the Environment, by Alan R. Andreasen. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995. 367 pp., $30.95 cloth. Marketing Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations, by Siri Espy. Chicago, Ill.: Lyceum Books, 1993. 165 pp., $19.95 paper. Marketing Nonprofit Programs and Services: Proven and Practical Strategies to Get More Customers, Members, and Donors, by Douglas B. Herron. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. 282 pp., $32.95 cloth.     

Organizational transformation among NGOs,North and South

Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs, by Marc Linberg and Coralie Bryant. Bloomfield, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 2001. 271 pp., $25.95 cloth. Towards Financial Self‐Reliance: A Handbook of Resource Mobilization for Civil Society Organizations in the South, by Richard Holloway. London: Earthscan, 2001. 233 pp., $25.00 cloth.     

From social change organizations to social movements

From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change, by Carol Chetkovich and Frances Kunreuther. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. 216 pp., $49.95 cloth.     

The Lost Inner World of Grantmaking Foundations (or,as Willie Sutton Once Said, “That's Where the Money Is”)

How Foundations Work: What Grantseekers Need to Know About the Many Faces of Foundations, by Dennis P. McIlnay. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass, 1998. 204 pp., $29.95 cloth. Give and Take: A Candid Account of Corporate Philanthropy, by Reynold Levy. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999. 235 pp., $24.95 cloth.     

The Oxford Handbook's Capacious Atlantic

Questioning Slavery. James Walvin. London and New York: Routledge. 1996. xi, 202pp. £45.00 (cloth); £14.99 (paper). ISBN 0–415–15356–5; 0–415–15357–3.

A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997. xiii, 262pp. £29.50; £00.00. ISBN 0–253–33247–8; 0–253–21086–0.

Portrait of an Abolitionist: A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809–1867. Charles E. Heller. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press. 1996. xii, 248 pp. £47.95. ISBN 0–3132–9863–7.

Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth Century Egalitarian. Hans L. Trefousse. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. xiii, 312 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–8078–2335‐X.

Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. Michael A. Morrison. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii, 396pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8078–2319–8.

Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South. Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. 330pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8078–2326–0.

Fifty Years Later: Antislavery, Capitalism and Modernity in the Dutch Orbit. Edited by Gert Oostindie. Leiden: Kitlv Press. 1995. viii, 272pp. £45.00. ISBN 90–6718–096–3.

’There Are No Slaves In France’: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime. Sue Peabody. New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. x, 210pp. £30.00. ISBN 0–19–510198–7.     

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.     

Accountability in Nonprofit Organizations

Accountability, Performance Reporting, Comprehensive Audit: An Integrated Perspective, by Guy LeClerc, W. David Moynagh, Jean-Pierre Boisclair, and Hugh R. Hanson. Ottawa: CCAF-FCVI (Canadian Comprehensive Auditing Foundation- Fondation Canadienne pour la Verification Integral), 1996. 373 pp., $85.00 (Canadian, plus shipping) cloth. Managing for Accountability: Preserving the Public Trust in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, by Kevin P. Kearns. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996. 255 pp., $27.95 cloth.     

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.