BOOK REVIEWS

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WHY PEOPLE DIE BY SUICIDE. Thomas Joiner. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (2005), 276 pages. ISBN: 0-674-1901-6. List Price: $24.96. Hardcover. Reviewed by Ameda A. Manetta.

MORE THAN A PARTING PRAYER: LESSONS IN CARE-GIVING FOR THE DYING. William H. Griffith. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press (2004), 157 pages. ISBN: 0-8170-1480-2. List Price: $12.00. Paperback. Reviewed by Deana F. Morrow.

GRIEF AND LOSS: THEORIES AND SKILLS FOR HELPING PROFESSIONALS. Katherine Walsh-Burke. Boston, MA: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon (2006), 144 pages. ISBN: 0-205-3881-2. List Price: $33.40. Paperback. Reviewed by Patrick Shannon.     

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Disputed Histories: Imagining New Zealand's Pasts edited by Tony Ballantyne and Brian Moloughney. University of Otago Press, Dunedin. 2006. 283 p. NZ$49.95 (paperback). ISBN 1877276161.

Historical Frictions: Maori Claims and Reinvented Histories by Michael Belgrave. Auckland University Press, Auckland. 2005. 388 p. NZ$49.95 (paperback). ISBN 1869403207.

New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations edited by James H Liu, Tim McCreanor, Tracey McIntosh, and Teresia Teaiwa. Victoria University Press, Wellington. 2005. 304 p. NZ$39.95 (paperback). ISBN 0864735170.

Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand, edited by Melanie Nolan. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. 2006. 320 p. NZ$34.95 (paperback). ISBN 1877257400.

Sexuality Down Under: Social And Historical Perspectives edited by Allison Kirk‐man and Pat Moloney. University of Otago Press, Dunedin. 2006. 301 p. NZ$39.95 (paperback). ISBN 1877372102.

Geographies of Globalization by Warwick E. Murray. Routledge, London and New York. 2006. 392 p. NZ$69.95 (paperback). ISBN 0415317991.     

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LIVING WITH DYING: A HANDBOOK FOR END-OF-LIFE HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS. Edited by Joan Berzoff and Phyllis R. Silverman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, 928 pp., 0-231-12794-4/cloth. $85.00. Reviewed by Carole A. Winston.

DANCING WITH BROKEN BONES: PORTRAITS OF DEATH AND DYING AMONG INNER-CITY POOR, by David Wendell Moller. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, $65.00 (hardcover) $31.95 (paper). Reviewed by AmedaA. Manetta.

THE PAST IN THE PRESENT: USING REMINISCENCE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE, by Faith Gibson. Baltimore Maryland: Health Professions Press, 2004,336 pp., $32.95 paperback. ISBN: 1-878812-87-4. Reviewed by Debra Parker Oliver.     

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Living Together: Towards Inclusive Communities by Michelle Thompson‐Fawcett and Claire Freeman ed. Otago University Press, Dunedin. 2007. 240 p. NZ$39.95 (paperback). ISBN 1877372293.

Standing Upright Here: New Zealand in the Nuclear Age 1945–1990 by Malcolm Templeton. Victoria University Press in association with The New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Wellington. 2006. 400 p. $NZ49.95 (paperback). ISBN 0864735405     

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The Green City: Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs by Nicholas Low, Brendan Gleeson, Ray Green, Darko Radovich. Routledge, New York (published/distributed by University of New South Wales Press, Sydney). 2005. 247 p. NZ$59.95 (paperback). ISBN 0868406937.

More than Law and Order: Policing a Changing Society 1945–92 (The History of Policing in New Zealand, Vol. 5) by Susan Butterworth. University of Otago Press, Dunedin. 2005.348 p. NZ$49.95 (paperback). ISBN 1877276995.

New Rights New Zealand: Myths, Moralities and Markets by Dolores Janiewski and Paul Morris. Auckland University Press, Auckland. 2005. 206 p., NZ$34.99 (paperback). ISBN 1869403452.

Faith, Politics and Reconciliation: Catholicism and the Politics of Indigeneity by Dominic O'Sullivan. Huia, Adelaide. 2005. 296 p. NZ$44.99 (paperback). ISBN 1869691512.

Body Work: The Social Construction of Women's Body Image by Sylvia K. Blood. Routledge, London and New York. 2005. 149 p. NZ$61.95 (paperback). ISBN 0415272726.

The Word of a Woman ? Police, Rape and Beliefby Jan Jordan. Palgrave Macmil‐lan, Houndmills, Basingstoke and New York. 2004.267 p., NZ$172.95 (hardback). ISBN 1403921695.     

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Making public policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005. ISBN 0745627544. $52.95     

1995 World Summit for Social Development and the Elderly

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INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC POLICY: AN AGING PERSPECTIVE. David K. Brown. University Press of America, 1997, ISBN0-7618-0414-5. Reviewed by M. Joanna Mellon

LONG-TERM CARE FOR THE RURAL ELDERLY. Edited by Graham D. Rowles, Joyce B. Beaulieu, and Wayne W. Myers. New York: Springer Publishing Company, Inc., 1996, 201 pp. Reviewed by Linda J. Redford     

The Colour of Difference: Journeys in Transracial Adoption

Sarah Armstrong and Petrina Slaytor (eds) The Federation Press, Sydney, 2001, 200 pp. AUS$33.95. ISBN 1 86287 397 6     

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Kissing Can Be Dangerous. The Public Health Campaigns to Prevent and Control Tuberculosis in Western Australia, 1900–1960 Crawley: University of Western Australia Press. 2006. ISBN 1920694781     

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Evidence‐based Policy: A Realist Perspective by Ray Pawson. Sage Publications, London. 2006. 208 p. NZ$98.99 (paperback). ISBN 1412910606.

The Handbook of Public Affairs edited by Phil Harris and Craig Fleisher. Sage Publications, London. 2005. 616 p. NZ$329.99 (hardback) ISBN 0761943935.

From Innocents to Agents: Children and Children's Rights in New Zealand by Michael Reid. Maxim Institute, Auckland. 2006. 279 p. NZ$39.90 (paperback). ISBN 0958265259.     

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New Zealand and the European Union edited by Matthew Gibbons. Auckland, Pearson Education. 2008. 172 p. NZ$52.99 (paperback). ISBN 0733993831.

Going bush. New Zealanders and nature in the twentieth century by Kirstie Ross. Auckland, Auckland University Press. 2008. 200 p. NZ$34.99 (paperback). ISBN 1869404246.

Globalisation and the wealth of nations by Brian Easton. Auckland, Auckland University Press. 2007. 248 p. NZ$50.00 (paperback). ISBN 9781869403775.     

V. Some factors in the etiology of maternal rejection

A Handbook of Child Welfare: Context, Knowledge and Practice. Joan Laird and Ann Hartman. (New York: Free Press, 1985.)

The Altruistic Imagination: A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United States. John H. Ehrenreich. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1985)

Child Psychosis in the First Four Years of Life. Henry N. Massie and Judith Rosenthal. (New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1984.)

The Aggressive Adolescent. Charles Keith (Ed.). (New York: The Free Press, 1984.)

Piagetian Dimensions of Clinical Relevance. Hugh Rosen. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.)     

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LONG GOODBYE—THE DEATHS OF NANCY CRUZAN. William H. Colby. Carlsbad, California: Hay House, Inc. (2002), 423 pages. ISBN: 1-4019-0132-8. List Price: $14.95. Paperback Reviewed by Amanda A. Werts.     

Appendix

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CRITICAL ADVANCES IN REMINISCENCE WORK: FROM THEORY TO APPLICATION. Edited by Jeffrey Dean Webster and Barbara K. Haight. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2002, ISBN 0-8261-6992-9, 392 pp., $51.95. Reviewed by Phyllis J. Meltzer.

ASSESSING AND TREATING LATE-LIFE DEPRESSION: A CASEBOOK AND RESOURCE GUIDE. Michele J. Karel, Suzann Ogland-Hand, and Margaret Gatz, with Jurgen Unutzer. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2002, ISBN 0-465-09543-7. Reviewed by Joann P. Reinhardt.     

Retraction: From urban‐first to urban–rural integration: discourse and the development of social assistant policy in China

Zhang HM (2011). From urban‐first to urban–rural integration: discourse and the development of social assistance policy in China. International Journal of Social Welfare[E‐pub ahead of print, DOI: 10.1111/j.1468‐2397.2011.00791.x]. The above article, published online on 7 April 2011 in Wiley Online Library ( http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ) has been retracted by agreement between the author, the journal Editors, Sven Hessle and Neil Gilbert, and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to overlap between this article and material previously published elsewhere, including: Shi S‐J (2006). Left to Market and Family‐Again? Ideas and the Development of the Rural Pension Policy in China. Social Policy & Administration 40: 791–806. and Bleses P, Seeleib‐Kaiser M (2004). The Dual Transformation of the German Welfare State. Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York, Palgrave Macmillan Press.     

Food, Shelter and Half a Chance: Assessing the Needs of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children I Did Not Choose to Come Here: Listening to Refugee Children Supporting Refugee Children in 21st Century Britain: A Compendium of Essential Information Working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Social Work Resource Book

Food, Shelter and Half a Chance: Assessing the Needs of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Selam Kidane British Association for Adoption and Fostering, London, 2001(a), 30 pp. £6.50. ISBN 1 903699 02 9
I Did Not Choose to Come Here: Listening to Refugee Children Selam Kidane British Association for Adoption and Fostering, London, 2001(b), 40 pp. £6.95. ISBN 1 903699 03 7
Supporting Refugee Children in 21st Century Britain: A Compendium of Essential Information Jill Rutter Trentham Books, Stoke on Trent, 2001, 304 pp. £15.95. ISBN 1 85856 292 9
Working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Social Work Resource Book R. Torode, T. Walsh and M. Woods with T. Galvin and A.F. Keogh Department of Social Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, 2001, 122 pp. ISBN 0 951576 87 9     

BOOK REVIEWS

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SOCIAL CARE OF THE ELDERLY. THE EFFECTS OF ETHNICITY, CLASS AND CULTURE. Marjorie Cantor and Mark Brennan. Springer Publishing Company. 1999. 360 pp. ISBN #0-8261-1263-3. Reviewed by Annette Kaye.

HANDBOOK OF GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT (third edition). Joseph J. Gallo, MD, MPH; Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN; Gregory J. Paveza, MSW, PhD; and William Reichel, MD. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen, 2000, 361pp. ISBN 0-8342-1284-X. Reviewed by Carole Ashendorf.     

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Reserved for the Poor By ALAN DEACON and JONATHAN BRADSHAW Published by Basil Blackwell and Martin Robertson
Access to Welfare By PEGGY FOSTER Published by the Macmillan Press Ltd, London & Basingstoke
The Acquisitive Society By R. H. TAWNEY Wheatsheaf, Brighton
Political Theory & Social Policy By A. WEALE Macmillan Press
The British Political Tradition By W. H. GREENLEAF Methuen
After the New Right By N. BOSANQUET Heinemann Educational Books, London
Perspectives on Political Economy By R. J. BARRY JONES (ed) Frances Pinter     

SSRC research group on Modern German Social History: First Meeting: History of the Family,U.E.A., Norwich, 7–8 July 1978

R.J. Holton, The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism (1985), xii+234 (Macmillan, Basingstoke, £20, paperback £6.95).

Antoni Maczak, Henryk Samsonowicz and Peter Burke, East‐Central Europe in Transition: from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century (1985), vii+207 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £22.50).

Paul Slack, The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England (1985), xvi+443 (Routledge &; Kegan Paul, London, £25.00).

A. L. Beier, Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England (1985), xv+233 (Methuen, London, £19.95).

John L. McMullan, The Canting Crew: London's Criminal Underworld, 1550–1700 (1984) ix+226 (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., n.p.).

Maxine Berg, The Age of Manufactures 1700–1820 (1985), 378 (Fontana, London, paperback, £4.95).

Alan Greer, Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740–1840 (1985), 304 (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo and London, n.p.).

Barbara Jeanne Fields, Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (1985), xv+268 (Yale University Press, New Haven, £27.50).

A. J. Kidd and K. W. Roberts (eds), City, Class and Culture: Studies of Cultural Production and Social Policy in Victorian Manchester (1985), vii + 280 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £25.00).

Gary S. Messinger, Manchester in the Victorian Age: The Half‐Known City xii+211 (Manchester University Press, Manchester £11.95, paperback £4.95).

Donald Reid, The Miners of Decazeville: A Genealogy of Deindustrialization (1985), ix+333 (Harvard University Press, Boston, $25.00).

Moshe Lewin, The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia (1985), viii+354 (Methuen, London, paperback £8.95).

Derek J. Oddy and Derek S. Miller (eds), Diet and Health in Modern Britain (1985), 326 (Croom Helm, London, £22.50).

Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb (eds), Hunger and History (1985), 336 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00).     

Books Received

Thatcher, Ian, Regime and Society in Twentieth-Century Russia (Macmillan, 1999).

Thomas, Nicholas and Eves, Richard (eds), Bad Colonists. The South Seas Letters of Vemon Lee Walker and Louis Becke (Duke University Press, 1999).

Underwood, T. L. (ed.), The Acts of the Witnesses. The Autobiography of Lodowick Muggleton and Other Early Muggletonian Writings (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Uribe-Uran,Victor, Honorable Lives. Lawyers, Family, and Politics in Colombia, 1780-1850 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000).

Van Wingerden, Sophia, The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1866-1928 (St Martin's, 1999).

Wagnleitner, Reinhold and May, Elaine Tyler (eds), 'Here, There and Everywhere'. The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture (University Press of New England, 2000).

Williams, Chris, Capitalism, Community and Conflict. The South Wales Coalfield 1898-1947 (University of Wales Press, 1998).

The Woman Worker 1926-1929, ed. Hobbs, Margaret and Sangster, Joan (Canadian Committee on Labor History, 1999).

Abernethy, David, The Dynamics of Global Dominance. European Overseas Empires 1413-1980 (Yale, 2000).

Arkel, Tom, Evans, Nesta and Goose, Nigel (eds), When Death Do Us Part. Understanding and Interpreting the Probate Records of Early Modem England (Leopard's Head Press, 2000).

Bamford, Samuel, The Diaries of Samuel Bamford, ed. Martin Hewitt and Robert Poole (St Martin's, 2000).

Barak, Gregg, Crime and Crime Control. A Global View (Greenwood Publishing, 2000).

Barroll, Leeds, Anna of Denmark, Queen of England. A Cultural Biography (University of Pennsylvania, 2001).

Bellesiles, Michael, Arming America. The Origins of a National Gun Culture (Knopf, 2000).

Bergdolt, Klaus, Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens (C. H. Beck, 1999).

Bonoli, Giuliano, The Politics of Pension Reform. Institutions and Policy Change in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Cavanaugh, Catherine and Warne, Randi (eds), Telling Tales. Essays in Western Women's History (University of British Columbia Press, 2000).

Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita, America's First Black Town. Brooklyn, Illinois 1830-1915 (University of Illinois Press, 2000).

Cross, Anthony, Peter the Great through British Eyes. Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698 (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Crummey, Donald, Land and Society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia. From the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 2000).

Davies, Andrew and Pearson, Geoffrey (eds), Histories of Crime and Modernity (British Journal of Criminology 39, I [Special Issue 1999]).

Dubofsky, Melvyn, Hard Work. The Making of Labor History (University of Illinois Press, 2000).

Dunn, Susan, Sister Revolutions. French Lightning, American Light (Faber &; Faber, 1999).

Ellis, Joseph, Founding Brothers. The Revolutionary Generation (Knopf, 2000).

Evans, Grant et al. (eds), Where China Meets Southeast Asia. Social and Cultural Change in the Border Regions (St Martin's, 2001).

Evergates, Theodore (ed.), Aristocratic Women in Medieval France (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).

Figes, Orlando and Kolonitskii, Boris, Interpreting the Russian Revolution. The Language and Symbols of 1917 (Yale University Press, 1999).

Fleming, Peter, Family and Household in Medieval England (Palgrave, 2001).

Gunther, Richard and Mughan, Anthony (eds), Democracy and the Media. A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Habib, Irfan, The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556-1707,2nd rev. edn (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Hargreaves, John, Freedom for Catalonia. Catalan Nationalism, Spanish Identity and the Barcelona Olympic Games (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Herbert,Trevor (ed.), The British Brass Band. A Musical and Social History (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Honeyman, Katrina, Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England, 1700-1870 (Macmillan, 2000).

Imbruglia, Girolamo (ed.), Naples in the Eighteenth Century.The Birth and Death of a Nation State (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Kingston, Beverley, Oxford History of Australia. Glad, Confident Morning 1860-1900 (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Klaren, Peter, Peru. Society and Nationhood in the Andes (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Kors, Alan and Peters, Edward (eds), Witchcraft in Europe 400-1700. A Documentary History, 2nd. edn (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

Laqueur, Walter (ed.), The Holocaust Encyclopedia (Yale University Press, 2001).

Lewis, Jan Ellen and Onuf, Peter (eds), Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. History, Memory and Civic Culture (University Press of Virginia, 1999).

Lindenfeld, Jacqueline, The French in the United States. An Ethnographic Study (Greenwood Publishing, 2000).

Lockhart, James, Of Things of the Indies. Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History (Stanford University Press, 2000).

MacRaild, Donald and Martin, David, Labour in British Society, 1830-1914 (Palgrave, 2000).

Hanrahan, Nancy, Difference in Time. A Critical Theory of Culture (Praeger, 2000).

McLeod, Hugh, Secularisation in Western Europe, 1848-1914 (Palgrave, 2000).

Merback, Mitchell, The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel. Pain and the of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (University of Chicago Press, 1999).

Moira, Donald and Rees,Tim (eds), Reinterpreting Revolution in Twentieth-Century Europe (Macmillan, 2001).

Moore, Jacqueline, Leading the Race. The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital 1880-1920 (University of Virginia Press, 1999).

Notermans, Ton, Money, Markets, and the State. Social Democratic Economic Policies since 1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Panter-Brick, Catherine and Smith, Malcolm (eds), Abandoned Children (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Pinto, Antonio, The Blue Shirts. Portuguese Fascists and the New State (Social Science Monographs, 2000).

Rotberg, Robert (ed.), Socal Mobility and Modernization. A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader (MIT Press, 2000).

Rutland, Robert (ed.), Clio's Favorites. Leading Historians of the United States 1945-2000 (University of Missouri Press, 2001).

Serbin, Kenneth, Secret Dialogues. Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000).

Shambaugh, David (ed.), The Modem Chinese State (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Siegrist, Hannes and Sugarman, David (eds), Eigentum im internationalen Vergleich 18.-20. Jahrhundert (Vandenhoeck &; Ruprecht, 1999).

Simmons, Clare, Eyes Across the Channel. French Revolutions, Party History and British Writing, 1830-1882 (Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000).

Taylor, Robert, The TUC. From the General Strike to the New Unionism (Palgrave, 2000).