Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Biological Diversity: Balancing Interests through Adaptive Collaborative Management, edited by Louise E. Buck, Charles C. Geisler, John Schelhas, and Eva Wollenberg. NGOs in India: A Cross‐Sectional Study, by R. Sooryamoorthy and K.D. Gangarde Working Through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach, Steven E. Daniels and Gregg B. Walker The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America, by James Mahoney Dairy Industry Restructuring: Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vo lume 8, edited by Harry K. Schwarzweller and Andrew P. Davidson Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change, by Robert Gottlieb Bridging Human and Ecological Landscapes: Participatory Research and Sustainable Development in an Andean Agricultural Frontier, edited by Robert E. Rhoades     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Hidden America: Social Problems in Rural America for the Twenty‐First Century, edited by Robert M. Moore. Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, edited by Ruth B. Phillips and Christopher B. Steiner. In the Company of Neighbours: Revitalizing Community Through Action Research, by C. Kenneth Banks and J. Marshall Mangan. The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State: Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France and Japan, by Adam D. Sheingate. Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food and the Environment, edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel. Beyond Equilibrium Theory: Theories of Social Action and Social Change Applied to a Study of Power Sharing in Transition, by M. Ross De‐Witt. Transnational Peasants: Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador, by David Kyle. Women and Power: Fighting Patriarchies and Poverty, by Janet Townsend, Emma Zapata, Jo Rowlands, Pilar Alberti, and Marta Mercado. Men at Work: Labour, Masculinities, Development, edited by Cecile Jackson.     

New Books

How to Succeed in High School, by George Weigand. Woodbury Executives Under Fire by Chester Burger. The Employed Mother in America edited by F. Svan Nye and Lois W. Caesar's Forms & Syntax by Thornton A. McGill Jr. Woodbury, New York Careers in Natural Resource Conservation by Fred W. Herbert. New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1965. Learning and the Educational Process edited by John D. Krumboltz. Know Yourself, by Arnold L. Ganley and George S. Elias. Vocational Guidance and Career Development edited by Herman J. Peters and James C. Hansen. Guidance in Agricultural Education (Second Edition) by Harold M. Byram. Danville Classrooms on Main Street by Harold F. Clark and Harold S. Sloan. Introduction to College Life (Second Edition) by Norman T. Bell, Richard W. Burkhardt, and Victor B. Lawhead.     

Review Essay: Whither Rural Community Development?

Partnerships in Communities: Reweaving the Fabric of Rural America, by Jean Richardson. Small Town and Rural Economic Development: A Case Studies Approach, edited by Peter V. Schaeffer and Scott Loveridge.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty‐First Century, edited by David L. Brown and Louis E. Swanson. Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, by James Gustave Speth. Killing Me Softly: Toxic Waste, Corporate Profit, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice, by Eddie J. Girdner and Jack Smith. Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership, edited by James K. Boyce and Barry G. Shelley. The Curse of American Agricultural Abundance: A Sustainable Solution, by Willard Cochrane, with a foreword by Richard A. Levins.     

Review Essay:Analyzing Slavery and the Slave Narrative

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, by Ira Berlin. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation, edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Changing Roles of Agricultural Extension in Asian Nations, edited by A. W. Van den Van and R. K. Samanta Safety in the Agri-Food Chain, by Pieternel A. Luning, Frank Devlieghere, and Roland Verhé. State, Communities and Forests in Contemporary Borneo, edited by Fadzilah Majid Cooke. Truman Torgerson: Leadership Straight From the Shoulder, by Randall Torgerson. Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West, by Kristin M. McAndrews. Reno     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Information Society in Europe: Work and Life in the Age of Globalization, edited by Ken Ductael, Juliet Webster, and Werner Herrmann. Lanham, MD Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer, by Richard Rhodes. Changing the Way America Farms: Knowledge and Community in the Sustainable Agriculture Movement, by Neva Hassanein. Under the Blade: The Conversion of Agricultural Landscapes, edited by Richard K. Olson and Thomas A. Lyson. Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local, edited by Kevin R. Cox. World Hunger: Twelve Myths, by Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins, and Peter Rosset. Small Towns in Multilevel Society, by Frank W. Young. Lanham     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Labour Market Structures and Prospects for Women edited by Robert Lindley Women and Low Pay: Identifying the Issues by Shirley Dex, Steve Lissenbourg and Mark Taylor Women in Post-Compulsory Education and Training in Wales by David Istance and Teresa Rees Equality Issues in Scotland: A Research Review by Alice Brown, Esther Breitenbach and Fiona Myers. Black Women in the Labour Market, a Research Review by R. Bhavnani. Ethnic Minority Women and the Labour Market: Analysis of the 1991 Census by D. Owen. The Gender Impact of CCT in Local Government by Karen Escott and Dexter Whitfield     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article Reply to David McNamari's review of School Organisation and Pupil Irwolvement The Child's Right to Play by Arvid Bengtsson Poverty, Inequality and Class Structure edited by Dorothy Wedderburn Elites and Power in British Society edited by P. Stanvrorth and A. Giddens Research into Retailing and Distribution edited by D. Thorpe Public Housing in Europe and America edited by J. S. Fuerst Fact in Fiction: The Use of Literature in the Systematic Study of Society by Joan Rockwell Nursing in Contemporary Society by Una Madean The First Shop Stewards' Movement by James Hinton Pitmen, Preachers and Politics: The Effects of Methodism in a Durham Mining Community by Robert Moore Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society: Selected Writings edited with an Introduction by Robert N. Bellah Deviance and Social Control edited by Pajil Rock and Mary Mclntosh Traditiondtism, Conservatism and British Political Culture by Bob Jessop The Intemationd Urban Crisis by Thomas L. Blair Black Migrants: White Natives by Daniel Lawrence The Family: An Introducton by J. Ross Eshleman     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Troubled Fields: Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming, by Eric Ramirez‐Ferrero. Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia, edited by Dev Nathan, Govind Kelkar and Pierre Walter. Identity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological Significance of Nature, edited by Susan Clayton and Susan Opotow. Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works, by Leslie A. Duram.     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Barbara Wootton, social science and public policy, essays in her honour Philip Bean and David Whynes (eds) Risk Acceptability According to the Social Sciences Mary Douglas, Routledge & Kegan Paul Structures of Thinking Karl Mannheim, edited by David Kettler, Volker Meja and Nico Stehr, translated by Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Routledge & Kegan Paul Conservatism: a Contribution to the Sociology of Knowledge Karl Mannheim, edited by D. Kettler, Volker Meja and Nico Stehr, translated by David Kettler, Volker Meja and Elizabeth R. King, Routledge & Kegan Paul Foucault: A Critical Reader David Couzens Hoy (ed.) Power Steven Lukes (ed.) Power and the Division of Labour Dietrich Rueschemeyer Politics in the Semi-Periphery: Early Parliamentarism and Late Industrialisation in the Balkans and Latin America Nicos P. Mouzelis Disorganized Capitalism: Contemporary Transformations of Work and Politics Claus Offe Women, Work and Ideology in the Third World Haleh Afshar (ed.) Class and Gender in India: Women and their Organizations in a South Indian City Patricia Caplan Labour in British Society: an interpretative history Richard Price, Croom Helm Professional Powers: A study of the institutionalisation of formal knowledge Eliot Freidson Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations John Rex and David Mason (eds) Race and Ethnicity John Rex Racism and Recruitment: Managers, Organisations and Equal Opportunity in the Labour Market Richard Jenkins The Governance of Police Laurence Lustgarten Losing the fight against crime Richard Kinsey, John Lea and Jock Young Policing Prostitution: A Multi-Agency Approach Roger Matthews Policing and its Context 1750-1870 Clive Emsley Inside Schools: Ethnography in Educational Research Peter Woods, Routledge & Kegan Paul The Sexual Exploitation of Children Judith Ennew Mental Health and the Environment Hugh L. Freeman, (ed.) Sport, Power and Culture John Hargreaves Britain By Mass-Observation Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge     

Encyclopaedic Desire: A Response to Gates

“We Spend Our Years as a Tale That Is Told”: Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom by Isabel Hofmeyr. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press; London: James Currey, 1994.

Liquor and Labour in Southern Africa, edited by Jonathan Crush and Charles Ambler. Athens: Ohio University Press; and Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1992.

Politics and performance: Theatre, Poetry, and Song on Southern Africa, edited by Liz Gunner, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1994.

In the Wake of the Affluent Society: An Exploration of Post‐Development by Serge Latouche; translated and introduced by Martin O'Connor &; Rosemary Arnoux; London: Zed, 1993.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Manufacture of News: Deviance, Social Problems and the Mass Media edited by S. Cohen and J. Young. Social Stratification and Trade Unionism by G. S. Bain, D. Coates and V. Ellis. Racism and the Mass Media by Paul EUirtmann and Charles Husband. Labour Relations on the Docks by Michael P. Jackson. Marxism versus Sociology: A Guide to Reading by Martin Shaw. Man and Organization: The Search for Explanation and Social Relevance edited by John Child. Tinker, Tailor … The Myth of Cultural Deprivation edited by Nell Keddie. Sociologists and Religion by Susan Budd. Drivers after Sentence by T. C. Willett. Language, Psychology and Culture: Essays by Wallace E. Lambert edited by Anwar S. Dil. On the Beginning of Social Inquiry by P. McHugh et al. School Organisation and Pupil Involvement: A Study of Secondary Schools by Ronald King. EthnometJwdology: Selected Readings edited by Roy Turner.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Development and Social Change in Yugoslavia: Crises and Perspec-tives of Building a Nation by Peter Jambrek. The Family: Its Structures and Functions edited by Rose L. Coser. Prisoners of Society: Attitudes and Aftercare by Martin Davies. Class, Codes and Control, Volume 3, Towards a Theory of Educational Transmissions by Basil Bernstein. Leisure and the Family Life Cycle by Rhona Rapoport and Robert N. Rapoport. Agrarian Reform and Agrarian Reformism: Studies of Peru, Chile, China and India edited by David Lehmann. Sociological Theory: Uses and Unities by Stephen Mennell. Central Ideas in Sociology by David Berry. Hidden Myth by V. L. Leymore. Education, Eqitality and Society, edited by Bryan R. Wikon. British Political Sociology Yearbook, Vol. II; The Politics of Race edited by Ivor Crewe. The Savage in Literature by Brian V. Street. Industrial Behcaiiour: Theoretical Development since Taylor by Michael Rose. Race and Labour in London Transport by D. Brooks. Image and Influence: Studies in the Sociology of Film by Andrew Tudor. The Origins of the Liberal Welfare Reforms by J. R. Hay. Regulating the Poor by F. F. Piven and R. A. Cloward. Law and State: The Case of Northern Ireland by K. Boyle, T. Hadden and P. Hillyard. Lives of Labour: Work in a Maturing Industrial Society by Peter N. Steams. Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge by Paid Feyerabend. Evidence and Explanation in Social Science by Gerald Studdert-Kennedy. Worker' Participation in Industry by M. Poole. The Sociology of Entile Durkheim by Robert A. Nisbet. Form and Content in Industrial Democracy by F. E. Emery and Einar Thorsrud. The Development of the West of Scotland: 1750–1960 by Anthony Slaven. Hermeneutic Philosophy and the Sociology of Art: An Approach to Some of the Epistemologicd Problems of the Sociology of Knowledge and the Sociology of Art by Janet Wolff. People on the Move edited by Leszek A. Kosinsid and R. Mansell Prothero.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Lakota Culture, World Economy, by Kathleen Ann Pickering. Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and a Struggle for a New Environmentalism, by Patrick Novotny. The Failure of National Rural Policy: Institutions and Interests, by William P. Browne. Waltzing With the Ghost of Tom Joad: Poverty, Myth, and Low‐Wage Labor in Oklahoma, by Robert Lee Maril. An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood, by Jimmy Carter. Microenterprise Development for Better Health Outcomes, by Rosalia Rodriguez‐García, James A. Macinko, and William F. Waters. The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach, by Rose Weitz. Social Integration in the Second Half of Life, edited by Karl Pillemer, Phyllis Moen, Elaine Wethington, and Nina Glasgow. State and Community in Fisheries Management: Power, Policy, and Practice, edited by Paul E. Durrenberger and Thomas D. King. The East European Gypsies: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics, by Zoltan Barany.     

Book Reviews

Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America, by Cynthia M. Duncan. Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America, by Margaret K. Nelson and Joan Smith. Downstream and Upstream Ecologists: The People, Organizations, and Ideas Behind the Movement, by Jean Mercier. The Estuary's Gift: An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography, by David Griffith.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Indians ‘R’ Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America, by Ward Churchill. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1994, 382 pages. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $14.95. Ending the Cold War at Home: From Militarism to a More Peaceful World Order, by Sam Marullo. New York: Lexington Books, 1993, 275 pages. Cloth, $29.95. The Homeless, by Christopher Jencks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994, 161 pages. Cloth, $17.95. Careers and Creativity: Social Forces in the Arts, by Harrison C. White. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993, 256 pages. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $16.95. Race and the City: Work, Community, and Protest in Cincinnati, 1820–1970, edited by Henry Louis Taylor Jr. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993, 308 pages. Cloth, $44.95. The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923–1990, by James W. Marquart, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, and Jonathan R. Sorensen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994, 275 pages. Cloth, $24.95. Gangbangs and Drive-bys: Grounded Culture and Juvenile Gang Violence, by William B. Sanders. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994, 195 pages. Cloth, $35.95; paper $17.95. Goodness Personified: The Emergence of Gifted Children, by Leslie Margolin. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994, 156 pages. Cloth, $55.00. Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste: Citizens’Views of Repository Siting, edited by Riley E. Dunlap, Michael E. Kraft, and Eugene A. Rosa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993, 332 pages. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism, edited by Gary Gereffi and Miguel Korzeniewicz. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994, 334 pages. Cloth, $56.00; paper, $22.95. The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest: Social Change and Adaptation among Migrant Farmworkers, by W. K. Barger and Ernesto M. Reza. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994, 235 pages. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $15.95.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Media and Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development, edited by Oscar Hemer and Thomas Tufte. Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom, edited by Zachary Michael Jack. Population Change and Rural Society, edited by William A. Kandel and David L. Brown. Appalachian Cultural Competency: A Guide for Medical, Mental Health, and Social Service Professionals, edited by Susan E. Keefe. Rural Gender Relations: Issues and Case Studies, edited by Bettina B. Bock and Sally Shortall.     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this articles: Sociology: The State of the Art Tom Bottomore, Stefan Nowak and Magdalena Sokolowska (eds) A Treatise on Social Theory, Volume 1: The Methodology of Theory W.G. Runciman Contemporary Political Philosophy: Radical Studies Keith Graham (ed.) Capital and Politics Roger King (ed.) Supremaey and Subordination of Labour: The Hierarehy of Work in the Early Labour Movement Mike Holbrook-Jones The Development of the Labour Process in Capitalist Societies: A Comparative Study of the Transformation of Work Organisation in Britain, Japan and the USA Craig R. Littler Blue-Collar Workers and Politics: A French Paradox Richard A. DeAngelis Contemporary French Political Parties David S. Bell (ed.) The Family and Industrial Society C.C. Harris White-Collar Work K. Prandy, A. Stewart and R.M. Blackburn Industrial Relations in Britain G.S. Bain (ed.) Women in Control: Dilemmas of a Workers Co-operative Judy Wajeman An Economic History of Women in America Julie A. Matthaei Racial and Ethnic Competition Michael Banton Labour and Raeism Annie Phizacklea and Robert Miles Racism and Migrant Labour Robert Miles Contemporary Education Policy John Ahier and Michael Flude (eds) Solidarity: The Analysis of a Social Movement: Poland 1980–1981 Alain Touraine, François Dubet, Michel Wievorka, Jan Strzelcki The Rites of Rulers Christel Lane Political Anatomy of the Body: Medical Knowledge in Britain in the Twentieth Century David Armstrong Class, Sports, and Social Development Richard Gruneau Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word Walter J. Ong From Author to Reader Peter H. Mann