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Books reviewed: Edited by C. Kirkpatrick, R. Clarke and C. Polidano Handbook on Development Policy and Management Jane A. Pryer Poverty and Vulnerability in Dhaka Slums: The Urban Livelihoods Study Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen IQ and the Wealth of Nations Edited by Sara Oldfield The Trade in Wildlife: Regulation for Conservation John Degnbol‐Martinussen and Poul Engberg‐Pedersen Aid: Understanding International Development Cooperation Jules Pretty Agri‐Culture: Reconnecting People, Land and Nature     

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Globalisation in Historical Perspective. Edited by Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson Global Shaping and its Alternatives. Edited by Yildiz Atasoy and William K. Carroll Tapping the Market: The Challenge of Institutional Reform in the Urban Water Sector. By Andrew Nickson and Richard Franceys Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods: Uniting Science and Participation. Edited by Barry Pound, Sieglinde Snapp, Cynthia McDougall and Ann Braun Improving Adult Literacy Outcomes: Lessons from Cognitive Research for Developing Countries. By Helen Abadzi     

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Books reviewed in this article: Dipak Das Gupta and Mustapha K. Nabli (eds.), Trade, Investment and Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Engaging with the World Ian Bannon and Paul Collier (eds.), Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Options and Actions E. M. Krenin and G. P. Michael, Economic Integration and Development: Has Regionalism Delivered for Developing Countries? OECD, Trends in International Migration (SOPEMI Annual Report 2003 edition) World Bank, World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People James Petras, The New Development Politics: The Age of Empire Building and New Social Movements Aaditya Mattoo and Pierre Sauvé (eds.), Domestic Regulation and Service Trade Liberalisation Aaditya Mattoo and Antonia Carzaniga (eds.), Moving People to Deliver Services Graham Bird, International Finance and the Developing Economies Anil Markandya, Patrice Harou, Lorenzo Giovanni Bellu and Vito Cistulli, Environmental Economics for Sustainable Growth: A Handbook for Practitioners     

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Book reviewed in this article: Multinational firms, innovation and productivity. By Davide CASTELLANI and Antonello ZANFEI. Recent books: Children of the 21st century: From birth to nine months. Edited by Shirley DEX and Heather JOSHI. Gender mainstreaming — an innovation in Europe? The institutionalisation of gender mainstreaming in the European Commission. By Verena SCHMIDT. The labour movement in Pakistan: Organization and leadership in Karachi in the 1970s. By Zafar SHAHEED. New ILO publications: Civil society, participatory governance and decent work objectives: The case of South Africa. By Konstantinos PAPADAKIS. International Institute for Labour Studies. Social protection and inclusion: Experiences and policy issues. The new offshoring of jobs and global development. By Gary GEREFFI. Winners or losers? Liberalizing public services. Edited by Ellen ROSSKAM.     

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Books reviewed:
Thomas A. Sebeok, Global Semiotics
Ceil Lucas (ed.), The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages
Alison Wray, Formulaic Language and the Lexicon
Chris Barker and Dariusz Galasinski, Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis. A Dialogue on Language and Identity
Stanton Wortham, Narratives in Action: A Strategy for Research and Analysis
Carmen Silva–Corvalán, Sociolingüística y pragmática del español
M. Teresa Turell (ed.), Multilingualism in Spain: Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of Linguistic Minority Groups
Dennis Ager, Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy.
Aled Jones and Bill Jones, Welsh Reflections: Y Drych and America 1851–2001
Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Marianna Spanaki (eds.), A Reader in Greek Sociolinguistics—Studies in Modern Greek Language, Culture and Communication     

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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.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Human Development Report 2006: Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis. By the United Nations Development Programme. Does Foreign Aid Really Work? By Roger Riddell. Human Security and the UN: A Critical History. By S. Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong. Europe and its Immigrants in the 21st Century: A New Deal or a Continuing Dialogue of the Deaf? Edited by Demetrios G. Papademetriou. Immigration and America's Future: A New Chapter. By Doris Meissner, Deborah W. Meyers, Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Michael Fix. Fifty Key Thinkers on Development. Edited by David Simon. The Elgar Companion to Development Studies. Edited by David Alexander Clark.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community. Thomas A. Lyson Welfare Reform in West Virginia, by Robert Jay Dilger, Eleanor H. Blakely, Melissa Latimer, Barry L. Locke, F. Carson Mencken, L. Christopher Plein, Lucinda A. Potter, and David Williams. Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Ground. by Brian K. Obach. Agricultura y Sociedad en el Cambio de Siglo (Agriculture and Society at the Turn of the Century), edited by Cristóbal Gómez Benito and Juan Jesús González.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Irregular Migration. The Dilemmas of Transnational Mobility. By Bill Jordan and Frank Düvell. On the Move: Women in Rural‐to‐Urban Migration in Contemporary China. Edited By Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka. Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas. By Graham Davis. Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and “Mail Order” Marriages. By Nicole Constable. Coming Home? Refugees, Migrants and Those Who Stayed Behind. Edited by Lynellyn D. Long and Ellen Oxfield. International Immigration Policy: A Theoretical and Comparative Analysis. By Eytan Meyers. From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration. By Ann Miles. The European Union and Internal Security: Guardian of the People? By Valsamis Mitsi‐legas, Jörg Molnar and Wyn Rees. Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City. By Arlene Dàvila. Gender and US. Immigration: Contemporary Trends. Edited by P. Hondagneu‐Sotelo.     

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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.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Camembert: A National Myth, by Pierre Boisard When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity, by Kolleen M. Guy Together at the Table: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System, by Patricia Allen Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama's Catfish Industry, by Karni R. Perez From Rural Village to Global Village: Telecommunications for Development in the Information Age, by Heather E. Hudson     

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Book reviewed in this article: Poverty: Rural Sociological Society Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty . Poverty: Harvey , David L. Potter Addition: Poverty, Family, and Kinship in a Heartland Community. Poverty: Sinha , Arun . Against the Few: Struggles of India's Poor. Agriculture and Community: Bonanno , Alessandro (ed.). Agrarian Policies and Agricultural Systems. Agriculture and Community: Barlett , Peggy F. American Dreams: Rural Realities. Agriculture and Community: Mc Corkle , Constance M. (ed.). Plants, Animals, and People: Agropastoral Systems Research. Social Change: Goldscheider , Calvin (ed.). Fertility Transitions, Family Structure, and Population Policy. Social Change: Clay , Daniel C., and Harry K. Schwarzweller (eds.). Household Strategies. Social Change: Johnson , Patricia Lyons (ed.). Balancing Acts: Women and the Process of Social Change. Social Change: Escobar , Arturo, and Sonia E. Alvarez (eds.). The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy and Democracy. Social Change: Montgomery , William E. Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South 1865–1900. Social Change: Levy , Emanuel . Small-Town America in Film: The Decline and Fall of Community. Social Change: Fischer , Claude S. America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940.     

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Book reviewed in this article: New Seeds and Poor People. By Michael Lipton and Richard Longhurst Modernising Hunger: Famine, Food Surplus and Farm Policies in the EEC and Africa. By Philip Raikes Agriculture in the GATT: An Analysis of Alternative Approaches to Reform. By Joachim Zietz and Alberto Valdès The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Community: Principles and Consequences. By Julius Rosenblatt et al. The Open Economy: Tools For Policymakers in Developing Countries. Edited by Rudiger Dornbusch and F. Leslie C. H. Helmers Seeds and Sovereignty: the Use and Control of Plant Genetic Resources. Edited by Jack R. Kloppenburg, Jr.