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MYTHS OF CHILDHOOD. Joel Paris. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2000     

Book Review

Book reviewed in this article: WOMEN IN FAMILIES . A Framework for Family Therapy. McGoldrick, M., Anderson, C.M. & Walsh, F. (Eds.). SEX, LOVE AND VIOLENCE . Cloe Madanes. TAPROOTS . William Hudson O'Hanlon. New York THE BLAMMO-SURPRISE BOOK . Stephen R. Lankton SAMMY THE ELEPHANT AND MR. CAMEL . Joyce C. Mills, PhD and Richard J. Crowley, PhD TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT . Joy Hayward and David Carlyle. DEAD BIRDS SINGING . Marc Talbert. A GIRL LIKE ABBY . Hadley Irwin. YOU TAKE THE HIGH ROAD . Mary K. Pershall. LANGUAGE STRUCTURE AND CHANGE — Frameworks of Meaning in Psychotherapy . Jay S. Efran, Michael D. Lukens and Robert J. Lukens. A SYSTEMIC HARPOON INTO FAMILY GAMES . Giuliana Prata. CARDBOARD . Fiona Place.     

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Author. Donald E. Nuechterlein Title: America Overcommitted: United States National Interests in the 1980s Publisher. The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506–0024 Publication Date: January 26, 1985 Price: $23.00 cloth, $10.00 paper Audience: adult—public affairs Reviewed by Gerald A. Danzer.

Author: Stephen G. Bunker Title: Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State. Publisher's name and address: University of Illinois Press—Urbana Publication Date: 1985 Price: $24.50 Audience: Secondary social studies—economics, government, sociology. Reviewed by Lucien Ellington.     

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Milton Meltzer: The Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words, Thomas Y. Crowell, 10 East 53rd Street New York, NY 10022, September 26, 1984, Price $13.50 Audience: Junior High/up Reviewed by Helen Richardson.     

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Vickery DM: LifePlan for Your Health. Reading, Addison-Wesley, 1978     

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This article is concerned with current understandings of the relevance of urban community studies within sociology. It starts by revisiting some of the major critiques made of community studies in the 1960s and 1970s, and briefly reviews whether network analysis, and in particular a focus on ‘personal communities’, provided a satisfactory alternative approach. The main part of the article argues that despite the criticisms there have been there is still much to be gained from a focus on people's attachments to locality, including the networks to which they are linked. Taking processes of globalization and migration as its major themes, the article explores how research has demonstrated the continuing relevance of ‘locality’ and ‘community’ for understanding the ways that contemporary social and economic transformations shape people's experiences. As well as considering different aspects of social exclusion, the article reviews how recent studies have explored the increasingly complex interplay of locality and identity.