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Book reviewed in this articles:
Bajaj, Y. P. S. (ed.), Legumes and Oilseed Crops I .
Rieger, R., A. Michaelis, and M. M. Green, Glossary of Genetics — Classical and Molecular. Fifth edition.
Pirone, Thomas P., and John Y. Shaw (eds.), Viral Genes and Plant Pathogenesis.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Saving The Planet : How To Shape An Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy . Lester R. Brown, Christopher Flavin and Sandra Postel. International Trade And Global Development : Essays In Honour Of Jagdish Bhagwati . Edited by Ad Koekkoek and L.B.M Mennes. The State Offshore : Petroleum , Politics And State Intervention On The British And Norwegian Continental Shelves . Brent F. Nelson. The Promised Land : The Great Black Migration And how IT Changed America . Nicholas Lemann. The Burden Of Dependency : Colonial Themes in Southern Economic Thought . Joseph J. Persky. Credrr Where It's Due : Development Banking for Communities . Julie Ann Parzen and Michael Hall Kieschnick. Challenging Uneven Development : An Urban Agenda For The 1990s. Edited by Philip W. Nyden and Wim Wiewel. Sources Of Metropolean Growth . Edited by Edwin S. Mills and John F. McDonald Soft Coal , Hard Choices : The Economic Welfare Of Bituminous Coal Miners , 1890–1930. Price V. Fishback. South Africa's Labor Empire : A History Of Black Migrancy To The Gold Mines . Jonathon Crush, Alan Jeeves, and David Yudelman. Politics Or Markets ? Essays On Haitian Underdevelopment . Mats Lundahl. The Illusion Of Choice : How The Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny . Andrew Bard Schmookler. Wilderness Areas, Regional Planning, and the Quality of Life     

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Book reviews in this article: Border Linkages. Peggy B. Musgrave, ed. If the Creek Rises. Raymond J. Burby and Steven P. French, with Beverly A. Cigler, Edward J. Kaiser, David H. Moreau, and Bruce Stiftel That Rising Sun Duane Kujawa, Japanese Multinationals in the United States: Toward a High-Tech Economy John Rees, ed., Technology, Regions, and Policy. Impacts on Humans James A. Lee, The Environment, Public Health, and Human Ecology: Public Finance in Canada Douglas J. McCready, The Canadian Public Sector. Toronto: A Survey of Industrialization Policies Robert N. Gwynne, Industrialization and Urbanization in Latin America. Baltimore: The Risk Takers Robert C. Perez, Inside Venture Capital: Past, Present and Future. New York: Policy Directions Charles R. Warren, ed., Urban Policy in a Changing Federal System: Proceedings of a Symposium. Power for the Future Adela Maria Bolet, ed., Forecasting U.S. Electricity Demands: Trends and Methodologies.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Transformation of Communist Systems : Economic Reform Since the 1950S. by Bernard Chavance. Postcommunist Economic Transformation : Essays in Honor of Gregory Grossman . by Robert W. Campbell (ed.).     

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Book reviewed in this article: Training for the Labor Market R. Thayne Robson, ed., Employment and Training R & D: Lessons Learned and Future Directions. Symbols, Concepts, and Approaches Lloyd Rodwin and Robert M. Hollister, eds., Cities of the Mind: Images and Themes of the City in the Social Sciences. Power and Purity Richard D. Brown, Robert P. Ouellette, and Paul N. Cheremisinoff, Pollution Control at Electric Power Stations: Comparisons for U.S. and Europe. Biosocial Reckoning William R. Burch, Jr. and Donald R. DeLuca, Measuring the Social Impacts of Natural Resource Policies. Pinching the Purse Terry Nichols Clark and Lorna Crowley Ferguson, City Money: Political Processes, Fiscal Strain, and Retrenchment. Polis and Policy Royce Hanson, ed., Rethinking Urban Policy: Urban Development in an Advanced Economy. Unequal Health Ann Lennarson Greer and Scott Greer, eds., Cities and Sickness: Health Care in Urban America.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Women's Work
Phyllis Andors, The Unfinished Liberation of Chinese Women, 1949–1980. Costs of Change
Larry Sawers and William K. Tabb, eds., Sunbelt/Snowbelt: Urban Development and Regional Restructuring. Main Street, U.S.A.
Harley E. Johansen and Glenn V. Fuguitt, The Changing Rural Village in America: Demographic and Economic Trends since 1950. What Is Dangerous?
Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky, Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers. Becoming Oriented
Clifton W. Pannell and Laurence J. C. Ma, China: The Geography of Development and Modernization. Immigrants and Citizens
Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Mark J. Miller, eds., The Unavoidable Issue: U.S. Immigration Policy in the 1980s. The Rising South
Robert J. Newman, Growth in the American South: Changing Regional Employment and Wage Patterns in the 1960s and 1970s. Into the Nineties
Anthony Downs, Rental Housing in the 1980s.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Numbers Racket
Richard A. Easterlin, Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare. The Decision to Work
James P. Smith, ed., Female Labor Supply: Theory and Estimation. The Character of a People
Solomon B. Levine and Hisashi Kawada, Human Resources in Japanese Industrial Development. Beyond Nine to Five
Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, ed., Women and Household Labor Owner's Manual
Karen R. Polenske, The U.S. Multiregional Input-Output Accounts and Model. Collective Concerns
Scott Cummings, ed., Self-Help in Urban America: Patterns of Minority Business Enterprise. St. Louis Blues
Eugene I. Meehan, The Quality of Federal Policymaking: Programmed Failure in Public Housing. The Hard-Soft Path
Gregory A. Daneke and George K. Lagassa, eds., Energy Policy and Public Administration. Also of Interest
Ralph Andreano and John J. Siegfried, eds., The Economics of Crime. Regina Belz Armstrong et al., Regional Accounts: Structure and Performance of the New York Region's Economy in the Seventies, ed. Boris S. Pushkarev and Peter J. Bearse. Malcolm Gillis and Ralph E. Beak, Tax and Investment Policies for Hard Minerals: Public and Multinational Enterprises in Indonesia. Arthur P. Solomon, ed., The Prospective City: Economic, Population, Energy, and Environmental Developments. George Sternlieb, James W. Hughes, et al., America's Housing: Prospects and Problems. Edward L. Ullman, Geography as Spatial Interaction, ed.     

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Book reviewed in this article: History in One Word
James W. Martin, State Tax Systems under Changing Technology: The Problem of the Roadways, ed. Richard E. Gift. A Redefined Redefinition
Andrew Marshall Hamer, ed., Urban Atlanta: Redefining the Role of the City, Research Monograph no. 84. Where It Hurts
Donald Phares, Who Pays State and Local Taxes? Feminine Subtleties
Ralph E. Smith, ed., The Subtle Revolution: Women at Work. The Golden State
John H. Culver and John C. Syer, Power and Politics in California. Multiregional Models
F. Gerard Adams and Norman J. Glickman, eds., Modeling the Multiregional Economic System: Perspectives for the Eighties. All the Models That Fit
Norbert Oppenheim, Applied Models in Urban and Regional Analysis. Social Fabric
Roger S. Ahlbrandt, Jr. and James V. Cunningham, A New Public Policy for Neighborhood Preservation. In Search of a Model
Charles I. Zinser, The Economic Impact of the Adirondack Park Private Land Use and Development Plan. Weighing Alternatives
Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale.     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Linnert, Gertrud, Lehrbuch der Allegmeinen Cytogenetik.
Shahidi, Fereidoon (ed.), Canola and Rapeseed. Production, Chemistry, Nutrition and Processing Technology.
Gupta, P. K., and T. Tsuchiya (eds.), Chromosome Engineering in Plants: Genetics, Breeding, Evolution, Part A.
Fendrik, I., und J. Bors, Stralenschäden an pflanzen. Handbuch der Pflanzenkrankheiten, Band 1: Die nichtparasitären Krankheiten. 6.     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Bajaj, Y. P. S. (ed.), Rice. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry.
Stalker, H. T, and J. P. Murphy (eds.), Plant Breeding in the 1990s.
Murray, D. R., Advanced Methods in Plant Breeding and Biotechnology.     

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Book Review in this Article: The Human Dimension of Housing Defensible Space: Crime Prevention through Urban Design by Oscar Newman The Welfare Mess Do the Poor Want to Work? A Social-Psychological Study of Work Orientations by Leonard Coodwin. Work and Welfare Go Together by Sar A. Levitan, Martin Rein, and David Marwick. Traditional Issues Examined An American Philosophy of Social Security: Evolution and Issues by J. Douglas Brown A Potpourri of Attitudes Poverty, Economics, and Society, edited by Helen Ginsburg. The Contemporary American City The Social Construction of Communities by Gerald D. The Social Sciences and the City The City in the Seventies, edited by Robert K. Yin. Itasca Political Turnabout in Dixie The Changing Politics of the South, edited by William C. Microscope on Nova Scotia Regional Science Techniques in Practice: The Case of Nova Scotia by Stan Czamanski. A Reasonably Balanced Picture Human Resources and Labor Markets: Labor and Manpower in the American Economy by Sar A. Levitan Race and Class Busing and Backlash: White against White in a California School District by Lillian B. Rubin. Capital Issues Rate of Profit, Distribution and Growth: Two Views by J. A. Kregel Farm Problems Discussed The Overproduction Trap in U.S.Agriculture: A Study of Resource Allocation from World Warf to the Late 1960's, edited by Glenn L. Johnson and C. Leroy Quance. First of Its Kind Conservation in the Soviet Union by Philip R. Pryde. On Nature's Behalf Let Them Live: A Worldwide Survey of Animals Threatened with Extinction by Kai Curry-Lindahl.     

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Book Review in this Article. Lawrence B. Burrows, Growth Management: Issues, Techniques, and Policy Implications. Dennis L. Meadows, ed., Alternatives to Growth–I: A Search for Sustainable Futures. Mark Harrison Moore, Buy and Bust: The Effective Regulation of an Illicit Market in Heroin. W. R. Derrick Sewell and J. T. Coppock, eds., Public Participation in Planning. Dennis A. Rondinelli and Kenneth Ruddle, Urbanization and Rural Development: A Spatial Policy for Equitable Growth. Charles Pearson and Anthony Pryor, Environment: North and South–An Economic Interpretation. Alan A. Brown and Egon Neuberger, eds., Internal Migration: A Comparative Perspective. Boris S. Pushkarev and Jeffrey M. Zupan, Public Transportation and Land Use Policy. Stephen P. Dresch, An-loh Lin, and David K. Stout, Substituting a Value-Added Tax for the Corporate Income Tax: First-Round Analysis. Cornelis P. A. Bartels, Economic Aspects of Regional Welfare, Income Distribution, and Unemployment Dean T. Jamison and Emile G. McAnany, Radio for Education and Development Henry End, Interiors Second Book of Hotels. Harvey M. Rubenstein, Central City Malls. George Sternlieb and James W. Hughes, Current Population Trends in the United States. Perspectives on State Demographic Activities. David J. Borchert and James D. Fitzsimmons, Recent Population Change in the United States: A Series of Maps. Brian J. L. Berry and Quentin Gillard, The Changing Shape of Metropolitan America: Commuting Patterns, Urban Fields, and Decentralization Processes, 1960-1970.     

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Judd Hammack and Gardner Mallard Brown, Jr., Waterfowl and Wetlands: Toward Bioeconomic Analysis. Peter Amory Bradford, Fragile Structures: A Story of Oil Refineries, National Security, and the Coast of Maine. Marion Clawson, Forests for Whom and for What? Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Thomas H. Naylor and James Clotfelter, Strategies for Change in the South. C. lames Sample, Patterns of Regional Economic Change: A Quantitative Analysis of U.S. Regional Growth and Development. Niles M. Hansen, The Challenge of Urban Growth: The Basic Economics of City Size and Structure. Lexington, Mass.; D. C. Heath Michael Harloe, Ruth Issacharoff, and Richard Minns, The Organization of Housing: Public and Private Enterprise in London. Philip H. Friedly, National Policy Responses t o Urban Growth. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath William G. Grigsby and Louis Rosenburg, Urban Housing policy. Charles Elliott, Patterns of Poverty in the Third World: A Study of Social and Economic Stratification. Edward Allan Brawley, The New Human Services Worker: Community College Education and the Social Services. Judah Matras, Social Inequality, Stratification, and Mobility. Robert N. Butler, Why Survive? Being Old in America. Ronald B. Taylor, Chavez and the Farm Workers. George A. Davis and 0. Fred Donaldson, Blacks in The United States: A Geographic Perspective. Donald I. Warren, Black Neighborhoods: An Assessment of Community Power. Walter Isard, Introduction to Regional Science. Englewood Cliffs Mihajlo Mesarovic and Eduard Pestel, Mankind at the Turning Point: The Second Report to the Club of Rome.     

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Poor Old Citizens Richard S. Sterne, James E. Phillips, and Alvin Rabushka, The Urban Elderly Poor: Racial and Bureaucratic Conflict. Who Gets Healed? Leon S. Robertson et al., Changing the Medical Care System: A Controlled Experiment in Comprehensive Care. The Not-So-Silent Majority League of Women Voters Educational Fund, Super-city/Hometown, USA. Parks without Muggers August Heckscher, Alive in the City: Memoirs of an Excommisioner. A Reprieve for the Inner City Blue Collar Neighborhood Robert B. Zehner and F. Stuart Chapin, Across the City Line: A White Community in Transition. Recent Developments Franklin L. James, ed., Models of Employment and Residence Location. David Birch et al., Patterns of Urban Change: The New Haven Experience. Man vs. Nature John Passmore, Man's Responsibility for Nature: Ecological Problems and Western Traditions. Dirty Water Julian McCaull and Janice Crossland, Water Pollution. Getting in Deeper L. Douglas James, ed., Man and Water: The Social Sciences in Management of Water Resources. Water and Development W. Cris Lewis et al., Regional Growth and Water Resource Investment. Coming in from the Cold S. David Freeman, Energy: The New Era. Exotic Travelogue Ray Vicker, The Kingdom of Oil: The Middle East, Its People and Its Power. Global Reach United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Multinational Corporations in World Development. Education and Rural Development Philip H. Coombs with Manzoor Ahmed, Attacking Rural Poverty: How Nonformal Education Can Help. Cautious Optimism Richard Ward, Development Issues for the 1970s. Preparing for the Apocalypse Kenneth E. F. Watt, The Titanic Effect: Planning for the Unthinkable. Briefer Mention The United Regions of America Computer Models Peter House, The Preparing New Elites Working within the Ecosystem Leonard A. Stevens, Clean Water: Nature's Way to Stop Pollution. A New New York Jonathan Barnett, Urban Design as Public Policy.     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Ahuja, M.R.(ed): Somatic Cell Genetics of Woody Plants(Forestry Sciences).
Lichtenthler, H. K (ed.): Applications of Chlorophyl Fluorescence.
Iwanami, Y., T. Sasakuma, and Y. yamada: Pollen: Illustrations and Scanning Electronmicrographics.
Klingmüller, W., Risk Assessment for Deliberate Releases. The Possible Impact of Genetically Engineered Microorganisms on the Environment.
Broertjes, C., and A. M. van Harten: Applied Mutation Breeding for Vegetatively Propagated Crops (Developments in Crop Science, 12).
Hawkes, J.G., and J.P. Hjerting: The Potatoes of Bolivia: Their Breeding Value and Evolutionary Relationships.     

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Book reviews in this article: Straight Talk from Our Former Editor U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (prepared by Lawrence R. Klein and Susan Ghozeil), A Popularized Version of 21 Doctoral Dissertations, R & D monograph. The Well-Tempered Caveat Benjamin Chinitz, ed., The Declining Northeast: Demographic and Economic Analyses.. George Sternlieb and James W. Hughes, eds., Revitalizing the Northeast: Prelude to an Agenda.. The Economic Solution William J. Baumol and Wallace E. Oates, Economics, Environmental Policy, and the Quality of Life. The No-Free-Lunch Bunch Harold Sprout and Margaret Sprout, The Context of Environmental Politics: Unfinished Business for America's Third Century. Of Flora, Fish, and Titmice Ian C. Laurie, ed., Nature in Cities: The Natural Environment in the Design and Development of Urban Green Space. An Array of Options David J. Bartholomew and Andrew F. Forbes, Statistical Techniques for Manpower Planning. Reusing Resources David W. Pearce and Ingo Walter, eds., Resource Conservation: Social and Economic Dimensions of Recycling. Once More with Fueling Wallace E. Tyner, Energy Resources and Economic Development in India. Left-of-Center Viewpoint Jeannine Swift, Economic Development in Latin America. Edward J. Blakely, ed., Community Development Research: Concepts, Issues, and Strategies. Elchanan Cohn, The Economics of Education P. W. Daniels, ed., Spatial Patterns of Office Growth and Location. Douglas Evans, Western Energy Policy: The Case for Competition. R. A. French and F. E. Ian Hamilton, eds., The Socialist City: Spatial Structure and Urban Policy. D. A. Kirby, Slum Housing and Residential Renewal: The Case in Urban Britain. Thomas D. Lynch, Public Budgeting in America. Ragaei El Mallakh, Qatar: Development of an Oil Economy. Roberta Balstad Miller, City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development. Rakesh Mohan, Urban Economic and Planning Models: Assessing the Potential for Cities in Developing Countries. Joseph P. Newhouse, The Economics of Medical Care: A Policy Perspective. John L. Palmer, ed., Creating Jobs: Public Employment Programs and Wage Subsidies. V. Kerry Smith, ed., Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered.     

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Book Review in this Article Ralph M. Kramer, Voluntary Agencies in the Welfare State. Boris S. Pushkarev with Jeffrey M. Zupan and Robert S. Cumella, Urban Rail in America: An Exploration of Criteria for Fixed-Guideway Transit. Jon Van Til, Living with Energy Shortfall: A Future for American Towns and Cities. Robert Orr Whyte and Pauline Whyte, The Women of Rural Asia. William P. Browne and Don F. Hadwiger, eds., Rural Policy Problems: Changing Dimensions. Alan Lewis, The Psychology of Taxation. A. G. Aganbegyan, ed., Regional Studies for Planning and Projecting: The Siberian Experience. Yusuf J. Ahmad and Frank G. Müller, eds., Integrated Physical, Socio-economic, and Environmental Planning Bela Balassa, Development Strategies in Semi-industrial Economies. Steven C. Ballard et al., Water and Western Energy: Impacts, Issues, and Choices Dennis Bloodworth, The Messiah and the Mandarins: Mao Tsetung and the Ironies of Power. Landrum R. Bolling with Craig Smith, Private Foreign Aid: U.S. Philanthropy for Relief and Development. Coralie Bryant and Louise G. White, Managing Development in the Third World. V. Bulmer-Thomas, Input-Output Analysis in Developing Countries: Sources, Methods, and Applications. Robert W. Burchell and David Listokin, eds., Energy and Land Use. Canada, Department of Regional Economic Expansion, A Guide to Regional Multiplier Estimation Michael J. Carter and William H. Leahy, eds., New Directions in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations. E. William Colglazier, Jr., ed., The Politics of Nuclear Waste. Martin Counihan, A Dictionary of Energy.     

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Book reviewed in this article: North of the Border
Niles Hansen, The Border Economy: Regional Development in the Southwest. Cruel, But Not Unusual
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, The Cruel Dilemmas of Development: Twentieth-Century Brazil. The Pursuit of Natural Resources
Gordon C. Bjork, Life, Liberty, and Property: The Economics and Politics of Land-Use Planning and Environmental Controls. The Old Neighborhood
Shirley Bradway Laska and Daphne Spain, eds., Back to the City: Issues in Neighborhood Renovation. Factory Fixation
Barry M. Moriarty et al., Industrial Location and Community Development. City Salmagundi
Lisa Taylor, ed., Urban Open Spaces. Consumption and Protection
Horst Siebert, Economics of the Environment. Ownership Threshold
George Sternlieb and James W. Hughes, The Future of Rental Housing. Going with the Flow
David L. Brown and John M. Wardwell, eds., New Directions in Urban-Rural Migration: The Population Turnaround in Rural America. Energy, Marine, and Water Resources
Chennat Gopalakrishnan, Natural Resources and Energy: Theory and Policy. Eat Your Lawn
Robert Rodale, Our Next Frontier: A Personal Guide for Tomorrow's Lifestyle. American Odyssey
Mark Kramer, Three Farms: Making Milk, Meat, and Money from the American Soil. Also of Interest
Jeffrey I. Chapman, Proposition 13 and Land Use: A Case Study of Fiscal Limits in California. J. P. Cole, The Development Gap: A Spatial Analysis of World Poverty and Inequality. W. L. L'Esperance, The Structure and Control of a State Economy. Frank J. Popper, The Politics of Land-Use Reform. Ira M. Robinson, Canadian Urban Growth Trends: Implications for a National Settlement Policy, Human Settlement Issues, vol. 5. Frederick Steiner, The Politics o f New Town Planning: The Newfields, Ohio Story.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Economic Theory for Environmentalists . By John Gowdy and Sabine O'Hara. The Environmental Imagination : Thoreau , Nature Writing , and the Formation of American Culture . by Lawrence Buell. Wild Forests : Conservation Biology and Public Policy . William S. Alverson, Walter Kuhlmann and Donald M. Waller. Social Theory and the Global Environment . edited by Michael Redclift and Ted Benton. At Risk : Natural Hazards , People's Vulnerability , and Disasters . by Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, Ian Davis, and Ben Wisner. ‘Viva’ : Women and Popular Protest in Latin America . edited by Sarah A. Radeliffe and Salk Westwood Money , Power and Space . edited by Stuart Corbridge, Ron Martin and Nigel Thrift. Managing Geographic Information Systems by Nancy J. Obermeyer and Jeffrey K. Pinto.