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Keller, E. R., H. Hanus und Kl-U. Heyland, 1997. Handbuch des Pflanzenbaus 1: Grundlagen der landwirtschaftlichen Pflanzenproduktion. Verlag Eugen Ulmer     

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Phelps, Nicholas A., Multinationals and European Integration: Investment and Regional Development Lauria, Mickey (ed.), Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory: Regulating Urban Politics in a Global Economy Marsden, Terry; Lowe, Philip and Whatmore, Sarah (eds.), Rural Restructuring: Global Processes and Their Responses     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Structure of a Modern Economy : The United States , 1929–89. by Kenneth E. Boulding. Inequality Reexamined . Amartya Sen. Work in the Fast Lane : Flexibility , Divisions of Labor , and Inequality in High -Tech Industries . Glenna Colclough and Charles M. Tolbert II. Persistent Poverty in Rural America . Rural Sociological Society Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty. Deep Disagreement in U.S. Agriculture : Making Sense of Policy Conflict . by Christopher Hamlin and Philip T. Shepard. Dividing the Waters : Governing Groundwater in Southern California . William Blomquist. Trading Industries : Trading Regions . Helzi Noponen, Julie Graham and Ann Markusen, editors. Trading in a New World Order : The Impact of Telecommunications and Data Services on International Trade in Services by Bruno Lanvin, editor. Exports and Local Development : Mexico's New Maquiladoras . Patricia A. Wilson. Latin America's Turnaround : Privatization , Foreign Investment , and Growth . Paul H. Boeker, editor. The Dynamics of Liberalization : Tanzania and the IMF by Horace Campbell and Howard Stein, editors. Keynes General Theory of Interest : A Reconsideration . Fiona C. Maclachlan. Microcomputer -Based Input -Output Modeling : Applications to Economic Development . Daniel M. Otto and Thomas G. Johnson, editors.     

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Books reviewed: Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis, by David R. Meyer. Globalization and Networked Societies: Urban‐Regional Change in Pacific Asia, by Yue‐man Yeung. Regional Cohesion and Competition in the Age of Globalization, edited by Hirotada Kohno, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot. Employee Benefits and Labor Markets in Canada and the United States, edited by William T. Alpert and Stephen A. Woodbury. The Atlanta Paradox, edited by David L. Sjoquist. The Economics of Sports, edited by William S. Kern. Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development, by Asayehgn Desta.     

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Book reviews in this article: Family Portrait E. J. Kahn, Jr., The American People: The Findings of the 1970 Census. Suburban Sprawl Peter Hall et al., The Containment of Urban England: Volume 1, Urban and Metropolitan Growth Processes or Megalopolis Denied. International Perspective Peter Cowan, ed., The Future of Planning. Theory and Practice Gordon C. Cameron and Lowdon Wingo, eds., Cities, Regions and Public Policy. Quantitative Analysis Simon Kuznets, Population, Capital, and Growth: Selected Essays. Changing Relationships John Wong, Land Reform in the People's Republic of China: Institutional Transformation in Agriculture. Form and Reform Michael J. Brenner, The Political Economy of America's Environmnetal Dilemma. Environmental Policy Elmo Richardson, Dams, Parks & Politics: Resource Development & Preservation in the Truman-Eisenhower Era. Habitat Study Michael G. Barbour et al., Coastal Ecology: Bodega Head. Impoundment Authorization R. J. Burby et al., The Effects of Authorization for Water Impoundment on Shoreline Transition.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Taxing and Spending in West Africa: A Review Article Nigerian Federal Finance: Its Development, Problems and Prospects by Adebayo Adedeji. A Development Duo. Economic Progress and Policy in Developing Countries by Angus Maddison. Latin American Farmers Sharecroppers of the Sertão: Economics and Dependence on a Brazilian Plantation by Allen W. Johnson. The Anchovy as Engine of Growth. Fishing for Growth: Export-led Development in Peru, 1950-1967 by Michael Roemer. Doing Business with the Poor. The Ghetto Marketplace, edited by Frederick D. Sturdivant. Strategy for Lagging Areas. Intermediate-Size Cities as Growth Centers: Applications for Kentucky, the Piedmont Crescent, the Ozarks, and Texas by Niles M. Hansen. The Rural Poor. Cooperatives and Rural Poverty in the South by Ray Marshall and Lamond Godwin. A Full-Screen Picture. Predicament of the University by Henry David Aiken Sagacity Revisited Technology and Humanism: Some Exploratory Essays for Our Time by William G. Carleton. Urban Programs Surveyed. The Conscience of the Corporations: Business and Urban Affairs, 1967-1970 by Jules Cohn. Social Responsibility and Profits. Social Responsibilities of Business Corporations by the Committee for Economic Development     

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Elites and Change in the Kentucky Mountains by H. Dudley Plunkett and Mary Jean Bowman. Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky, 1973. xii + 204 pp. $11.00. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting by Daniel Bell. New York, Basic Books, Inc., 1973. xiv+507 pp. $12.50. The Second American Revolution: Some Personal Observations by John D. Rockefeller, 3rd. New York, Harper & Row, 1973. xvi + 189 pp. $6.50. Setting National Priorities: The 1974 Budget by Edward R. Fried, Alice M. Rivlin, Charles L. Schultze, and Nancy H. Teeters. Washington, D.C., The Brookings Institution, 1973. xx + 446 pp. $3.95 (paperback). Metropolitan Financing: The Milwaukee Experience, 1920-1970 by Donald J. Curran. Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1973. xiv + 166 pp. $11.50. Freedom to Build: Dweller Control of the Housing Process, edited by John F. C. Turner and Robert Fichter. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1972. xvi + 301 pp. $8.95. Pollution: Economy and Environment by Peter A. Victor. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1972. 247 pp. $17.50. Population, Resources, and the Future: Non-Malthusian Perspectives, edited by Howard M. Bahr, Bruce A. Chadwick, and Darwin L. Thomas. Provo, Utah, Brig-ham Young University Press, 1972. viii + 352 pp. $3.95 (paperback). For Better or for Worse: The Ecology of an Urban Area by Harold Gilliam. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1972. viii+184 pp. $5.95. Black Political Parties: An Historical and Political Analysis by Hanes Walton, Jr. New York, The Free Press, 1972. xii + 276 pp. $7.95. Biracial Politics: Conflict and Coalition in the Metropolitan South by Chandler Davidson. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1972. xviii +301 pp. $11.95. The Professor and the Public: The Role of the Scholar in the Modern World, compiled by Goldwin Smith. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1972. 124 pp. $4.95. Power over People by Louise B. Young. New York, Oxford University Press, 1973. xiv + 216 pp. $7.50. Highways to Nowhere: The Politics of City Transportation by Richard Hébert. Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1973. xviii +214 pp. $7.95.     

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Family , Household and Work
Edited by Klaus F. Zimmermann and Michael Vogler, Berlin: Springer‐Verlag. 2003. xiv + 427 pp. $99.00/£53.00 (hardcover). ISBN 3‐540‐00360‐6
Reviewed by John F. Watkins
Graduate Center for Gerontology
University of Kentucky The Global Internet Economy
Edited by Bruce Kogut, Cambridge MA: The MIT Press. 2004. 520 pp. $24.00 (paper) ISBN 0‐262‐61204‐6
Reviewed by Sharon C. Cobb
Department of Economics and Geography
University of North Florida Globalizing L.A.: Trade , Infrastructure and Regional Development
Steven P. Erie, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2004. 336 pp. ISBN 0‐804‐74681‐8
Reviewed by John Gulick
Department of Sociology
University of Tennessee
Knoxville Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States
Edited by Harry W. Richardson and Chang‐Hee Christine Bae, England: Ashgate. 2004. 342 pp. $89.95 ISBN 0‐7546‐3789‐1
Reviewed by Richard P. Greene
Department of Geography
Northern Illinois University     

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Book Reviewed in this Article: Possible Dreams. Robert L. Sansom, The New American Dream Machine: Public Outcry and Bureaucratic Response John Quarles, Cleaning Up America: Delivering Urban Services Thomas G. Cowing and A. G. Holtmann, The Economics of Local blic Service Consolidation. Lexington, Mass.: Six Crises Larry Cuban, Urban School Chiefs under Fire. Chicago: Poor Corporate Performance Robert A. Sigafoos, Corporate Real Estate Development. Lexington, Mass.: Earnest Efforts, Some Success Robert H. McNulty and Stephen A. Kliment, eds., Neighborhood Conservation: Aging Glamour Program Robert Cohen, “New Careers” Grows Older: Housing Hassles Janet K. Marantz, Karl E. Case 11, and Herman B. Leonard, Discrimination in Rural Housing: Dearth and Taxes George Sternlieb, Elizabeth Roistacher, and James W. Hughes, Tax Subsidies and Housing Investment: Coast Analysis Robert B. Ditton, John L. Seymour, and Gerald C. Swanson, Coastal Resources Management: Roots Herbert G. Gutman, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750–1925. New York: Briefer Mention Weather or Not Reid A. Bryson and Thomas J. Murray, Climates of Hunger:     

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Bacon, P. E. (ed.), Nitrogen fertilization in the environment.
Ross, S. M. (ed.), Toxic Metals in Soil-Plant Systems.
Kuntz, K., Rechtsprechung in Umweltsachen.
Eichhorn, M. (Hrsg.), Fachwörterbuch Biologie (Englisch-Deutsch).
Franke, G., Nutzpflanzen der Tropen und Subtropen; Bd. 1, Allgemeiner Pflanzenbau.     

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Books reviewed: Char Miller, Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict Michael Dear, (ed.) From Chicago to L.A.: Making Sense of Urban Theory Martin Dangerfield, Subregional Economic Cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe: The Political Economy of CEFTA Kenneth Button and Roger Stough, Air Transport Networks: Theory and Policy Implications     

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Book Review in this Article. Alan L. Sorkin, The Urban American Indian. Gustav Donald Jud, Inflation and the Use of Indexing in Developing Countries. Robert W. Burchell and George Sternlieb, eds., Planning Theory in the 1980's Arlo Woolery, ed., The Art of Valuation. Hans Blumenfeld, Metropolis… and Beyond: Selected Essays Elihu Bergman, Hans A. Bethe, and Robert E. Marshak, eds., American Energy Choices before the Year 2000. Tundra Train Theodore Shabad and Victor L. Mote, Gateway to Siberian Resources New Crop Thomas R. Ford, ed., Rural U.S.A.: Persistence and Change. Michael R. Greenberg et al., A Primer on Industrial Environmental Impact. Jack H. Irving et al., Fundamentals of Personal Rapid Transit. Lexington, Mass. Lester B. Lave and Eugene P. Seskin, Air Pollution and Human Health. Henry S. Rowen et al., Options for U.S. Energy Policy.     

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Larcher, W., Physiological Plant Ecology. 3rd, completely and enlarged ed., translated from the German by J. Wieser.
Köhler, W., G. Schachtel und P. Voleske. Biostatistik Einführung in die Biometrie für Biologen und Agrarwissenschaftler.
Stan, H.-J. (ed.), Analysis of Pesticides in Ground and Surface Water I. Vol. 11. Ebing, W., H. Börner, D. Martin et al. (eds.): Chemistry of Plant Protection.
Stan, H.-J. (ed.), Analysis of Pesticides in Ground and Surface Water II. Vol. 12. Ebing, W., H. Börner, D. Martin et al. (eds.): Chemistry of Plant Protection.
Rehm, S. und G. Espig, Die Kulturpflanzen der Tropen und Subtropen. Eugen Eulmer, Stuttgart, 1996: 3., neubtrarbeitete Auflage.
Koepf, H.H., W. Schaumann, M. Haccius, Biologisch-dynamische Landwirtschaft –Eine Einführung, 1996: 4., völlig neu bearbeitete und neu gestaltete Auflage.     

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Book review in this article: The California Cauldron : Immigration and the Changing Fortunes of Local . Communities . By William A.V. Clark. Structural Economics , by Faye Dunchin.     

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Books reviewed Joel Greenberg, A Natural History Of The Chicago Region. James H. Carr and Zhong Yi Tong, Replicating Microfinance In The United States.     

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Books reviewed: The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Cures, and Systemic Implications, by Morris Goldstein. Sustaining the Asia Pacific Miracle: Environmental Protection And Economic Integration, by Andre Dua and Daniel C. Esty. Institutions and Regional Labour Markets in Europe, by Lambert van der Laan and Santos M. Ruesga. Global Shift. Transforming the World Economy, 3rd Ed., by Peter Dicken. Environment, Health and Population Displacement, by Andrew E. Collins.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agriculture , Environment , and Health : Sustainable Development in the 21st Century . Vernon W. Ruttan, Editor. Managing Water as an Economic Resource . James Winpenny. Trials of Transition : Economic Reform in the Former Communist Bloc . Michael Keren and Gur Ofer, Editors. Tower Block : Modern Public Houslng in England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland . Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius. Capital and Communities in Black and White : The Intersections of Race , Class , and Uneven Development . Gregory S. Restructuring for Innovation : The Remaking of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry . David P. Angel. Technopolis : High -Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California . Allen J. Scott.     

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Books Reviewed in this Article:
Bajaj, Y. P. S. (ed.) Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry. Vol. 27. Somatic Hybridisation in Crop Improvement I.
Leigh, R. A. and A. E. Johnston (eds.): Long-term Experiments in Agriculture and Ecological Sciences.
Diercks, R. und R. Heitefuß (Hrsg.), Integrierter Landbau.
Klimek, S., Stand der Triticale-Forschung in Polen (Winter- und Sommertriticale). Heraus-gegeben von M. Zoschke. Osteuropastudien der Hochschulen des Landes Hessen. Reihe I: Gießener Abhandlungen zur Agra- und Wirtschaftsforschung des europäischen Ostens.
Allen, P. (ed.), Food for the Future. Conditions and Contradictions of Sustainability.
Virmani, S. S.: Heterosis and Hybrid Rice Breeding. Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics 22.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Understanding and Action
Peter Marris, Community Planning and Conceptions of Change. Policy Fad?
George W. Gau and Michael A. Goldberg, eds., North American Housing Markets into the Twenty-First Century. View from the Inside
W. G. Roeseler, Successful American Urban Plans. Theory Kickers
Philip L. Clay and Robert M. Hollister, eds., Neighborhood Policy and Planning. Invisible Hand
Albert M. Church, Conflicts over Resource Ownership: The Use of Public Policy by Private Interests. Beyond Growth Poles
Dennis A. Rondinelli, Secondary Cities in Developing Countries: Policies for Diffusing Urbanization. Clearing Obstacles
Max Neiman and Barbara J. Burt, eds., The Social Constraints on Energy-Policy Implementation. Causes and Relationships
Richard J. Cebula, Geographic Living-Cost Differentials. The Separatists
Pierre Clavel, Opposition Planning in Wales and Appalachia. International Buffet
Lawrence Susskind and Michael Elliott, Paternalism, Conflict, and Coproduction: Learning from Citizen Action and Citizen Participation in Western Europe. Social Impact Assessment
Steve H. Murdock, F. Larry Leistritz, and Rita R. Hamm, eds., Nuclear Waste: Socioeconomic Dimensions of Long-Term Storage. Two Environmental Problems
Partha Dasgupta, The Control of Resources. Cambridge