Book Reviews

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 reviewed in this article: Measuring Poverty John W. Mellor and Gunvant M. Desai, Agricultural Change and Rural Poverty: Variations on a Theme. Third World Cities Robert B. Potter. Urbanisation and Planning in the 3rd World: Spatial Perceptions and Public Participation. Urban Economics for the Practitioner John M. Levy. Urban and Metropolitan Economics. Perspectives on Europe George Demko, ed., Regional Development: Problems and Policies in Eastern and Western Europe. Southern Land Use Robert G. Healy, Competition for Land in the American South: Agriculture, Human Settlement, and the Environment. Change in the United Kingdom A. Amin and J. Goddard, eds., Technological Change, Industrial Restructuring, and Regional Development. A Look at Marketing Boards Kwame Arhin, Paul Hesp, and Laurens van der Laan, eds., Marketing Boards in Tropical Africa. A Significant Step Ann Roell Markusen, Profit Cyucle, Oligopoly, and Regional Development. Steering Group Study Catherine Stirling and John N. Yockelson, eds., Under Pressure: U.S. Industry and the Challenges of Structural Adjustment.     

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Book reviewed in this article: How Much Is Enough?
Paul Burrows, The Economic Theory of Pollution Control. The High-Tech Dilemma
New England Regional Commission, The New England Regional Plan: An Economic Development Strategy. Masters of Development
Saburo Okita, The Developing Economies and Japan: Lessons in Growth. Perils of the Protoproletariat
Ingolf Vogeler, The Myth of the Family Farm: Agribusiness Dominance of U.S. Agriculture. For Better or Worse
Martin Kupferman and Maurice D. Levi, Slowth: The Changing Economy and How You Can Successfully Cope. Uncle Sam and Old Sol
John H. Minan and William H. Lawrence, eds., Legal Aspects of Solar Energy. Managing Agricultural Resources
Sandra S. Batie and Robert G. Healy, eds., The Future of American Agriculture as a Strategic Resource. Boom Town Women
Elizabeth Moen et al., Women and the Social Costs of Economic Development: Two Colorado Case Studies. The British Economy
Bill Jordan, Automatic Poverty. Planning by Synthesis
Melville C. Branch, Continuous City Planning: Integrating Municipal Management and City Planning. Social Cleavage
Lynne C. Burkhart, Old Values in a New Town: The Politics of Race and Class in Columbia, Maryland. Unconventional Wisdom
P. T. Bauer, Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion. Fueling Better
Joy Dunkerley et al., Energy Strategies for Developing Nations. Michael Satow and Ray Desmond, Railways of the Raj. Also of Interest
J. A. Allan, Libya: The Experience of Oil. Boulder, Col.: Westview I. Amon, Modernization of Agriculture in Developing Countries: Resources, Potentials, and Problems. James E. Austin, Agroindustrial Project Analysis. Robert H. Bates, Markets and States in Tropical Afica: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies. Ian Bell, The Dominican Republic. Mark Blacksell and Andrew W. Gilg, The Countryside: Planning and Change. Larry S. Bourne, The Geography of Housing. P. R. Brahmananda, Growthless Inflation by Means of Stockless Money: A New Classical lYeatise on Rising Prices. Lawrence A. Brown, Innovation Diffusion: A New Perspective. Stanley D. Brunn and James O. Wheeler, The American Metropolitan System: Present and Future. Robert W. Burchell and David Listokin, eds., Cities under Stress: The Fiscal Crises of Urban America. Chong-Shik Chung and Gahb-chol Kim, eds., North Korean Communism: A Comparative Analysis. Albert M. Church, Taxation of Nonrenewable Resources. Diana Conyers, An Introduction to Social Planning in the Third World. Michael Dunn, Marilyn Rawson, and Alan Rogers, Rural Housing: Competition and Choice. John Gilderbloom, ed., Rent Control: A Source Book. David G. Green, Power and Party in an English City: An Account of Single-Party Rule. Philip Hanson, Trade and Technology in Soviet-Western Relations. George W. Hoffman, ed., Federalism and Regional Development: Case Studies on the Experience in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. Richard H. Jackson and Lloyd E. Hudman, World Regional Geography: Issues for Today.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Toward the Grand Design Michael Peter Smith, ed., Cities in Transformation: Class, Capital, and the State. Neighborhood Nexus Peggy Wireman, Urban Neighborhoods, Networks, and Families: New Forms for Old Values. Geographic Dimension Dennis A. Rondinelli, Applied Methods of Regional Analysis: The Spatial Dimensions of Development Policy. Politics and Policy Charles Gore, Regions in Question: Space, Development Theoy and Regional Policy. Thinking about Change Kristi Branch, Douglas A. Hooper, James Thompson, and James Creighton, Guide to Social Assessment: A Framework For Assessing Social Change. Revenue and Responsibility James H. Carr, ed. Crisis and Constraint in Municipal Finance. Many-Centered Cities Jack Meltzer, Metropolis to Metroplex: The Social and Spatial Planning of Cities.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Carrot and the Stick
Douglas Yuill, Kevin Allen, and Chris Hull, eds., Regional Policy in the European Community: The Role of Regional Incentives. Western Biases
Barbara Rogers, The Domestication of Women: Discrimination in Developing Societies. Minding Their P's
Robert Cassidy, Livable Cities: A Grass-Roots Guide to Rebuilding Urban America. Handcuffed
John Braithwaite, Inequality, Crime, and Public Policy. From the Bridge
Robert S. Cook, Jr., Zoning for Downtown Urban Design: How Cities Control Development. Housing around the World
Chester C. McGuire, International Housing Policies: A Comparative Analysis. Montana Monograph
Thomas M. Power, The Economic Value of the Quality of Life. The First in a Series
George S. Tolley, Philip E. Graves, and Glenn C. Blomquist, Environmental Policy, vol. 1, Elements of Environmental Analysis. Bus Stop
David Banister, Transport Mobility and Deprivation in Inter-Urban Areas. Expecting
Gerry E. Hendershot and Paul J. Placek, eds., Predicting Fertility: Demographic Studies of Birth Expectations. Good Form
Kevin Lynch, A Theory of Good City Form. Also of Interest
Robert W. Burchell and David Listokin, The Adaptive Reuse Handbook: Procedures to Inventory, Control, Manage, and Reemploy Surplus Municipal Properties. Michael Goldberg and Peter Horwood, Zoning: Its Costs and Relevance for the 1980s. Jean-Michel Guldmann and Daniel Shefer, Industrial Location and Air Quality Control: A Planning Approach. K. H. Schaeffer and Elliott Sclar, Access for All: Transportation and Urban Growth.     

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Books reviewed Karl A. Fox, Urban‐regional Economics, Social System Accounts, and Eco‐behavioral Science: Selected Writings James G. Gimpel, Separate Destinations: Migration, Immigration and the Politics of Places Jeffry Frieden, Manuel Pastor Jr. and Michael Tomz (eds.), Modern Political Economy and Latin America: Theory and Policy     

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Book reviewed in this article: Cleveland's Experience
Todd Swanstrom, The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism. Jobs and the Young
Michael E. Borus, ed., Youth and the Labor Market: Analyses of the National Longitudinal Survey. Fuel for Thought
Jonathan Bradshaw and Toby Harris, eds., Energy and Social Policy. Difficult Choices
Roy Bahl, Financing State and Local Government in the 1980's. A Different Drummer?
The World Bank, Tribal Peoples and Economic Development.     

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Books reviewed: Heggelund, Gorild (2004) Environment and Resettlement Politics in China: The Three Gorges Project. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 276 pp., US$110.00, ISBN: 0754638596.
Reviewed by Robert A. Dayley
Department of Political Economy, Albertson College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID, USA.
Email: rdayley@albertson.edu Drummond, Lisa B.W. and Mandy Thomas (eds.) (2003) Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam. London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 248 pp., US$115.00, hbk, cloth ISBN: 0‐415‐29689‐7.
Reviewed by Phuong An Nguyen
Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund, Sweden.
Email: an_phuong.nguyen@ace.lu.se Takamasa, Akiyama and Donald F. Larson (eds.) (2004) Rural Development and Agricultural Growth in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. CanbeITa: Asia Pacific Press for the World Bank, xxv, 558 pp., US$40.00, pbk, ISBN: 0‐7315‐3786‐6.
Reviewed by R.D. Hill
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Email: rdhill@hku.hk Nicholas, Colin, Tijah Yok Chopil and Tiah Sabak (2003) Orang Asli Women and the Forest: The Impact of Resource Depletion on Gender Relations among the Semai. Subang Jaya: Center for Orang Asli Concerns, xi + 131 pp., US$12.00, ISBN: 9834004249.
Reviewed by Barbara Nowak
Development Studies, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand.
Email: b.s.nowak@massey.ac.nz Fisher, Susan (2001) Nostalgic Journeys: Literary Pilgrimages between Japan and the West. Vancouver: The Institute for Asian Research, University of British Columbia, 194 pp., Cdn$24.95, ISBN: 0888657501.
Reviewed by Xiaofei Tu
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
Email: xtu@syr.edu     

Book Reviews

Book Review in this Article Duncan Sim, Change in the City Centre. Naomi Black and Ann Baker Cottrell, eds., Women and World Change: Equity Issues in Development. Raymond C. Scheppach and Everett M. Ehrlich, eds., Energy-Policy Analysis and Congressional Action Brian Bayliss, Planning and Control in the Transport Sector Robert W. Lake, The New Suburbanites: Race and Housing in the Suburbs Carl H. Reidel, ed., New England Prospects: Critical Choices in a Time of Change John Cathie, The Political Economy of Food Aid Michael N. Danielson and Jameson W. Doig, New York: The Politics of Urban Regional Development. Oran R. Young, Natural Resources and the State: The Political Economy of Resource Management. Albert O. Hirschman, Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action David Listokin et al., Landmarks Preservation and the Property Tax: Assessing Landmark Buildings for Real Taxation Purposes. Richard H. Sabot, ed., Migration and the Labor Market in Developing Countries David W. Countryman and Denise M. Sofranko, eds., Guiding Land Use Decisions: Planning and Management for Forests and Recreation Judith A. Martin and David A. Lanegran, Where We Live: The Residential Districts of Minneapolis and Saint Paul     

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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 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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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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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     

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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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Book Reviewed in this Article: Vox Populi John C. Pierce and Harvey R. Doerksen, eds., Water Politics and Public Involvement. Ann Arbor, Mich.: New Topic for Political Scientists James E. Anderson, ed., Economic Regulatory Policies. Carbondale, III.: The Collegiate Cookie Jar Walter I. Garms, Financing Community Colleges. New York: The Local Fisc James C. Snyder, Fiscal Management and Planning in Local Government Lexington, Mass.: Unsuccessful Reign Harry Edward Berndt, New Rulers in the Ghetto: Race and Residence David H. McKay, Housing and Race in Industrial Society: What Ails Us Kenneth E. F. Watt et al., The Unsteady State: The Effects of Indexing Henry J. Aaron, ed., Inflation and the Income Tax. Washington, D.C.: Mood of Gloom E. J. Mishan, The Economic Growth Debate: An Assessment, London: Development in Dixie Leonard F. Wheat, Urban Growth in the Nonmetro politan South. Lexington, Mass.: The Cost of Getting There Alan Abouchar, Transportation Economics and Public Policy: With Urban Extensions. New York:     

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Book Review in this Article. Norman J. Glickman, The Growth and Management of the Japanese Urban System. Thomas J. Espenshade and William J. Serow, eds., The Economic Consequences of Slowing Population Growth. Phillip L. Clay, Neighborhood Renewal: Middle-class Resettlement and Incumbent Upgrading in American Neighborhoods. Juliet Saltman, Open Housing: Dynamics of a Social Movement. Herman Kahn, World Economic Development: 1979 and Beyond. Werner Sichel, ed., Public Utility Rate Making in an Energy-Conscious Environment. Russian Research Carol W. Lewis and Stephen Sternheimer, Soviet Urban Management: With Comparisons to the United States. Gene F. Summers and Arne Selvik, eds., Nonrnetropolitan Industrial Growth and Community Change. Tony Killick, Development Economics in Action: A Study of Economic Policies in Ghana. Glynn Cochrane, The Cultural Appraisal of Development Projects. Meryl Aldridge, The British New Towns: A Programme without a Policy. Edmond M. Burke, A Participatory Approach to Urban Planning.     

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Anthony, Jim (2007) Sex Across the Color Line – A Neglected Topic in Pacific History: The Case of Parbhudaia aka Minnie Wilkinson and Sir Henry Scott. Lautoka: Fiji Institute of Applied Studies, Research Report No. 7, 60 pp., FJD$12, ISBN: 978 982 301 030 4.
Reviewer: Portia Richmond
Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand.
Email: Portia_richmond@yahoo.com Scheyvens, Regina and Donovan Storey (eds.) (2003) Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide. London: Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage Publications, ix, 264 pp., USD47.95, pbk, ISBN: 9780761948902.
Reviewer: Peggy Fairbairn‐Dunlop
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: peggy.fairbairn‐dunlop@vuw.ac.nz Batiwala, Srilatha and L. David Brown (eds.) (2006) Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction. Bloomfield, Connecticut: Kumarian Press, 288 pp. US $25.95, pbk, ISBN: 1‐56549‐210‐2.
Reviewer: Peter Swain
Volunteer Service Abroad, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: PSwain@vsa.org.nz Kin Wah, Chin and Leo Suryadinata (comp. and ed.) (2005) Michael Leifer Selected Works on Southeast Asia. Singapore: ISEAS, xvii, 748 pp., illus, $US55.00, ISBN: 981‐230270‐0.
Reviewer: Nicholas Tarling
New Zealand Asia Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Email: n.tarling@auckland.au.nz Connell, John and Eric Waddell (eds.) (2007) Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia Pacific: Between Local and Global. London: Routledge, 256 pp., US$65.00, ISBN: 978‐0‐415‐40414‐3.
Reviewer: Douglas K. Bardsley
School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Email: d.bardsley@uq.edu.au     

Book Reviews

Book Review in this Article Nick Eberstadt, ed., Fertility Decline in the Less Developed Countries K. S. Shrader-Frechette, Nuclear Power and Public Policy: The Social and Ethical Problems of Fission Technology Lloyd C. Irland, Wildlands and Woodlots: The Story of New England's Forests David Lowenthal and Marcus Binney, eds., Our Past before Us: Why Do We Save It? Theodore W. Schultz, Investing in People: The Economics of Population Quality Peter O. Muller, Contemporary Suburban America Gail Garfield Schwartz, ed., Advanced Industrialization and the Inner Cities William W. Philliber and Clyde B. McCoy, eds., The Invisible Minority: Urban Appalachians A. C. Lewin, Housing Co-operatives in Developing Countries: A Manual for Self-Help in Low-Cost Housing Schemes Richard E. Lonsdale and John H. Holmes, eds., Settlement Systems in Sparsely Populated Regions: The United States and Australia Laurence J. C. Ma and Edward W. Hanten, eds., Urban Development in Modern China Charles Madge and Peter Willmott, Inner City Poverty in Paris and London Dean E. Mann, ed., Environmental Policy Formation: The Impact of Values, Ideology, and Standards Edward S. Mason et al., The Economic and Social Modernization of the Republic of Korea Thomas L. McPhail, Electronic Colonialism: The Future of International Broadcasting and Communication     

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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 Review in this Article Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Paul L. Schumann, Longer Hours or More Jobs? An Investigation of Amending Hours Legislation to Create Employment Daniel Swartzman, Richard A. Liroff, and Kevin G. Croke, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Environmental Regulations: Politics, Ethics, and Methods. Suzanne Keller, ed., Building for Women. Herman L. Boschken, Land Use Conflicts: Organizational Design and Resource Management. Robert G. Healy and James L. Short, The Market for Rural Land: Trends, Issues, Policies. Seymour Warkov and Judith W. Meyer, Solar Diffusion and Public Incentives. Michael H. Lang, Gentrification amid Urban Decline: Strategies for America's Older Cities. Alan L. Sorkin, Economic Aspects of Natural Hazards. Clement Cottingham, ed., Race, Poverty, and the Urban Underclass. Thomas M. Stanback, Jr., et al., Services: The New Economy. Richard C. Rich, ed., The Politics of Urban Public Services. M. C. Ricklefs, A History of Modern Indonesia: c. 1300 to the Present. Lloyd Rodwin, Cities and City Planning. Julian B. Roebuck and Mark Hickson III, The Southern Redneck: A Phenomenological Class Study. J. Michael Ross and William M. Berg, “I Respectfully Disagree with the Judge's Order”: The Boston School Desegregation Controversy. Gundars Rudzitis, Residential Locution Determinants of the Older Population Frank H. Stephen, ed., The Performance of Labor-Managed Firms. George Sternlieb, James W. Hughes, and Connie 0. Hughes, Demographic Trends and Economic Reality: Planning and Markets in the 80's. Robert P. Taylor, Rural Energy Development in China. George S. Tolley, Vinod Thomas, and Chung Ming Wong, Agricultural Price Policies and the Developing Countries. G. P. Tottle, ed., Use of Computers for National Development-Agriculture: An Annotated Bibliography. Noel D. Uri, Dimensions of Energy Economics. Bruce A. Weber and Robert E. Howell, eds., Coping with Rapid Growth in Rural Communities. Sidney Weintraub and Stanley R. Ross, “Temporary” Alien Workers in the United States: Designing Policy from Fact and Opinion. Robert Woods, Theoretical Population Geography.