Harold Isaacs, Editor
Volume XII, Number 1: Spring 1995
The Third World on the Eve of the 21st Century:
Perspectives, Problems, and Prospects
| Foreword | 9 |
| Children in the Scheme of Development By Gary Kline |
14 |
| The New World Order Transition in the Third World: Implications for the Nation-State By Rolin G. Mainuddin |
36 |
| The Effects of School Stratification on the Career and Educational Aspirations of Girls in Kenya’s Secondary Schools By Lucy Wairimu Kibera |
59 |
| Military Political Power and Guardian Structures in Latin America By J. Patrice McSherry |
80 |
| Lebanon: Open Arena for Regional Feuds By Michel G. Nehme |
120 |
Other Papers |
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| Britain’s Abandonment of South Arabia – A Reassessment By Jacob Abadi |
152 |
| Military Coups and Redemocratization in Sub-Saharan Africa By John N. Anene |
181 |
| From Military Dictatorship to Democracy: the Democratization Process in Mali By Andrew F. Clark |
201 |
| Regional Conflict Resolution and the New South Africa By Brian M. du Toit |
223 |
| The European Community and Latin America: A Search for Direction By Menno Vellinga |
238 |
| The Legislative History of Colonialism: Puerto Rico and the United States Congress By Martin J. Collo |
265 |
Book Reviews and Review Essays |
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ASIA |
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| ISRAELI RAPHAEL. Islam in China: A Critical Bibliography. by Dorothea A.L. Martin |
290 |
| GOWHER RIZVI. South Asia in a Changing International Order. by Rolin Mainuddin |
292 |
| SARAH C. WHITE. Arguing With the Crocodile; Gender and Class in Bangladesh. By Santosh C. Saha |
294 |
| MIRIAM COOKE AND ROSHNI RUSTOMJI-KERNS (eds.). Blood into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War. By Particia Geesey |
297 |
| T.S. SARASWATHI AND BALJIT KAUR. Human Development and Family Studies in India: An Agends for Research and Policy. By Heather T. Frazer |
301 |
| EZRA F. VOGEL. The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of IndustrialLzation in East Asia. By Edwin L. Neville, Jr. |
304 |
| PAUL W. KUZNETS. Korean Economic Development: An Interpretiue Model. By Sang Woo, Cha |
307 |
| BORJE LJUNGGREN (ed.). The Challenge of Reform in Indochina. By Garth N. Jones |
311 |
| ELLIOTT KULICK AND DICK WILSON. Thailand’s Turn: Profile of a New Dragon. By Pamela Myers-Moro |
314 |
| JOHN HART ELY. War and Responsibility: Constitutional Lessons of Vietnam and Its Aftermath. By Robert K. Brigham |
318 |
| DOUGLAS W. HOLLAN AND JANE C. WELLENKAMP. Contentment and Suffering Culture and Experience in Toraja. By James C. Biedzynski |
320 |
| JEFFREY FRANKEL AND MILES KAHLER. Regionalism and Rivalry. By Sharon Tracy |
322 |
| JAMES S. ALLEN. The Philippine Left on the Eve of World War II. By Paul A. Rodell |
325 |
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AFRICA |
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| BASIL DAVIDSON. The Black Man’s Burden (Africa and the Curse of the Nation State). By L.D. Keita |
329 |
| JONATHAN CRUSH, ALAN JEEVES, AND DAVID YUDELMAN. South Africa’s Labor Empire: A History of Black Migrancy to the Gold Mines. By Karl. P. Magyar |
337 |
| DAVID N. SIFUNA AND J.E. OTIENDE. An Introductory History of Education. By Irungu Munene |
341 |
| G.A. BENNAARS, J.E. OTIENDE AND R. BOISVERT (eds.). Theory and Practice of Education. By Daniel N. Sifuna |
345 |
| PAUL B. RICH. The Dynamics of Change in Southern Africa. By Stephen A. Emerson |
348 |
| J.D. OMER-COOPER. History of Southern Africa. By Mario D. Fenyo |
352 |
| MICHAEL B.K. DARKOH. Tanzania’s Growth Centre Policy and Industrial Development. By Daniel N. Sifuna |
354 |
| INGER AHLGRIEN AND KENNETH HYLTENSTAM. Bilingualism in Deaf Education. By Kembo Sure |
359 |
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LATIN AMERICA |
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| ROGER BARTRA. Agrarian Structure and Political Power in Mexico. By Dennis A. Schmidt |
363 |
| RODERIC AI CAMP. Politics in Mexico. By Calvin L. Shirey |
366 |
| VICTOR BULMER-THOMAS, NIKKI CRASKE AND MONICA SERRANO. (eds.). Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement: Who Will Benefit? By Mary Commager |
367 |
| HILBOURNE WATSON (ed.). The Caribbean in the Global Political Economy. By Mary B. Vanderlaan |
370 |
| RICHARD S. HILLMAN. Democracy for the Privileged: Crisis and Transition in Venezuela. By Francis Adams |
373 |
| ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA. The Madness of Things Peruvian: Democracy Under Seige. By Orazio A. Ciccarelli |
376 |
| MAXWELL A. CAMERON. Democracy and Authoritarianism in Peru; Political Coalitions and Social Change. By Roger P. Davis |
379 |
| JIM HANDY. Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-54. By Erik Ching |
382 |
| BARRY CARR AND STEVE ELLNER (eds.). The Latin American Left: From the Fall of Allende to Perestroika. By Jack Ray Thomas |
387 |
| REVIEW ESSAY: PHYSICIANS IN HAITI | |
| JOSEPH F. BENTIVENGA. The Neglected and Abused: A Physician’s Year in Haiti; PAUL FARMER. AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. |
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| By Robert Lawless | 391 |
| REVlEW ESSAY: MYSTERIES EXPLAINED IN THE LAND-WITHOUT-EVlL: A LOOK AT SOUTH AMERICA’S WATERSHED REGION | |
| DAVID BLOCK. Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon: Native Tradition, Jesuit Enterprise, and Secular Policy in Moxos, 1660-1880; HELEN CLASTRES. The Land-Without-Evil: Tupi-Guarani Prophetism; RICHARD GOTT. Land Without Evil: Utopia Journeys Across the South American Watershed. |
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| By Thomas L. Whigham | 394 |
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MIDDLE EAST |
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| ABDELLAH HAMMOUDI. The Victim and Its Masks. By William C. Young |
400 |
| MOHAMMED ARKOUN. Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers. By Mahmood Monshipouri |
402 |
| MARK TESSLER. A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. By James C. Biedzynski |
409 |
| NATHAN A. PELCOVITS. The Long Armistice: UN Peacekeeping and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-1960. By Norton Mezvinsky |
411 |
| W. THORN WORKMAN. The Social Origins of the Iran-Iraq War. By Houman A. Sadri |
414 |
| ROBERT E. LOONEY. Manpower Policies and Development in the Persian Gulf Region. By James Cobbe |
418 |
| IAN JOHNSTONE. Aftermath of the Gulf War: An Assessment of UN Action. By Sanford R. Silverburg |
420 |
| DENIS J. SULLIVAN. Private Voluntary Organizations in Egypt-Islamic Development, Private Initiative, and State Control. By Manochehr Dorraj |
422 |
| KIRK J. BEATTIE. Egypt During the Nasser Years: Ideology, Politics, and Civil Society. By David Owusu-Ansah |
423 |
| GUILAIN DENOEUX. Urban Unrest in the Middle East, A Comparative Study of Informal Networks in Egypt, Iran and Lebanon. | |
| By A.J. Abraham | 426 |
| ASSAF RAZIN AND EFRAIM SADKA. The Economy of Modern Isarel: Malaise and Promise. By Robert Looney |
428 |
| GERARD CHALIAND. The Kurdish Tragedy. By Michael M. Gunter |
432 |
| DILIP HIRO. Lebanon, Fire and Ambers: A History of the Lebanese Civil War. By Jacob Abadi |
435 |
| FEROZ AHMAD. The Making of Modern Turkey. By Robert Olson |
437 |
| DEREK HOPWOOD. Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia: The Tragedy of Longevity. By Aida A. Bamia |
445 |
| REVIEW ESSAY: OTTOMAN PALESTINE AND LEBANON: A REVIEW OF TWO BOOKS | |
| DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE. Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine; AKARLI ENGIN. The Long Peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920. By Feroz Ahmad |
448 |
| REVIEW ESSAY: LEBANON: OUR FORGOTTEN ALIEY | |
| ENGIN AKARLI. The Long Peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920; DILIP HIRO. Lebanon, Fire and Embers, A History of the Lebanese Civil War; SAMIR KHALAF AND PHILIP S. KHOURY (eds.). Recovering Beriut, Urban Design and Post-War Reconstruction. |
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| By A.J. Abraham | 455 |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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| COLIN BAKER. Development Governor: A Biography of Sir Geoffrey Colby. By James C. Biedzynski |
459 |
| SAMUEL H. NELSON. Colonialism in the Congo Basin 1880-1940. By James C. Biedzynski |
460 |
| JAMES J. NOVAK. Bangladesh: Reflections on the Water. By Rolin Mainuddin |
463 |
| MEHRAN KAMRAVA. Politics and Society in the Third World. By Santosh C. Saha |
464 |
| ROBERT O. SLATER, BARRY M. SCHUTZ AND STEVEN R. DORR (eds.). Global Transformation and the Third World. By Frank Khachina Mantanga |
467 |
| ALEXANDER ROSENBERG. Economics – Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns By L.D. Keita |
471 |
| THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSON. Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives. By Robert Olson |
475 |
| STEVEN F. LAWSON. Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941. By Yvette Alex-Assensoh and A.B. Assensoh |
479 |
| JAMES MAYALL AND ANTHONY PAYNE (eds.). The Fallacies of Hope: The Post-Colonial Record of the Commonwealth Third World. By Santosh C. Saha |
483 |
| Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, Inc. The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, October, 6-8, 1994 |
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| By John Mukum Mbaku | 487 |
| In Memoriam Lawrence Dunbar Reddick |
493 |
| Books Available for Review | 496 |
VOLUME XII, NUMBER 2 FALL 1995
Historical and Contemporary Third World Developments
| Foreword | 9 |
| Historical, Social, and Personal Effects of a War and a Battle: The Vietnam War, and the Tet Offensive By James T. Gillam |
14 |
| Differential Health and Social Welfare Outcomes of Economic Development: The Cases of Brazil and Chile By Ande Kidane Mariam |
44 |
| Labor and Social Development: Costa Rica and Chile By Gary Hytrek |
73 |
| The Splintered Caribbean in an Integrated World: Planning for the 21st Century By Nikongo BaNikongo |
103 |
| Democratization in Africa: The Political Face of SAPS By Mohameden Ould-Mey |
122 |
| Universal Jurisdiction and Universal Human Rights: A Global Progression By Paul G. Magnarella |
159 |
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Other Papers |
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| Nationals, Citizens, Countrymen: A New Analysis of Identities with a Focus on Central Asia By Keely Lange |
174 |
| Major Themes in the Study of Grassroots Environmentalism in Developing Countries By Sarah Sturges Gardner |
200 |
| Government Policy and Human Development: Evidence from the Developing Countries By Gladstone Hutchinson and Ute Schumacher |
245 |
| Anglo-French Rivalry Over the Misselele Plantations, 1916-1920: A Case Study in the Economic Motives for the Partition of Africa By Victor Julius Ngoh |
273 |
| The Ethiopian Connection to the Pan-African Movement By Getachew Metaferia |
300 |
| The Press and the Democratization Process in Africa: The Case of the Republic of Cameroon By Joseph Takougang |
326 |
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Book Reviews |
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ASIA |
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| KUI-WAI LI. Financial Repression and Economic Reform in China. By Jie Chen |
352 |
| A.S. BHALLA AND AMULYA K.N. REDDY (eds.) The Technological Transformation of Rural India. By Heather T. Frazer |
355 |
| IKIRA IRIYE. China and Japan in the Global Setting. By Paul D. Peacock |
358 |
| PU NING. Red in Tooth and Claw. By Dorothea A.L. Martin |
362 |
| W. HOWARD WRIGGINS (ed.) WITH F. GREGORY GAUSE III, TERRENCE P. LYONS AND EVELYN COLBEIT. Dynamics of Regional Politics: Four Systems on the Indian Ocean Rim. | |
| By Steven S. Sallie | 365 |
| PIERRE BROCHEUX. The Mekong Delta: Ecology, Economy, and Revolution, 1860-1960. By Robert Lawless |
369 |
| PAUL M. EDWARDS. The Inchon Landing, Korea, 1950: An Annotated Bibliography. By James I. Matray |
375 |
| SUNG YEUNG KWACK (ed.). The Korean Economy at a Crossroad: Development Prospects, Liberalization, and South-North Economic Integration. By James I. Matray |
378 |
| ERIC WAKIN. Anthropology Goes to War: Professional Ethics and Counterinsurgency in Thailand. By Robert Lawless |
382 |
| WILLIAM HEAD AND LAWRENCE E. GRINTER (eds.). Looking Back on the Vietnam War: A 1990s Perspective on the Decisions, Combat and Legacies. By James I. Matray |
389 |
| S.D. MUNI. Pangs of Proximity: India and Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Crisis. By B.M. Jain |
394 |
| DAVID LITTLE. Sri Lanka. The Invention of Enmity. By M. Bazlul Karim |
396 |
| ADAM SCHWARZ. A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s. By Garth N. Jones |
401 |
| ADAM SCHWARZ. A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s. By Albert Dalmolen |
406 |
| KEN DE BEVOISE. Agents of Apocalypse: Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines. By Michael P. Onorato |
408 |
| FRANCIS T. SEOW. To Catch A Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew’s Prison. By James C. Biedzynski |
414 |
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AFRICA |
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| JAMES MORTON. The Poverty of Nations: The Aid Dilemma at the Heart of Africa. By John Clark |
417 |
| P. HOWELL AND J.A. ALLAN (eds.). The Nile: Sharing a Scarce Resource. By Assefaw Bariagaber |
422 |
| D.N. SIFUNA, C,K. NGOME AND F. KULUNDU. KCSE Gold Medal History and Government. By Kakai Wanyonyi |
425 |
| DAVID HIMBARA. Kenyan Capitalists, The State, and Development. By Joseph K. Kimani |
429 |
| LENE BUCHERT. Education in the Development of Tanzania, l 919-1990. By Daniel N. Sifuna |
433 |
| PHILIP M. ALLEN. Madagascar: Conflicts of Authority in the Great Island. By Christopher B. Barrett |
437 |
| KWADWO 0. POBI-ASAMANI. Contributions of W.E.B. Du Bois to Pan-Africanism. By Yekutiel Gershoni |
440 |
| HUSSEIN ALI DUALEH. From Barre to Aideed. By Kakai Wanyonyi |
443 |
| MEGAN BIESELE. Women Like Meat: The Folklore and Foraging Ideology of the Kalahari Ju / ‘hoan. By Opportune Zongo |
447 |
| JOSEPH E. HOLLOWAY. (ed.) Africanisms in American Culture. By Robert Lawless |
450 |
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LATIN AMERICA |
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| WILLIAM C. SMITH, CARLOS H. ACUNA, AND EDUARDO A. GAMARRA (eds.). Democracy, Markets, and Structural Reform in Latin America: Argentina, Boliuia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. By Frank A. Boyd |
452 |
| JAIME: E. O. RODRIGUEZ (ed.). The Evolution of the Mexican Political System. By J. Burton Kirkwood |
455 |
| LESLIE BETHEL AND IAN ROXBOROUGH (eds.). Latin America Between the Second World War and The Cold War 1944-1948. By G. Lane Van Tassell |
458 |
| CHARLES BERGQUIST, RICARDO PENARANDA, AND GONZALO SANCHEZ (eds.). Violence in Colombia: The Contemporary Crisis in Historical Perspective. By Jane M. Rausch |
460 |
| ANTHONY McFARLANE. Colombia Before Independence: Economy, Society, and Politics Under Bourbon Rule. By Richard Stoller |
463 |
| MARIFELI PEREZ-STABLE. The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course and Legacy. By Darien J. Davis |
466 |
| GESKE DIJKSTRA. Industrialization in Sandinista Nicaragua: Policy and Practice in a Mixed Economy. By Anna Adams |
470 |
| MICHEL S. LAGUERRE. The Military and Society in Haiti. By Robert Lawless |
472 |
| REVIEW ESSAY: RELIGIOUS FORCES IN HAITI | |
| LESLIE G. DESMANGLES. The Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti; ANNE GREENE. The Catholic Church in Haiti: Political and Social Change. |
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| By Robert Lawless | 477 |
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MIDDLE EAST |
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| ALBERT HOURANI, PHILIP S. KHOURY AND MARY C. WILSON (eds.) The Modern Middle East: A Reader. By Mahmood Monshipouri |
482 |
| OLIVIER ROY. The Failure of Political Islam. By David Commins |
488 |
| FRANCIS E. PETERS. Muhammad and the Origins of Islam. By Rolin G. Mainuddin |
491 |
| JOHN ALDEN WILLIAMS. The Word Of Islam. By Ali Kamali |
493 |
| TAREQ Y. ISMAEL AND JACQUELINE S. ISMAEL (eds.). The Gulf War and The New World Order: International Relations of the Middle East. By Manochehr Dorraj |
496 |
| HOMA OMID. Islam and the Post-Revolutionary State in Iran. By Nader Entessar |
498 |
| HOOSHANG AMIRAHMADI AND NADER ENTESSAR (eds.) Iran and the Arab World. By Houman A. Sadri |
500 |
| K.L. AFRASIABI. After Khomeini: New Directions in Iran’s Foreign Policy. By Nader Entessar |
504 |
| THE COMMITTEE: AGAINST REPRESSION AND FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS IN IRAQ. Iraq Since the Gulf War: Prospects for Democracy. By Rudolf T. Zarzar |
508 |
| ANDREW RIPPIN. Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Vol. II: The Contemporary Period. By Tamara Sonn |
511 |
| CAMERON R. HUME. The United Nations, Iran, and Iraq: How Peace-making Changed. ByTracy R. Szczepaniak |
514 |
| DAVID A. CHARTERS (ed.) Peacekeeping and the Challenge of Civil Conflict Resolution. By Jacob Abadi |
517 |
| DANIEL SILVERFARB. The Twilight of British Ascendancy in the Middle East: A Case Study of Iraq, 1941-1950. By Jacob Abadi |
522 |
| FIKRET SENSES (ed ). Recent Industrialization Experience of Turkey in a Global Context. By Robert Looney |
524 |
| DEIDRE COLLINGS (ed.). Peace for Lebanon? From War to Reconstruction. By Sanford R. Silverburg |
528 |
| RICHARD VAN LEEUWEN. Notables & Clergy in Mount Lebanon: The Khazin Sheikhs & The Maronite Church (1736-1840). By A.J. Abraham |
531 |
| KAMAL SALIBI. The Modern History of Jordan. By Jacob Abadi |
532 |
| RICHART T. ANTOUN AND DONALD QUATAERT (eds ). Syria: Society, Culture, and Polity. By Khalil Dokhanchi |
534 |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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| ROBERT PINKNEY. Democracy in the Third World. By Jeffrey M. Elliot |
538 |
| SAMIR AMIN. Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World. By Tanweer Akram |
541 |
| CLAUDE C. STURGILL The Military History of the Third World Since 1946: A Reference Guide. By Kenneth J. Hammond |
545 |
| JOE REMENYI. Where Credit is Due: Income Generating Projects for the Poor in Third World Countries. By G.S. Namusonge |
547 |
| VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM (ed.). Identity Politics & Women: Cultural Reassertions and Feminisms in International Perspective. By Robert P. Watson and Maria Hernandez |
554 |
| MOHAMMED AYOOB. The Third World Security Predicament: State Making, Regional Contlict, and the International System. By Jeffrey M. Elliot |
556 |
| DEEPA MARY OLLAPALLY. Confronting Conflict: Domestic Factors and U.S. Policymaking in the Third World. By Norman H. Murdoch |
560 |
| MARGOT LIGHT (ed,). Troubled Friendships: Moscow’s Third World Ventures. By James Zheng Gao |
565 |
| ZIA SARDAR, ASHIS NANDY AND MERRYL WYN DAVIES. Barbaric Others: A Manifesto on Western Racism. By Carlos Perez |
568 |
| JANOS MATYAS KOVACS (ed.). Transition to Capitalism? The Communist Legacy in Eastern Europe. By Michael B. Share |
572 |
| JOHN P. POWELSON. Centuries of Economic Endeavor: Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and Their Contrast with the Third World. By Santosh C. Saha |
580 |
| MATHEW ZACHARIAH AND R. SOORYAMOORTHY. Science for Social Revolution: Achievements and Dilemmas of a Development Movement: The Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad. By Norman.H. Murdoch |
585 |
| A. GRAHAM TIPPLE AND KENNETH G. WILLIS (eds.). Housing the Poor in the Developing World. By Julio Cesar Pino |
588 |
| F.E. PETERS. Judaism, Christianity and Islam. By A.J. Abraham |
592 |
| JEAN HOLM WITH JOHN BOWKER (eds.). Attitudes to Nature. By Wesley Burnett |
593 |
| Books Available for Review | 596 |
