Short notes on some books received

Using the data collected by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) under the Additional Rural Income Survey (ARIS) for the year 1970–71, two models are estimated for the use of HYV wheat seeds. The first model estimated is the logit for the adoption of HYV wheat seeds. The second model estimated is the linear regression model for the percentage of land under HYV wheat for its users. The models include many social and economic variables. The results indicate that the proportion of land irrigated and the availability of tractors on hire in the village are the most significant variables for the adoption decision. Being part of the wheat‐belt region is also a very highly significant variable. The distance of the market from the village is significant in some cases. The proportion of land irrigated is a significant variable in all estimates for the second model also. The land owned (with a negative impact) and the existence of moneylenders are significant in some cases in the second model.     

Short notes on some books received

Africa's Management in the 1990s and Beyond: Reconciling Indigenous and Transplanted Institutions. By Mamadou Dia. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1996. Pp.xii + 293. NP. ISBN 0 8213 3431 X

A Land Without Gods: Process Theory, Maldevelopment and the Mexican Nahuas. By Jacques M. Chevalier and Daniel Buckles. London: Zed Books, 1995. Pp.x + 374. £55.00/$69.95 and £19.95/$29.95. ISBN 1 85649 325 3 and 326 1

Local Resource Management in Africa. Edited by J.P.M. van den Breemer, C.A. Drijver and L.B. Venema. Chichester: John Wiley, 1995. Pp.xii + 245. £40. ISBN 0 47196004 7

Third World Cities in Global Perspective: The Political Economy of Uneven Urbanization. By David A. Smith. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. Pp.xiii + 202. £40.95 and £13.50. ISBN 0 8133 8720 5 and 2998 1

Power of Development. Edited by Jonathon Crush. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Pp.xvi + 324. £35 and £ 14.99. ISBN 0 415 11176 5 and 11177 3

Financial Liberalisation and Investment. By K.L. Gupta and R. Lensink. London: Routledge, 1996. Pp.xii + 183. £40. ISBN 0 415 13879 5

Anthropology of Tourism. By Denison Nash. Oxford, New York and Tokyo: Pergamon, 1996. Pp.ix + 205. £41/US$66. ISBN 0 0804 42398 1

Politics of Technology in Latin America. Edited by Maria Ines Bastos and Charles Cooper. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Pp.xii + 258. £47.50. ISBN 0 415 12690

Voices from Mutira: Change in the Lives of Rural Gikuyu Women: 1910–1995. By Jean Davison. Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Reinner Publisher, 1996. Pp.vi + 271. £18.95. ISBN 1 55587 602 1

Women and Politics in the Third World. Edited by Haleh Afshar London: Croom Helm, 1996. Pp.xi + 210. £40 and £12.99. ISBN 0 415 13853 1 and 13861

Re‐Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty‐First Century Metropolis. Edited by Anthony D. King. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.ix + 282. £42.50 and £13.99. ISBN 0 333 60191 2 and 60192 0

Women and Industrialization in Asia Edited by Susan Horton, London and New York: Routledge, 1996. £50. ISBN 0415 12907 9

Enterprise and the State in Korea and Taiwan. By Karl J. Fields. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp.xiv + 269. NP. ISBN 0 8014 3009 7     

Short notes on some books received

China's rural enterprises are economic units established by local government in the countryside or by the peasants and they operate outside the planning system. Rural enterprises have grown twice as fast as the rest of the economy since 1984. The rural enterprise sector has so far challenged the urban economy, in both product markets and markets for raw materials. What are the prospects for their relationship ‐ competition or cooperation? To answer the question, we develop a well‐specified but simple model of the rural and urban economies. The rural enterprise boom was caused in this model by the presence of barriers to factor mobility within China, price distortions and the pool of available labour in the countryside. The origins of the boom imply that rural enterprise exports tend to be relatively labour intensive. The complementarities between rural and urban enterprises are likely to dominate their future economic relationship and lead to further growth in the rural enterprise sector.     

罗马点滴

罗马是意大利的首都,是一座古老的城市,与雅典、开罗、西安被联合国共同列为世界四大古城.罗马最大的特色是古迹随处可见,所以人称罗马是一座"露天历史博物馆".     

Book notes

Heather Grabbe & Kirsty Hughes, Enlarging the EU Eastwards. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1998, 130 pp., £11.99.

Hans‐Jürgen Wagener (ed.), Economic Thought in Communist and Post‐Communist Europe. London: Routledge, 1998, xii + 388 pp., £60.00.

Chris Cook & John Paxton, European Political Facts 1900–1996. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998, ix + 434 pp., £19.50.

Robert V. Daniels, Russia's Transformation. Snapshots of a Crumbling System. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998, xv + 245 pp., $22.95.

Adam B. Ulam, The Bolsheviks. London: Harvard University Press, 1998, xiii + 598 pp., £13.50.

Vadim Z. Rogovin, 1937. Stalin's Year of Terror. Translated by Frederick S. Choate. Oak Park, Michigan: Mehring Books, 1998, xxx + 550 pp., £19.99.

Nikolai Bukharin, How It All Began. Translated by George Shriver, introduced by Stephen F. Cohen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998, xxxi + 345 pp., £21.95.     

Book notes

The Death Penalty. Amnesty International, London: Amnesty International. 1979.206 pp

International Trade in Wildlife. Tim Inskipp & Sue Wells, London: Earthscan. 1979.104 pp. £2.00

Children in the World. Magda Cordell McKale & John McHale, Washington DC: Population Reference Bureau. 1979.

Interfutures: facing the future. OECD, Paris: OECD. 1979.425 pp. £8.90 pb

Arid Land Ecosystems: vol 1. Edited by D W Goodall & R A Perry, Cambridge University Press. 1979.881 pp. £45.00

Asia Corporate Profile and National Finance 1977–8. Hong Kong: Asian Finance Publications Limited. 1977.352 pp

Nicaragua: dictatorship and revolution. London: Latin America Bureau. 1979.30 pp. 75p

Bankers Handbook for Asia: 1977–8 guide to banks and finance companies in Asia. Hong Kong: Asian Finance Publications Limited (distributed in the UK by Kogan Page Limited, London). 1977.344 pp. £15.00

Imperial Russia and the Struggle for Latin American Independence 1808–28. Russell HBartley, Austin: University of Texas Press. 1978.236 pp

The Middle East: a physical, social and regional geography. WB Fisher, London: Methuen (seventh edition). 1978.615 pp. £9.95

Church and State in Independent Mexico: a study of the patronage debate, 1821–57. Michael P Costeloe, London: Royal Historical Society. 1978.207 pp. £7.75

Intermediate Technology in Ghana: the experience of Kumasi University's Technology Consultancy Centre. Sally Holtermann, London: Intermediate Technology Publications. 1979. Ill pp. £2.00

Mountbatten: eighty years in pictures. London: Macmillan. 1979.224 pp. £8.95

Atlas of Earth Resources. London: Mitchell Beazeley. 1979.208 pp. £22.50

Deciding What's News: a study of CBS evening news, NBC nightly news, Newsweek and Time. Herbert J Gans, New York: Pantheon. 1979.393 pp. $12.95

Women's Education ‐ a world view: annotated bibliography of doctoral dissertations, vol 1. Compiled by Franklin Parker & Betty June Parker, London: Greenwood Press. 1979.320 pp. £19.50

The State and Society: Peru in comparative perspective. Alfred Stepan, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1978. 316 pp

Seapower and Politics: from the Norman Conquest to the present day. Captain John Moore, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1979.184 pp. £7.50     

Book notes

The African Book World and Press: a directory. Edited by Hans M Zell, London: Hans Zell. 1980, 243pp. DM164.00

Peru: the authoritarian tradition. David Scott Palmer, New York: Praeger. 1980. 131pp. £13.00. £5.75pb

Borrowers and Lenders: rural financial markets and institutions in developing countries. Edited by John Howell, London: Overseas Development Institute. 1980. 290pp. £2.95

Amnesty International Report, 1980. London: Amnesty International. 1980. 408pp. £5.55

Aid As Obstacle: twenty questions about our foreign aid and the hungry. Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins and David Kinley, San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy. 1980. 191pp. $4.95

The Far East and Australasia, 1980–1. London: Europa. 1980. 1365pp. £35.00

Universities in Partnership. IC M Maxwell, Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press. 1980. 480pp. £15.00

Transnational Economic and Monetary Law: transactions and contracts. Leonard Lazar, Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana. 1978–81. Vols I‐VI. $75 per vol

The Multinational Corporation: a radical approach ‐ papers by Stephen Herbert Hymer. Edited by Robert B Cohen et al, Cambridge University Press. 1980. 323pp. £17.50     

Book notes

Jedrzej Giertych. In Defense of My Country. London: Roman Dmowski Society, 1981. Pp. 748.

Mark R. Elliott, Pawns of Yalta: Soviet Refugees and America's Role in Their Repatriation. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1982. Pp. xiii, 287. $17.95.     

Book notes

Habitat : Human Settlements in an Urban Age, Angus McGunn, Pergamon Press, 1978, pp. 272, price unknown.

Decision Making for Energy Futures, David Pearce, Lynne Edwards and Geoff Beuret, Macmillan, 1979, pp. 296, £10.00.

Party Politics in Local Government: Officers and Members, Royal Institute of Public Administration, Policy Studies Institute, 1980, pp. 50, £2.50.

District Trends 1980, City of Bradford Metropolitan Council, 1980, pp. 45, free.

Housing the Disabled, John Hunt and Lesley Hayes, Torfaen Borough Council (with the support of Cwmbran Development Corporation), 1980, pp.204, £3.95 (paperback).

The West Riding County Council, 1889–1974 Historical Studies, B. J. Barber and M. W. Beresford, West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council, 1979, pp. 262, price unknown.

Public Administration: The Political Environment, Roger Stacey and John Oliver, MacDonald and Evans (BEC Books), 1980, pp. 296, £4.95 (paperback).

How to Run Committees and Meetings, Michael Locke, Papermac (Macmillan Press), 1980, pp. 190, £2.95 (paperback), £10.00 (hardback).

The Politics of Positive Discrimination: An Evaluation of the Urban Programme, 1967–77, John Edwards and Richard Batley, Tavistock Publications Ltd., 1978, pp. 287, £4.25 (paperback).

Urban Deprivation and the Inner City, Colin Jones (Editor), Croom Helm, 1979, pp. 218, £9.95 (hardback).

Urban Harvest: Urban Renewal in Retrospect and Prospect, Stanley Mill‐ward (Editor), Geographical Publications Ltd., 1977, pp. 266, £8.25 (hardback).     

Book notes

Managing the Civil Service, John Garrett, Heinemann, 1980, pp. 198, £7.50.

The Limits of Power: The Politics of Local Planning Policy, Andrew Blowers, Pergamon, 1980, pp. 216, £10.00

Local Government and Environmental Planning and Control, edited by Joyce Frank, Gower, 1982, pp. 301, £13.50.

Labour Into the Eighties, edited by David S. Bell, Croom Helm, 1980, pp. 168, £9.95 hardback, £5.50 paperback.

Julian Hodge: A Biography, Timothy O'Sullivan, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, pp. 210, £8.95.

Allies or Adversaries: Perspectives on Government and Industry in Britain, Royal Institute of Public Administration, 1981, pp. 86, £4.95.

Rural Employment, Trends, Options, Choices, Ian Hodge and Martin Whitby, Methuen, 1981, pp. 262, £13.50.