BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: L. F. Crisp . Australian National Government. Longmans, 1965. T. H. Kewley . Social Security in Australia: The development of Social Security and Health Benefits from 1900 to the present.* Leonard Tierney . Children Who Need Help: A study of child welfare policy and administration in Victoria. Desmond Farley . Social Insurance and Social Assistance in Ireland. Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, 1964. Raymond E. Callahan . Education and the Cult of Efficiency: A Study of the social forces that have shaped the administration of the public schools. H. E. Maiden . The History of Local Government in New South Wales. Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1966. Katharine West . Power in the Liberal Party. F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1965. Pp. 289. B. Yuill . An Outline of Organizational Principles for Management.     

Books in review

Among his books are The Social Psychology of Social Movements; Violent Men; Reforming Human Services; Living in Prison;and, with Kenneth Adams and J. Douglas Grant, Coping.     

On social position and political achievement

He is author and coauthor of more than 70 books and 150 articles including Riches, Class, and Power Before the Civil War; Three Centuries of Social Mobility in America;and “Social Structure and Politics in American History” in the 1982 American Historical Review.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: The Rationality of Social Justice BHIKHU PAREKH Why Social Justice Matters: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus, by Brian Barry Varieties of Corruption Paul Jankowski Corrupt Histories, edited by Emmanuel Kreike and William Chester Jordan Are we all republicans now? Dawn Oliver Our Republican Constitution, by Adam Tomkins Defending the NHS: Myths and Realities Jennifer Dixon NHS plc: The Privatisation of Our Health Care, by Allyson M. Pollock Global Non‐sustainability Dick Pountain Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, by Jared Diamond Trade union history Nina Fishman United We Stand: A History of Britain's Trade Unions, by Alastair J. Reid Britons behaving badly? Mary Chamberlain Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain, by Robert Winder Out of Yugoslavia into Europe Ilaria Favretto The Hidden Handshake: National Identity and Europe in the Post‐Communist World, by Ales Debeljak Making Americans Fiona Ross The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation, by Desmond King The cancer of torture Victoria Brittain The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, edited by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror, by Mark Danner     

BOOK REVEIWS

Book reviewed in this articles: Susan G. Hadden. 1989. A Citizens Right to Know: Risk Communication & Public Policy James L. Regens and Robert W. Rycroft. 1988. The Acid Rain Controversy Lee Clarke . 1989. Acceptable Risk? Making Decision in a Toxic Environment Lance de Haven-Smith. (1988). Philosophical Critiques of Policy Analysis: Lindblom, Habermas, and the Great Society. Arnold Vedlitz . (1988). Conservative Mythology and Public Policy in America Lenore J. Weitzman. 1985. The Divorce Revolution: Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for Women and Children in America Stephen H. Schneider. 1989. Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century? Michael D. Laurence, John R. Snortum and Franklin E. Zimring , (eds.). 1988. Social Control of the Drinking Driver     

Social experimentation

He is author of The Broken Apple: New York City in the 1980s;and Social Science Theory,both published by Transaction Publishers.     

Jacques Barzun’s American university

He is author of The Broken Apple: New York City in the 1980s;and Social Science Theory;both published by Transaction Publishers.     

A vision for sociology

His most recent books are Foundations of Social Theory,and Equality and Achievement in Education.He is also the author of Power and The Structure of Society,and The Asymetric Societyamong many other books.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Social democracy: Is there any hope left?
 HELEN THOMPSON Making Capitalism Fit for Society, by Colin Crouch. And once again: Social democracy, what is to be done?
 Michele Di Donato Progressive Politics after the Crash. Governing from the Left, edited by Olaf Cramme, Patrick Diamond and Michael McTernan. The surge of ‘post‐ism’: no more comprehensive solutions?
 Derek Hook Psychoanalysis and Social Involvement. Interpretation and Action, by Uri Hadar. A voice from Wales: Unionism, Scotland and the case for federalism
 Jonathan Bradbury The Reformed Union, The UK as a Federation, by David Melding. Democracies don't bluff
 Gianfranco Pasquino The Confidence Trap. A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present, by David Runciman. The revolutionary Pankhurst
 June Hannam Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire, by Katherine Connelly. Orwell, the patriotic rebel
 Lindsay Duguid George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls. Getting on and getting old
 Brian Groombridge Out of Time. The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing, by Lynne Segal. Alan Johnson: the genuine (working‐class) article?
 D. J. Taylor This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood, by Alan Johnson.     

Redefining goals and images

He directs longitudinal studies designed to test general models of deviant adaptations to stress. A past editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior,his recent publications include “Self-Rejection and the Explanation of Deviance,” “Escalation of Marijuana Use,” and “The Sociological Study of AIDS”; as well as Social Psychology of Self-Referent Behavior, Patterns of Juvenile Delinquency,and Psychosocial Stress.     

Reviews

Politics of the Media Ian Ward, Macmillan Melbourne 1995

Art & Social Structure Robert W Witkin, Polity Press Cambridge 1995

On Meaning‐Making: Essays in Semiotics Mieke Bal, Polebridge Press Sonoma California 1994     

Books in review

His books include Two-Person Game Theory: The Essential Ideas; Fights, Games and Debates;and Mathematical Models in the Social Behavioral Sciences.     

Books in review

Among his forthcoming books are Psychology and Tortureand Psychology and Social Policy (edited with P.E. Tetlock).     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: Making Social Science Matter. By Bent Flyvbjerg Dewey on Democracy. By William Caspary The Poverty of Progressivism: The Future of American Democracy in a Time of Liberal Decline     

The rationalization of democracy: Liberal,elitist, and corporatist conceptions of democracy∗

Charles Murray, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 (New York: Basic Books, 1984).

On Bureaucratic Discourse: A Radical Feminist Analysis of the Role of Public Administration in Late Capitalism

Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities . . . or the End of the Social and Other Essays, trans, by Paul Foss, Paul Patton and John Johnston (New York: Semiotext(e), 1983), 123 pp.

Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, trans. by Paul Foss, Paul Patton and Philip Beitchman (New York: Semiotext(e), 1983), 159 pp.

Omar Cabezas, Fire from the Mountain: The Making of a Sandinista, translated by Kathleen Weaver with a foreword by Carlos Fuentes and an afterword by Walter LaFeber (Crown Publishers, Inc.: New York, 1985), pp. 233.     

Against canons: Liberating the social sciences

She is author of The Origins American Social Science,a study of economics, sociology, political science, and history from their eighteenth-century roots to 1929.     

Book Reviews: Big Fears and Some Ideas

Books reviewed: Forrester, Viviane. The Economic Horror. Hirschman, Albert O. Crossing Boundaries: Selected Writings. Young, Jock. The Exclusive Society: Social Exclusion, Crime and Difference in Late Modernity. Worcester, Robert and Mortimer, Roger. Explaining Labour's Landslide. Parker, Noel. Revolutions and History: An Essay in Interpretation. Schneer, Jonathan. London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis. Taylor, Brandon. Art for the Nation: Exhibitions and the London Public 1747–2001. Major, John. The Autobiography. Lamont, Norman. In Office. Crick, Bernard. Tailpeace: Clearing Up After Myself. Montefiore, Alan and Vines, David (eds) Integrity in the Public and Private Domains. Goldsworth, Jeffrey. The Sovereignty of Parliament: History and Philosophy. Lynch, Philip. The Politics of Nationhood: Sovereignty, Britishness and Conservative Politics. Newsinger, John. Orwell's Politics. Jowell, Roger; Curtice, John; Park, Alison and Thomson, Katarina. British Social Attitudes, 16th Report: Who Shares New Labour Values?.     

Hungary in April

He is author of The Religious Factorand Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification,and coauthor, with Jean Lenski, of Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology.     

Strengths and stresses of socialist states

He is author of several books, including The Contemporary Marx; From Affluence to Praxis: Philosophy and Social Criticism;and Democratic Socialism: Theory and Praxis.     

Consumerism and the new poor

He is author of Applied Mathematical Demography; Population Change and Social Policy;and co-author (with Wilhelm Flieger) of World Populations: An Analysis of Vital Data.