BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Health Services Since the War Vol. i Problems of Haelth Care : The National Health Service Before 1957. By Charles Webster . Ruling Performance : British Governments from Attlee to Thatcher . Ed. by Peter Hennessy and Anthony Seldon . Advising the Rulers . Ed. by William Plowden . Ministers and Ministries By Richard Rose , with chapters by Peter Bell , Richard Parry and Ian Thomas . The Unprincipled Society . By David Marquand . Superpower Diplomacy in the Horn of Africa . By Samuel M. Makinda . Military Power and Politics in Black Africa . Ed. Simon Baynham . The Militarization of South African Politics . By Kenneth W. Grundy . Endgame in South Africa ? By Robin Cohen . Apartheid's Second Front . By Joseph Hanlon . Beggar Your Neighbours . By Joseph Hanlon . The Political Economy of Revolution Nicaragua . Ed. by Rose J. Spalding . Conflict in Nicaragua . A Muliidimensional Perspective . Ed. by Jiri Valenta and Esperanza Du?n . Nicaragua , Revolution and Democracy . By Jo? ; Luis Cokaggio . Youth and Society : Perspectives from Papua New Guinea . Ed by Maev O'Collins . Women In Politics in Papua New Guinea . Ed Maev O'Collins . Law and Order In a Changing Society . Ed. by Louise Morauta . The Challenge : Economics of Perestroika . By Abel Aganbegyan . The Soviet Economy : Problems and Prospects . By Padma Desai . Soviet Agriculture . By Zhores Medvedev . The German Greens : A Social and Political Profile . By Werner Hülsberg The Green Party in West Germany : Who Are They and What Do They Really Want ? By Manuel Dittmers . Prospects for Africa . A special report by Save the Children and the Overseas Development Institute . The Greening of Africa . By Paul Harrison . Imposing Aid : Emergency Assistance to Refugees . By B. E. Harrell -Bond . The imf & Ghana . The Confidential Record . Ed. By Eboe Hutchful . The Tears of the White Man . Compassion as Contempt . By Pascal Bruckner . Politics: a Work in Constructive Social Theory . By Roberto Mangabeira Unger . Social Theory : Its Situation and its Task . False Necessity : Anti -Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy . Plasticity into Power : Comparative -Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success . Church and Politics in a Secular Age . By Kenneth N. Medhurst and George H Moyser . The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers : Economic Change and Political Conflict from 1500 to 2000 By Paul Kennedy . James Connolly : A Political Biography . By Austen Morgan .