Women's Organizations and the Development of Civil Society

Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Groups in the Middle East. Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo. eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997.224pp.
Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements. Temma Kaplan. New York: Routledge, 1997.243 pp.
Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below. Lynn Stephen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.332 pp.
Feminist Nationalism. Lois A. West. ed. New York: Routledge, 1997.294pp.     

Marionettes as Recreational Art Activities in the Chicago Parks

Rembrandt Drawings: The Overlook Press New York City 10022 $12.95. Reviewed by B. Haak

The Decoupage Workshop: Doubleday &; Company, Inc. New York City 10017 $12.95. Reviewed by Leslie Linsley

A Cabinetmaker's Notebook: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company New York City 10001 $13.50. Reviewed by James Krenov

Alkema's Scrap Magic: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York City 10016 $12.95. Reviewed by Chester Jay Alkema

Things to Do in a Day Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. $8.95 cloth New York City 10022 $5.95 paper.     

Entering the Field: New Perspectives on World Football

Entering the Field: New Perspectives on World Football. Gary Armstrong and Richard Giulianotti. eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997.320 pp.     

Reviewer's Choice: Book Review Section

Sculpture in America: Thomas Y. Crowell Co.: 201 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003: List Price $1 7.50. Revewed by Wayne Craven.

Buttons: Walker and Company 720 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10019: List Price $3.50. Revewed by Diana Epstein.

Art Lessons on a Shoestring: Parker Publishing Ca.: 1 Village Square, 10 Nyack, New York 10994: List Price $8.95. Revewed by Ruth 1. Peck, Robert 5. Aniello.

Introduction to the Visual Arts: Tudor Publishing Company, 221 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003: List Price $4.95. Revewed by S. Ralph Maurello.

Creating From Clay: Reinhold Book Corporation, 430 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10022: List Price $7.50. Revewed by Henry Petterson.

Design by Accident: Dover Publications, Inc., 180 Varick Street, New York, New York 10014: List Price $3.00. Revewed by James F. O'Brien.

Simple Stage Costumes and How to Make Them: Watson-Guptill Publications 165 West 46th Street, New York, New York 10036

Basic, Typography: Watson-Guptill Publications, 165 West 46th Street, New York, New York 10036: List Price $8.50. Revewed by John R. Biggs.     

Planet of the Normates

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 200 pp.
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 400 pp.
Monster Theory: Reading Culture. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.315pp.     

Art in the Making

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Jan Adkins, Letterbox: The Art and History of Letters, Walker: New York, 1981, 48 pages, $10.95.

Michael Kehoe, The Puzzle of Books, Carolrhoda Books, Minneapolis, 1982, unpaged, $6.95.

Linda Bourke, Handmade Abc: A Manual Alphabet, Addison-Wesley: Reading, Mass., 1981, unpaged, $6.95.

Linda Bourke, Signs of a Friend, Addison-Wesley: Reading, Mass., 1982, unpaged, $2.95 (paper).

Philip Newth, Roly Goes Exploring, Philomel Books: New York, 1981, unpaged, $12.95 (spiral bound).

Tomas Gonzales (text by J. R. Kesselman and F. Peterson), I CAN USE TOOLS, Elsevier/Nelson: New York, 1981, unpaged, $6.25 (boards).

Harvey Weiss, Hammer and Saw, Crowell: New York, 1981, 80 pages, $9.00.

Gail Gibbons, Tool Book, Holiday House: New York, 1982, unpaged, n.p.i.

Harvey Weiss, Model Building: And How to Make Them, Thomas Crowell: New York, 1979, 96 pages, $7.95.

Paul Berman, Make-Believe Empire: A How-to Book, Atheneum: New York, 1982, 88 pages, $8.95.

Evaline Ness, Four Rooms From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Scribners: New York, 1977, unpaged, $6.95.

Alan Rose, Build Your Own Taj Mahal, Perigee: New York, 1981, unpaged, $7.95.

Les Walker, Housebuilding for Children, The Overlook Press: New York, 1977, 175 pages, $10.00.

Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey (story by Natalie S. Carlson), Marie Louise and Christopher at The Carnival, Scribners: New York, 1981, unpaged, $11.95

Beverley Gooding (Kenneth Grahame), Wayfarers All from The Wind in the Willows, Scribners: New York, 1981, 32 pages, $11.95.

Shawn Rice (text by Paul Rice and Peter Mayle), AS DEAD AS A DODO, Godine: Boston, 1981, unpaged, $10.95.     

Book Review Section: Reviewer's Choice

Art and the Seafarer: The Viking Press, 625 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022: List Price $28.00. Reviewed by Hans Jurgen Hansen.

Sculpture with a Torch: University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis 14, Minnesota: List Price $2.95. Reviewed by John Rood.

Contemporary Art with Wood: Crown Publishers, Inc.: 419 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10016: List Price $6.95. Reviewed by Dona 2. Meilach.

All Around-the-House Art and Craft Book: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2 Park Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02107: List Price $5.00. Reviewed by Patricia Z. Wirtenberg.

Creative Ink Drawings: Watson-Guptill Publications 165 West 46th Street, New York, New York 10036: List Price $10.50. Reviewed by Paul Hogarth.

Lithography for Artists: Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016: List Price $1.75. Reviewed by Stanley Jones.

Graphic Arts Encyclopedia: McGraw-Hill Book Company 330 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036: List Price $16.50. Reviewed by George A. Stevenson.

100 Watercolor Techniques: Watson-Guptill Publications 165 West 46rh Street, New York, New York 10036: List Price $15.00. Reviewed by Norman Kent.     

Contesting Art: Politics and Identity in the Modern World

Contesting Art: Politics and Identity in the Modern World. Jeremy MacClancy. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1997.254 pp.     

Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture

Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture. James G. Carrier. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1997.276 pp.     

Believing Identity: Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England

Believing Identity: Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England. Nicole Rodriguez Toulis. New York: New York University Press, 1997.304 pp.     

Books and the Child

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Marion Endicott, Emily Carr: The Story of an Artist, Women's Educational Press: Toronto, Canada, 1981, 64 pages, n.p.i. (paperback)

Jean Lipman with Margaret Aspin-wall, Alexander Calder and his Magic Mobiles, Hudson Hills Press: New York, 1981, 96 pages, $15.00

M. B. Goffstein, Lives of the Artists, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: New York, 1982, unpaged, $8.95

Trina Schart Hyman, Self-Portrait, Addison-Wesley: Reading, Massachusetts, 1981, unpaged, $8.95

Andrew Glass, Jackson Makes his Move, Warne: New York, 1982, unpaged, $9.95

Tom Seidmann-Freud, The Magic Boat, Greenwillow: New York, 1981, unpaged, $5.95

Ernest Nister, Magic Windows, Philomel Books: New York, 1980, unpaged, $6.95

Lothar Meggendorfer, The City Park, Viking: New York, 1981, unpaged, $10.95

J. F. Schreiber (verses by Anthea Bell), The Great Menagerie, Viking: New York, 1980, unpaged, $7.95

Lothar Meggendorfer, International Circus, Viking: New York, 1980, unpaged, $7.95

Eric Hill, Spot's First Walk, G. P. Putnam's Sons: New York, 1981, unpaged, $7.95

Robert Crowther and lames R. Diaz (paper engineer), The Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek Counting Book, Viking: New, York, 1981, 14 pages, $8.95

Demi, Where is Willie Worm? Random House: New York, 1981, unpaged, $3.50

John Goodall and Tor Lokvig (paper engineer), PADDY FINDS A JOB, Atheneum: New York, 1981, unpaged, $6.95

Eric Carle, The Honeybee and the Robber, Philomel: New York, 1981, 15 pages, $10.95     

On the Question of Heritage and Hierarchy in British Social Anthropology

On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life. N. J. Allen. W. S. F. Pickering. and W. Watts Miller. eds. New York: Routledge, 1998. 224 pp.
Marcel Mauss:. Centenary Tribute. Wendy James and N. J. Allen. eds. New York: Berghahn Press, 1998. 260 pp.
Taboo, Truth, and Religion: Franz Baermann Steiner Selected Writings, vol. 1. Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon. eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. 279 pp.
Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilisation: Franz Baermann Steiner Selected Writings, vol. 2. Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon. eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. 296 pp.     

Decoding the Discourses: Feminism and Science

Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience Perspectives. Adele E. Clarke and Virginia L. Olesen. eds, New York: Routledge, 1999. 374 pp.
Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception. Jeanette Edwards. Sarah Franklin. Eric Hirsch, Frances Price, and Marilyn Strathern. New York: Routledge, 1999. 236 pp.
Testing the Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America. Rayna Rapp. New York: Routledge, 1999. 361 pp.     

The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination.

The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination. László Kürti. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001. 259 pp.     

Science on the streets of the Big Apple

A five-day festival of science takes place this week at venues across New York City. The festival features not only leading researchers from New York and beyond but also actors, writers, musicians, and choreographers in a series of multimedia programs designed to reveal science to the general public in exciting new ways.     

A Tide in the Affairs of Women

Women, Wives, Mothers: Values and Options. Jessie Bernard . Chicago: Aldine, 1975. viii + 286 pp. $5.95 (paper).
The Women's Movement: Political, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Issues. Barbara Sinclair Deckard . New York: Harper and Row, 1975. xii + 450 pp. $6.95 (paper).
Sex and the Intelligent Woman. Manfred F. DeMartino . New York: Springer, 1974. xii + 308 pp. $8.95 (cloth).
Women and Men: An Anthropologist's View. Ernestine Friedl . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. xi + 148 pp. n.p. (paper).
Naked Nomads. George Gilder . New York: Quadrangle-New York Times, 1974. 180 pp. $7.95 (cloth).
Sex Roles in Law and Society: Cases and Materials. Leo Kanowitz . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974 (First published 1973, reprinted). xiv + 706 pp. $20.00 (cloth), $8.50 (paper).
Women and the Law: The Unfinished Revolution. Leo Kanowitz . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1975 (First published 1969, reprinted). xviii + 312 pp. $3.95 (paper).
Female of the Species. Kay Martin and Barbara Voorhies . New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. xi + 432 pp. n.p. (paper).
The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages. Papers of the 6th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, May 1972. Rosemarie Thee Morewedge , ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975. xv + 195 pp. $12.50 (cloth).
Men and Masculinity. Joseph H. Pleck and Jack Sawyer , eds. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1974. viii + 184 pp. $6.95 (cloth).
Women and Social Policy. Constantino Safilios-Rothschild . Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1974. ix + 197 pp. $6.95 (cloth), $3.50 (paper).
Women in Chinese Society. Margery Wolf and Roxane Witke , eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975. x + 315 pp. $12.50 (cloth).     

Selection intensity in the Pahiras

Quantitative Genetic Variation: Edited by James N. Thompson, Jr., and J. M. Thoday. Academic Press, New York, 1979. $19.50

Sociobiology examined: Edited by Ashley Montagu. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1980. $19.95, cloth; $5.45, paper.

The biology of aging: Edited by John A. Behnke, Caleb E. Finch, and Gairdner B. Moment. Plenum Press, New York, 1978. $18.95     

Clerical mortality patterns of the Anglican communion

Biosocial Genetics: Human Heredity And Social Issues: Gerald James Stein. Macmillan and Co., New York, 1977. 579 pp. $13.95.

New Chromosomal Syndromes: Edited by Jorge J. Yunis. Academic Press, New York, 1977. 424 pp. $29.00     

Seroprevalence of chagas infection in the donor population

We retrospectively calculated the prevalence and epidemiologic characteristics of Chagas infection in the New York blood donor population over three years utilizing the New York Blood Center's database of the New York metropolitan area donor population. Seventy Trypanosoma cruzi positive donors were identified from among 876,614 donors over a 3-year period, giving an adjusted prevalence of 0.0083%, with 0.0080% in 2007, 0.0073% in 2008, and 0.0097% in 2009. When filtered only for self-described "Hispanic/Latino" donors, there were 52 Chagas positive donors in that 3-year period (among 105,122 self-described Hispanic donors) with an adjusted prevalence of 0.052%, with 0.055% in 2007, 0.047% in 2008, and 0.053% in 2009. In conclusion, we found a persistent population of patients with Chagas infection in the New York metropolitan area donor population. There was geographic localization of cases which aligned with Latin American immigration clusters.     

Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School through the Eyes of an American Anthropologist and Her Children

Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School through the Eyes of an American Anthropologist and Her Children. Gail R. Benjamin. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 262 pp.