Law and Social Norms in the Comparative Study of Islam

. History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni usul al-fiqh. Wael B. Hallaq. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 294 pp.
In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine. Judith E. Tucker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 216 pp.
Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court. Susan F. Hirsch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 355 pp.
The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf. Nathan J. Brown. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 258 pp.     

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures; Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures. Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 456 pp.
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution. Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 332 pp.     

Looking for Identity in the Muslim World

Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt. Lila Abu-Lughod. Chicago: University Chicago Press, 2005. 319 pp.
Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. Eric Davis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 385 pp.
Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies. Armando Salvatore and Mark LeVine, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 249 pp.
Contesting Rituals: Islam and Practices of Identity Making. Pamela Stewart and Andrew Strathern, eds. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. 239 pp.     

Gemstone Activities

Martin, Grace O. Approaching Design through Nature: The Quiet Joy New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1977 136 pp., $12.50. Reviewed by Judith A. Douville

Andrews, Jean Shells and Shores of Texas Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1977 365 pp., $19.95. Reviewed by Albert C. Jensen

Zeleny, Lawrence The Bluebird: How You Can Help Its Fight for Survival Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1976 170 pp., $7.95. Reviewed by Karl L. Trever

Najarian, Haig H. Sex Lives of Animals without Backbones New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976 115 pp., $6.95. Reviewed by Michael E. Somers

Dwiggins, Don Why Airplanes Fly Chicago: Childrens Press, 1976 32 pp., $4.95. Reviewed by Sue Hall     

Context, Meaning, and the Chomskyan Notion of Creativity

Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology. Mary Douglas . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. xxi + 325 pp. $23.50 (cloth).
Culture and Communication. The Logic by Which Symbols are Connected: An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology. Edmund Leach . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976. 105 pp. $9.95 (cloth), $3.95 (paper).
Meaning. Michael Polanyi and Harry Prosch . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975. xiv + 246 pp. $12.50 (cloth).     

Book Reviews

Lowery, G. H., Jr. The Mammals of Louisiana and its Adjacent Waters Louisiana State University Press 565 pp., $15.00, Reviewed by Paul F. Connor

Hutchins, Ross E. How Animals Survive (Finding-out books) New York: Parents' Magazine Press, 1974 64 pp., $4.59, Reviewed by Carl Gans

Macan, T.T. Ponds and Lakes New York: Crane, Russak & Company, Inc. 1974 148 pp., $10.50, Reviewed by Robert E. Knowlton

Kurtén, Bjorn The Age of Mammals New York: Columbia University Press, 1974 250 pp., $4.95, Paperback, Reviewed by Austin T. Hyde, Jr., M.D.

Friedman, Judi Jelly Jam Activity Book Chicago: Educational Methods, 1975 64 pp., $1.00, Reviewed by Rose Henninge     

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).     

Eco Days at Marion

Wendy Saul with Alan R. Newman Science Fare: An Illustrated Guide and Catalog of Toys, Books and Activities for Kids New York: Harper &; Row, 1986 295 pp. $27.95 hardcover, $14.95 paper. Reviewed by Lloyd Wolfinbarger, Jr.

George D. Zuidema, ed., and Leon Schlossberg, illus. The Johns Hopkins Atlas of Human Functional Anatomy, 3d ed. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986 125 pp. $25 hardcover, $14.95 paper. Reviewed by Lloyd Wolfinbarger, Jr.

Alvin Silverstein and Virginia B. Silverstein The Story of Your Hand New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1985 76 pp. $9.99 hardcover (library binding). Reviewed by Robert W. Boenig.

Langdon Winner The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986 178 pp. $17.50 hardcover. Reviewed by George G. Mallinson.

British Museum Dinosaurs and Their Living Relatives, 2nd edition New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986 72 pp. $24.95 hardcover. Reviewed by George R. Zug.     

Ethnicity,race and class in the United States

Orlando Patterson, Ethnic Chauvinism: The Reactionary Impulse, New York: Stein and Day, 1977, 347 pp., $15.00.

William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1978, xxi + 204 pp. £8.85.     

Ginseng and Aspirin: Health Care Alternatives for Aging Chinese in New York; The Culture of Health: Asian Communities in the United States; Health and Medicine under Capitalism: Korean Immigrants in Australia

Ginseng and Aspirin: Health Care Alternatives for Aging Chinese in New York. Zibin Guo. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. xii. 173 pp.
The Culture of Health: Asian Communities in the United States. Grace Xueqin Ma. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. + 165 pp.
Health and Medicine under Capitalism: Korean Immigrants in Australia. Gil Soo Han. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000.292 pp.     

Classroom Aids

Phillips, Owen The Last Chance Energy Book Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979 142 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by James W. O'Leary.

Nelkin, Dorothy Science Textbook Controversies and the Politics of Equal Time Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1978 174 pp. $12.95 hardcover, $4.94 paper. Reviewed by Russell F. Trimble.

Kuhn, Thomas S. The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978 366 pp. $18.50. Reviewed by Waring B. Hill.

Kaplan, Colin, ed. Rabies: The Facts New York: Oxford University Press, 1977 116 pp. $5.00. Reviewed by L. Wolfinbarger, Jr.

Chanute, Octave Progress in Flying Machines Long Beach, Calif.: Lorenz &; Herweg, Publishers, 1976 308 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by A. D. Goddard.

Hurd, Edith Thacher Look for a Bird New York: Harper &; Row, Publishers, 1977 31 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by Sue Hall.

Young, Louise B. Earth's Aura New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977 305 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Steven W. Sokolowski.

Suppe, Frederick, ed. The Structure of Scientific Theories Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977 818 pp. $22.50 cloth, $10 paper. Reviewed by Austin T. Hyde, Jr., M.D.

Steele, William O. Talking Bones: Secrets of Indian Burial Mounds New York: Harper &; Row, 1978 63 pp. $6.95 Ralph M. Rowlett.

Froman, Robert The Greatest Guessing Game New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1978 33 pp. $5.79. Reviewed by Edwin Halfar.

Vevers, Gwynne Octopus, Cuttlefish and Squid New York: McGraw Hill, 1978 295 pp., $6.95. Reviewed by Donald Schwartz.     

SINGLE BOOK REVIEWS

P'ungmul : South Korean Drumming and Dance . Nathan Hesselink. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 271 pp.     

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.     

Citizenship,ethnicity and multiculturalism: Post‐national membership between Utopia and reality

Neil Bissondath, SELLING ILLUSIONS: THE CULT OF MULTI‐CULTURALISM IN CANADA, Toronto: Penguin Books Canada, 1994, 234 pp., $16.99 (paper).

David A. Hollinger, POSTETHNIC AMERICA: BEYOND MULTI‐CULTURALISM, New York: Basic Books, 1995, 210 pp., $22.00

Will Kymlicka, MULTICULTURAL CITIZENSHIP, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, 280 pp., npl.

Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal, LIMITS OF CITIZENSHIP: MIGRANTS AND POSTNATIONAL MEMBERSHIP IN EUROPE, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1994 (paper), npl.     

Exploring the Insect World

Scheffer, Victor B. A Natural History of Marine Mammals New York: Charles Schribner's Sons, 1976 176 pp., $7.95. Reviewed by William B. Nutting

Sargent, Theodore D. Legion of Night: The Underwing Moths Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976 222 pp., $15.00. Reviewed by N.N. Raghuvir

Thiessen, Del, and Yahr, Pauline The Gerbil in Behavioral Investigations: Mechanisms of Territoriality and Olfactory Communication Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1977 224 pp., $20.00. Reviewed by Donald J. Nash

Bullard, Fred M Volcanoes of the Earth Austin and London: The University of Texas Press, 1976 579 pp., $26.95. Reviewed by James W. Skehan

Edwards, Peter Seaweeds and Sea Grasses (in the Vicinity of Port Aransas, Texas) Austin: University of Texas, 1976 128 pp., $6.95. Reviewed by Herbert H. Grossman

Schreider, Herman How Scientists Find Out about Matter, Space, Time, Energy New York: McGraw Hill Book Co, 1976 133 pp., $6.95. Reviewed by Joseph H. Gillen

C.R. Austin and R.V. Short, eds. The Evolution of Reproduction Series: Reproduction in Mammals (Book 6) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976 189 pp., $15.95 hardcover, $4.95 paperback. Reviewed by Austin T. Hyde

Simon, Seymour Tropical Saltwater Aquariums: How to Set Them Up and Keep Them Going New York: The Viking Press, 1976 90 pp., $6.95. Reviewed by John Lyman

Brown, Vinson Sea Mammals and Reptiles of the Pacific Coast Riverside, N.J.: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976 265 pp., $10.95. Reviewed by Albert C. Jensen

Behrens, June What I Hear Chicago: Childrens Press, 1976 40 pp., $4.95. Reviewed by Sue Hall     

The Effect of Buoyancy on Weight and Mass Determinations

Curry, Alan; Grayson, Robin F., and Hosey, Geoffrey R. Under the Microscope New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983 $14.50 Reviewed by Michael E. Somers.

Polking, Kirk Oceans of the World: Our Essential Resource New York: Philomel Books (Putnam), 1983 106 pp. $14.95 hardcover Reviewed by Robert E. Knowlton.

Nitecki, Matthew H. Coevolution Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983 392 pp. $30 hardcover, $17 paper Reviewed by Donald J. Zinn.

Garfield, Eugene Essays of an Information Scientist, vol. 5 (1981–82) Philadelphia, Pa.: ISI Press, 1983 850 pp. $25 Reviewed by Judith A. Douville.     

Making Their Way: Four Books on Youth, Culture, and Identity

Peer Power: Preadolescent Culture and Identity. Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 257 pp.
Angels' Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday. Ralph Cintron. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. 264 pp.
Everyday Courage: The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers. Niobe Way. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 310 pp.
At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil. Tobias Hecht. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 267 pp.     

Experiencing Experimentation and Project Design

Richardson, David Vanishing Lichens New York: Macmillan, 1975 231 pp., $12.00. Reviewed by Emanuel D. Rudolph

Van Emden, H. F. Ecology of Pest Control (The Institute of Biology's Studies in Biology No. 50) New York: Crane, Russak &; Co., 1975 59 pp., $2.75 paper. Reviewed by W. L. Gojmerac

Behrens, June Look at the Sea Animals (An Elk Grove Book) Chicago: Children's Press, 1975 38 pp., $4.50. Reviewed by Harriet S. Gussin

Bok, Bart J., and Bok, Priscilla F. The Milky Way, 4th ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974 273 pp., $15.00. Reviewed by Arnold Heiser

Schneider, Herman, and Schneider, Nina Science Fun with a Flashlight New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975 42 pp., $5.72. Reviewed by Van E. Neie

Behrens, June True Book of Metric Measurement Chicago: Children's Press, 1975 46 pp., $3.95. Reviewed by Sue Hall     

The World of Darkness

Bowden, Charles Killing the Hidden Waters Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977 174 pp., $9.96 Reviewed by Malcolm F. Farmer

Cogswell, Howard L. Water Birds of California Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977 416 pp., $5.75 paper Reviewed by Karl L. Trever

Grant, Edward Physical Science in the Middle Ages New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977 128 pp., $4.95 Reviewed by Emanuel D. Rudolph

Piltz, Albert, and Robert Sund Creative Teaching of Science in the Elementary School, 2d ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1977 310 pp., $7.95 Reviewed by Herbert H. Grossman

Lucas, David J., Harold I. James, John Simpson A First Science Dictionary: College Edition New York: Crane, Russak &; Company, Inc., 1977 206 pp., $8.50 Reviewed by Lawrence P. Eblin

Gribben, John, ed. Climatic Change New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978 280 pp., $37.50 cloth, $11.95 paper Reviewed by Waring B. Hill

Caroe, G.M. William Henry Bragg 1862–1942: Man and Scientist New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978 212 pp., $16.95 Reviewed by Gilbert Wright

Rowe, Mary Budd Teaching Science as Continuous Inquiry: A Basic New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1978 509 pp., $16.00 Reviewed by Elmer F. Kohlmiller

Branley, Franklyn M. Color: From Rainbows to Lasers New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1978 87 pp., $8.95 Reviewed by Van E. Neie

McNutt, Kristen W., and David R. McNutt Nutrition and Food Choices Chicago: Science Research Associates, Inc., 1978 506 pp., $10.36 Reviewed by Manfred Kroger

Allen, Arthur James A Whaler and Trader in the Arctic: 1895–1944 Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1978 213 pp., $5.95 paper Reviewed by Vagn Flyger

Coleman, William Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function, and Transformation, rev. ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978 187 pp., $13.95 cloth, $5.95 paper Reviewed by Donald J. Zinn     

History, Memory, and Nation in the (Post)Colonies

Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization. John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 243 pp.
Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific. Jeannerte Marie Mageo. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. 222 pp.
In Colonial New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives. Naomi M. McPherson. ed. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 264 pp.