Book reviews

Hugh Honour, THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK IN WESTERN ART, IV FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR I, Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1989; part i, 379 pp., 196 ill., part ii, 306 pp., 183 ill., £34.95 each volume.

Deborah Willis‐Thomas, AN ILLUSTRATED BIO‐BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS, 1940–1988, New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989, 483 pp., $85.00.

John Hutchinson, THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURAL NATIONALISM: THE GAELIC REVIVAL AND THE CREATION OF THE IRISH NATION STATE, London: Allen and Unwin, 1987, viii + 343 pp., £38.00.

Arthur Aughey, UNDER SIEGE: ULSTER UNIONISM AND THE ANGLO‐IRISH AGREEMENT, London: Hurst & Co, 1989, xv + 214 pp., £18.50.

Richard Jenkins (ed.), NORTHERN IRELAND: STUDIES IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC LIFE, London: Avebury, 1989, xii + 197 pp., £23.50.

J. I. Little, NATIONALISM, CAPITALISM, AND COLONIZATION IN NINETEENTH‐CENTURY QUEBEC: THE UPPER ST. FRANCIS DISTRICT, Kingston, Montreal, London: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1989, 336 pp., £31.45.

Basdeo Mangru, BENEVOLENT NEUTRALITY: INDIAN GOVERNMENT POLICY AND LABOUR MIGRATION TO BRITISH GUIANA 1854–1884, London: Hansib, 1987, 267 pp., £12.95.

Carole Marks, FAREWELL ‐ WE'RE GOOD AND GONE: THE GREAT BLACK MIGRATION, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989, x + 209 pp., $37.50 and $12.95 (paper).

James R. Grossman, LAND OF HOPE: CHICAGO, BLACK SOUTHERNERS, AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989, 384 pp., £23.95.

Robert M. Jiobu, ETHNICITY AND ASSIMILATION: BLACKS, CHINESE, FILIPINOS, JAPANESE, KOREANS, MEXICANS, VIETNAMESE AND WHITES, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988, np.

John M. MacKenzie (ed.), IMPERIALISM AND POPULAR CULTURE, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989, 264 pp., (illus.), £10.95 (paper).

Anne Phillips, THE ENIGMA OF COLONIALISM: BRITISH POLICY IN WEST AFRICA, James Currey and Indiana University Press, vii + 184 pp., £25.00 and £8.95 (paper).

John Darwin, BRITAIN AND DECOLONISATION: THE RETREAT FROM EMPIRE IN THE POST‐WAR WORLD, London: Macmillan, 1988, xiii + 383 pp., £33.00, and £9.95 (paper).

Tony Kushner and Kenneth Lunn (eds), TRADITIONS OF INTOLERANCE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FASCISM AND RACE DISCOURSE IN BRITAIN, Manchester University Press, 1989, 245 pp., £29.95.     

The politics of race,culture and education

Mike Cole (ed.), EDUCATION FOR EQUALITY, London: Routledge, 1989, 237 pp., £9.95 (paper)

Peter Foster, POLICY AND PRACTICE IN MULICULTURAL AND ANTI‐RACIST EDUCATION, London: Routledge, 1990, 208 pp., £10.99 (paper)

Alrick X. Cambridge and Stephan Feuchtwang (eds), ANTI‐RACIST STRATEGIES, Avebury: Gower Publishing, 1990, 162 pp., £25.00

David Gillborn, ’RACE’, ETHNICITY AND EDUCATION, London: Unwin Hyman, 1990, 245 pp., £9.95 (paper)

Elizabeth Grugeon and Peter Woods, EDUCATING ALL: MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL, London: Routledge, 1990, 244 pp., £9.95 (paper)

Barry Troyna and Bruce Carrington, EDUCATION, RACISM AND REFORM, London: Routledge, 1990, 139 pp., £30.00 and £8.99 (paper)

Kenneth J. Meier, Joseph Stewart Jr., Robert E. England, RACE, CLASS AND EDUCATION, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989, 194 pp., npl     

Short reviews

Milton M. Gordon, HUMAN NATURE, CLASS AND ETHNICITY. London and New York, Oxford University Press, 1978, 302 pp., £6.50, $11.95 ($3.50 paper).

June Teufel Dreyer, CHINA'S FORTY MILLIONS: MINORITY NATIONALITIES AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. Cambridge (Mass.) and London, Harvard University Press, 1976, 333 pp., £9.55.

W. Stanford Reid (ed), THE SCOTTISH TRADITION IN CANADA. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1976, xi + 324 pp., $12.55.

I. H. Kawharu, MAORI LAND TENURE: STUDIES OF A CHANGING INSTITUTION. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1977, 362 pp., £13.50.

David T. Wellman, PORTRAITS OF WHITE RACISM. London, Cambridge University Press, 1977, 254 pp., £9.50 (£4.00 paper).

Lucy Mair, AFRICAN KINGDOMS. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1977, 151 pp., £3.95, (£1.95 paper).

Roger Scott, NORTHERN IRELAND: THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE. Canberra Series in Administrative Studies 2., Canberra College of Advanced Education, 1977, 84 pp., n.p.

James A. Geschwender, CLASS, RACE AND WORKER INSURGENCY: THE LEAGUE OF BLACK REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS. London, Cambridge University Press, 1977, 249 pp., £8.50 (£3.50 paper).

Crawford Young, THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL PLURALISM. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1976. 560 pp., £13.60.

D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN BRITISH FICTION. London, Macmillan, 1977, 282 pp., £8.95.

M. M. Mahood, THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER. London, Rex Collings, 1977, 210 pp., £4.75.

Brian V. Street, THE SAVAGE IN LITERATURE. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 207 pp., £5.75.     

Elementary School Biology Revisited

Nuclear Power, Man and the Environment R. J. Pentrealh. 255 pp. London: Taylor and Francis, 1980. £6.00. ISBN 085109 8401 Reviewed by David Brookes

Animal Suffering: The Science of Animal Welfare M. Stamp Dawkins. 149 pp. London: Chapman and Hall, 1980. £7.50/£3.95. ISBNs 0 412 22580 8/225905 Reviewed by H. V. Wyatt

Isoenzymes Outline Studies in Biology. C. C. Rider and C. B. Taylor. 78 pp. London: Chapman and Hall, 1980. £2.45. ISBNO 412 15640 Reviewed by C. M. Bray

Membrane Physiology and Cell Excitation B. Hendry. 159 pp. London: Croom Helm, 1981. £9.95/£4.50. ISBNs 0 709901488/01496 Reviewed by B. N. Davies

Introduction to Embryonic Development S. B. Oppenheimer. 404 pp. London: Allyn and Bacon, 1980. £13.25. ISBN 0205068995 Reviewed by A. B. G. Lansdown

Genetics of Microbes Tertiary Level Biology B. W. Bainbridge. 193 pp. Bishopbriggs, Glasgow: Blackie, 1980. £16.95/£7.95. ISBNs 0 216 91006 4/910072 Reviewed by R. Waters

Genetic Engineering-Cloning DNA Outline Studies in Biology. D. M. Glover. 64pp. London: Chapman and Hall, 1980. £2.45. ISBN0412 161702 Reviewed by R. Waters

Bioenergetics of Autotrophs and Heterotrophs Studies in Biology, No. 126. J. W. Anderson. 60 pp. London: Edward Arnold, 1980: £2.50 ISBN 0 7131 28070 Reviewed by K. H. Goulding

Grass. Its Production and Utilization Ed. W. Holmes. 295 pp. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific, 1980. £8.50. ISBN 0632006188 Reviewed by David Higgs

Atlas of Flowering Plant Structure Jean-Claude Roland and F. Rowland. 103 pp. London: Longman. 1980. £6.25. ISBN 0582 45589 Reviewed by David Higgs

Biological Functions of Carbohydrates Tertiary Level Biology. D. J. Candy. 197 pp. Glasgow: Blackie. 1980. £16.95/£7.95. ISBNs 0 216 91010 2/910110 Reviewed by Charles F. A. Bryce

Neuroethology: An Introduction D. M. Guthrie. 221 pp. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific. 1980. £8.75. ISBN 0632 003030 Reviewed by S.M. Evans

Biological Chemistry: The Molecular Approach to Biological Systems K. E. and C. J. Suckling. 381 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. £25.00/£9.95. ISBNs 0 521228522/296781 Reviewed by K.H. Goulding

Influences on Animal Growth and Development Studies in Biology, No. 116. R. A. L. Ball 60 pp. London: Edward Arnold, 1980. £2.40. ISBNO 7131 2769 4 Reviewed by K.R. Tyler

Insect Physiology W. Mordue, G. J. Goldsworthy, J. Brady and W. M. Blaney. 108 pp. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific, 1980. £5.75. ISBN063200385 Reviewed by Robert Barrass

Statistics for Biology 3rd edn. O. N. Bishop. 213pp. Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1980. £2.50. ISBNO 582353300 Reviewed by Mark Williamson     

Cultural diversity and schooling

Ashley H. Robins, BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN PIGMENTATION, (Cambridge Studies in Biological Anthropology, 7), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, xiii + 253 pp., £37.50.

Ulfried Geuter, THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF PSYCHOLOGY IN NAZI GERMANY. Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, v‐xxi + 335 pp., npl.

Clare Midgley, WOMEN AGAINST SLAVERY. THE BRITISH CAMPAIGNS, 1780–1870, London: Routledge, 1992, xii + 281 pp., £37.50.

Maryinez Lyons, THE COLONIAL DISEASE: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF SLEEPING SICKNESS IN NORTHERN ZAIRE, 1900–1940, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, xvi + 335 pp., £50.00.

Wim van Binsbergen, TEARS OF RAIN: ETHNICITY AND HISTORY IN CENTRAL WESTERN ZAMBIA, London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1992, 495 pp., £45.00.

Albert B. Robillard (ed.) SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, London: Kegan Paul International, 1992, xvi + 507 pp., £45.

Sarah Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood (eds) ‘VIVA’: WOMEN AND POPULAR PROTEST IN LATIN AMERICA, London: Routledge, 1993, 270 pp., £12.99 pb; £40.00 hb.

Cindi Katz and Janice Monk (eds) FULL CIRCLES: GEOGRAPHIES OF WOMEN OVER THE LIFECOURSE, London: Routledge, 1993, 317 pp., £12.99 pb; £40 hb.

Hans van Amersfoort and Hans Knippenberg (eds), STATES AND NATIONS. THE REBIRTH OF THE ‘NATIONALITIES QUESTION’ IN EUROPE, Netherlands Geographical Studies 137, Amsterdam: Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, 1991, 189 pp., Dfl. 29.50.

Elizabeth D. Huttman, Wim Blauw and Juliet Saltman (eds), URBAN HOUSING SEGREGATION OF MINORITIES IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991, xiii + 431 pp., npl.

Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry H. L. Kitano (eds) JAPANESE AMERICANS: FROM RELOCATION TO REDRESS, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1992, 264 pp., $17.95 US (paper only).

David J. O'Brien and Stephen S. Fugita, THE JAPANESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991, 178 pp., £8.99 (paper).

Paul James Rutledge, THE VIETNAMESE EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992, 173 pp., npl.     

Concerning the English problem

Jack Brand, The National Movement in Scotland; London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978, pp. 330, £9.95.

John Osmond, Creative Conflict: The Politics of Welsh Devolution; Llandysul and London: Gower Press and Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977, pp. 305, £4.95.

Anthony H. Birch, Political Integration and Disintegration in the British Isles; London George Allen and Unwin, 1977, pp. 183, £2.95.     

Book reviews

Andrew Hacker, TWO NATIONS: BLACK AND WHITE, SEPARATE, HOSTILE, UNEQUAL, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992, vii + 257 pp., $24.95.

Catherine Silk and John Silk, RACISM AND ANTI‐RACISM IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990, x + 186 pp., £27.50.

Therese Daniels and Jane Gerson (eds), THE COLOUR BLACK, BLACK IMAGES IN BRITISH TELEVISION, London: BFI Publishing, 1989, 160 pp., £4.95 (paper).

Jim Pines and Paul Willemen (eds), QUESTIONS OF THIRD CINEMA, London: BFI Publishing, 1989, x + 246 pp., £7.95 (paper).

David R. Roediger, THE WAGES OF WHITENESS: RACE AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS, London: Verso, 1991, 191 pp., £12.95 (paper).

William Cohen, AT FREEDOM'S EDGE: BLACK MOBILITY AND THE SOUTHERN WHITE QUEST FOR RACIAL CONTROL, 1861–1915, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991, 340 pp., $42.50.

Robert L. Cooper, LANGUAGE PLANNING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 216 pp., £27.50, £9.95 (paper).

Emmanual Sivan and Menachem Friedman (eds), RELIGIOUS RADICALISM AND POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990, 244 pp., n.p.

Eliezer Ben‐Rafael and Stephen Sharot, ETHNICITY, RELIGION, AND CLASS IN ISRAELI SOCIETY, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 287 pp., £32.50.     

Race,class and conflict in Britain

John Rex and Sally Tomlinson (with the assistance of David Heardon and Peter Ratcliffe), Colonial Immigrants in a British City: A Class Analysis. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. pp. iv plus 357 plus tables, figures. Price £10.50.

Robert Miles and Annie Phizacklea (eds), Racism and Political Action in Britain, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. pp. x plus 246. Price £3.75.     

An Approach to the Development of Field Studies in Urban Areas

Integrated Science—The Wreake Valley Project D. TINBERGEN and P. THORBURN (Eds) Book 1, 120 pp., illustrated. £1.50. Book 2, 104 pp., illustrated. £1.75. Book 3, 136 pp., illustrated. £2.25. London: Edward Arnold, 1976. Reviewed by John May

Stirling Educational Monographs No. 1. Attitude Goals in Secondary School Science S. BROWN 77 pp. University of Stirling. 1976. £1.75. Reviewed by Clive Carré and Henry Crowther

No. 2. Innovations in Integrated Science in Scottish Secondary Schools S. BROWN, D. McINTYRE, E. DREVER and J. KERI DAVIES 89 pp. University of Stirling, 1976. £1.00. Reviewed by Tessa Carrick

Outline Studies in Biology 64 pp. each, illustrated. London: Chapman and Hall, 1976. £1.30 each. Biological Energy Conservation C. W. JONES Control of Enzyme Activity P. COHEN Metabolic Regulation R. M. DENTON and C. I. POGSON Reviewed by John H. Duffus

Population Genetics L. M. COOK Reviewed by T. J. Crawford

Cytogenetics of Man and other Animals A. McDERMOTT Reviewed by J. A. Beardmore

RNA Biosynthesis R. H. BURDON Protein Biosynthesis A. E. SMITH Reviewed by C. M. Bray

Basic Biology Course Books 3, 5, 8, and 9 London: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Book 3 Dynamic Aspects of Cells M. A. TRIBE, I. TALLAN, M. R. ERAUT and R. K. SNOOK 119 pp., illustrated. £6.20 boards, £2.90 paper.

Book 5 Cell Membranes M. A. TRIBE, M. R. ERAUT and R. K. SNOOK 79 pp., illustrated. £5.00 boards, £2.50 paper. Super 8 mm film loop (Phagocytosis) £8.00.

Book 8 Metabolism and Mitochondria M. A. TRIBE, M. R. ERAUT and R. K. SNOOK 142 pp., illustrated. £8.00 boards, £3.50 paper. Filmstrip £3.50; cassette £3.80.

Book 9 Protein Synthesis M. A. TRIBE, I. TALLAN, M. R. ERAUT and R. K. SNOOK 103 pp., illustrated. £6.00 boards, £2.75 paper. Reviewed by Colin Stoneman

Population Cytogenetics Studies in Biology, No. 70 B.JOHN 76 pp., illustrated. London: Edward Arnold, 1976. £3.00 boards, £1.50 paper. Reviewed by J. A. Beardmore

Biology Colour Units Helpful and Harmful Organisms M. Sanderson Urban Ecology D. Gilman Co-ordination C. Morgan Movement D. Gray Each 24 pp, illustrated. London: Macdonald Educational, 1977. 75p each. Reviewed by John May

The Natural World : The Mitchell Beazley Joy of Knowledge Library J. MITCHELL (Ed.) 272 pp., illustrated. London: Mitchell Beazley, 1977. £12.50. Reviewed by P. J. Kelly

Human and Social Biology G. USHER 256 pp., illustrated. Plymouth, Devon: Macdonald and Evans, 1977. £1.95. Reviewed by A. Cornwell

Safeguards in the School Laboratory 28 pp., Hatfield, Herts: Association for Science Education, 1976. 35p. Reviewed by Tessa Carrick

A First Science Dictionary D. J. LUCAS, H. I. JAMES, and O. J. SIMPSON 208 pp. London: Edward Arnold, 1976. £1.95. Reviewed by John Feltwell

Introduction to Genetics Third Edition D. G. MACKEAN 42 pp., illustrated. London: John Murray, 1977. £1.40. Reviewed by Tessa Carrick

The Wash water storage feasibility study: a report on the ecological studies 36 pp., illustrated. London: Natural Environment Research Council. Publication series C No. 15, 1976. Free. Reviewed by John A. Barker

Higher Education Film Library Catalogue BRITISH UNIVERSITIES FILM COUNCIL London: BUFC, 1977. £1.00. Reviewed by John A. Barker

Biology: Principles and Issues WILLIAM C. SCHEFLER 370pp., illustrated. London: Addison-Wesley, 1976. £9.10. Reviewed by H. W. Grenville

Guide to Living Mammals J. E. WEBB, J. A. WALLWORK, and J. H. ELGOOD 152 pp., illustrated. London: Macmillan, 1977. £2.95. Reviewed by H. V. Wyatt

Applied Medical Microbiology J. G. COLLEE 121 pp., illustrated. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific, 1976. £2.80. Reviewed by G. E. Mathison

General Microbiology Fourth edition R. Y. STANIER, E. A. ADELBERG and J. L. INGRAHAM 871pp., illustrated. London: Macmillan, 1977. £15.00 boards, £7.95 paper. Reviewed by C. G. Gayford

Fundamentals of Mycology Second edition J. H. BURNETT 673 pp., illustrated. London: Edward Arnold, 1976. £27.50. Reviewed by B. W. Bainbridge

Metals and Metabolism D. A. PHIPPS 134 pp., London: Oxford University Press (Clarendon), 1976. £5.00 boards, £2.50 paper. Reviewed by C. M. Bray

Biochemical Systems Analysis M. A. SAVAGEAU 379 pp., illustrated. London: Addison-Wesley, 1976. £21.20 boards, £13.20 paper. Reviewed by J. H. Parish

The Biochemistry of the Tissues Second edition P. BANKS, W. BARTLEY, and L. M. BIRT 493 pp. Chichester, Sussex: John Wiley, 1976. £14.50 boards, £6.25 paper. Reviewed by John Feltwell

Genetics and Adaptation Studies in Biology, No. 69 E. B. FORD 58 pp., illustrated. London: Edward Arnold, 1976. £2.60 boards, £1.30 paper. Reviewed by R. A. E. Tilney-Bassett

The Comparative Endocrinology of the Invertebrates Second edition K. C. HIGHNAM and L. HILL 357 pp., illustrated. London: Edward Arnold, 1977. £16.00 boards, £8.50 paper. Reviewed by K. Simkiss

Muscles and Movement K. M. BACKHOUSE 48 pp., illustrated. London: Hart Davis, 1976. £1.75. Reviewed by Jackie Hardie

Herbicides: Physiology, Biochemistry, Ecology, Vol. 2 Second edition L. J. AUDUS (Ed.) 564 pp., illustrated. London: Academic Press, 1976. £17.50. Reviewed by Donald S. H. Drennan

Introduction to Ecology R. DAJOZ Translated by A. SOUTH 416 pp., Sevenoaks, Kent : Hodder and Stoughton, 1977. £7.50 boards, £4.45 paper. Reviewed by D. M. Keith-Lucas

Human Sex and Sexuality E. B. STEEN and J. H. PRICE 338 pp., illustrated. Chichester, Sussex: John Wiley, 1977. £7.00. Reviewed by Donald Reid

Rabies : The Facts C. KAPLAN (Ed.) 116 pp., illustrated. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. £1.95 (Also published in paperback by Corgi Books, London. 75p.) Reviewed by W. C. Noble

Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing E. C. BARRETT and L. F. CURTIS 336 pp., illustrated. London: Chapman and Hall, 1976. £11.00 boards, £5.95 paper. Reviewed by Monical M. Cole

Light and Life L. O. BJÖRN 249 pp., illustrated. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. £3.45 boards, £1.75 paper. Reviewed by John Feltwell     

Book reviews

Dinosaurs from China

DONG ZHIMING. China Ocean Press, Hong Kong, 1987. vi + 114 pp. ISBN 7–5027–0116–8. Hardcover ed., approximately $34.00; softcover ed., approximately $24.00 [This is the first English edition.]

DONG ZHIMING, with text by Angela C. Milner. China Ocean Press, Hong Kong, and the British Museum (Natural History), London, 1988. vi +114 pp. ISBN 0565–01073–5. Softcover ed., £9.95 at the Natural History Museum bookstore. [A hardcover edition probably exists, but I have not seen it.]

TRACE FOSSILS: BIOLOGY AND TAPHONOMY, by Richard G. Bromley, Unwin Hyman, London 1990. 280 pp. ISBNO 04 4453035. £40 hardback, £17.95 softback.

EXTINCTION EVENTS IN EARTH HISTORY, Editors E.G. Kauffman and O.H. Walliser. Springer‐Verlag, Berlin 1990. 431 pp. ISBN 0–387–52605–6. Price DM 75.

PHYLOGENY AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF FOSSIL AND RECENT ORGANISMS, edited by Norbert Schmidt‐Kittler and Rainer Willmann. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg, N.P. 28, Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg & Berlin ISBN 3–490–14496–1.     

Letters to the Editor

Biology: A Functional Approach Second edition M. B. V. ROBERTS 656 pp., illustrated. London: Nelson, 1976. £4.95 Reviewed by John Feltwell

R. N. SAVELAND (Ed.) Sponsored by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 267 pp., illustrated. London and New York: John Wiley, 1976. £7.50. Reviewed by J. Bossanyi

Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications R. M. MAY (Ed.) 317 pp. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific, 1975. £8.50 boards, £4.80 paper. Reviewed by D. M. Keith-Lucas

The Battle Against Bacteria—A Fresh Look Second edition P. BALDRY 179 pp., illustrated. London: Cambridge University Press, 1976. £4.50. Reviewed by C. G. Gayford

Student's Collection of Electron Micrographs J. J. HEAD 46 pp., illustrated. London: Edward Arnold, 1976. £2.50. Reviewed by John Feltwell     

Evaluation of an Audio-visual Method of Learning Plant Anatomy

Combined Science 1 G. GREEN, K. PETFORD, A. SHORT and D.WALKER Pupils' book, 128 pp., illustrated, £1.25. Teachers' guide, 81 pp., illustrated, £1.95. London: John Murray, 1975. Reviewed by Stuart Newton

Pupils' Attitudes to Science: a review of research M. B. ORMEROD and D. DUCKWORTH 150 pp. Windsor: NFER Publishing Company, 1975. £3.50. Reviewed by Don Ryman

Pest Control and its Ecology Studies in Biology No. 50 H. F. VAN EMDEN 60 pp., illustrated. London: Edward Arnold, 1975. £1.90 boards, 95p paper. Reviewed by Colin Wood Robinson

Plant Cell Structure and Metabolism J. L. HALL, T. J. FLOWERS and R. M. ROBERTS 426 pp., illustrated. London: Longman, 1974. £4.95. Reviewed by J. H. Duffus

The Evolution of IBP E. B. WORTHINGTON (Ed.) 268 pp., illustrated. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. £10.50. Reviewed by A. D. Berrie

Biochemistry of Antimicrobial Action T. J. FRANKLIN and G. A. SNOW Second edition. 224 pp., illustrated. London: Chapman and Hall, 1975. £7.00 boards, £3.95 paper. Reviewed by A. I. Tiffin

Pollutants and Animals—a factual perspective F. MORIARTY 140 pp., illustrated. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1975. £5.65 Reviewed by Paul Rogers

Living Clocks in the Animal World M. F. BENNETT 221 pp., illustrated. Springfield, 111.: Charles C. Thomas, 1974. $11.75. Reviewed by R. P. Dales

Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene J. K. RAEBURN and H. A. RAEBURN Fourth edition. 375 pp., illustrated. London: John Murray, 1975. £1.95. Reviewed by A. W. Le Serve

A Zoo in Your Room R. CARAS 96 pp., illustrated. London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. £1.65. Reviewed by Richard Cansdale

Plant Cell Biology—An Ultrastructural Approach B. E. S. GUNNING and M. W. STEER 278 pp., illustrated. London: Edward Arnold, 1975. £2.75. Reviewed by John F. Duffus

Experimental Work in Biology No. 7: Respiration and Gaseous Exchange D. G. MACKEAN Reviewed by Cecily Gale

General Ecology—Biocenology-Hydrobiology Volume 1 L. I. DROZHILOVA (Ed.) 109 pp., illustrated. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1974. $21.00. Reviewed by A. D. Berrie

Biochemistry LUBERT STRYER 877 pp., illustrated. San Francisco and Reading: W. H. Freeman, 1975. £9.40. Reviewed by J. H. Parish

Photosynthesis M. A. TRIBE, M. R. ERAUT and R. K. SNOOK Cambridge University Press     

Books

Climbing Mount Improbable R. Dawkins. 308 pp. London: Viking (Penguin Books), 1996. £20.00. ISBN 0 670 85018 7. Reviewed by J. R. Downie

The beauty of the beastly N. Angier. 278 pp. London: Abacus (Little, Brown & Co), 1996. £8.99. ISBN 0 349 10769 6. Reviewed by Stephen Webster

The strange case of the spotted mice and other classic essays on science P. Medawar. 236 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. £7.99. ISBN 0 19 286193 X. Reviewed by H. V. Wyatt

Privileged hands: a scientific life G. Vermeij. 297 pp. Oxford: W. H. Freeman, 1997. £18.95. ISBN 0 7167 2954 7. Reviewed by Paul F. Brain

Spotlight Science 7: SEN Learning support pack/Extra help sheets K. Johnson, S. Adamson, and G. Williams. Cheltenham, Glos.: Stanley Thornes, 1996. £55.00/£45.00. ISBNs 0 7478 2758 2/2466 4. Reviewed by Julie Lloyd

Longman Science 11–14: Biology Pupil's Book 3rd edn. M. Roberts and P. Mawby. 298 pp. Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1996. £9.99. ISBN 0582 29420 7. Reviewed by Caroline Poole

Longman Homework Handbooks Key Stage 3: Science C. Millican et al. 188 pp. Harlow, Essex: Addison Wesley Longman, 1996. £7.99. ISBN 0 582 29327 8. Reviewed by Loretta Platts

Heinenrann Co-ordinated Science Higher Biology: Pupil book; Assessment and resource pack R. Fosbery and J. McLean/M. Sheehan and C. Woodward. 184/156 pp. Oxford: Heinemann, 1996. £9.99/£39.95. ISBNs 0 435 58000 0/58016 7. Reviewed by Ann Dolan

Biology for you: National Curriculum Edition for GCSE (student's book) G. Williams. 352 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. £12.99. ISBN 0 7487 2366 8. Reviewed by Jean Campbell

Human physiology & health M. Jenkins. 246 pp. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. £11.99. ISBN 0 340 658525. Reviewed by Arabella Stuart

Social Biology Topics: Human reproduction L. M. Baggott. 112 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. £.8.95. ISBN 0 521 46914 7. Reviewed by Ann-Marie Skinner

Advanced biology principles and applications: study guide C. J. Clegg, D. C. Mackean, P. H. Openshaw, and R. C. Reynolds. 450 pp. London: John Murray, 1996. £17.99. ISBN 0 7195 5358 X. Reviewed by Carolyn Ann Mulley

GNVQ Intermediate Science Cambridge Training and Development Ltd. 210 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. £12.00. ISBN 0 19 832800 1. Reviewed by P. Bunyan

Further studies for social care C. Holden et al. 330 pp. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. £12.99. ISBN 0 340 65526 7. Reviewed by Phil Bunyan

Health and social care for intermediate level Ed. S. Benson. 248 pp. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. £10.99. ISBN 0 340 620579. Reviewed by Phil Bunyan

Life chemistry and molecular biology E. J. Wood, C. A. Smith, and W. R. Pickering. 230 pp. London: Portland Press, 1997. £16.00. ISBN 1 85578 064 X. Reviewed by T. M. Harrison

Immunobiology: the immune system in health and disease 2nd edn. C. A. Janeway, Jr. and P. Travers. London: Current Biology and USA: Garland Publishing, 1996. Available from Churchill Livingstone, Robert Stevenson House, Leith Walk, Edinburgh, Scotland EH 1 3AF (tel: 0131-556-2424; fax. 0131-558-1278). £24.95/$19.95. ISBN 0-8153-2044-2. Reviewed by Paul F. Brain

Investigations by order: policy, curriculum and science teachers' work under the Education Reform Act J. Donnelly et al. Driffield, E. Yorkshire: Studies in Education, 1996. £14.95. ISBN 0 905484 57 6. Reviewed by Paul Denley

Environment and the law: an introduction for environmental scientists and lawyers J. F. and S. McEldowney. 327 pp. Horlow, Essex: Longman, 1996. £22.99. ISBN 0 582 22712 7. Reviewed by John Feltwell

Collins Gem: Mushrooms and toadstools photoguide P. Harding and A. Outen. 256 pp. London: HarperCollins, 1996. £3.99. ISBN 0 00 470934 9. Reviewed by Julia Milligan

Naturalists' Handbooks 25: Thrips W. D. J. Kirk. 70 pp. Slough, Berkshire: The Richmond Publishing Co., 1996. £8.95. ISBN 0 85546 3074. Reviewed by Ian Lancaster

Naturalists' Handbooks 22: Animals under logs and stones with wallcard C. Philip Wheater and H. J. Read. 90 pp. Slough, Berkshire: Richmond Publishing Co., 1996. £15.00/£8.95. Wallcard - £1.75. ISBNs 0 85546 302 3/301 5. Reviewed by Robin Sutton

Naturalists' Handbooks 23: Blowflies Z. Erzinclioglu. 72 pp. Slough, Berkshire: The Richmond Publishing Co., 1996. £8.95. ISBN 0 85546 303 1. Reviewed by Ian Lancaster

Resource packs Poultry Biology A resource booklet written by N. Gregory and available from the Poultry Association of New Zealand, 1 st Floor, 106 Carlton Gore Road, Auckland, New Zealand. (Tel. 10) 9 309 2417; fax. 0 (9) 307 3831; e-mail, bobd@pianz.org.nz) free of charge. Reviewed by Roger Lock

Wader migration game A set of 52 A4 sheets produced and available from RSPB Education, The Lodge, Sandy, Beds SG19 2DL. {Tel. 01767 680551; fax. 01767 692365.) Price £5.00 incl. p&p. Reviewed by Sarah McKenzie

Slides Invertebrate conservation slide packs: Heathland and grassland, Woodland and wetland Produced by R. Key of English Nature in conjunction with the Amateur Entomologists' Society. Available from Martin Harvey, Amateur Entomologists' Society, PO Box 8774, London SW7 5ZC. Price £25.00 plus £2.00 p&p. Reviewed by Sarah McKenzie

Software How animals move A CD-ROM produced by Moris Multimedia in consultation with Professor R. McNeill Alexander. Suitable for IBM and compatibles (486SX spec, or higher) and Macintosh (Proforma, Centris, and Quadea families). Available from Maris Multimedia, 99 Mansell Street, London E1 8AX. (Tel. 0171 488 1566; fax. 0171 702 5034.) Price £19.99 (incl. VAT plus £1.50 p&p). Reviewed by Mike Tribe

Videotapes Knowledge now in experimental biology — Yeast as a model organism: identifying genes that control cell division; Arabidopsis as a model organism: homeotic genes and development in a plant Two in a series of six videos produced by Cogilo Learning Media and available from Oxford University Press, Saxon Way West, Corby NN18 9ES. (Tel. 01536 741519; fax. 01536 746337; e-mail. http://www.cogitomedia.com 1-800-93- THINK.) Price £59.95 each plus VAT. Reviewed by Julian Thomas     

Short reviews

Hasia R. Diner. IN THE ALMOST PROMISED LAND, AMERICAN JEWS AND BLACKS, 1915–1935, Westport, Connecticut and London, England. Greenwood Press, Contributions in American History, Number 59, 1977. 271 pp. n.p.

Astri Suhrke and Lela Gamer Noble (eds) ETHNIC CONFLICT IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. (Praeger Special Studies in Politics and Government), Praeger Publishers, New York and London, 1977, 248 pp., n.p.

Laurence D. Loeb, OUTCASTE: JEWISH LIFE IN SOUTHERN IRAN, Gordon and Breach, New York, 1977, 328 pp., $20.

Elizabeth McTaggart Almquist, MINORITIES, GENDER AND WORK, Lexington Books (Lexington, Mass., 1979), £11.50.

Phyllis A. Wallace and Annette M. LaMond (eds), WOMEN, MINORITIES, AND EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION, Lexington Books (Lexington, Mass., 1979), 222 pp., £12.75.

Jeremy R. Azrael (ed.), SOVIET NATIONALITY POLICIES AND PRACTICES, New York and London, Praeger, 1978, 393 pp., £17.50.

Edward Dew, THE DIFFICULT FLOWERING OF SURINAM: ETHNICITY AND POLITICS IN A PLURAL SOCIETY, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1978, X + 234 pp., n.p.

John Edwards &; Richard Batley, THE POLITICS OF POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION: AN EVALUATION OF THE URBAN PROGRAMME 1967–77, London, Tavistock, 1978, 287pp., £9.95.     

Short reviews

Michael Reich, Racial Inequality: A Political—Economic Analysis, Princeton; Princeton University Press, 1981, xii + 345 pp. $57.95.

Bradley R. Schiller, The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination, third edition, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice‐Hall, 1981, x + 244 pp., £5.15.

Thomas Sowell, Markets and Minorities, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1981, xi + 141 pp., $6.00.

Phyllis A. Wallace, Black Women in the Labor Force, Cambridge, Mass., and London, England, The MIT Press, 1980, xv + 163 pp. $12.50.     

Book reviews

Stephen Cornell, THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE: AMERICAN INDIAN POLITICAL RESURGENCE, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988, 278 pp., $29.95.

Jack D. Forbes, BLACK AFRICANS AND NATIVE AMERICANS: COLOR, RACE AND CASTE IN THE EVOLUTION OF RED‐BLACK PEOPLES, Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988, 334 pp., £35.00.

Maryon McDonald, ’WE ARE NOT FRENCH!’: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN BRITTANY, London: Routledge, 1989, 384 pp., £40.00.

Ronald Grigor Suny, THE MAKING OF THE GEORGIAN NATION, London: I. B. Taurus and Co. Ltd., 1989, ix‐395 pp., £29.50.

Shlomo Deshen, THE MELLAH SOCIETY: JEWISH COMMUNITY LIFE IN SHERIFIAN MOROCCO, translated and revised from the Hebrew by the author. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989, xii + 152 pp., £23.95 and £9.50 (paper).

Roger Waldinger, Howard Aldrich, Robin Ward and Associates, ETHNIC ENTREPRENEURS: IMMIGRANT BUSINESS IN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES, Sage Series on Race and Ethnic Relations, vol. 1., Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1990, 226 pp., £29.25 and £13.95 (paper).

Saul Dubow, RACIAL SEGREGATION AND THE ORIGINS OF APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1919–36, St Antony's and Macmillan, London, 1989, xi and 250 pp., £35.00.

Mark Duffield, BLACK RADICALISM AND THE POLITICS OF DE‐INDUSTRIALISATION: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF INDIAN FOUNDRY WORKERS, Avebury, 1988, 226 pp., £24.50.

John Eade, THE POLITICS OF COMMUNITY: THE BANGLADESHI COMMUNITY IN EAST LONDON, Avebury, 1989, 213 pp., £24.00.

Nicole Hahn Rafter (ed.), WHITE TRASH: THE EUGENICS FAMILY STUDIES 1877–1919, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988, 382 pp., £36.00.

Neil R. McMillen, DARK JOURNEY ‐ BLACK MISSISSIPPIANS IN THE AGE OF JIM CROW, Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 1989, N.P.L.     

The value of measurements in the study of wader migration; a reply

Birds of West Central and Western Africa. Vol. 2. By C. W. Mackworth- Praed and C. H. B. Grant. Longman. 1973. 818 pp., 93 colour-plates, hundreds of distribution maps. Price £8.00., by L. A. Batten

A Guide to the Birds of Wales. David Saunders. Constable &; Co. Ltd, London. 1974. 341 pp. Many photographs and sketch maps. Price £2.50., by Chris Mead

The World of an Estuary. Heather Angel. Faber and Faber, London. 1975. 128 pp., 50 black and white photographs. Price £1.95., by A. J. Prater

Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain and Ireland. Dr J. T. R. Sharrock, with drawings by P. J. Grant. T. &; A. D. Poyser Ltd., Berkhamsted. 1974. 26 plates. Price £3.80., by D. E. Glue

The Buzzard. Colin R. Tubbs. David and Charles, Newton Abbot. 1974. 199 pp., 17 photographs and 11 figures. Price £4.75., by Chris Mead

Birds of the Yorkshire Coast. Richard Vaughan. Hendon Publishing Co. Ltd., London. 1974. 96 pp. 77 plates. Price £1.70 hardback, £1.20 paperback., by H. B. Ginn

The Naturalist in Majorca. James D. Parrack. David and Charles, Newton Abbot. 1973. 224 pp., 32 black and white plates and 15 line drawings. Price £3.95., by L. A. Batten

Feathers Plain and Fancy. Hilda Simon. Frederick Muller, London. 1973. (First published 1969.) Viking Press, New York. 126 pp., many colour and black and white illustrations by the author. Price £2.00., by H. B> Ginn

A Revised Check-List of the Maltese Islands. By C. De Lucca. E. W. Classey Ltd, Hampton, Middlesex, 1969. 95pp. Price £0.75.

Die Vögel des Bodenseegebietes. By H. Jacoby, G. Knötzsch and S. Schuster. Supplement to Vol. 67 of Der Ornithologische Beobachter, 1970. 260pp. 16 black and white plates.

Die Vogelwelt der Limmattal und Zürichseeregion. By W. Knopfli. Supplement to Vol. 68 of Der Ornithologische Beobachter, 1971. 174pp. 4 colour plates.     

Communitas and schismo‐genesis: The Andean Pilgrimage reconsidered

Cosmologies in the Making: a Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea. Fredrik Barth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, xii, 95 pp., map, fig. h/b, £ 17.50, $27.95.

The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies. D. K. FEIL. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 313 pp. £30.00.

Language Socialization Across Cultures edited by Bambi B. Schieffelin and Elinor Ochs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 274 pp.

Stories of Maasaw, a Hopi God. Ekkehart Malotki, Michael Lomatuway'ma. American Tribal Religions Volume 10. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. ix + 347 pp.

Maasaw: Profile of a Hopi God. Ekkehart Ma‐lotki, Michael Lomatuwavma. American Tribal Religions Volume 11. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. ix + 293 pp.

Pilgrims in the Andes: Regional Culls in Cusco. Michael J. Sallnow. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. xiii + 351 pp. $29.95.

The Women's Question and the Modes of Human Reproduction: an Analysis of a Tanzanian Village. Ulla Vuorela. 234 pp. Monograph of the Finnish Society for Development Studies no. I. Helsinki, 1987.

The Dynamics of Productive Relationships: African Share Contracts in Comparative Perspective. A. F. Robertson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xix + 321 pp. £25.00.

Rumblings on Soil Conservation. An Essay from Kenya. Wilhelm Östberg. Stockholm: Swedish International Development Authority, 1987. 83 pp. SEK 20.‐.

Religion, Development and African Identity, edited by K. H. PETERSEN. Seminar Proceedings No. 17. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1987. 163 pp. £10.

Aspects of Polish Folk Culture: An Anthology of Contemporary Research from the Department of Slavic Ethnography, Cracow, edited by Robert Gary Minnich. Bergen: Studia University Bookstore, 1987.

Hvad Mutter Gjør er Alltid Viktig. Om å vtere kvinne og mann i en nordnonk bygd i 1970‐årene. Lisbet Holtedahl. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1.986. 224 pp.

Whalsay: Symbol, Segment and Boundary in a Shetland Island Community. Anthony P. Cohen. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. ix + 216 pp., maps, figures, photographs, illustrations, appendixes, references, index, £22.95.

The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth‐Century Ethnography, Literature and Art. James Clifford. Cambridge (Mass.) &; London: Harvard University Press. 1988. xii +, 381 pp.

Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Clifford Geertz. Cambridge: Polity Press. 1988. vi +, 157 pp.

Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle‐Class Life. Jonas Frykman and Orvar Löfgren, (transl. Alan Crozier, Foreword John Gillis). New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1987. ix + 321 pp.     

The last days of American colonial slavery

Barbara L. Solow and Stanley L. Engerman (eds), BRITISH CAPITALISM AND CARIBBEAN SLAVERY, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, 345 pp., £25.00.

Robin Blackburn, THE OVERTHROW OF COLONIAL SLAVERY, 1776–1848, London: Verso, 1988, 560 pp., £12.95 (paper).

J. R. Ward, BRITISH WEST INDIAN SLAVERY, 1750–1834. THE PROCESS OF AMELIORATION, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988, 320 pp., £30.00.