The black ghetto and mainstream America

Thomas B. Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, CHAIN REACTION: THE IMPACT OF RACE, RIGHTS AND TAXES ON AMERICAN POLITICS, London and New York: Norton, 1992, ix + 343pp., $10.95 and £7.95 (paper).

Nicholas Lemann, THE PROMISED LAND: GREAT MIGRATION AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA, New York: Knopf, 1991, 410pp., $24.95 (cloth).

Alphonso Pinkney, BLACK AMERICANS, Fourth Edition, Englewood Cliffs, CT: Prentice Hall, 1993, vii + 246pp., npl.

Lee Sigelman and Susan Welch, BLACK AMERICANS’ VIEWS OF RACIAL INEQUALITY: THE DREAM DEFERRED, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, ix + 225pp., £13.95 and $15.95 (paper).

Raphael J. Sonenshein, POLITICS IN BLACK AND WHITE: RACE AND POWER IN LOS ANGELES, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993, xxii + 301pp., $14.95 (paper).

Gerald Suttles, THE MAN‐MADE CITY: THE LAND USE CONFIDENCE GAME IN CHICAGO, London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990, xiii + 312pp., $24.95 and £19.95 (cloth).

William J. Wilson (ed.), THE GHETTO UNDERCLASS: SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES, updated edn., London and Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993, 201pp., $18.50 (paper).     

Heredity counseling

THE RISE AND FALL OF T. D. LYSENKO: By Zhores A. Medvedev. Translated by I. Michael Lerner. Columbia University Press, New York, 1969. 284 pp. $10.00.

TOO MANY: A STUDY OF EARTH'S BIOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS: By Georg Borgstrom. Macmillan &; Co., Ltd., London, 1969. 368 pp. $7.95.

POPULATION (Second edition): By William Petersen. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1969. 735 pp. $10.95.

THE INTELLECTUAL MIGRATION: EUROPE AND AMERICA, 1930–1960: Edited by Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969. 748 pp. $12.95.

CELL STRUCTURE AND ITS INTERPRETATION: Edited by M. McGee‐Russell and K. F. A. Ross. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1969. 433 pp. $25.00.

AN ATLAS OF MAMMALIAN CHROMOSOMES: By T. C. Hsu and Kurt Benirschke. Springer‐Verlag, New York. Volume 1, 1967, 200 pp., $9.40. Volume 2, 1968, 200 pp., $9.40. Volume 3, 1969, 200 pp., §9.40.

PRENATAL DETERMINANTS OF BEHAVIOUR: By J. M. Joffe. Pergamon Press, New York, 1969. 366 pp. $13.00.

DEVELOPMENTS IN FERTILITY CONTROL: Report of WHO Scientific Group. World Health Organization Technical Report Series, No. 424. Geneva, Switzerland, 1969. 36 pp. Price: $1.00.

BIOCHEMISTRY OF MENTAL DISORDERS: World Health Organization Technical Report Series No. 427. Geneva, Switzerland, 1969. 48 pp. $1.00.

ATLAS OF MENTAL RETARDATION SYNDROMES: By Sydney S. Gellis and Murray Feingold. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1968. $5.50.

THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE: By Arthur Koestler. Macmillan Company, New York, 1968. 384 pp. $6.95.     

A new study of American fertility

METROPOLIS AND REGION: Otis Dudley Duncan, W. Richard Scott, Stanley Lieberson, Beverly Duncan, and Hal H. Winsborough. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1960, pp. xviii + 587, $8.50.

SCIENCE AND LIBERAL EDUCATION: Bentley Glass. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1959, 115 pp. (with foreword and preface of 10 pages), $3.00.

CAN MAN BE MODIFIED: Jean Rostand, Basic Books, New York, 1959, 105 pp. (Translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin). 13.00.

HUMAN HEREDITY: Jean Rostand, Philosophical Library, New York, 1961, 139 pp. (Translated from the French by Wade Baskin). $4.75.

PROSPECT FOR AMERICA; The Rockefeller Panel Reports. Doubleday and Co., Inc., Garden City, New York; 1961, 486 pp., $1.45.

SOCIAL POLICIES AND POPULATION GROWTH IN MAURITIUS: Richard M. Titmuss and Brian Abel‐Smith. Methuen and Co., Ltd., London, 1961, S08 pp., 15s net ($2.15).

THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF MAURITIUS: J. E. Meade and others. Methuen and Co., Ltd., London, 1961, 246 pp., 15s net ($2.15).

CLASSIFICATION OF KIN, AGE STRUCTURE AND MARRIAGE AMONGST THE GROOTE EYLANDT ABORIGINES: Frederick G. G. Rose. Pergamon Press, Oxford and New York, 1960, 572 pp., £5.     

Age at first coitus and choice of contraceptive method: Preliminary report on a study of factors related to cervical neoplasia

MUTATIONS: BIOLOGY AND SOCIETY: Edited by D. N. Walcher, N. Kretchmer, and H. L. Barnett. Masson Publishing USA Inc., 1978. 418 pp. $24.50

THE ETHICS OF SOCIAL INTERVENTION: Edited by Gordon Bermant, Herbert C. Kelman, and Donald P. Warwick. Halsted Press (Wiley), New York, 1978. 431 pp. $18.50.

HUMAN MIGRATION: PATTERNS AND POLICIES: Edited by William H. McNeill and Ruth S. Adams. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1978.     

Genetic‐hygienic impairment through incestuous matings

THE EFFECT OF EXPOSURE TO THE ATOMIC BOMBS ON PREGNANCY TERMINATION IN HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI: J. V. Neel and W. J. Schull, Publication No. 461, National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council, Washington, 1956, 241 pp., $2.00.

DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS: SELECTED READINGS: Edited by Joseph J. Spengler and Otis Dudley Duncan. The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois, 1956. xvi, 820 pp. $9.50.

POPULATION THEORY AND POLICY: SELECTED READINGS: Edited by Joseph S. Spengler and Otis Dudley Duncan. The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois, 1956. x, 522 pp. $7.50.

HEALTH AND DEMOGRAPHY: Halbert L. Dunn; U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Bureau of State Services, National Office of Vital Statistics; Washington, October, 1956, 94 pp., $.50.

SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF URBAN AND RURAL COMMUNITIES, 1950: Otis Dudley Duncan and Albert J. Reiss, Jr., John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1956, XVIII + 421 pp. $6.50.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN DIFFERENCES: Leona E. Tyler. 2nd Edition. New York, Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, 1956. pp. VIII + 562.     

Changes in American marriage patterns

HUMAN BEHAVIOR—AN INVENTORY OF SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS: Bernard Berelson and Gary A. Steiner. Harcourt, Brace &; World, Inc., New York, 1964, 712 pp. (with bibliographical and subject indexes), $11.00.

HEREDITY AND THE NATURE OF MAN: Theodosius Dobzhansky. Harcourt, Brace &; World, 1964, 179 pp., $4.75.

TEACHING GENETICS: C. D. Darlington and A. D. Bradshaw, editors. Philosophical Library, New York, 1963, 121 pp., illus., $7.50.

POPULATION DYNAMICS: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF WORLD DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE: Ralph Thomlinson. Random House, New York, 1965, 576 pp., $8.50.

ADVANCES IN PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Aquiles J. Sobrero and Sarah Lewit, Editors. Schenkman Publishing Company, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. 1965, 151 pp., $5.95.     

Americans all: Black and single‐parent families in the inner city

Bette J. Dickerson (ed.), AFRICAN AMERICAN SINGLE MOTHERS: UNDERSTANDING THEIR LIVES AND FAMILIES, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995, xxxii + 200 pp., $24.00 (paper).

Linda Gordon, PITIED BUT NOT ENTITLED: SINGLE MOTHERS AND THE HISTORY OF WELFARE 1890–1935, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994, 433 pp., $15.95 (paper).

Joyce A. Ladner, TOMORROW'S TOMORROW: THE BLACK WOMAN, Lincoln, NE: The University of Nebraska Press, 1995, xxiii + 304 pp., $12.00 (paper).

Carl Husemoller Nightingale, ON THE EDGE: A HISTORY OF POOR BLACK CHILDREN AND THEIR AMERICAN DREAMS, New York: Basic Books, 1993, xv + 254 pp., $14.00 (paper).

M. Belinda Tucker and Claudia Mitchell‐Kernan, (eds), THE DECLINE IN MARRIAGE AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1995, xxiv + 397 pp., $49.95 and $19.95 (paper).     

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.     

Letters

BIOCHEMICAL INDIVIDUALITY: THE BASIS FOR THE GENETOTROPHIC CONCEPT: Roger J. Williams, John Wiley &; Sons, New York, 1956, 214 pp.

THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF HUMAN FREEDOM: Theodosius Dobzhansky, Columbia University Press, New York 1956, 139 pp.

COLD SPRING HARBOR SYMPOSIA ON QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY, Volume XX, Population Genetics: The Nature and Causes of Genetic Variability in Populations. The Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., New York, 1955, 346 pp.

HERITABLE DISORDERS OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE. Victor A. McKusick, Mosby Co., St. Louis, 1956, 224 pp. $7.50.

THE CHEMICAL BASIS OF HEREDITY: Edited by William D. McElroy and Bentley Glass. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1957, 848 pp.

THE POPULATION OF JAMAICA: George W. Roberts, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1957.     

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.     

Abstracts

BIOFEEDBACK AND SELF‐CONTROL, 1970. Edited by Theodore Barber, Leo V. Di‐Cara, Joe Kamiya, Neal E. Miller, David Shapiro, and Johann Stoyva. Aldine Press, Chicago, 1971. 546 pp. $12.00.

INSANITY AND IDIOCY IN MASSACHUSETTS. REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON LUNACY, 1855: By Edward Jarvis. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1971. 213 pp. $9.00.

METRIC TRENDS IN HOMINID DENTAL EVOLUTION: By Milford H. Wolpoff. Studies in Anthropology No. 2, Case Western Reserve University Press, Cleveland, 1971. 244 pp. $5.95.

CULTURE AND POPULATION: A COLLECTION OF CURRENT STUDIES: Edited by Steven Polgar. Carolina Population Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1971. 19S pp. $1.50, paperback.

AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY: By Ralph L. Beals and Harry Hoijer. Fourth Edition. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1971. 711 pp. $10.95.

CARMICHAEL'S MANUAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. Edited by Paul H. Mussen. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1970. Two vols: Vol. 1, 1519 pp., $30.00; Vol. 2, 782 pp., $20.00. The set: $40.00.

MATHEMATICAL TOPICS IN POPULATION GENETICS: Edited by Ken‐ichi Kojima. Springer‐Verlag. New York, 1970. 400 pp. $18.70.

AMERICAN DAWN. A NEW MODEL OF AMERICAN PREHISTORY: By Louis A. Brennan. MacMillan, New York, 1970. 390 pp. $8.95.

PROGRESS IN MEDICAL GENETICS: Edited by Arthur G. Steinberg and Alexander G. Bearn. Vol. 7. Grune and Stratton, New York, 1970. 243 pp. $16.50.

CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS: Edited by F. Clarke Fraser and V. A. McKusick. Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam, New York, 1970. 450 pp. $27.00.

THE HUMAN PLACENTA: By J. D. Boyd and W. J. Hamilton, W. Heffer and Sons Ltd., Cambridge, 1970. 365 pp. $43.83.

DENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION: Report of a WHO Expert Committee. World Health Organization Technical Report Series No. 449, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1970. 28 pp. $0.60.

MULTIPURPOSE SEROLOGICAL SURVEYS AND WHO SERUM REFERENCE BANKS: Report of a WHO Scientific Group. World Health Organization Technical Report Series No. 454. World Health Organization, Geneva, 1970. $1.75. 95 pp.

MENTAL HEALTH OF ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG PERSONS. REPORT ON A TECHNICAL CONFERENCE: By A. R. May, J. H. Kahn, and B. Cronholm. World Health Organization, Geneva, 1971. 72 pp. $1.75.

BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: Report of a WHO Scientific Group. World Health Organization, Geneva, 1970. 35 pp. $1.00.

EVOLUTION BY GENE DUPLICATION: By Susumu Ohno. Springer‐Verlag, New York‐Heidelberg‐Berlin, 1970. 160 pp. Hard cover, $9.90.

SYMBIOSIS. ORGANISMS LIVING TOGETHER: By Thomas C. Cheng. Pegasus, New York, 1970. 250 pp. $6.95 ($2.25, paperback).

MARIHUANA RECONSIDERED: By Lester Grinspoon. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1971. 443 pp. $9.95.

THE KHANNA STUDY: POPULATION PROBLEMS IN THE RURAL PUNJAB: By John B. Wyon and John E. Gordon. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1971. 437 pp. $14.00.     

The medical complaints of the relatives of the psychotic,the alcoholic and the epileptic

EXPANDING GOALS OF GENETICS IN PSYCHIATRY: Franz J. Kallmann, Editor. Grune &; Stratton, New York, 1962. 275 pp., $6.75.

PHARMACOGENETICS. HEREDITY AND THE RESPONSE TO DRUGS: Werner Kalow. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1962. vi + 231 pp. $8.00.

POSTWAR POPULATION TRANSFERS, 1945–1955: Joseph B. Schechtman. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1962. 417 pp., $6.00.)

MENTAL HEALTH IN THE METROPOLIS: THE MIDTOWN MANHATTAN STUDY, VOLUME I: Leo Srole, Thomas S. Lang‐ner, Stanley T. Michael, Marvin K. Opler, and Thomas A. C. Rennie. McGraw‐Hill, New York, 1962. 428 pp., $9.95.     

Women's opinion about size of family in the Netherlands

HUMAN BLOOD GROUPS AND INHERITANCE: Sylvia Lawler and L. J. Lawler. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1957.

SOUTHERN RACIAL PROGRESS: THE WAVERING COLOR LINE: Thomas J. Woofter. Public Affairs Press, Washington, D. C., 1957, xii, 189 pp., $3.50.

GENETICS: Edgar Altenburg. New York, Holt and Co., 1957, 496 pp., $6.50.     

Books and the Child

Abstract

Jutta Ash (from a Crimm tale), RAPUNZEL, Holt, Rinehart & Winston: New York, 1982, unpaged, $10.95

Lorinda B. Cauley, THE GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN COINS, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: New York, 1981, unpaged, $11.95 ($5.95 paper). Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Graham Percy (adapted from Perrault), SLEEPING BEAUTY, Knopf: New York, 1980, unpaged, $1.75 (boards). Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

George Overlie (story by Pamela Espeland), THE STORY OF BAUCIS AND PHILOMON, Carolrhoda Books: Minneapolis, 1981, unpaged, n.p.i. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Michael Hague (retold by K. & M. Hague), THE MAN WHO KEPT HOUSE, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: New York, 1981, unpaged, $11.95. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Donald Carrick, HARALD AND THE GIANT KNIGHT, Clarion Books: New York, 1982, unpaged, $10.95. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Annie Gusman (written by Arthur Crowley), THE WAGON MAN, Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1981, unpaged, $8.95. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Diane Good (story by Louise Moeri), THE UNICORN AND THE PLOW, Dutton: New York, 1982, unpaged, $8.95. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Victoria Chess (story by Larry Bograd), LOST IN THE STORE, Macmillan: New York, 1981, unpaged, $8.95. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Edward Gorey (story by Florence P. Heide), TREEHORN'S TREASURE, Holiday House: New York, 1981, unpaged, $7.95. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Ernest Goldstein, EDWARD HICKS: THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM and WINSLOW HOMER: THE GULF STREAM, Garrard Publishers: Champaign, Illinois, 1982, 48 pages, $8.95 (each) from the “Let's Get Lost in a Painting” series. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.     

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.     

Distribution of genes affecting characteristics of the population

THE CHANGING POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES: Conrad Taeuber and Irene B. Taeuber. A Volume in the Census Monograph Series. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York; Chapman and Hall, Limited, London; for the Social Science Research Council in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; 1958; xi, 357 pp.; $7.75.

VARIABLES RELATED TO HUMAN BREAST CANCER: Elving Anderson, Harold J. GOODMAN and SHELDON C. REED. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1958, 172 pp., 41 text, tables, 53 appendix tables, 7 figures. $4.00.

THE POPULATION AHEAD, Edited by Roy G. Francis. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1958, x, 160 pp.

ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Mary Calderone, M. D. (Editor). Hoeber‐Harper, New York, 1958, 224 pp. $5.50.

DIFFERENTIAL PSYCHOLOGY: Anne Anastasi. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1958 (3rd Edition), 664 pp + xii.

FIVE YEARS OF FAMILY PLANNING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE: Baljit Singh. J. K. Institute Monograph No. 6, J. K. Institute of Sociology &; Human Relations, Lucknow University. 1958. 118 pp.

POPULATION; AN INTERNATIONAL DILEMMA. A Summary of the Proceedings of the Conference on Population Problems— 1956–1957. Frederick Osborn. New York, Population Council, 1958. Pp. ix + 97. $2.00.     

The fertility of a sample of American elites

THE HUMAH CONDITION. HOW DID WE GET HERE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING?: By Frederick Osborn. Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, New York, 1974. 82 pp.

HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVES IN MEDICAL ETHICS: Edited by Maurice B. Visscher. Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York, 1972. 310 pp. $11.95.

MAN FOR MAN: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP ON EFFECTING MAN'S SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL NATURE THROUGH COMMUNITY ACTION: Edited by John L. Carleton and Ursula Mahlendorf. Charles C Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1973. 355 pp. $10.95.

THE ORIGINS OF LIFE: By Cyril Ponnamperuma. E. P. Dutton, New York, 1972. 215 pp. $7.95.

PARTNERWAHL UND EHE—THEORIE UND PRAXIS: Edited by Hans W. Jürgens. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Altmann, Hamburg, Germany, 1972. 217 pp.     

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.     

Biochemical studies in schizophrenia: A review

CATHOLIC VIEWPOINT ON OVERPOPULATION: Anthony Zimmerman, S.V.D. Hanover House, New York, 1961, 214 pp., $3.50.

MANKIND EVOLVING: Theodosius Dobzhansky. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1962, xiii + 381 pp., $7.50.

THE SEARCH FOR A COMMON LEARNING: General Education, 1800–1960: Russell Thomas. McGraw‐Hill, New York, 1962, 324 pp., $6.95.

THE WORLD ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITIES: Edward W. Weidner. McGraw‐Hill, New York, 1962, 366 pp., $3.65.

RESEARCH IN FAMILY PLANNING: C. V. Kiser, ed. Princeton University Press, 1962, Princeton, pp. 662, $12.50.     

Sources of great men

FERTILITY DIFFERENCES IN A MODERNIZING COUNTRY. A SURVEY OF LEBANESE COUPLES: David Yaukey. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1961, 204 pp., $4.00.

EVOLUTION ABOVE THE SPECIES LEVEL: Bernhard Rensch. Number XIX of the Columbia Biological Series, Columbia University Press, New York, 1960, 419 pp., $10.00.

GENETICS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS: E. B. Ford. Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1961, 202 pp.

THEORIES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH: Bert F. Hoselitz (Ed.). Free Press, Glencoe, Ill., 344 pp., $7.50.

GENES, ENZYMES AND INHERITED DISEASES: H. Eldon Sutton. Holt‐Rinehart and Wilson, Inc., New York, 1961.