BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Development and Environment in Peninsular Malaysia . S. Robert Aiken, Colin H. Leigh, Thomas R. Leinbach, Michael R. Moss. The Rural-Urban Fringe: Canadian Perspectives . Ken B. Beesley and Lorne H. Russwurm, eds. Women and Development . Lourdes Benería, ed. The Border that Joins: Mexican Migrants and U.S. Responsibility . Peter G. Brown and Henry Shue, eds. Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development . Stanley D. Brunn and Jack L. Williams, eds. Time Resources, Society, and Ecology: On the Capacity for Human Interaction in Space and Time (Vol. I, Preindustrial Societies). Tommy Carlstein. Urban Geography . David Clark. Spanish City Planning in North America . Dora P. Crouch, Daniel J. Garr, and Axel I. Mundigo. Not On Our Street: Community Attitudes to Mental Health Care . M. J. Dear and S. M. Taylor Unequal growth: Urban and Regional Employment Change in the U.K. Stephen Fothergill and Graham Gudgin. Agricultural Land in an Urban Society . Owen J. Furuseth and John T. Pierce. The Petroleum Industry in Oil-Importing Developing Countries . Fariborz Ghadar. Historical Understanding in Geography, An Idealist Approach . Leonard Guelke. Regional Planning in Europe . R. Hudson and J. R. Lewis, eds. Remote Sensing for Resource Management . Chris J. Johannsen and James L. Sanders, eds. Geography and The State . R. J. Johnston. Texas Graveyards: a Cultural Legacy . Tlrry G. Jordan. The Politics of Location: An Introduction . Andrew Kirby. A Social Geography of the City . David Ley. Energy and the Future . Douglas MacLean and Peter Brown, eds. The Natural Environment of Newfoundland Past and Present . A. G. Macpherson and J. B. Macpherson, eds. Tourism: Economic, Physical and Social Impacts . Alister Mathieson and Geoffrey Wall. Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention . Lloyd J. Mercer. Progress in Rural Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Progress in Urban Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Models of Spatial Inequality: Settlement Patterns in Historical Archaeology . Robert Paynter. Natural Hazard Risk Assessment and Public Policy, Anticipating the Unexpected . William J. Petak and Arthur A. Atkisson. The Nature of Geomorphology . Alistair F. Pitty. Regional Conflict and National Policy . Kent A. Price Women and Spatial Change: Learning Resources for Social Science Courses . Arlene C. Rengert and Janice J. Monk, eds. Urban and Regional Analysis for Development Planning . Richard Rhoda. Rivers: Form and Process in Alluvial Channels . Keith Richards. This Remarkable Continent: An Atlas of United States and Canadian Society and Culture . John F. Rooney, Jr., Wilbur Zelinsky, and Dean R. Louder, gen. eds. The Origins of Open-Field Agriculture . Trevor Rowley, ed. Residential Location Determinants of the Older Population . Gundars Rudzitis. Borderland Sourcebook: A Guide to the Literature on Northern Mexico and the American Southwest . Ellwyn R. Stoddard, Richard L. Nostrand, and Jonathan P. West, eds. Arctic and Antarctic . David Sugden. Tall Timbers Ecology and Management Conference, February 22–24, 1979, Proceedings No. 16 . Graphic Communication and Design in Contemporary Cartography (Progress in Contemporary Cartography , Vol. II). D. R. Fraser Taylor, ed. Living with Energy Shortfall: A Future for American Towns and Cities . Jon Van Til. The United States: Habitation of Hope . J. Wreford Watson. Air Photo Interpretation for Archaeologists . D. R. Wilson. Urban and Rural Change in West Germany . Trevor Wild, ed. Population and Resources . Harry Robinson.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Geography and the Third World. International Seminar, 14–18 May 1980, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . Ishmail Ahmad and Jamaluddin Md Jahi, eds. The Growth Dilemma: Residents' Views and Local Population Change in the United States . Mark Baldassare. Sport and Place: A Geography of Sport in England, Scotland & Wales . John Bale. The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry . Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison. Selected Essays 1963–1975: Carl O. Sauer . Bob Callahen, ed. Housing and Planning in the Countryside . G. Clark. Conflict, Politics and the Urban Scene . Kevin R. Cox and R. J. Johnston, eds. Thematic Maps: Their Design and Production . David J. Cuff and Mark T. Mattson. Wine: A Geographic Appreciation . Harm Jan de Blij. USSR in Maps . J. C. Dewdney. Political Geography: A Contemporary Perspective . Ramesh D. Dikshit. Rethinking Human Adaptation . Rada Dyson-Hudson and Michael A. Little, eds. Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the indiana Dunes . J. Ronald Engel. Geography of the Biosphere . A. Furley and Walter W. Newey. Disaster and Reconstruction . Robert Geipel. Glasgow: The Making of a City . Andrew Gibb. Design for Arid Regions . Giden S. Golany, ed. Urbanization and Cancer Mortality: The United States Experience, 1950–1975 . Michael R. Greenberg. Geology in the Nineteenth Century: Changing Views of a Changing World . Mott T. Greene. Colonización y Destrucción de Bosques en Panamá . Stanley Heckadon Moreno and Alberto McKay, eds. Urban Geography: A First Approach . David T. Herbert and Colin J. Thomas. The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes . Tadahiko Higuchi. Climate from Tree Rings . M. K. Hughes, P. M. Kelly, J. R. Pilcher, and V. C. LaMarche, Jr., eds. The structure of Nineteenth Century Cities . James H. Johnson and Colin G. Pooley, eds. The American Planner: Biographies and Recollections . Donald A. Krueckeberg, ed. Urban Land Policy For the 1980s, the Message for State and Local Government . George Lefcoe, ed. Regional Planning: Evolution, Crisis and Prospects . Gill C. Lim, ed. Relevance and Ethics In Geography . Bruce Mitchell and Dianne Draper. China: The Geography of Development and Modernization . Clifton W. Pannell and Laurence J. C. MA. The Urban Retailing System . Robert B. Potter. Hants. Nonconventional Energy Resources . Philip R. Pryde. Caribbean Migrants: Environment and Human Survival on St. Kitts and Nevis . Bonham C. Richardson. Population and Resources . Harry Robinson. East Los Angeles: History of A Barrio . Ricardo Romo. Integrated Impact Assessment . Frederick A. Rossini and Alan L. Porter, eds. Environmental Aesthetics: Essays in Interpretation . Barry Sadler and Allen Carlson, eds. Earthwatch . Charles Sheffield. Field Techniques and Research Methods in Geography . Robert H. Stoddard. Haiti: Land of Poverty . Robert J. Tata. Weathering and Erosion: Sources and Methods in Geography . Stephen T. Trudgill. Once Beneath the Forest. Prehistoric Terracing in the Río Bec Region of the Maya Lowlands . B. L. Turner, II. The Historical Geography of Scotland since 1707 . David Turnock.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Geographical Aspects of Health and Disease in India . Rais Akhtar and A.T.A. Learmonth , eds . Antarctic Treaty System: An Assessment . Proceedings of a Workshop at Beardmore South Field Camp, Antarctica. American Electoral Mosaics . J. Clark Archer and Fred M. Shelley . Kompas op Suidwes-Afrika/Namibie . W.S. Barnard , ed . Jerusalem in the 19th Century: The Old City . Yehoshua Ben -Arieh . The World as a Total System . Kenneth E. Boulding . A Social History of Housing 1815–1985, Second Ed . John Burnett . Human Migration . W.A.V. Clark . Regional Population Projection Models . Andrei Rogers . The State of Population Theory: Forward from Malthus . David Coleman and Roger Schofield , eds . Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology and the American Future . Joseph C. Corn , ed. Swidden Agriculture in Indonesia: The Subsistence Strategies of the Kalimantan Kantú . Michael R. Dove . Glacial Geologic Processes . David Drewry . Physics of Desertification . Farouk El -Baz and M.H.A. Hassan , eds . Housing the Homeless . Jon Erickson and Charles Wilhelm , eds . Settlement Patterns in Missouri: A Study of Population Origins, with a Wall Map . Russel L. Gerlach . Desert Development: Man and Technology in Sparselands . Yehuda Gradus , ed . Nuclear Winter. The Evidence and Risks . Owen Greene , Ian Percival and Irene Ridge . The Take-off of Suburbia and the Crisis of the Central City . Günter Heinritz and Elisabeth Lichtenberger , eds . Regional Input-Output Analysis . Geoffrey J. D. Hewings . Spatial Transportation Modeling . Christian Werner . The Atlas of Georgia . Thomas W. Hodler and Howard A. Schretter , eds . Latin America. 5th ed . Preston E. James and C.W. Minkel . Applied Remote Sensing . C.P. Lo . Localities, Class, and Gender . The Lancaster Regionalism Group . Urban Social Movements: The City after Castells . Stuart Lowe . Politics and Method . Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan , eds . Land Use . A. S. Mather . The Kingdom of Coal . Donald L. Miller and Richard E. Sharpless . The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain, A Documentary History, Vol. 1: 1570–1700 . Thomas H. Naylor and Charles W. Polzer , S.J., comps . and eds . Nuclear Power: Siting and Safety . Stan Openshaw . The Central African Republic: The Continent's Hidden Heart . Thomas O'Toole . Environmental and Dynamic Geomorphology . Márton Pécsi , ed . Remote Sensing Principles and Interpretation . Floyd F. Sabins , Jr . Acid Rain and Friendly Neighbors: The Policy Dispute between Canada and the United States . Jurgen Schmandt and Hilliard Roderick , eds . Earth's Changing Surface: An Introduction to Geomorphology . M.J. Selby . International Migration: The Female Experience . Rita J. Simon and Caroline B. Brettell , eds . On Geography and Its History . D.R. Stoddart . Transportation Networks: A Quantitative Approach . D. Teodorovic . Processes in Physical Geography . R.D. Thompson , A.M. Mannion , C.W. Mitchell , M. Parry , J.R.G. Townshend . Imaging Radar for Resources Surveys . J.W. Trevett . Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets . Yi -Fu Tuan . Capturing the Horizon. The Historical Geography of Transportation since the Transportation Revolution of the Sixteenth Century . James E. Vance , Jr . Nations at Risk: The Impact of the Computer Revolution . Edward Yourdon .     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. By Lawrence Buell . HUMAN IMPACT ON THE EARTH. By William B. Meyer . ECOSYSTEM GEOGRAPHY. By Robert G. Bailey ; illustrated by Lev Ropes LAND USE AND SOCIETY: Geography, Law, and Public Policy. By Rutherford H. Platt . CAUGHT IN THE NET: The Conflict between Shrimpers and Conservationists. By Anthony V. Margavio and Craig J. Forsyth . BRING BACK THE BUFFALO! A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains. By Ernest Callenbach . GUIDE TO KANSAS ARCHITECTURE. By David H. Sachs and George Ehrlich . RELIGION AND WINE: A Cultural History of Wine Drinking in the United States. By Robert C. Fuller . THE PROMISE OF PARADISE: Recreational and Retirement Communities in the United States since 1950. By Hubert B. Stroud . ERRANT JOURNEYS: Adventure Travel in a Modern Age. By David Zurick . THE DUST ROSE LIKE SMOKE: The Subjugation of the Zulu and Sioux. By James O. Gump . THE PEOPLING OF AFRICA: A Geographic Interpretation. By James L. Newman . THE MAGIC MOUNTAINS: Hill Stations and the British Raj. By Dane Kennedy . THE GENIUS OF C. WARREN THORNTHWAITE, CLIMATOLOGIST-GEOGRAPHER. By John R. Mather and Marie Sanderson .     

Recent Publications

Analytical Tools Multivariate Statistical Analysis in Geography: A premier on the General Linear Model. R. J. Johnston Introduction to Geographic Field Methods and Techniques. John F. Lounsbury and Frank T. Aldrich Cartography and Maps Map Librarianship. Mary Larsgaard. Cultural Geography and Ecology Dry Lands: Man and Plants. R. Adams, M. Adams, A. Willens, and A. Willens The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays. D. W. Meinig, ed. Economic Geography Transportation in America: Users, Carriers, and Government. D. V. Harper Spatial Patterns of Office Growth and Location. P. W. Daniels, ed. Techniques in Store Location Research-A Review and Applications. Ian Fenwick The Weakest Link: A Technological Perspective on Canadian lndustrial Underdevelopment. John N. H. Britton and James M. Gilmour ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCES. International Comparisons of Energy Consumption. Joy Dunkerley, ed. Social and Technological Management in Dry Lands: Past and Present, Indigenous and Imposed. Nancie L. Gonzalez, editor Historical Geography An Historical Geography of England and Wales. R. A. Dodgson and R. A. Butlin, eds. Medical Geography Applied Medical Geography. G. F. Pyle Philosophy and Geographic Thought Making Sense of Time, Vol. 1. T. Carlstein, D. Parkes, and N. Thrift, eds. Human Activity and Time Geography, Vol. 2. Tommy Carlstein, Don Parkes, and Nigel Thrift, eds. Time and Regional Dynamics. Vol. 3. T. Carlstein, D. Parkes, N. Thrift, eds. Ideology, Science and Human Geography. Derek Gregory Radical Geography: Alternative Viewpoints on Contemporary Social Issues. Richard Peet, ed. Political Geography Political, Electoral and Spatial Systems. R. J. Johnston Regional and Urban Planning Analytical Techniques in Urban and Regional Planning. John W. Dickey and Thomas M. Watts Slum Housing and Residential Renewal: The Case in Urban Britain. D. A. Kirby Remote Sensing for Planners. K. Ford, ed. Regional Geography Regional Geography of Angio-America, 5th edition. C. Langdon White, Edwin J. Foscue, Tom L. McKnight The Middle East: A Physical, Social and Regional Geography, 7th edition. W. B. Fisher The Third World: Problems and Perspectives. Alan B. Mountjoy, ed. Social Geography Design for Independent Living: The Environment and Physically Disabled People. Raymond Lifchez and Barbara Winslow Urban Geography and Settlements La Cittá Capitalists: Los Angeles. Ciovanni Brino     

Activities Of American Geographers

Finnish Immigrants in America, 1880–1920. A. William Hoglund.

Geology of the Industrial Rocks and Minerals. Robert L. Bates.

Readings in Culturul Geography. Philip L. Wagner AND Marvin W. Mikesell, eds.

Anglo-America: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada. P. F. Griffin, R.N. Young, AND R.L. Chatham

Undergraduate Education in Foreign Affirs. Percy W. Bidwell.

Crevecoeur's Eighteenth-Century Travels in Pennsylvania and New York. Michel-Guillaume: Jean DE Crevecoeur. Percy G. Adams, trans. and ed.

Canada and the Canadians: Profile of a Modern Nation. Alistair Horne.

Four Thousund Years Ago: d Panorama of Life in the Second Millennium B.C. Geoffrey Bibby.

Interpretation of Aerial Photographs. T. Eugene Avery.

A Geography of the U.S.S R.: The Background to a Planned Economy. J.P. Cole AND F.C. German.

Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States, with a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah. John Wesley Powell. Wallace Stegner, ed.     

Reviews

WEATHER AND WEATHER MAPS. Edited by Gosta H. Liljequist
THE TIME OF DARKNESS. By R. J. Blong
BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS IN GEOGRAPHY REVISITED. Edited by Kevin R. Cox and Reginald G. Golledge
GOVERNMENT AND CAPITALISM: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CHOICE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AUSTRALIA. By N. G. Butlin, A. Barnard and J. J. Pincus.
CINDERELLAS OF THE EMPIRE. By Barrie Macdonald     

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Computer Programming for Spatial Problems. E. Bruce MacDougall. Quantitative Techniques in Geography: An Introduction. R. Hammond and P. S. Mc-Cullagh. Map Use: Reading, Analysis, and Interpretation. Phillip C. Muehrcke. The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of Agriculture. Mark Nathan Cohen. (I) Contemporary Industrialization: Spatial Analysis and Regional Development. F. E. Ian Hamilton, editor. (II) Industrial Change: International Experience and Public Policy. F. E. Ian Hamilton, editor. Principles for Local hvironmental Management. P. G. Rowe, J. Mixon, B. A. Smith, J. B. Blackburn, G. L. Calaway, and J. L. Gevirtz. Ever the Land. R. L. Parson. Patterns of Disease & Hunger: A Study in Medical Geography. Andrew Learmonth. Environmental Systems. R. J. Bennett and R. J. Chorley. Science for Physical Cieographers. Donald A. Davidson. The PoliticaI Economy of Urban Transportation. James V. Cornehls and Delbert A. Taebel. Urbanization and Social Change in West Africa. Joseph Gugler and William G. Flanagan. Social Areas in Cities: Processes, Patterns and Problems. D. T. Herbert and R. J. Johnston, eds. Some Aspects of the Study and Teaching of Geography in the United States. R. H. Saveland and C. W. Pannell. Cities, Space, and Behavior: The Elements of Urban Geography. L. J. King and R. G. Golledge. Systems of Cities: Readings on Structure, Growth, and Policy. L. S. Bourne and J. W. Simmons, eds. Leaving London: Planned Mobility and the Inner City. Nicholas Deakin and Clare Ungerson.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
GREAT DAYS IN NEW ZEALAND EXPLORATION: THE BUSH AND THE RAIN. By John Pascoe.
A SURVEY OF NEW ZEALAND POPULATION: An Analysis of Past Trends and an Estimate of Future Growth. Compiled by the Town and Country Planning Branch, Ministry of Works.
ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE SOUTH SEAS. Essays presented to H. D. Skinner. Edited by J. D. Freeman and W. R. Geddes.
OXFORD ATLAS FOR NEW ZEALAND—STUDENTS' EDITION. Advisory Editor, R. G. Lister. London and Wellington
GEOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF ALAN G. OGILVIE. Edited by R. Miller and J. Wreford Watson.
THE ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY. By T. L. Hills.
AFRICA: ITS PEOPLE AND THEIR CULTURE HISTORY. By G. P. Murdock.
BRITISH WEATHER IN MAPS. By J. A. Taylor and R. A. Yates.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Hillslope Processes. Binghamton Symposia in Geomorphology International Series: 16. Athol D. Abrahams , ed. The Atlas of Central America and the Caribbean. The Diagram Group . The Cultural Atlas of Islam. Isma'il R. al Faruqi and Lois Lamaya'al Faruqi . Atlas of Israel Contemporary Africa: Development, Culture and the State. Morag Bell . Fundamentals of Physical Geography. David Briggs and Peter Smithson . The Bicentennial Census: New Directions for Methodology in 1990. Constance F. Citro and Michael L. Cohen , eds . World Patterns of Modern Urban Change: Essays in Honor of Chauncy D. Harris. Michael P. Conzen , ed . New Directions for Agriculture and Agricultural Research: Neglected Dimensions and Emerging Alternatives. Kenneth A. Dahlberg , ed . Water Resources Atlas of Florida. E.A. Fernald and D.J. Patton , eds . Landscape Ecology. R.T.T. Forman and M. Godron . The Myth of the North American City: Continentalism Challenged. Michael Goldberg and John Mercer . The Permafrost Environment. Stuart A. Harris . Climate and Circulation of the Tropics. Stefan Hastenrath . The Island of South Georgia. Robert Headland . The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1950. Paul M. Hohenberg and Lynn Hollen Lees . Bombay in Transition: The Growth and Social Ecology of a Colonial City, 1889–1980. Meera Kosambi . Plant Closings; Public or Private Choices? Richard B. McKenzie , ed . Malaysia: Tradition, Modernity and Islam. R.S. Milne and Diane K. Mauzy . Technology on the Frontier: Mining in Old Ontario. Dianne Newell . The Maritime Political Boundaries of the World. J.R.V. Prescott . Tall Office Buildings in the United States. James W. Pygman and Richard Kateley (Real Estate Research Corporation). Technology, Regions, and Policy. John Rees , ed . The United States and the Regional Organization of Asia and the Pacific: 1965-1985. W.W. Rostow . Renewable Energy: Progress, Prospects. Stephen W. Sawyer Wisconsin Foundations. Gwen Schultz . Dwelling, Place and Environment: Towards a Phenomenology of Person and World. David Seamon and Robert Mugerauer , eds . Power and Place: Canadian Urban Development in the North American Context. Gilbert A. Stelter and Alan F.J. Artibise , eds . Small Firms in Regional Economic Development: Britain, Ireland and the United States. D. J. Storey , ed . Mathematical Methods in Human Geography and Planning. A. G. Wilson and R. J. Bennett . El Niño North: Niño Effects on the Eastern Subarctic Pacific Ocean. W. S. Wooster and D. L. Fluharty , eds . The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry. Craig ZumBrunnen and Jeffrey Osleeb .     

Reviews

The Knowledge Arena: Approaching agroforestry and competing knowledge systems - a challenge for agricultural extension. By P er H illbur .
Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture. By D. H eld .
Maps as Prints in the Italian Renaissance: Makers, Distributors and Consumers. By D avid W oodward .
Introduction to Geodesy: the History and Concepts of Modern Geodesy. By J ames R. S mith .
Framework for the World. By D avid R hind .
Maps and Mapping of Africa: a Resource Guide. By J ohn M cilwaine .
Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past. By J eremy B lack .
Trading territories: mapping in the early modern world. By J erry B rotton .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: The City in Cultural Context . John Agnew, John Mercer, David Sopher, eds. Soils and Geomorphology Peter W. Birkeland. Urbanization and Settlement Systems, International Perspectives . L. S. Bourne, R. Sinclair, and K. Dziewoński. eds. An Introduction to Urban Historical Geography . Harold Carter. Overshoot, The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change . William J. Catton, Jr. Rivers of the World . Eberhard Czaya. Jewish Communities in Frontier Societies: Argentina, Australia and South Africa . Daniel J. Elazar with Peter Medding. Color in Public Spaces: Toward a Communication-Based Theory of the Urban Built Environment. Kenneth E. Foote. Spatial Statistics and Models. Gary L. Gaile and Cort J. Willmott, eds. Mega-Geomorphology. Rita Gardner and Helen Scoging, eds. Technological Change and Regional Development. Gillespie, ed. The Arid Lands: Their Use and Abuse. R. L. Heathcote. The Location of Industry in Britain. A. G. Hoare. Groundwater as a Geomorphic Agent . R. G. LaFleur, ed. Rural Public Services: International Comparisons. Richard E. Lonsdale and Gyorgy Enyedi, eds. Saving Water in a Desert City. William E. Martin, Helen M. Ingram, Nancy K. Laney, and Adrian H. Griffin. Water Resources: Distribution, Use and Management. John R. Mather. Transnationals and the Third World: The Struggle for Culture. Armand Mattelart. South Hadley, MA: USGS Digital Cartographic Data Standards. R. B. McEwen, R. E. Witmer, and B. S. Ramey, eds. The Ecosystem Concept in Anthropology. Emilio F. Moran, ed. Boulder, CO: Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor. June Nash and Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, eds. Nuclear Power: Assessing and Managing Hazardous Technology. Martin J. Pasqualetti and K. David Pijawka, eds. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science 1815-1840. Elizabeth Chalmers Patterson. An Introduction to Coastal Geomorphology. John Pethick. Late Quaternary Environments of the United States , Vol. 1, The Late Pleistocene. Stephen C. Porter, ed. Planning and Ecology. R. D. Roberts and T. M. Roberts, eds. Regionalism and the Pacific Northwest. William G. Robbins, Robert J. Frank, and Richard E. Ross, eds. Environment and Health. Anthony J. Rowland and Paul Cooper. Sunbelt/Snowbelt: Urban Development and Regional Restructuring. Larry Sawers and William K. Tabb, eds. The Bad Earth. Environmental Degradation in China. Vaclav Smil. Armonk, NY: Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760–1840. Barbara Maria Stafford. The Institute of British Geographers: The First Fifty Years. Robert W. Steel. Visions of the Past. Christopher Taylor and Richard Muir. Glacial Lake Agassiz. J. T. Teller and Lee Clayton, eds. The Tule Breakers: The Story of the California Dredge. John Thompson and Edward A. Dutra. The Balkan City 1400–1900. Nikolai Todorov. Explanation, Prediction and Planning: the Lowry model. Michael J. Webber. Mercedes Reales: Hispanic Land Grants of the Upper Rio Grande Region. Victor Westphall. The World Atlas of Revolutions. Andrew J. M. Wheatcroft. The West European City, A Social Geography. Paul White. Urban Elites and Mass Transportation. J. Allen Whitt. Princeton, NJ: Urban Life In Contemporary China. Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish. The Demand for Energy in the Soviet Union. David Wilson. London and Canberra: Rethinking Geographical Inquiry. J. David Wood, ed.     

BOOK REVIEW

Book reviewed in this article:
Fan Deltas - Sedimentology and Tectonic Settings by W. Nemec and R. J. Steel     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: The Rice Economy of Asia . Randolph Barker and Robert W. Herdt with Beth Rose. Using Microcomputers: A Guidebook for Writers, Teachers, and Researchers in the Social Sciences . Blaine A. Erie—the Lake that Survived . Noel M. Burns. Geology and Society . Donald R. Coates. Caves and Karst of Kentucky . Percy H. Dougherty, ed. Altered Harvest: Agriculture, Genetics, and the Fate of the World's Food Supply . Jack Doyle. The Middle East and North Africa, A Political Geography . Alasdair Drysdale and Gerald H. Blake. Clamor at the Gates. The New American Immigration . Nathan Glazer, ed. Development and the Landowner: An analysis of the British experience . Robin Goodchild and Richard Munton. Discovering Landscape in England and Wales . Andrew Goudie and Rita Gardner. The Modern Plantation in the Third World . Edgar Graham and Ingrid Floering. Social Relations and Spatial Structures . Derek Gregory and John Urry, eds. The World Food Problem 1950–1980 . David Grigg. Costa Rica: A Geographical Interpretation in Historical Perspective . Carolyn Hall. The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization . David Harvey Consciousness and the Urban Experience: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization . David Harvey. Reviving Main Street . Deryck Holdsworth, ed. Rural Roads and Poverty Alleviation . John Howe and Peter Richards, eds. Uneven Development in Southern Europe: Studies of Accumulation, Class, Migration and the State . Ray Hudson and Jim Lewis, eds. Karst Geomorphology . J. N. Jennings. The Geomorphology of North-west England . R. H. Johnson, ed. Climate Impact Assessment: Studies of the Interaction of Climate and Society . Robert Kates, Jesse Ausubel, Mimi Berberian, eds. Public Service Provision and Urban Development . Andrew Kirby, Paul Knox, and Steven Pinch, ed. State and Market: The Politics of the Public and the Private . Jan-Erik Lane, ed. Living Cities . Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Urban Preservation Policies. World Climatic Systems . John G. Lockwood. Urban Ethnicity in the United States. New Immigrants and Old Minorities . Lionel Maldonaldo and Joan Moore, eds. Culture and Conservation: The Human Dimension in Environmental Planning . Jeffrey A. McNeely and David Pitt, eds. The Andean Past. Land, Societies, and Conflicts . Magnus Mörner. Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management . Norman Myers, ed. Progress in Industrial Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Progress in Political Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Rivers and Landscape . Geoff Petts and Ian Foster. Urbanization and Planning in the 3rd World: Spatial Perceptions and Public Participation . Robert B. Potter. One Island, Two Nations? A Political Geographical Analysis of the National Conflict in Ireland . D. G. Pringle. Circulation in Third World Countries . R. Mansell Prothero and Murray Chapman. The Ozarks Outdoors: A Guide for Fishermen, Hunters, and Tourists . Milton D. Rafferty. Suburban Burglary: A Time and a Place for Everything . George Rengert and John Wasilchick. Geomorphology and Soils . K.S. Richards, R.R. Arnett, and S. Ellis, eds. The Homes and Homeless of Post-War Britain . Frederick Shaw. Indochinese Refugees in America . Paul J. Strand and Woodrow Jones, Jr. Wild Horses and Sacred Cows . Richard Symanski. Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve . Philip G. Terrie. The Regional Economic Impact of Technological Change . A.T. Thwaites and R.P. Oakey, eds. The Good Life . Yi-Fu Tuan.     

Book Reviews

Encyclopaedia of Astronomy G. E. Satterthwaite
Cosmology—heories of the Universe J. Charon
Global Geophysics R. H. Tucker, A. H. Cook, H. M. Iyer and F. D. Stacey
Notes on Geomagnetic Observatory and Survey Practice K. A. Wienert
Methoden der Satellitengeodlisie K.Arnold
History of the Earth's Magnetic Field David W. Strangway
Textbook of Lithology Kern C. Jackson
Understanding the Earth Edited by I. G. Gass, P. J. Smith and R. C. L. Wilson     

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Analytical Tools Statistical Concepts in Geography. JOHN SILK Towards the Dynamic Analysis of Spatial Systems. R. L. MARTIN, N. J. THRIFT, and R. J. BENNETT, eds. Economic Geography Agro-Industrial Complexes and Types of Agriculture in Eastern Siberia. V. P. SHOTSKI Farmland, Food, and the Future. MAX SCHNEPF, ed. Environmental Management and Resources Planning the Uses and Management of Land. MARVIN T. BEATTY, GARY W. PETERSEN, and LESTER D. SWINDALE, eds. Historical Geography Planning the Past. ROBERT M. NEWCOMB Philosophy and Geographic Thought Spatial Dynamics and Optimal Space-Time Development. W. ISARD, P. LIOSSATOS, with assistance by Y. KANEMOTO and P. KANISS Carl Sauer's Fieldwork in Latin America. R. C. WEST Physical Geography Geographical Approaches to Fluvial Processes. ALISTAIR F. PITTY, ed. Physical Geography. P. GERSMEHL, W. KAMMRATH, and H. GROSS Population and Migration Location and Environment of Elderly Population. STEPHEN M. GOLANT, ed. Regional and Urban Planning Applied Models in Urban and Regional Analysis. Norbert Oppenheim Economic Development in Retrospect. Allan Rodgers Local Planning. SEBASTIAN LOEW Regional Planning and National Development. R. P. MISRA, D. V. URS, V. K. NATRAJ, eds. Regional Geography The Spatial Structure of Development: A Study of Kenya. R. A. OBUDHO and D. R. F. TAYLOR, eds. Social Geography Geographical Perspectives on Inequality. DAVID M. SMITH Teaching and Learning Geographical Education: Curriculum Problems in Certain European Countries with Special Reference to the 76-79 Age Group. NORMAN J. GRAVES, ed. Urban Geography and Settlements Urban Residential Location Models. STEPHEN H. PUTNAM City and Suburb: The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan America, 1850-1970. Jon C. Teaford The Open Housing Market: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1966-1976. B. J. L. BERRY Spatial Inequalities and Regional Development. HENDRIK FOLMER and JAN OOSTERHAVEN, eds.     

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Book reviewed in this article: THE EVOLUTION OF POLYNESIAN CHIEFDOMS. Patrick Vinton Kirch. AN INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY OF JAPAN. Edited by K. Murata. THE NATURE OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. By K. J. Gregory, Edward Arnold. SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE. Edited by J. Eyles. SILCON LANDSCAPES. Edited by P. Hall and A. Markusen. Allen and Unwin. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS! A READER. Edited by D. Massey and J. Allen. REGIONS IN QUESTION: SPACE, DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND REGIONAL POLICY, by C. Gore, Methuen. A GEOGRAPHICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR AMERICAN LIBRARIES. Edited by Chauncy D. Harris. DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS, RED OR GREEN ALTERNATIVES? By Michael Redclift, Methuen THE MAKING OF NEW ZEALAND: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY. By G. R. Hawke. GEOMORPHOLOGY. By R. J. Chorley, S. A. Schumm and D. E. Sugden.     

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The Solar Atmosphere
Harold Zirin
The Solar Wind Edited by J. R. Mach, Jr.
Giant Meteorites E. L. Krinov
Photographic Atlas of the Moon Z. Kopal
Principles of Direct Current Resistivity Prospecting Geza Kunetz
Handbook of Physical Constants Edited by S. P. Clarke, Jr.
An Introduction to Magneto-Fluid Mechanics V. C. A. Ferraro - C. Plumpton
Science since 1500 H. T. Pledge     

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Books reviewed in this article: Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing. Terrain Analysis and Remote Sensing . JOHN R. G. TOWNSHEND , ed. Environmental Data Use in Computer-assisted Data Handling Systems: The Results of a Survey of Applications in the Pacific Northwest States . KENNETH E. GORDON . Applied Land Use: A Spatial Approach . JOHN F. LOUNSBURY , LAWRENCE M. SOMMERS , AND EDWARD A. FERNALD , eds. The Second Battle of New Orleans: A History of the Vieux Carre Riverfront-Expressway Controversy . RICHARD O. BAUMBACH , JR. AND WILLIAM E. BORAH . Cultural Environmental Archaeology . MYRA SHACKLEY . The Immoral landscape: Female Prostitution in Western Societies . RICHARD SYMANSKI . life Among the Poor in Cairo . UNNI WIKAN , translated by Ann Henning. Women, Work and Property in Northwest India . URSULA SHARMA . The Domestication of Women: Discrimination in Developing Societies . BARBARA ROGERS Economic Optimization in Locational and Transport Analysis . A. G. WILSON , J. D. COELHO , S. M. MACGILL , H. C. W. L. WILLIAMS . New Tools for Economic Development: The Enterprise Zone, Development Bank, and RFC . GEORGE STERNLIEB AND DAVID LISTOKIN , eds. Regional Wage Inflation . R. L. MARTIN , ed. Finding A Place For Energy-Siting Coal Conversion Facilities . FRANK J. CALZONETTI WITH MARK S. ECKERT . Environmental Management, Resources, and Systems Environmentalism. Second Edition . T. O'RIORDAN . Countryside Conservation . BRYN GREEN . Medical Spatial Diffusion: An Historical Geography of Epidemics in an Island Community . A. D. CLIFF , P. HAGGETT , J. K. ORD , AND G. R. VERSEY . Philosophy and Geographic Thought Order and Skepticism: Human Geography and the Dialectic of Science . RICHARD SZYMANSKI AND JOHN A. AGNEW . Measurement of Subjective Phenomena . D. F. JOHNSTON , ed. Conceptions of Space in Social Thought: A Geographic Perspective . ROBERT DAVID SACK . The Association of American Geographers: The First Seventy-five Years: 1904-1979 . PRESTON E. JAMES AND GEOFFREY J. MARTIN . The Life and Thought of Isaiah Bowman . GEOFFREY J. MARTIN . Physical River Basin Planning: Theory and Practice . SURANJIT K. SAHA AND CHRISTOPHER J. BARROW , eds. Soils and landforms: An Integration of Ceomorphology and Pedology . A. I. GERRARD Climatic Change and Society. Consequences of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide . WILLIAM W. KELLOGG AND ROBERT SCHWARE . Political Political Redistrictings and Geographic Theory . RICHARD L. MORRILL . Population Studies in Spanish American Population History: Dell Plain Latin American Studies NO. 8 . DAVID J. ROBINSON , ed. Population Redistribution in the Midwest . CURTIS C. ROSEMAN , ANDREW J. SOFRANKO , AND JAMES D. WILLIAMS , eds. Geographical Perspectives on the Elderly . A. M. WARNES , ed. Regional Perspective On the American South . MERLE BLACK AND JOHN SHELTON REED , eds. The Prairies and Plains: Prospects for the 80s . JOHN R. ROGGE , ed. Rural Rural Settlement in an Urban World . MICHAEL BUNCE . Social Accident at Three Mile Island: The Human Dimensions . DAVID L. SILLS , C. P. WOLF , AND VIVIEN B. SHELANSKI , eds. The American Small Town: Twentieth-Century Place Images . JOHN JAKLE . Urban A House of My Own . SUSAN LOBO . The City: Patterns and Processes in the Urban Ecosystem . CHRISTOPHER H. EXLINE , GARY L. PETERS , AND ROBERT P. LARKIN . Movement in Cities . P. W. DANIELS AND A. M. WARNES . Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society . MICHAEL DEAR AND ALLEN J. SCOT , eds.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: The Vanishing Farmland Crisis, Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural Land . John Baden Protecting Farmlands . Frederick R. Steiner and John E. Theilacker Ecological Effects of Fire in South African Ecosystems . Peter de V. Booysen and Neil M. Tainton Geography in China . Wu Chuanjun , Wang Nailiang , Lin Chao and Zhao Songqiao Resource Inventory and Baseline Study Methods for Developing Countries . Francis Conant , Peter Rogers , Marion Baumgardner , Cyrus Mc Kell , Raymond Dasmann, and Priscilla Reining Principles of Remote Sensing . Paul J. Curran Famine As A Geographical Phenomenon . Bruce Currey and Graeme Hugo The Suburban Squeeze: Land Conversion and Regulation in the San Francisco Bay Area . David E. Dowall Senses of Place . John Eyles Uneven Development and the Geographical Transfer of Value . D. K. Forbes and P. J. Rimmer Issues in Wilderness Management . Michael Frome Land-use and Prehistory in South-east Spain , The London Research Series in Geography 8. Antonio Gilman and John B. Thornes with Stephen Wise Regions in Question, Space, Development Theory and Regional Policy . Charles Gore The Colorado River: Instability and Basin Management . William L. Graf Hazardous Waste Sites: The Credibility Gap . Michael R. Greenberg and Richard F. Anderson Peasants, Subsistence Ecology, and Development in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea . Lawrence S. Grossman Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839-1915 Peter B. Hales Silicon Landscapes . Peter Hall and Ann Markusen Remaking Ibieca: Rural Life in Aragon under Franco . Susan F. Harding The European Energy Challenge: East and West . George W. Hoffman The Global Climate . John T. Houghton The Urban Jobless in Eastern Africa . Abel G. M. Ishumi . The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America . John A. Jakle City and Society: An Outline for Urban Geography . R. J. Johnston Residential Segregation, The State and Constitutional Conflict in American Urban Areas . R. J. Johnston Accessibility and Utilization: Geographical Perspectives on Health Care Delivery . Alun E. Joseph and David R. Phillips To the Heart of Asia: The Life of Sven Hedin . George Kish North American Culture , Vol 1. Ary J. Lamme III Past and Present in the Americas: A Compendium of Recent Studies . John Lynch Ethnicity in Contemporary America: A Geographical Appraisal . Jesse O. Mc Kee The Shell Countryside Book . Richard Muir and Eric Duffey 1990 Planning Conference Series. Proceedings of the National Geographic Areas Conference . Proceedings of the Regional Geographic Areas Conferences Wood, Brick, and Stone: The North American Settlement Landscape . Vol. 2: Barns and Farm Structures . Allen G. Noble Bangladesh: Biography of a Muslim Nation . Charles Peter O'donnell