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Book Reviews in this Article Rural Development in the United States: Connecting Theory, Practice, and Possibilities. WILLIAM A. GALSTON and KAREN J. BAEHLER. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1995. xiii and 353 pp., biblio. and index. $32.00 paper (ISBN 1-55963-326-3). Progress in Rural Policy and Planning, Volume 4. Edited by ANDREW W. GILG and Robert S. Dilley, Owen Furuseth, Geoff McDonald & Jonathan Murdoch. Chichester and New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994. xvi and 317 pp., maps, and diags. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-471-94911-6). Postmodern Semiotics: Material Culture and the Forms of Postmodern Life. MARK GOTTDIENER. Cambridge, MA/Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. viii and 262 pp., photos, figs., and biblio. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-631-19215-8). Human Geography: Society, Space, and Social Science. DEREK GREGORY, RON MARTIN, and GRAHAM SMITH, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. x and 294 pp., maps, diags., and biblio. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-8166-2619-7). Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain. NICKY GREGSON and MICHELLE LOWE. London: Routledge, 1994. x and 327 pp., figs., tables, and biblio. $79.95 cloth (ISBN 0-415-08530-6); $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-08531-4). Geography: History and Concepts: A Student's Guide. (2nd ed.) ARILD HOLTJENSEN. English adaptation and translation by Brian Fullerton. London: Paul Chapman Publishing Ltd.,1988. xii and 186 pages, diags., biblio., and index. ISBN 1-85396-011-x (paper). World Trade since 1431: Geography, Technology, and Capitalism. PETER J. HUGILL. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press,1993. xiii and 376 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-8018-5126-2). The Encyclopedia of New York City. KENNETH T. JACKSON, ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. xxi and 1,350 pp., illus., maps, tables, and index. $60.00 cloth (ISBN 0-300-05536-6). Nations and States: A Geographic Background to World Affairs. THOMAS M. POULSON. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995. xv and 399 pp., maps, tables, and biblio. $64.00 cloth (ISBN 0–13–678913–7). Dividing the Land: Early American Beginnings of Our Private Property Mosaic. EDWARD T. PRICE. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Geography Research Paper No. 238. xvii and 428 pp., maps, diags., photos, tables, glossary, biblio., and index. $26.00 paper (ISBN 0-226-68065-7). Archaeology, Volcanism, and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica. PAYSON D. SHEETS and BRIAN R. McKEE, eds. Austin: University of Texas Press,1994. viii, 350 pp., photos, maps, diags., index, and biblio. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-292-77667-5). Beijing: The Nature and Planning of a Chinese Capital City. VICTOR F. S. SIT. New York and Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, xvi and 389 pp., maps, diags., tables, and biblio. $54.95 cloth (ISBN 0–471–94983–3). Innovations in GIS 1. MICHAEL F. WORBOYS, ed. Bristol, PA and London: Taylor & Francis, 1994. xiii and 267 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $95.00 cloth (ISBN 0-7484-0140-7); $44.00 paper (ISBN 0-7484-0141-5).