BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews are in this Article. The Palm – Tree of Life: Biology, Utilization and Conservation . MICHAEL J. BALICK, ED. New York: New York Botanical Garden (Advances in Economic Botany, Vol. 6), 1988. 282pp., maps, figs., tables, photos, and refs. $57.40 paper ISBN 0-89327-326-0). The Culture We Deserve: A Critique of Disenlightenment . JACQUES BARZUN. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. 208 pp. $19.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8195-5200-3). The National Question: Decolonising the Theory of Nationalism . JAMES M. BLAUT. London: Zed Books Ltd., 1987. vii and 232 pp., index and biblio. $15.00 paper (ISBN 0-86232-440-8). The Administrative Partitioning of Costa Rica: Politics and Planners in the 1970s . MARILYN APRIL DORN. Chicago: University of Chicago, Geography Research Paper No. 222, 1989. xi and 126 pp., maps, tables, figs., appendix, biblio., and index. $12.00 paper (ISBN 0-89065-1 26-4). The Economics of Part-Time Farming RUTH GASSON. New York: Longman, 1988. x and 188 pp., maps, tables, index, and biblio. NP (ISBN 0-470-21007-9). The West African Sahel: Human Agency and Environmental Change . JEFFREY ALLMAN GRITZNER. Chicago: University of Chicago Geography Research Paper no. 226,1988. xii and 170 pp., maps, diags., photos, apps., index, and biblio. $12.00 paper (ISBN 089065-135-2). Land Use Planning and the Mediation of Urban Change: The British Planning System in Practice . PATSY HEALY, PAUL MCNAMARA, MARTIN ELSON, AND ANDREW DOAK. Cambridge: Cam- bridge University Press, 1988. vi and 295 pp., maps, diags., tables, refs., app., and index. $54.50 cloth (ISBN 0521 301440). The Geography of the World Economy . PAUL KNOX AND JOHN AGNEW. London: Edward Arnold, 1989. iv and 410 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $21.95 paper (ISBN 0-7131-6517-0). Land Use and Urban Form . THRALL. New York: Metheun, Inc. 1987. xvi and 239 pp., figs., tables, glossary, biblio., and index. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 0-416-35540-4). Urban Living: The Individual in the City . D. J. WALMSLEY. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1988. xiv and 204 pp., diags., index, and biblio. $23.95 paper (ISBN 0-470-20865-5).