Book Reviews

Dana, Richard H., Foundations of clinical psychology: problems in personality and adjustment, Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand, 1966, 322 pp. Reviewed by Vincent Glaudin

Goldstein, Arnold P., Heller, Kenneth, and Sechrest, Lee B., Psychotherapy and the psychology of behavior change. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1966, 492 p., $8.95. Reviewed by Sohan Lal Sharma

Phillips, Herbert P., Thai peasant personality, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, Pp. 231, $6.00. Reviewed by Irving R. Stone

Hudson, Liam. Contrary imaginations: A psychological study of the young student. New York: Schocken Books, Inc., 1966, 181 pp., $4.95. Reviewed by Dale D. Simmons, Ph.D.

Kantor, Robert E., & Herron, William G., Reactive and process schizophrenia. Palo Alto: Science & Behavior, 1966, 184 pp. Reviewed by Ernest Kramer

Atkinson, John W. & Feather, Norman T. A theory of achievement motivation. New York: John Wiley, 1966, 392 + x. Reviewed by Clifford H. Swensen

Goldberg, Miriam, L., Passow, Harry, A., & Justman, Joseph. The effects of ability grouping. New York: Teachers College Press, 1966, 254 pp. Reviewed by Samuel I. Goldstein

White, Mary Alice & Charry, June. School disorder, intelligence, and social class. New York: Teachers College Press, 1966, 92 pp., $2.25. Reviewed by Kevin M. Mitchell

Raychaudhuri, Manas. Studies in artistic creativity: Personality structure of the musician. Calcutta: Rabindra Bharati, 1966, 256 pp., Rs. $15.00. Reviewed by Dell Lebo

Glasser, Alan J. & Zimmerman, Irla Lee, Clinical interpretation of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. New York & London: Grune & Stratton, 1967. pp. 152. Reviewed by Ronald E. Smith     

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Identification of Book Reviewers for this Number. Samuel J. Brandenburg is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Economics in Clark University. James B. Hedges is Assistant Professor of American History in Clark University. George Humphrey is Professor of Philosophy in Queen's University, Ontario.

The Normal Mind: an Introduction to Mental Hygiene and the Hygiene of School Instruction. By William H. Burnham, Ph.D., New York, Appleton, 1924.

The Mentality of Apes. By Wolfgang Köhler. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Inc., 1925. pp. 342.

The Growth of the Mind. By Kurt Koffka. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, Inc., 1924. pp. 383.

The Mental Growth of the Pre-School Child. By Arnold Gesell. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1925. pp. 447.

Instinct, Intelligence and Character. By Godfrey H. Thomson. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1925. pp. 282.

Mental Growth of Children in Relation to the Rate of Growth in Bodily Development. By Buford Johnson. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1925. pp. 160.

Vocational Self-Guidance. By Douglas Fryer. Philadelphia, J. P. Lippincott Co, 1925. pp. 385.

The Story of Human Progress. By Leon C. Marshall. New York, Macmillan Company, 1925. pp. 548.

Educating for Freedom. By Edward O. Sisson. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1925. pp. x, 225.     

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The Advancement of Science: Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusions Philip Kitcher, 1993 Oxford University Press pp. ix + 421, £30.00, ISBN 019 504628 5

Mind, Brain, Behavior. The Mind‐Body Problem and the Philosophy of Psychology Martin Carrier & JÜrgen Mittelstrass, 1991 Berlin, Walter de Gruyter pp. 314, £51.82, ISBN 3 11012876 4

Rewriting the History of Madness: Studies in Foucault's Histoire de la Folie Arthur Still & Irving Velody (Eds), 1992 Routledge pp. x + 225, £45, ISBN 0 415 06654 9

Economics and the Philosophy of Science Deborah Redman, 1993 Oxford, Oxford University Press pp. xiv + 252, £10.95 (paperback), ISBN 019 508274 5

The Disorder of Things John Dupré, 1993 Cambridge, MA/London, UK, Harvard University Press pp. viii+ 308, £27.95, ISBN 0 674 21260 6

The Philosophy of Vacuum Simon Saunders & Harvey R. Brown (Eds), 1991 Oxford, Oxford University Press pp. 291, £37.50, ISBN 0 19 824449 5

The Laboratory of the Mind James R. Brown, 1991 London, Routledge pp. xi+ 175, £11.99 (paperback), ISBN 0 415 095794

The Revision Theory of Truth A. Gupta & N. D. Belnap, 1993 Cambridge, MA, MIT Press pp. xii + 299, £31.50, ISBN 0 262 07144 4     

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Identification of Book Reviewers for this Number. John H. Wigmore is Dean of the Northwestern University Law School. George F. White is Professor of Chemistry in Clark University. Edward W. Flagg is Professor Emeritus, State Normal School, Potsdam, New York. Carl Murchison is Editor of this journal.

American White Criminal Intelligence. By Carl Murchison. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Vol. 15, No. 2, August, 1924, 77 pages. Vol. 15, No. 3, November, 1924, 60 pages.

Education for Moral Growth. By Henry Neuman, Ph.D. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1923, 383 pp.

Prisons and Common Sense. By Thomas Mott Osborne. Philadelphia, J. P. Lippincott Co., 1924. pp. 105. $1.25.

Twenty-five Years of American Education. By I. L. Kandel. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1924. pp. 469.

Elements of Educational Psychology. By Lawrence Augustus Averill. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. pp. 425.

Psychological Principles Applied to Teaching. By William Henry Pyle. Baltimore, Warwick & York, Inc., 1924. pp. 190.

The Education of Handicapped Children. By J. E. Wallace Wallin. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1924. pp. 369. $2.25.

Fundamentals of Vocational Psychology. By Charles H. Griffitts. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1924. pp. 372.

Laboratory Studies in Educational Psychology. By Egbert Milton Turner and George Herbert Betts. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1924. pp. 217.

Mind as Behavior. By Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr. Columbus, R. G. Adams, 1924. pp. 293.

The Child's Mind and the Common Branches. By Daniel Wolford La Rue. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1924. pp. 479.

An Introduction to Philosophy. By G. T. W. Patrick. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1924. pp. 463. $2.50.

Principles of Psychology. By J. R. Kantor. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. pp. 464.

An Intermediale Textbook of Physiological Chemistry with Experiments. By C. J. V. Pettibone, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physiological Chemistry, Medical School, University of Minnesota. Second edition. C. V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, 1923. pp. 376.     

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The Pravargya Brāhmana of the Taittiriya āranyaka: An Ancient Commentary on the Pravargya Ritual. Jan E. M. Houben, 1991 Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass xv + 147 pp., Rs.125

The Cavern Mystery Transmission: A Taoist Ordination Rite of AD 711. Asian Studies at Hawaii Series No. 38 Charles D. Benn, 1991 Honolulu, HI, University of Hawaii Press ix + 227 pp.

The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience F. J. Varela, E. Thompson & E. Rosch, 1991 Cambridge, MA, MIT Press £22.50     

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Blue Dragon White Tiger. Michael Saso, 1990 Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press 215 pp., No price given

Chuang‐Tzu for Spiritual Transformation. Robert E. Allinson, 1989 Albany, State University of New York Press 203 pp., $39.50 hb, $14.95 pb

Japanese Martial Arts and American Sports. Cross‐Cultural Perspectives on Means to Personal Growth M. Kiyota & H. Kinoshita (Eds), 1990 Tokyo, Nihon University 247 pp., No price given

The Question of Rationality and the Basic Grammar of Intercultural Texts. Hwa Yol Jung, 1989. IUJ Monograph 3, Nigata, International University of Japan ¥2000

The Arabic Linguistic Tradition. G. Bohas, J.‐P. Guillaume & D. E. Kouloughli, 1990 London and New York, Routledge 163+x pp., £30.00

The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind‐Body Theory. Yuasa Yasuo, edited by T. P. Kasulis and translated by Nagatomo Shigenori Albany, State University of New York Press $14.95 hb

Sainthood, Its Manifestations in World Religions. Richard Kieckerhefer & George D. Bond (Eds), 1990 University of California Press XII + 263 pp., $12.95 pb

East of Existentialism: The Tao of the West. Ray Billington, 1990 London, Unwin Hyman xviii+316 pp., No price given     

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Kleinbeck, U., Quast, H.-H., Thierry, H., & Hacker, H. (1990). Work Motivation. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pp. 283.

Ketchum, L.D., & Trist, E.L. (1992). All teams are not created equal. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications. ISBN 0-8039-4652-X (cloth). 318 pp.     

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Clinical Approaches to ViolenceK. HOWELLS & C. R. HOLLIN (E:ds)Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 1989 xiv+344 pp.,£35.95

Living with a Drinker: how to change thingsMary Wilson London, Pandora Press, 1989 168 pp.,£4.99     

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The History of Sciences: The French Debate P. Redondi & P.V. Pillai (Eds) 1989 London, Sangam Books 268 pp., £14.95 (hardback), ISBN 0 86131 995 8

Elusive and Highly Ambiguous, but Nevertheless Existing: Consciousness in Contemporary Science A.J. Marcel & E. Bisiach (Eds) 1988 Oxford, Clarendon Press £45.00     

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Johnson, J.V., & Hohansson, G. (Eds.)- (1991). The psychosocial work environment: Work organization, democratization and health. Essays in memory of Bertil Gar dell. New York: Baywood. pp. 335. ISBN 0-89503-078-0 (hardback). ISBN 0-89503-077-2 (paperback).

Shackel, B., & Richardson, S. (Eds.) (1991). Human factors of informatics usability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 438. ISBN 0-521-36570-8. Hardback £35.00

Frese, M., & Brodbeck, F.C. (1989). Computer in Büro und Verwaltung. Berlin: Springer. Pp. 237. ISBN: 3-540-50774-4. DM 88. Published in German.     

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Missing Persons: A Critique of Personhood in the Social Sciences Mary Douglas & Steven Ney, 1998 California: University of California Press 223 pp., US$24.95 ISBN 0–520–20752–1

Re‐forming the Body: Religion, Community and Modernity Philip A. Mellor & Chris Shilling, 1997 London: Sage Publications 234 pp., £40.00 (hb), £13.95 (pb) ISBN 0–8039–7722–0 (hb), ISBN 0–8039–7723–9 (pb)

Transnational Religion and Fading States Susanne Hoeber Rudolph & James Piscatori, eds., 1997 Boulder, Colorado, & Oxford: Westview Press viii + 280 pp., US$69.00/£50.00 (hb), US$24.00/£13.95 (pb) ISBN 0–8133–2767–9 (hb), ISBN 0–8133–2768–7 (pb)

Encyclopaedia of Religion and Society William H. Swatos, Jr., ed., 1998 London: AltaMira Press (SAGE) xiv + 590 pp., £76.00 (hb) ISBN: 0 7619–9956–0

Power and the Church: Ecclesiology in an Age of Transition Martyn Percy, 1998 London: Cassell vii + pp. 239, £35.00 (hb), £14.99 (pb) ISBN 0–304–70107–6 (hb); ISBN 0304 701 05‐X (pb)

Faith and Power, Christianity and Islam in ‘Secular’ Britain Lesslie Newbigin, Lamin Sanneh & Jenny Taylor, 1998 London: SPCK 177 pp., £12.99 ISBN 0–281–05153–4

New Trends and Developments in the World of Islam Peter B. Clarke, ed., 1998 London: Luzac Oriental x + 400 pp., £37.00 ISBN 1–898–942–17‐X

Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics and Social Change in East‐Central Europe and Russia Sabrina P. Ramet, 1998 Durham & London: Duke University Press 424 pp, £66.50 (hb), £22.95 (pb) ISBN 0–8223–2056–8 (hb), ISBN 0–8223–2070–3 (pb)

New Religious Phenomena in Central and Eastern Europe Irena Borowik & Grzegorz Babinski, eds., 1997 Krakow: Nomos 392 pp., US$25 (+ p&p) ISBN 83–85527–56–7

Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition Rebecca Alpert, 1997 New York: Columbia University Press 214 pp., £19.95, US$28.00 (hb) ISBN 0–231–09660–7

Jesus is Dread: Black Theology and Black Culture in Britain Robert Beckford, 1998 London: Darton, Longman & Todd 194 pp., £10.95 ISBN: 0–232–52241–3

Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern World Joanne Pearson, Richard H. Roberts & Geoffrey Samuel, eds., 1998 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 222 pp., £12.95 (pb) ISBN 0–7486–1057‐X

Witchcraft and Paganism in Australia Lynne Hume, 1997 Carlton South, Australia: Melbourne University Press xiii + 272 pp., $29.95 ISBN 0–522–84782‐X

Ageing and Spirituality Albert Jewell, ed., 1998 London/Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 191 pp. £14.95 ISBN 1–85302–631‐X

Dying, Death and Bereavement in a British Hindu Community New Religious Identities in the Western World Volume 1 Shirley Firth, 1997 Leuven, Belgium: Peeters 240 pp., BEF 1070 (pb) ISBN 90–6831–976–0

Interpreting Death: Christian Theology and Pastoral Practice Peter C. Jupp & Tony Roger, eds., 1997 London: Cassell 218 pp., £16.99 ISBN 0–304–33784–6

Historical Dictionary of the Bahá'í Faith Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies and Movements, No. 17 Hugh C. Adamson & Philip Hainsworth, 1998 Lanham, Md., & London: The Scarecrow Press ix + 505 pp., US$ 65.00 (hb) ISBN 0–8108–3353–0

Taking With The Left Hand: Enneagram Craze, People of the Bookmark, & The Mouravieff Thenomenon’ William Patrick Patterson, 1998 Fairfax, California: Arete Communications 149 pp., US$12.95 (pb) ISBN 1–879514–10–9     

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Psychological Aspects of Disast.erRICHARD GIST & BERNARD LUBIN (Eds)New York, John Wiley, 1989 357 pp., £33.95 (Hardback)

Transcultural Counselling in ActionPATRICIA D'ARDENNE & ARUNA MAHTANI London, Sage, 1989 130 pp., £7.95

Subjectivity and Method in Psychology:gender, meaning and scienceWENDY HOLLWAY London, Sage, 1989 160 pp.,£19.95 (Hardback), £7.95 (Paperback)     

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Hartley, J., Jacobson, D., Klandermans, B., & Van Vuuren, T. (1991). Job insecurity: Coping with jobs at risk. London: Sage Publications. Pp. 228. ISBN 0-8039-8253-4 £27.50.     

Book Reviews

Caring for the SuicidalJOHN ELDRID London, Constable, 1988 304 pp., £7.95

Access to Agreement GWYNN DAVIS & MARIAN ROBERTSMilton Keynes, Open University Press, 1988 viii+ 163 pp., £25.00 (cased); £8.95 (paper)

Evaluating Services: Psychology and DisabilityROY MCCONKEY (Ed.) [Special Issue of the Irish Journal of Psychology (Dublin)], 1988 iil-388 pp., £12.00 (cased); £10.00 (paper)

Alzheimers: what it is, how to cope with itISOBELLE GIDLEY & RICHARD SHEARS Sydney, Unwin Paperback, 1987 XI+192 pp., £6.95

AIDS & AIDS Risk Patient Care HANS JAGERChichester, Ellis Horwood, 1988 224 pp., £29.95

Developments in Cognitive PsychotherapyWINDY DRYDEN & PETER TROWER (Eds)London, Sage, 1988 X+237 pp., £25.00     

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Wilson, D.G. & Rosenfeld, R. (1990). Managing organizations: text, readings and cases. London: McGraw Hill Book Company. Pp. 494. ISBN 0-07-707232-4. £16.95 (paperback).

Argyle, M. (1991). Cooperation: The basis of sociability. London: Routledge. Pp. 234. ISBN 0-41503-546-5. £10.99 (paperback).

Rasmussen, J., Brehmer, B., & LePlat, J. (Eds.). (1991). Distributed decision making: Cognitive models for cooperative work. Chichester: Wiley & Sons. Pp. 416. ISBN 0-471-92828-3. £49.95.     

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Confucianism and the Family. Walter H. Slote & George A. Devos, 1998, Albany, State University of New York Press, xiv + 390 pp.

Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia. Lawrence A. Babb & Susan S. Wadley (Eds), 1997, (1st edn, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, viii + 298 pp., hb Rs 295, ISBN 81 208 1448 7; pb Rs 195, ISBN 81 208 1453 3

Yoga. Discipline of freedom. The Yoga Sutra attributed to Patañjali (A translation of the text, with commentary, introduction and glossary of key words), Barbara Stoler Miller (Trans. & Ed.), 1996, Berkeley, University of California Press, xiv + 114 pp., ISBN 0 520 20190 6     

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How Nature Works: The Science of Self‐Organized Criticality Per Bak Copernicus, Spring‐Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY., 1996, cloth; pp. 212, bibliography and index; $27.00 USD

Networks of Meaning: The Bridge Between Mind and Matter is published by Praeger, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT, USA; 1998; 232 pages, ISBN: 0275960358, $55 USD.     

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Religions sans Frontières? Present and Future Trends of Migration, Culture and Communication Roberto Cipriani, ed., for the Research Committee “Sociology of Religion”; of the International Sociological Association, Rome, Presidenza del Consiglio del Ministri, Dipartimento Per L'Informazione e L'Editoria, 1994 384 pp. no ISBN on book

Worldviews in Transition: An Investigation into the New Age Movement in South Africa Chrissie Steyn, 1994 Pretoria: University of South Africa (Studia Originalia 22) xvi + 367 pp., R79.00 or £14.86 (+ p&p) ISBN 0–86981–845–7

Women and Missions: Past and Present. Anthropological and Historical Perceptions Fiona Bowie, Deborah Kirkwood & Shirley Ardener, eds, 1995 Berg: Providence/Oxford xx + 279 pp., plates, £14.95 ISBN 9–780854968725

Syncretism/Anti‐Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis Charles Stewart & Rosalind Shaw, eds., 1994 London: Routledge 215 pp., £37.50 (hb), £12.99 (pb) ISBN 0–415–11117‐X.

Beyond the Basilica: Christians and Muslims in Nazareth Chad F. Emmett, 1995 Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press xix + 303 pp., £17.50 US$22.00 pb, ISBN 0–226–20711–0

Islamic Britain: Religion, Politics and Jolentity among British Muslims Phillip Lewis, 1994 London: I. B. Tauris & Co. 250 pp., £11.95 ISBN 1–85043–861–7

Religion & Revelation: A Theology of Revelation in the World's Religions Keith Ward, 1994 Oxford: Clarendon Press 350 pp., £40 hb, £13.95 pb ISBN 0–19–826466–6 & 826375–9

Religiöser Pluralismus oder christliches Abendland? Herausforderung an Kirche und Gesellschaft Reinhart Hummel, 1994 Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 223 pp., DM39.80, FR40.80, ÖS311.00 ISBN 3–534–11717–4

A Short History of Judaism Lavinia & Dan Cohn‐Sherbok, 1994 Oxford: Oneworld Publications viii +148 pp., £5.95 ISBN 1–85168–069–1

Unforgotten Fragments Beryl Pogson & Others, compiled by Lewis Creed, 1994 York: Quacks Books 352 pp., £15.95 ISBN 0–948333–29–4

Centenary Fragments Beryl Pogson & Others, compiled by Lewis Creed, 1994 York: Quacks Books 379 pp., £15.95 ISBN 0–948333–36–7

A Plain Guide to Bible Theology: A Realistic Approach L. G. Hardinge, 1993 Swansea: Abertawe Desktop (OR: L G Publication, 1994) 217 pp., £10.50 (pb) ISBN 0–9524013     

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Coming to our Senses. Morris Berman, London, Unwin Hyman, 1989 425 pp., £8.99

Treating the Chemically Dependent and their Families. Dennis C. Daley & Miriam S. Raskin (Eds) London, Sage, 1991, xi+220 pp., £13.95 (Paperback), £27.50 (Cloth)     

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Living While Dying. R. Glynn Owens & Freda Naylor Northamptonshire, Thorsons, 1989 112 pp., £4.99 Robert Jones

Attitudes, Personality and Behaviour. Icek Ajzen Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 1988 xii+175 pp., £7.95 (paperback), £25.00 (hardback)

Planning Together the Art of Effective Team Work. George Gwalinski & Lois Graessle London, Bedford Square Press 88 pp., £9.95 Judy Hutchings

Relating to Others. Steve Duck Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 1988 xviii + 174 pp., £7.95 (paperback), £25.00 (hardback) Alun Waddon

Say When! Everything a woman needs to know about alcohol and drinking problems. Rosemary Kent London, Sheldon Press iv+118pp.,£3-05 Fran McVeigh

Psychotherapy and the Spiritual Quest. David Benner London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1989 173 pp., £6.95 John Connell