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Inventing Criminology—Essays on the Rise of “Homo Criminalis" by Piers Beirne. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993, 274 pages.     

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Crime and Human Nature: The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime by James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985, 639 pp., $12.95 paper.

The Negative Scream by Sally O'Brien. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1985, 148 pp., $12.95 paper.

Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates by Robert C. Ritchie. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986, 306 pp., $20.00 hb.

American Violence &; Public Policy by Lynn A. Curtis (ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

Taking Care of Business: The Economics of Crime by Heroin Abusers by Bruce D. Johnson, Paul J. Goldstein, Edward Preble, James Schmeidler, Douglas S. Lipton, Barry Spunt and Thomas Miller. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1985, 275 pp., $29.00 hb.

Life With Heroin: Voices From the Inner City by Bill Hanson, George Beschner, James M. Walters and Elliott Bovelle (eds.). Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1985, 208 pp., hb.

Policy Analysts in the Bureauaraay by Arnold Meltsner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976 hb, 1986 paper, 326 pp., $11.95.

>The War on Drugs: Heroin, Cocaine, and Public Policy by James A. Inciardi. Palo Alto, California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1986, $9.95 paper.

Sartre and Marxist Existentialism by Thomas R. Flynn. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984, 265 pp., $10.95 paper.     

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Elsa Jones, Working with Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Christiane Sanderson, Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Yvonne Dolan, Resolving Sexual Abuse: Solution Focused Therapy and Ericksonian Hypnosis for Adult Survivors     

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The family that dreams together…

Bynum, Edward Bruce. Families and the Interpretation of Dreams: Awakening the Intimate Web. Harrington Park Press, 1993, 250 pp.     

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G. J. Cuming and D. Baker, ed. Studies in church history, vol. 8: Popular belief and practice. Cambridge University Press, pp. xii and 331. £6.40.

James E. Wood, Jnr. (Ed.), Jewish-Christian relations in today's world (The Markham Press Fund of Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas, 1971) pp. 164.

Stern, S. M. and Walzer, Sofie, Three unknown Buddhist stories in an Arabic version, introduction, text and translation. Oxford, Cassirer, 1971, 38 pp. £2.00

Brown, Peter, Religion and society in the age of Saint Augustine, Faber and Faber, 1972, pp. 352. £3.25; MACINTYRE, ALASDAIR, Against the Self‐Images of the Age, Duckworth, 1871, pp. vi‐284. E3.45; WINCH, PETER, Ethics and Action, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972, pp. 231. £2.75.

Woodcock, George. Gandhi. Fontana, Collins (London), 1972. 108 pp., paperback 35p.

Masunaga, R. A primer of Soto Zen: A translation of Dogen's shobogenzo zuimonki. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. 126 pp., £1.25.

Swanton, Michael (Ed.). The dream of the road. Manchester University Press, 1970. ix + 146 pp. £1.20 (paperback 60p).     

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John McManners, Death and the enlightenment. Changing attitudes to death among Christians and unbelievers in eighteenth-century France, Oxford University Press 1981, vii + 619 pp. £17.50

Richard Swinburne, Faith and reason, Oxford, The Clarendon Press 1981, 206 pp. £16.00

John Coulson, Religion and imagination, Oxford, The Clarendon Press 1981, 193 pp. £12.50

Irving Hexham, The irony of apartheid, the struggle for national independence of Afrikaner calvinism against British imperialism, New York, Edwin Mellen Press 1981, 239 pp

David Tracy, The analogical imagination, London, SCM Press 1981, xii + 467 pp. £12.50

K. D. Sethna Rutherford, The spirituality of the future, a search apropos of R. C. Zaehner's study in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin, Madison, Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses 1981. 314 pp. $28.50     

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Michael Carrithers, The forest monks of Sri Lanka: an anthropological and historical study, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. xii + 306. Rs 145

Philippe Besnard (editor), The sociological domain: The durkheimians and the founding of French sociology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. xii + 296. $44.50     

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Wilson, Monica, Religion and the transformation of society: A study of social change in Africa (The Scott Holland Memorial Lectures, series 15, 1969.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971. 165 pp, £1.80

Witt, R. E. Isis in the Graeco‐Roman world, Thames and Hudson, London, 1971, 336 pp., £3.75

Taylor, John V. (et al.) ‘Face to face’: Essays on inter‐faith dialogue. Highway Press, 1971, 72 pp. 50 p.

Alphonso‐Karkala, John B. (ed.). An anthology of Indian literature. Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1971. 630 pp. 90 p.

Gay, John D. The geography of religion in England. London: Duckworth, 1971, pp. xviii + 331. £3.95     

The proper study of mankind is rational man: A book review

The Psychological Record -     

The effect of practice plus information upon learning theory: A book review

The Psychological Record - Hilgard’s revised edition of Theories of Learning is in many respects a new book and an improvement over the earlier edition. Its clarity and comprehensiveness make...