Book Reviews

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Antaki, C. (Ed.) (1988). Analysing everyday explanation: A casebook of methods. London: Sage. Pp. 232. ISBN 0-8039-8139-2, £25.00 (hard back), 0-8039-8140-6 £9.95 (paperback).

Billig, M. et al. (1988). Ideological dilemmas: A social psychology of everyday thinking. London: Sage. Pp. 130. ISBN 0-8039-8095-7, £25.00 (hardback), ISBN 0-8039-8096-5, £9.95 (paperback).

Light, L. L. &; Burke, D. M. (Eds) (1988). Language, memory and using. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 281. ISBN 0-521-32942-6. £27.50.

Wagenaar, W. (1988). Identifying Ivan: A case study in legal psychology. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester. Pp. 224. ISBN 0-7450-0396-6. £14.95.     

Book synopsis

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Ford, C.M., & Gioia, D.A. (Eds.). (1995). Creative action in organizations: Ivory tower visions and real world voices. London: Sage. Pp. 400. ISBN 0-8039-5349-6. £42.50. ISBN 0-8039-5350-X (£19.95 paperback).¹     

Book Reviews

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Pasmore, W. A. (1988). Designing effective organizations: The sociotechnical systems perspective. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Pp. 208. ISBN: 0–471–88785–4. £35.15.

Agor, W. H. (Ed.) (1989). Intuition in organizations: Leading and managing productivity. London: Sage Publications. Pp. 288. ISBN: 0–8039–3562–5. £29.50 (Hbk). ISBN: 0–8039–3563–3. £15.75 (Pbk).

Sarafino, E.P. (1990). Health psychology: Biopsychosocial interactions. New York: John Wiley. Pp. 555. ISBN: 0–471–52454–9. £15.95.

Fontana, D. (1990). Social skills at work. London: The British Psychological Society and Routledge Ltd. Pp. 93. ISBN 1–85433–016–0. £20.00 (hardback); £5.99 (paperback).

Grossman, H.Y. ' Chester, N.L. (1990). The experience and meaning of work in women's lives. New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. Pp. 284. ISBN 0-8058-0246-0. 'pound;37.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-8058-0247-9. £14.75 (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

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Beaumont, P.B. (1993). Human resource management: Key concepts and skills. London: Sage Publications. Pp. 225. ISBN 0-8039-8815-X. £12.95.

Sims, D., Fineman, S., &; Gabriel, Y. (1993). Organizing and organizations: An introduction. London: Sage. Pp. xi + 324. £12.95.     

Book reviews and books received

Counselling and spirituality Lyall, D. 1995 Counselling in the Pastoral and Spiritual Context Buckingham, Open University Press ISBN 0-335-19162-2 £10.99

Career counselling Seligman, L. 1994 Developmental Career Counseling and Assessment (2nd ed.) London, Sage ISBN 0-8039-5804-8 £19.95

Women's careers Walsh, W.B. &; Osipow, S.H. (Eds), 1994 Career Counseling for Women Hove, Erlbaum ISBN 0-8058-1035-8 £53.50

Crisis? what crisis? Dattilio, F.M. &; Freeman, A. (Eds), 1994 Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies in Crisis Intervention New York, Guilford ISBN 0-89862-221-2 £25.00

Guidance on research methods McLeod, J. 1994 Doing Counselling Research London, Sage ISBN 0 8039 7804 9 £10.95

Barker, C. Pistrang, N. &; Elliott, R. 1994 Research Methods in Clinical and Counselling Psychology Chichester, Wiley ISBN 0-471-93612-X £29.95

Research into creative therapies Gilroy, T. &; Lee, C. (Eds), 1995 Art and Music Therapy and Research London, Routledge ISBN 0-415-10045-3 £37.50 (hardback); £15.99 (paperback)

Treating stress Palmer, S. &; Dryden, W. 1995 Counselling for Stress Problems London, Sage ISBN 0-8039-8863-X £12.95

Breast cancer Batt, S. 1994 Patient No More: the Politics of Breast Cancer London, Scarlet Press ISBN 1-85727-167-3 £10.99

Supervision Feltham, C. &; Dryden, W. 1994 Developing Counsellor Supervision London, Sage ISBN 0-8039-8939-3 £9.95     

Book reviews and books received

Counselling as a Career Ross, R, 1997 Oxford: Baldrick Press ISBN 0-9530477-0-9 £9-95

Which Psychotherapy?: Leading Exponents Explain their Differences Feltham, C. (Ed.), 1997 London: Sage ISBN 0-8039-7479-5 £12.95

An Introduction to Existential Psychotherapy Cohn, H. W., 1997 London: Sage ISBN 0-7619-5-109 £11.99

Therapeutic Work with Children and Young People Copley, B. & Forryan, B., 1997 London: Cassell ISBN 0-304-70010-X (hb); 0-304-70011-8 (pb) £16.99

Counselling in Terminal Care and Bereavement Parkes, C. M., Relf, M. & Couldrick, A., 1996 Leicester: British Psychological Society ISBN 1-85433-178-7 £14.99

The Gains of Listening Feltham, C., 1997 Buckingham: Open University Press ISBN 0-335-19280-7 £18.99     

Book reviews

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Oakhill, J. &; Garnham, A. (1988). Becoming a skilled reader, Oxford: Blackwell. Pp. 206. ISBN 0-631-15244X £27.50 (hardback), ISBN 0-631-15776X £8.95 (paperback).

Brewin, C. R. (1988). Cognitive foundations of clinical psychology. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd. Pp. 224. ISBN 0-86377-098-3 £24.50 (hardback), ISBN 0-86377-099-1 £8.95 (paperback).     

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Carroll, J.B. (1993). Human cognitive abilities: A survey of factor-analytic studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 819. ISBN 0-521-38275-0, £60.00 (hardback); ISBN 0-521-38712-4, £24.95 (paperback).     

Recent books

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Strongman, K. T. (1987). The psychology of emotion. (3rd edn). New York: John Wiley. ISBN 0-471-91 143-7191433-9, 277pp. £50.30/$29.50.

Fisher, Shirley (1986). Stress and strategy. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd. ISBN 0-86377-031 4035-5 (pbk), 272pp, $35, £19.951 $15.79, £28.95 (pbk).

Brown, R. (1987). Analyzing love. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-34038-1, 733pp, $24.95, £19.50.     

A ptolemaic theory of emotion

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A review of The Emotions by Nico H. Frijda (1986). Cambridge and Pans: Cambridge University Press and Maison

des Sciences de l'Hornme, pp. 544, £35.00, $59.50 ISBN 0-521-30155-6 (hbk); £12.95, $17.95 ISBN 0-521-31600-6 (Pbk)     

Recent books

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Eisenberg, N. and Strayer, J. (Ed 4 (1987). Empathy and its development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-326095, 406 pp., £35.00/$54.50.

Wolff, P. H. (1987). The development of behavioral states and the expression of emotions in early infancy: New proposals for investigation. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-90520-9, 291 pp., £25.95/$37.50.

Greenspan, Patricia S. (1988). Emotions and reasons: An inquiry into emotional justification. New York and London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-90049-2, 197 pp., £30.00/$30.00     

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Boff, K. R., Kaufmann, L., &; Thomas, J. P. (Eds) (1986). Handbook of perception and human performance, Vols 1 and 2. Chichester: John Wiley. ISBN 0-471-88544-4 and 0-471-82957-9. £85.00 and £77.50.

Garnham, A. (1988). Artificial intelligence: An introduction. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Pp. 277. ISBN 0-7102-1416-2. £8.95.     

Book reviews

Religion and Globalisation. Peter Beyer, 1994 London: Sage Publications 250 pp., £12.95 pb, £37.50 hb ISBN 0–8039–8917–2

The Religious Culture of India: Power, Love and Wisdom. Friedhelm Hardy, 1994 Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions 4, Cambridge University Press xiii + 613 pp. £55.00, US$74.95 ISBN 0–521–44181–1

Judaism and Other Faiths. Dan Cohn‐Sherbok, 1994 Basingstoke: Macmillan Press ix + 186 pp., £40.00 hb ISBN 0–312–10384–0.

Women in Religion Jean Holm with John Bowker, eds., 1994 London and New York: Pinter Publishers 181 pp., £29.50 hb, £9.99 pb ISBN 1–85567–108–5 hb, ISBN 1–85567–109–3 pb

Attitudes to Nature. Jean Holm (ed.) with John Bowker, 1994 London and New York: Pinter Publishers 172 pp., £23.50 hb, £9.99 pb ISBN 1–85567–092–5 hb, ISBN 1–85567–093–3 pb

Sacred Writings. Jean Holm (ed.) with John Bowker, 1994 London and New York: Pinter Publications 201 pp., £29.50 hb, £9.99 pb ISBN 1–85567–106–9 hb; 1–85567–107–7 pb

The Gospel of Buddha. Paul Carus, 1994 Oxford: Oneworld Publications 306 pp., £6.95 ISBN 1–85168–026–8

The New Religious Order: The Passionists and the Option for the Poor. James Sweeney CP, 1994 London: Bellew Publishing 240 pp., £35.00 ISBN 1–85725–105–9

Religions in the UK: A Multi‐Faith Directory. Paul Weller (ed), researched by Rachelle Castle and Paul Weller, 1993 Mickleover, Derby: University of Derby, in association with The Inter Faith Network for the United Kingdom 651 pp., £25.00 (incl. p&p) ISBN 0–901437–06–9     

Book Reviews

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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.     

Book Reviews

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REINTERPRETING MENOPAUSE: CULTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES. P. KOMESAROFF, P. ROTHFIELD and J. DALY (Eds.). Routledge, New York and London, 1997. pp. 280. UK £16.50. ISBN 0-415-91565-1.

INFERTILITY: PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES AND COUNSELING STRATEGIES. SANDRA R. LEIBLUM (Ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997. i-x + 278 pages. ISBN 0-471-12684-5 UK £39.95 hbk.

HANDBOOK OF PAIN AND AGING: PLENUM SERIES IN ADULT DEVELOPMENT AND AGING. Edited by DAVID I. MOSTOFSKY and JACOB LOMRANZ. Plenum Press, New York, USA, 1997. pp. 386. ISBN 0-306-45458-0.     

The rediscovery of philosophy in emotion

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Reviews of The Rationality of Emotion by Ronald de Soma. Cambridge, Mass. and London: M.I.T. Press (1987), pp. 333. ISBN 0-262-04092-1, £22.50, $25 The Structure of Emotions: Investigations in Cognitive Philosophy by Robert M. Gordon. Cambridge University Press (1987), pp. 155. ISBN 0-521-33164-1, £22.50, $29.95     

Book Reviews

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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.     

Implicit learning,consciousness, and the psychology of thinking

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Berry, D., & Dienes, Z. (1993). Implicit learning: Theoretical and empirical issues. Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd. 197pp. ISBN 0-86377-223-4 £19.95 (hbk).

Reber A. S. (1993). Implicit learning and tacit knowledge: An essay on the cognitive unconscious. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1 88pp. ISBN 0-19-505-9425 £30.00 (hbk).     

Critical Notices

Possessed by Concepts

A Study of Concepts By Christopher Peacocke MIT Press, 1992. Pp. x + 266. ISBN 0–262–161338. £24.95.

Morality, ethics and ‘postmetaphysical thinking: new books by Jürgen Habermas

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. An Enquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society Polity Press, 1992, Pp.300, ISBN 0–7456–1077–3. £35/11.95.

Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action Polity Press, 1992. Pp. 280. ISBN 0–7456–1104–4. £29.50.

Postmetaphysical Thinking. Philosophical Essays Polity Press, 1992. Pp. 200. ISBN 0–7456–0734–9. £29.50.

Justification and Application. Remarks on Discourse Ethics Polity Press, 1993. Pp. 192. ISBN 0–7456–0143–9. £35/11.95.

Shame and Necessity By Bernard Williams University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xii + 254. ISBN 0–520–08046–7. $25.