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 and books received

Bell, E., 1996 Counselling in Further and Higher Education Buckingham: Open University Press ISBN 0-335-19167-3 £12.99

Gersie, A. (Ed.), 1996 Dramatic Approaches to Brief Therapy London: Jessica Kingsley ISBN 1-85302-271-3 £16.95

Cowie, H.& Sharp, S., 1996 Peer Counselling in Schools: a Time w Listen London: David Fulton ISBN 1-85346-367-1 £12.99

Carroll, M., 1996 Workplace Counselling London: Sage ISBN 0-7619-5021-4 £12.95

Davies, D. & Neal, C., 1996 Pink Therapy Buckingham: Open University Press ISBN 0-335-19145-2 £16.99

Klass, D., Silverman, P.R. & Nickman, S.L. (Eds), 1996 Continuing Bonds New Understandings of Grief London: Taylor & Francis ISBN 1-56032-336-1 (hardback); 1-56032-339-6 (paperback) £30 (hardback): E17.95 (paperback)

JOHNS, H., 1996 Personal Development in Counsellor Training London: Cassell ISBN 0-304-32933-9 £12.99

Dryden, W. (Ed.), 1996 Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Practical Applications London: Sage ISBN 0-80-39-7841-3 £14.95     

Book reviews and notes

GENERAL. A MEDIEVAL MUSLIM SCHOLAR AT WORK:IBN TAWUS AND HIS LIBRARY. By Etan Kohlberg. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science: Texts and Studies. Edited by H. Daiber and D. Pingree. Vol. XXII. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992. 470pp. Hb. $120.00. ISBN 90-04-09549-7. AL-FARABI AND HIS SCHOOL. By Ian Richard Netton. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. 128pp. £10.99. Pb. ISBN 0-415-03595-3; Hb. 0-415-03594-5. PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF ALBERT HOURANI. Edited by John P. Spagnolo. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1992. 309pp. Hb. £30.00. ISBN 0-86372-164-8. WOMAN'S BODY, WOMAN'S WORLD: GENDER AND DISCOURSE IN ARAB-ISLAMIC WRITING. By Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. 206pp. $12.95. ISBN 0-691-01488-4. AVICENNA. By Lenn E. Goodman. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. 240pp. Pb.£12.99. ISBN: 0-415-07409-6. EURO-ARAB RELATIONS: A STUDY IN COLLECTIVE DIPLOMACY. By Haifaa A. Jawad. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1992. 302pp. Hb.£25.00. ISBN 0-86372-129-X. DER ISLAM: EIN LESEBUCH. Edited by MARIA HAARMANN. Beck'sche Reihe; 479. Munchen: C.H. Beck, 1992. 388pp. Pb. DM12.-. ISBN 3-406-340717. DIE ISLAMISCH WELT UND EUROPA: KULTURELLE VERSTAN-DIGUNG ALS POLITISCHE HERAUSFORDERUNG. By Hans A. Fischer-Barnicol. Stuttgart, Berlin, Koln: Verlag Kohlhammer, 1991. 260pp. Pb. DM34.80. ISBN 3-17-011749-1. DER KORAN: ARABISCH-DEUTSCH: UBERSETZUNG UND WISSENSCHAFTLICHER KOMMENTAR. By Adel Theodor Khoury. Band 3: sure 2,213-2,286. Gutersloh: Gutersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, 1992. 299pp. Hb. DM175.-. ISBN 3-579-00338-0. SHIISM. By Heinz Halm. Islamic Surveys, 18. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1992. 218pp. Hb. £25.00. ISBN 0-7486-0268-2. ISLAM-LEXIKON A-Z. By Adel Th. Khoury, Ludwig Hagemann and Petet Heine. 3 vols. Freiburg i.Br.: Herder, 1991. 941pp. Pb. DM78.00. ISBN 3-451-04036-0. LEXIKON DER ISLAMISCHEN WELT. By Klaus Kreiser and Rotraud Wielandt. Vollig uberarbeitete Neuausgabe. Stuttgart, Berlin, Koln: W. Kohlhammer, 1992. 289pp. Hb. DM34.00. ISBN 3-17-011770-X. ALLMACHT UND MACHTIGKEIT: RELIGION UND WELT IM ISLAM. By Johann Christoph Burgel. Munchen: C.H. Beck, 1991. 416pp. Hb. DM48.00. ISBN 3-406-35374-6. EXEGESE, LANGUE ET THEOLOGIE EN ISLAM: L'EXEGESE CORANIQUE DE TABARI. By Claude Gilliot. Paris: J. Vrin, 1990 320pp. Pb. 252FF. ISBN 2-7116-1033-0. INTERPRETATION IN RELIGION. Edited by Shlomo Biderman and Benami Scharfstein. Leiden, New York, Koln: E.J. Brill, 1992. 290pp. Hb. DFL.125.00; $71.50. ISBN 90-04-09519-5; ISSN 0924-7904. REGIONAL. Africa. THE SUFI BROTHERHOODS IN SUDAN. By Ali Salih Karrar. London: C. Hurst, 1992. Hb. £30.00. ISBN 1-85065-111-6. THE CALL FOR DEMOCRACY IN SUDAN. By John Garang. Edited and introduced by Mansour Khalid. London: Kegan Paul International, 1992. 292pp. Pb. £12.95. ISBN 0 7103 0401 3. L'ISLAM AU CHAD. Edited by Centre D'Etude D'Afrique Noire. Bordeaux Institute. d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, 1992. Collection 'Etudes et Recherches'. Pb. 150pp. Pb. 110.00FF. ISBN 2-908065-12-6; ISSN 0151-0207-20. Asia. HAUS UND FAMILIE IN ARABISCHEN LANDERN: VOM MIT-TELALTER BIS ZUM GEGENWART. By Annagret Nippa. Munchen: C.H. Beck, 1991. 244pp. Pb. DM44.00. ISBN 3-406-34603-0. NOMAD: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A QASHQA'I TRIBESMAN IN IRAN. By Lois Beck. London: I.B. Tauris, 1991. 489pp. Pb.£14.95. ISBN 1-85043-364-X. THE NORTH CAUCASUS BARRIER: THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE TOWARDS THE MUSLIM WORLD. Edited by Marie Bennigsen Broxup. London: C. Hurst, 1992. 252pp. Hb. £27.50. ISBN 1-85065-069-1. ISLAM IN BANGLADESH. By U.A.B. Razia Akter Banu. International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992. 194pp. $43.00. ISBN 09-04-09497-0. Europe. THE NEW SCOTS: THE STORY OF ASIANS IN SCOTLAND. By Bashir Maan. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1992. 216pp. Pb. £9.50. ISBN 0-85976-357-9. ARABS IN EXILE: YEMENI MIGRANTS IN URBAN BRITAIN. By Fred Halliday. London: I.B. Tauris, 1992. 166pp. Hb. £35.00. ISBN 1-85043-499-9. ISLAM IN SPANISH LITERATURE: FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT. By Luce Lopex-Baralt. Leiden, New York, Koln: E.J. Brill; San Juan: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1992. 323pp. Hb. DFL.145.00; $83.00. ISBN 90-94-09460-1. Middle East. PITY THE NATION: LEBANON AT WAR. By Robert Fisk. 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. 703pp. Pb. £7.99. ISBN 0-19-285284-1. ARMENIA AND KARABAGH: THE STRUGGLE FOR UNITY. Edited by Christopher J. Walker. London: Minority Rights Group, 1991. 162pp. Pb. n.p. ISBN 1-873194-00-5. GENDER IN CRISIS: WOMEN AND THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT. By Julie M. Peteet. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1991. 245pp. Cloth $43.50, pb. $16.00. ISBN 0-231-07446-8 cloth, 0-231-07447-6 pb. POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. By Elie Kedourie. Oxford, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992. 366pp. Pb. £8,99. ISBN 0-19-289154-5. PALESTINE REBORN. By Walid Khalidi. London: I.B. Tauris, 1992. 234pp. Hb. £35.00, pb. £14.95. ISBN 1-85043-563-4 hb., 1-85043-559-6 pb. NASSER. By Peter Woodward. Profile in Power Series. London and New York: Longman, 1992. 167pp. Pb. £7.50. ISBN 0-582-03389-6. CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM RELATIONS. LES CHRETIENTES D'ORIENT ENTRE JIHAD ET DHIMMITUDE. By Bat Ye'or. Paris: Cerf, 1991. 529pp. Pb. FF199.00. ISBN 2-204-04347-8. NICOLAS OF CUSA IN SEARCH OF GOD AND WISDOM. Edited by Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. Izbicki. Studies in the History of Christian Thought, XLV. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991. 298pp. Hb. DFL.140,00; $80.00. ISBN 90-04-09362-1. PRISONERS OF FAITH: A VIEW FROM WITHIN. By Nirmala Srinivasan. New Delhi, Newbury Park, London: Sage Publications, 1989. 219pp. Hb. Indian Rs 220.-. ISBN 81-7036-151 (India), 0-8039-9604-7 (US). NEW PERIODICALS ON FAITH ENCOUNTERS.     

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 reviews and books received

Using REBT with Common Psychological Problems Yankura, J. & Dryden, W., 1997 New York: Springer ISBN 0-8261-9800-7 $33.95

Promoting Positive Behaviour O'Brien, T., 1998 London: David Fulton ISBN 1-85346-502-X £13.99

Person-Centred Counselling Training Mearns, D., 1997 London: Sage ISBN 0-7619-5290-X (hbk); 0-761-9-5291-8 (pbk) £35 (hbk); £14.99 (pbk)

Feminism and Psychotherapy: Reflections on Contemporary Theories and Practices Seu, I.B. & Heenan, M.C. (EDS), 1998 London: Sage ISBN 0-7619-5191-1 £14.99

Carl Rogers: a Critical Biography Cohen, D., 1998 London: Constable ISBN 0-09-477010-7 £20

Long-Term Counselling Shipton, G. & Smithe, E., 1998 London: Sage ISBN 0-7619-5030-3 £12.99

Making Vocational Choices: a Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments (3rd edn) Holland, J.L., 1997 Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources ISBN 0-911907-27-0 $29.95     

Book reviews and books received

Paradox and Passion in Psychotherapy van Deurzen, E., 1998 Chichester: Wiley Isbn 0-471-97390-4 £14.95

Witness and Vision of the Therapists Feltham, C. (Ed.), 1998 London: Sage ISBN 0-7619-5158-X £13.99

Are You Sitting Uncomfortably?: Windy Dryden Live and Uncut Dryden, W., 1998 Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books ISBN 1-898059-18-7 £10.50 (discounts for buying direct)

The Integrative Power of Cognitive Therapy Alford, B.A. & Beck, A.T., 1997 New York: Guilford Press ISBN 1-57230-171-6 £11.95

Psychotherapy Counselling and Mental Health Care: Assessment for Brief or Longer-Term Treatment Burton, M., 1998 Chichester: Wiley ISBN 0-471-98228-8 £17.99

Career Counselling: a Narrative Approach Cochran, L., 1997 London: Sage ISBN 0-7619-0442-5 £14.99

Telling Tales: Perspectives on Guidance and Counselling in Learning Edwards, R., Harrison, R. & Tait, A.I. (Eds), 1998 London: Routledge ISBN 0-415-19443-1 £14.99

Taking Issue: Debates in Guidance and Counselling in Learning Crawford, M., Edwards, R. & Kydd, L. (Eds), 1998 London: Routledge ISBN 0-415-19667-1 £14.99     

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

Seeking convergence SAVICKAS, M.L. & LENT, R. W. (Eds), 1994 Convergence in Career Development Theories: Implications for Science and Practice Palo Alto, CA: CPP Books ISBN 0-89106-066-9 $32

Reviewed by John Killeen, University of Hertfordshire and National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling

Careers in the classroom BARNES, A. & ANDREWS, D. (Eds), 1995 Developing Careers Education and Guidance in the Curriculum London: Fulton ISBN 1-85346-323-X £13.99

Reviewed by Sheila M. Sloney, National Foundation for Educational Research

Painful questions LAGO, C. & THOMPSON, J. 1996 Race, Culture and Counselling Milton Keynes: Open University Press ISBN 0-335-19294-7 £12.99

Reviewed by Alan Home, Principal Psychotherapist, Central Manchester Healthcare Trust

Skills training INSKIPP, F. 1996 Skills Training for Counsellors London: Cassell ISBN 0-304-32920-7 (hardback); 0-304-32918-5 (paperback) £35 (hardback); £11.99 (paperback)

Reviewed by Maggie Robson, School of Education, University of Durham

Therapy for psychosis CHADWICK, B. BIRCHWOOD, N. & TROWER, P. 1996 Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia Chichester: Wiley ISBN 0-71-96173-6 £15.99

Reviewed by Frank Margison, Consultant Psychotherapist, Manchester Royal Infirmary

Demonstrating REBT DRYDEN, W. 1996 Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: Learning from Demonstration Sessions London: Whurr ISBN 1-897-635-443 £12.95

Reviewed by Michael Gopfert, Consultant Psychotherapist, Liverpool Psychotherapy and Consultation Service, Mossley Hill Hospital, Liverpool

Promoting mental health TUDOR, K. 1996 Mental Health Promotion: Paradigms and Practice London: Routledge ISBN 0-415-10106-9 £16.99

Reviewed by Mike McNulty, Department of Primary Health Care, University College of St Martin, Carlisle

Incest therapy COURTOIS, C.A. 1988 Healing the Incest Wound: Adult Survivors in Therapy New York: Norton ISBN 0-393-31356-5 £13.95

Reviewed by Helen Bridges, Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychology, University College of St Martin, Lancaster     

Recent books

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Tomkins, S.S. (1992). Affect, imagery and consciousness, Vol. IV: Cognition: Duplication and transformation of information. New York: Springer Publishing Company. $58.00

Winograd, E. & Neisser, U. (Eds) (1992). Affect and accuracy in recall: Studies of “Flashbulb Memories”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-40188-7, 315 pp, £30.00, $44.95

Susmon, E.J., Feagans, L.V., & Ray, W.J. (1992). Emotion, cognition, health and development in children and adolescents. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 0-8058-0548-6, 183 pp, £27.95, $49.95

Amsel, A. (1992). Frustration theory: An analysis of dispositional learning and memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-24784-5, 278 pp, £35.00, $64.95

Costello, C.G. (Ed.) (1993). Symptoms of depression. Chichester: John Wiley. ISBN 0-471-54304-7 (hbk), 376 pp, £29.95, $54.95     

Book Reviews and Books Received

Integrative Stress Counselling: a Humanistic Problem-Solving Approach Milner, P. & Palmer, S., 1998 London: Cassell ISBN 0-304-33492-8 £16.99

Person-Centred Therapy: a Revolutionary Paradigm Bozarth, J., 1998 Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books ISBN 1-898059-22-5 £15

The Presenting Past: the Core of Psycho-dynamic Counselling and Therapy (2nd edn) Jacobs, M., 1998 Buckingham: Open University Press ISBN 0-335-20196-2 £15.99

Sacred Science: Person-Centred Inquiry into the Spiritual and the Subtle Heron, J., 1998 Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books ISBN 1-898059-21-7 £14

Person-Centred Therapy: a European Perspective Thorne, B. & Lambers, E. (Eds) London: Sage ISBN 0-7619-5155-5 £14.99

New Skills for New Futures: Higher Education Guidance and Counselling Services in the European Union Watts, A.G. & van Esbroeck, R., 1998 Brussels: VUB University Press ISBN 90-5487-199-7 £12     

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

Gordon, I. E. (1989). Theories of visual perception. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. Pp. 273. ISBN 0-471-92196-3. £12.50.

Shepp, B. E. & Ballasteros, S. (Eds.) (1989). Object perception: Structure and process. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pp. 431. ISBN 0-8058-0060-3 (hardback) £44.95; ISBN 0-8058-0333-5 (paperback) £22.95.

Frith, U. (1989). Autism: Explaining the enigma. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Pp. 204. ISBN 0-631-15833-2. £25.00 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback).

Rollins, M. (1989). Mental imagery: On the limits of cognitive science. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Pp. 170. ISBN 0-30-04491-7. £18.00.

Lloyd, D. (1989). Simple minds. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. 266. ISBN 0-262-12140-9. £22.50.

Howard, D. & Franklin, S. (1988). Missing the meaning? A cognitive neuropsychological study of the processing of words by an aphasic patient. Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press. Pp. xix + 171. ISBN 0-262-08178-4. £22.50.

Evans, J. St. B. T. (1989). Bias in human reasoning. Hove and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd. ISBN 0-86377-106-8. £14.95 (hardback) ISBN 0-86377-156-4. £8.95 (paperback).

Clark, A. (1989). Micorcognition: Philosophy, cognitive science, and parallel distributed processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books. Pp. 226. ISBN 0-262-03148-5. £14.95.     

Book Reviews and Books Received

Person-Centred Counselling: an Experiential Approach Rennie, D.L., 1998 London: Sage ISBN 07619-5345-0 £12.95

From Hearing to Healing: Working with the Aftermath of Child Sexual Abuse (2nd edn) Bannistkr, A. (Ed.), 1998 Chichester: Wiley ISBN 0-471-98298-9 £14.99

The Ethical Use of Touch in Psychotherapy Hunter, M. & Struve, J., 1998 London: Sage ISBN 0-7619-0361-5 £17.99

After the Death of a Child: Living with Loss through the Years Finkbeiner, A.K., 1996 Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN 0-8018-5914-X £13

Remembering Trauma: a Psychotherapist's Guide to Memory and Illusion Mollon, P., 1998 Chichester: Wiley ISBN 0-471-98214-8 £16-99

Counselling and Communication Skills for Medical and Health Practitioners Bayne, R., Nicolson, P. & Horton, I., 1998 Leicester: BPS Books ISBN 1-85433-256-2 £14.50

Counselling in Healthcare Settings Bor, R., Miller, R., Latz, M. & Salt, H. 1998 London: Cassell ISBN 0-304-33986-5 £15.99     

Book Reviews

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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.     

Book reviews

Clark, M. S. and Fiske, S. T. (Eds.). Affect and cognition: The Seventeenth Annual Cornegie Symposium on Cognition. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1982. Pp. 357. ISBN 0-89859-212-7. £24.00.

Norman, D. A. (Ed.). Perspectives on Cognitive Science. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex. 1981. Pp. 303. ISBN 0-89391-071-6. $19.95

Gollin, E. S. (Ed.). Developmental Plasticity: Behavioral and Biological Aspects of Variations in Development. New York: Academic Press. 1981. Pp. 282. ISBN 0-12-289620-3. £16.60.

Rapin, I. Children with Brain Dysfunction. New York: Raven Press. 1982. Pp. 300. ISBN 0-89004-844-4. $46.50.

Schank, R. C. Reading and Understanding: Teaching from the Perspective of Artificial Intelligence. Hillsdale, N. J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1982. Pp. xii + 196. ISBN 0-89859-169-4. £13.95.

Sheehan, P. W. and McConkey, K. M. Hypnosis and Experience: The Exploration of Phenomena and Process. Hillsdale, N. J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1982. Pp. 297. ISBN 0-89859-195-3. £17.50.

Burton, A. (Ed.). The Pathology and Psychology of Cognition. London: Methuen. 1983. Pp. 306. ISBN 0-416-30810-4. Hardback, £13.00; paperback, £5.95.

Otto, W. and White, S. (Eds.). Reading Expository Material. London: Academic Press. 1982. Pp. xiv + 303. ISBN 0-12-531050-1. £19.60.

Lerdahl, F. and Jackendoff, R. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 1983. Pp. 368. ISBN 0-262-12094-1. £31.30.

Lewis, B. (Ed.). Bioacoustics: A Comparative Approach. London: Academic Press. 1983. Pp. 493. ISBN 0-12-446550-1. £29.50.

Carpenter, T. P., Moser, J. M. and Romberg, T. A. Addition and Subtraction: A Cognitive Perspective. Hillsdale, N. J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1982. Pp. 245. ISBN 0-89859-171-6. £14.95.

Le Ny, J-F. and Kintsch, W. (Eds.). Language and comprehension. Amsterdam: North-Holland. 1982. Pp. 358. ISBN 0-444-86538-1.Dfl. 120.00.

Schwartz, B. and Lacey, H. Behaviorism, science and human nature. New York: W. W. Norton. 1982. Pp. 282. ISBN 0-393-01585-8. $19.95.

Cole, P. R. Language disorders in preschool children. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. 1982. Pp. 178. ISBN 0-13-522862-X. £19.75.

Wood, M. L. Language disorders in school-age children. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. 1982. Pp. 156. ISBN 0-13-522946-4. £19.75.

Baddeley, A. D. Your memory: A user's guide. London: Sidgwick & Jackson. 1982. Pp. 222. ISBN 0-283-98929-7. £9.95.

Lass, N. J. (Ed.). Speech and language: Advances in basic research and practice, Vol. 6. London: Academic Press. 1982. Pp. 477. ISBN 0-12-608606-0. £36.40.

Neisser, U. (Ed.). Memory observed: Remembering in natural contexts. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. 1982. Pp. 433 + xiii. ISBN 07167-1 1371-3. £8.80 (paperback), £18.80 (hardback).

Gentner, D. and Stevens, A. L. Mental models. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1983. Pp. viii + 348. ISBN 0-89859-242-9. £24.95.

Miles, T. R. Dyslexia: The pattern of diculties. London: Granada. 1983. Pp. 225. ISBN 0-246-11345-6. £9.95.

Humphrey, N. Consciousness regained. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983. Pp. 222. ISBN 0-19-217732-X. £12.95.

Levinson, S. C. Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1983. Pp. xvi + 420. ISBN 0-521-22235-4 (Case). £25.00. ISBN 0-521-29414-2 (Paper). £8.50.     

Book reviews

Weiskrantz, L. (1986). Blindsight: A case study and implications. Oxford University Press. Pp. 187. ISBN 0-19-852129-4. £19.50.

Humphreys, G. W. & Riddoch, M. J. (1987). to see but not to see: A case study of visual agnosia. Hove and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd. Pp. 124. ISBN 0-83677-064-9. £12.95.

Downing, J. A. (1988). Advances in psychology: Cognitive psychology and reading in the USSR. Amsterdam: North Holland; Elsevier Science Publishers. Pp. 471. ISBN 0-444-70374-8. $108.00.

John Beech & Ann Colley (Eds.) (1987). Cognitive approaches to reading. Chichester: John Wiley. Pp. xii + 315.

James Wertsch (Ed.) (1985). Culture, communication and cognition: Vygotskian perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 379. ISBN 0-521-25214-8. £27.50 (Hardback).

Fodor, J. A. (1987). Psychosemantics: The problem of meaning in the philosophy of mind. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press. Pp. xiii, 1-171. ISBN 0-262-06106-6.

Richardson, K. (1988). Understanding Psychology. Milton Keynes: The Open University Press. Pp. 114. ISBN 0-335-09842-8. Paperback £7.95.

Stanovich, Keith E. (Ed.) (1988). Children's reading and the development of phonological awareness. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. Pp. 177. ISBN 0-8143-1909-2. $20.00.

Allport, A., MacKay, D.G., Prinz, W., & Scheerer, E. (Eds.), (1987). Language perception and production: Relationships between listening, speaking, reading, and writing. London: Academic Press. Pp. xiii + 497. ISBN 0-12-052750-2. £32.00

Light, L. L. & Burke, D. M. (eds.) (1988). Language, Memory and Aging. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 280. ISBN-0-521-32942-6. £27.50

Friedman, S.L., Scholnick, E.F., and Cocking, R. R. (1987). Bleuprints for thinking: The role of planing in cognitive development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xv + 559. ISBN 0-521-25605-4. £40.00.     

Book reviews

Montefiore, A. & Noble, D. (Eds.). (1989). Goals, no-goals and own goals: A debate on goal-directed and intentional behaviour. London: Unwin Hyman. Pp. ix + 304. ISBN 0-04-445341-8. £30.00 (hardback).

McNaughton, N. (1989). Biology and emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 228. ISBN 0-521-26527-4. £27.50 (hardback); ISBN 0-521-31938-2. £9.95 (paperback).

Amsel, A. (1989). Behaviorism, neobehaviorism, and cognitivism in learning theory: Historical and contemporary perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Pp. 105. ISBN 0-8058-0332-7. £15.00 (hardback).

Bolles, R. C. & Beecher, M. D. (1988). Evolution and learning. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Pp. 263 + xi. ISBN 89589-542-8. £23.95 (hardback).

Davey, Graham (1989). Ecological learning theory. London: Toutledge. Pp. 392 + xv. ISBN 0-415-01190-6. £14.95 (paperback).

Davison, M. & McCarthy, D. (1988). The matching law: A research review. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Pp. 285. ISBN 0-90959-923-7. £29.95 (hardback).     

Book reviews and books received

PALMER, S.K. & MCMAHON, G. (Eds), 1997 Handbook of Counselling (2nd edn)London: Routledge ISBN 0-415-1395-2-X £18.99

SULTANA,R.G. & SAMMUT, J.M. (Eds), 1997 Careers Education and Guidance in Malta: Issues and ChallengesMalta: Publishers Enterprises Group (PEG) Ltd. ISBN: 99909-0-077-9

Reviewed by Marcus Offer, Lecturer in Vocational Guidance, University of Reading

GOPAUL-MCNICOL, S. & BRICE-BAKER, J., 1998 Cross-Cultural Practice: Assessment, Treatment and TrainingNew York: Wiley ISBN 0-471-14849-0 £19.99

Reviewed by Colin Fekham, Senior Lecturer in Counselling, Sheffield HaUam University

SlLVERSTONE, L., 1997 Art and the Development of the Person (2nd edn)London: Jessica Kingsley ISBN 1-85302-481-3 £14.95

Reviewed by Vol Dairies, Lecturer in Counselling, Department of Applied Social Studies, Keele University HORTON, I. (Ed.) The Needs of Counsellors and Psychotherapists London: Sage ISBN 0-7619-5299-3 £13.99

Reviewed by Ray Woolfe, Visiting Fellow, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Hud- dersfield

SILLS, C. (Ed.), 1997 Contracts in Counselling London: SageISBN: 0-7619-5088-5 (hbk); 0-7619-5089-3 (pbk) £35 (hbk); £12.99 (pbk)

Mary Berry, Director of Counselling Programmes, Centre for Educational Needs, University of Manchester     

Book reviews and books received

A new conspectus of careers work WATTS, A.G., LAW, B., KILLEEN, J., RDD, J.M. & HAWTHORN, R., 1996

Rethinking Careers Education and Guidance: They, Policy and Practice London: Routledge ISBN 0415-13974-0 (hb); 0415-13975-9 (pb) £50 (hb); £18.99 (pb)

Counsellor training WHEELER, S., 1996 Training Counsellors: the Assessment of Competence London: Cassell ISBN 0-304-33349-2 £14.99

Counsellors and medics DANES, B., GASK, L. & USHERWOOD, T., 1996 Medical and Psychiatric Issues for Counsellors London: Sage ISBN 0-8039-7507-4 £10.95

Adult students in higher education WEST, L., 1996 Beyond Fragments London: Taylor & Francis ISBN 0-7484-0485-6 (hb); 0-7484-0486-4 (pb) £39 (hb); £13.99 (pb)