History of the United Church of Christ

Book reviewed:
The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ , Barbara Brown Zikmund (ed.), Pilgrim Press 1995–2005. Vols I–VII
Ancient and Medieval Legacies, Vol. I , Richard Ulrich (ed.), Pilgrim Press 1995 (0-8298-1064-1), 583 pp., $60.00
Reformation Roots, Vol. II , John Payne (ed.), Pilgrim Press 1997 (0-8298-1143-5), xii + 683 pp., $60.00
Colonial and National Beginnings, Vol. III , Charles Hambrick-Stowe (ed.), Pilgrim Press 1998 (0-8298-1113-3), x + 518 pp., $60.00
Consolidation and Expansion, Vol. IV , Elizabeth Nordbeck, Lowell Zuck (eds), Pilgrim Press 1999 (0-8298-1110-9), xvi + 668 pp., $60.00
Outreach and Diversity, Vol. V , Margaret Lamberts Bendroth, Lawrence Jones, Robert Schneider (eds), Pilgrim Press 2000 (0-8298-1111-7), xiv + 536 pp., $60.00
Growing Toward Unity, Vol. VI , Elsabeth Slaughter Hilke (ed.), Pilgrim Press 2001 (0-8298-1112-5), xvi + 744 pp., $70.00
United and Uniting, Vol. VII , Frederick Trost, Barbara Brown Zikmund (eds), Pilgrim Press 2005 (0-8298-1113-3), xx + 828 pp., $70.00     

After Said,After Ayodhya: New Challenges for the study of Indian Religions

Gerald James Larson, India's Agony Over Religion. Albany, New York, SUNY Press 1995. ISBN 0-7914-2411-11 (cl), 0-7914-2412-X (pa). Peter van der Veer, Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1994. ISBN 0-520-08220-6 (cl), 0-520-08256-7 (pa).     

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The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings , Third Edition, Bart D. Ehrman, Oxford University Press 2004 (0-19-515462-2), pp. xxxvi + 506, Pb £21.99
A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages , Walter Ullmann with a new introduction by George Garnett. Routledge 2003 (0-415-30227-7), pp. xix + 339, Pb $19.99
Showing of Love , Julian of Norwich, translated by Julia Bolton Holloway, DLT 2003 (0-232-52503-X), pp. xxxiv + 133, Pb £9.95
The Encyclopedia of Christianity , Volume 3 (J-O), Erwin Fahlbusch et al. , Eerdmans 2003 (0-8028-2415-3) / Brill 2003 (90-04-12654-6), pp. xxix + 918, Hb £65/$100
Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and its Legacy , Revised Edition, Richard L. Rubenstein and John K. Roth (eds), Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0-664-22353-2), pp. xi + 499, Pb $29.95     

Book reviews

Campbell, B. A., Hayne, H., & Richardson, R. (Eds.) (1992). Attention and information processing in infants and adults. Perspectives from human and animal research. Hove: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pp. viii + 360. ISBN 0-8058-0782-9. £54.95 (Hbk).

McFarland, D. (1993). Animal behaviour: Psychobiology, ethology and evolution (2nd ed.). Harlow: Longrnan Scientific and Technical. Pp. xiv + 585. ISBN 0-582-06721-9. £23.99 (Pbk).

Ward, J. P., & Hopkins, W.D. (Eds.) (1993). Primate laterality: Current behavioral evidence of primate asymmetries. New York/Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Pp. xii + 356. ISBN 0-387-97961-1 13-540-97961-1. £34.50 (Pbk).

Zentall, T. R. (Ed.). (1993). Animal cognition. A tribute to Donafd A. Riley. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Pp. xiv + 369. ISBN 0-8058-1 184-2. £22.95 (Pbk); ISBN 0-8058-1 183-4. £53.50 (Hbk).

Roitblatt, H. L., Herman, L. M., & Nachtigall, P.E. (Eds.) (1993). Language and communication. Comparative perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Pp. xvi + 502. ISBN 0-8058-0947-3. £26.95 (Pbk); ISBN 0-8058-0946-5. £59.95 (Hbk).

Bradshaw, J. L, & Rogers, L.J. (1993). The evolution of lateral asymmetries, language, roo1 use, and intellect. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Pp. xiii + 463. ISBN 0-12-124560-8. £58.00 (Hbk).

Ten Cate, C., Slater, P. J. B., & Kruijt, J. P. (Eds.) (1993). Song learning and imprinting. An inquiry into mechanisms of behavioural development. Amsterdam: Netherlands Zoology Society. Pp. 234. £13.00 (Pbk).     

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

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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

Colley, A. M. & Beech, J. R. (Eds.). (1988). Cognition and action in skilled behaviour. Amsterdam: North-Holland. Pp. 425. ISBN 0-444-70493-0. $108

Coltherat, M. Sartori, G. & Job, R. (Eds.) (1987). The cognitive neuropsychology of language. Hove & London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd. Pp. 416. ISBN 0-86377-036-3. £29.95

Shallice, T. (1988). From neuropsychology to mental structure. Cambridge: Cmbridge University Press. Pp. 462. ISBN 0-521-30874-7, £40.00 (hardback); ISBN 0-521-31360-0. £15.00 (paperback)

Levelt, W. J. M. (1989). Speaking: from intention to articulation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. 355. ISBN 0-262-12137-9. £35.95

Hargreaves, D. J. (Ed.) (1989). Children and the arts. Milton Keynes: Open University Press. Pp: 176. ISBN 0335-098819, £27.50. 9 (hardback); ISBN 0335-098800, £9.90 (paperback).

De Valois, R. L. & De Valois, K. K. (1988). Spatial vision. New York: Oxford University Pass. Pp 381. ISBN 0-19-505019-3. £65.00     

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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).     

Book reviews

Ellis, A. W. (Ed.). Progress in the psychology of language, Vols 1 and 2. London: Erlbaum Associates. 1985. Pp. vii+247 (Vol.1), v+274 (Vol.2). ISBN 0-86377-027-4 (Vol.1), 0-86377-028-2(Vol.2). £19.65. each.

Eysenck, M.W. A hondbook of cognitive psychology. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1984. Pp. 417. ISBN 0-86377-016-9. Hardback £26.95; paperback £8.95.

Roy, E. A. (Ed.). Neuropsychological studies of apraxia and related disorders. Amstrdam: North olland. 185 Pp. 414. ISN 0-444-87669-3. $60.00.

Fischer, K. W. and Lazerson, A. Human development frm conception through adolescence. New York: W. H. Freman. 1984. Pp. 747. ISBN 9-7167-1575-9. £24.95.

Sloboda, J. A. The musical mind. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. Pp. vii+291. ISBN 0-19-852114-6 (hardback) £20; ISBN 0-19-852128-6 (paperback) £9.65.

Howell, P., Cross, I. and West, R. Musical structure and cognition. London: Academic Press. Pp. xiv+ 338. ISBN 0-12-357170-7. £44.     

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 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

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

Cleeremans, A. (1993). Mechanisms of implicit learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 227. ISBN 0-262-03205-8. £26.95.

Manktelow, K.l., & Over, D.E. (Eds.) (1993). Rationality: psychological and philosophical perspectives. London: Routledge. Pp. 322. ISBN 0-415-06955-6. £40.00.

Parkin, A. (1993). Memory. Oxford: Blackwell, Pp. 272. ISBN 0-631-15711-5. £40 (Hbk); ISBN 0-631-15712-3. £12.99 (Pbk).

Hellige, J.B. (1993). Hemispheric asymmetry: What's right and what's left. (Perspectives in cognitive neuroscience series.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. 396. ISBN 0-674-38730-9. £27.95 (Hbk).     

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.     

ONCE MORE . . .

Books reviewed:
The Major World Religions : An Introduction with Texts , T. Patrick Burke, Second Edition, Blackwell 2004 (1-4051-1049-X), pp. xix + 380, Pb £17.99/$34.95 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham
The Biblical World , two volumes, John Barton (ed.), Routledge 2004 (0-415-34954-0), Hb £45 Reviewed by Deryn Guest University of Birmingham
Matthew : A Commentary, Volume 1 : The Christbook (Matthew 1–12) , Frederick Dale Bruner, Revised and Expanded Edition, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-1118-3), pp. xlviii + 604, Hb £34.95/$45 Matthew : A Commentary, Volume 2 : The Churchbook (Matthew 13–18) , Frederick Dale Bruner, Revised and Expanded Edition, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-2670-9), pp. xxxii + 854, Hb £34.95/$45 Reviewed by Philip Seddon University of Birmingham
Religion in the Medieval World , Bernard Hamilton, Second Edition, Arnold Publishers 2003 (0-340-80839-X), pp. ix + 196, Pb £14.99 Reviewed by Stephen Morris New York
A History of the Popes 1830–1914 , Owen Chadwick, Oxford History of the Christian Church, Oxford University Press 2003 (0-19-926286-1), pp. x + 614, Pb £25 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham
Religion and American Culture : A Reader , David G. Hackett (ed.), Second Edition, Routledge 2003 (0-415-94273-X), pp. xvi + 550, Pb £22.95 Reviewed by Jeffrey Marlett The College of Saint Rose, New York
Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue : Black Theology in the Slave Narrative , Dwight N. Hopkins and George C.L. Cummings (eds), Second Edition, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0-664-22521-7), pp. xvi + 205, Pb $24.95 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham     

Book Reviews

Brown, M.C., Hopkins, W.G.,&Keynes, R.J. (1991). Essentials of neural development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-37556-8, £27.50 (hardback); ISBN 0-521-37698-X, £9.95 (paperback).

Kolb, B.&Tees, R.C. (Eds.) (1990). The cerebral cortex of the rat. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books, MIT Press. Pp. xii + 645. ISBN 0-262-11150, £53.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-262-61064-7, £35.00 (paperback).     

Book reviews

Lea, S. E. G., Tarpy, R. M., & Webley, P. (1987). The individual in the economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 627 + xxiv. ISBN 0-521-26872-9. £39.50 (Hardback). ISBN 0-521-317014. £13.95 (Paperback).

Davey, G. & Cullen, C. (Eds.) (1988). Human operant conditioning and behaviour modifcution. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. Pp. x + 270. ISBN 0-471-91637-4. £29.50.

Commons, M. L., Mazur, J. E., Nevin, J. A. & Rachlin, H. (Eds.). (1987), Quantitative analyses of behavior. Vol. 5: The efect of delay and of intervening events on reinforcement value. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Pp. 344. ISBN 0-89859-800-1. £31.00.

Pearce, J. M. (1987). An introduction to animal cognition. Hove and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd. Pp. 328. ISBN 0-86377-0568 (hardback) 219.95; ISBN 0-86377457-6 (paperback) £9.95.

Archer, J. (1988). The behavioural biology of aggression. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. x + 257. ISBN 0-521-34790-4. £9.95 (paperback).

Greenberg, G. and Tobach, E. (Eds.) (1987). Cognition, language, and consciousness: Integrative tevels. The T. C. Schneirla Conference Series. Volume 2. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Pp. ix + 301. ISBN 0-89859-7224. £27.50.

Mook, D.G. (1987). Motivation: The organisation of action. New York: Norton. Pp. xxii + 586. ISBN 0-393-95474-9. £12.95 (hardback).

Frank, H. (Ed.) (1987). Man and wolf: Advances, issues and problems in captive wow research. Dordrecht: Dr. W. Junk. Pp. xviii + 439. ISBN 90-6193-614-4. £103.25 (hardback).     

Book reviews

Byrne, R. W. and Whiten, A. (Eds.) (1988). Machiavellian intelligence: Social expertise and the evolution of intellect in monkeys, apes, and humans. Oxford: Clarendon press. Pp. xiv + 413. ISBN 0-19-852175-8, £25.00 (paperback).

Dudai, Y. (1989). The neurobiology of memory. Concepts, findings, trends. Oxford: Oxford University press. pp. xi + 340. ISBN 0-19-854261-5, £40.00 (hardback), ISBN 0-19-854229-1, £18.00 (paperback).

Richards, R. J. (1987). Darwin and the emergence of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, Pp. xvii + 700. ISBN 0-226-71199-4. £23.95.

Archer, T. & Nilsson, L. (Eds.) (1989). Aversion, avoidance and anxiety: Perspectives on aversively motivated behavior. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Pp. 491. ISBN 0-8058-0132-4. £29.95     

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)