International Social Science Review articles from September 2000

International Social Science Review archives from September 2000

The Mythology of Crime and Criminal Justice Third Edition.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Victor E. Kappeler, Mark Blumberg, and Gary Potter. The Mythology of Crime and Criminal Justice Third Edition. Chicago: Waveland Press, 2000. $19.95 Paperback. Victor E. Kappeler, Mark Blumberg, and Gary Potter's third edition of The...

International Social Work: Themes and Perspectives.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Karen Lyons, International Social Work: Themes and Perspectives, Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1999. 193 pp.. No price given. "The world is becoming smaller all the time." I have heard that quote from a number...

Cutting the Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical/Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Jeffrey Ian Ross, Cutting the Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical/Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice. Praeger, 1998. 226 pp., cloth, $59.95. Jeffrey Ian Ross notes in the preface to this anthology that the individual contributions...

Reproducing Narrative: Gender, Production, and Law.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Michael Thompson, Reproducing Narrative: Gender, Production, and Law. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1998. Xii + 228 pp. Price not given. This work, basically a published dissertation at the University of Birmingham (England),...

Women's Studies Encyclopedia, Revised and Expanded Edition.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Helen Tierney, ed., Women's Studies Encyclopedia, Revised and Expanded Edition, 3 vols., Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. xi + 1607, $295.00, hardcover. Also available on CD-ROM, same price. This revised and expanded encyclopedia of the...

PARTNERS IN INQUIRY: ETHICAL CHANGES IN TEAM RESEARCH.
September 22, 2000... Introduction In this paper I explore some of the ethical challenges encountered during the course of team research. In ethics discourse, we often speak of ethical concerns toward our clients, sponsors, or "informants." But rarely does one...

YOUNG ADULTS' PERCEPTION OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH PARENTS: AN EXPLORATION INTO THE EFFECTS OF LATE BIRTHTIMING.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Introduction Since the mid-1970s, the age at first-birth rate for both mothers and fathers has increased substantially in the United States.(1) From 1980 to 1990, the first-birth rate for women aged 30-34 years increased 66% and for women...

CARTER AND THE RHODESIAN PROBLEM(1).
September 22, 2000... In the British political parlance of the 1960s, "the Rhodesian problem" referred to the difficulty of dealing with the white settler minority in Southern Rhodesia. In 1964, Great Britain granted independence to Malawi and Zambia, former members...

COLD WAR HISTORIOGRAPHY: NEW EVIDENCE BEHIND TRADITIONAL TYPOGRAPHIES.
September 22, 2000... For Americans and many in the world, the Cold War dominated international relations from 1945-1991. Only the nuclear balance of terror prevented this uneasy peace from becoming all out war, and few if any events could be understood outside of...

INTERPRETING GOD'S TRUTH: A POSTMODERN INTERPRETATION OF MEDIEVAL EPISTEMOLOGY.
September 22, 2000... Introduction Much of the work on Medieval thinkers, especially Augustine and Aquinas, has centered on the relationship between the emerging church doctrine and secular authority. In Augustine, this discussion takes the form assessing the...

Mau Mau Memoirs: History, Memory, and Politics.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Marshall S. Clough, Mau Mau Memoirs: History, Memory, and Politics. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. xii + 283. Maps, glossary, bibliography, index. No price given. In the mid 1950s the British declared a "state of emergency" in their...

Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Glenn Feldman, Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 1999. xii + 457. Illustrations, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. No price listed. A small group of men...

Wonders of the African World.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Wonders of the African World, with Photographs by Lynn Davis, New York: Knopf, 1999. x + 275, $40.00, illustrated, hardcover 10" x 10". Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. is a fascinating speaker, and it turns out that...

Nested Identities; Nationalism, Territory, and Scale.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Guntram H. Herb and David H. Kaplan, eds., Nested Identities; Nationalism, Territory, and Scale. New York; Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999. x + 343. Maps, tables, bibliographies, photographs. Hardback, $73.00. Paperback, $29.95....

Sociology: Windows on Society.(Review)
September 22, 2000... John Heeren, Marylee Requa, Robert Lauer and Jeanette Lauer, Sociology: Windows on Society. California: Roxbury Publishing Company, 2000. No price given. Sociology: Windows on Society is a very interesting collection of sociological...