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Book Reviews Science & Society Index 2. Book Reviews Alphabetized by Reviewer Volume 51 through Volume 84 1987 SSS2020 2 Abidor, Mitchell. The Woman Priest, by Sylvain Maréchal. 81:2(2017), 311 S313 Abrahamian, Ervand. An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari’ati, by Ali Rahnema. 64:2(2000), 261 S264 Addis, Oscar. Kropotkin and the Anarchist Intellectual Tradition, by Jim Mac Laughlin. 82:2(2018), 321 S323 Adler, Irving. Capitalism and Arithmetic: The New Math of the 15th Century, by Frank J. Swetz. 53:3(1989), 377 S378 Adler, Joyce Sparer. The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child, by Carolyn L. Karcher. 60:2(1996), 246 S249 Adler, Joyce. Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel, by Louis Owens. 58:3(1994), 375 S378 Aers, David. The Poor in the Middle Ages: An Essay in Social History [Les Pauvres au Moyen Age], by Michel Mollat. 52:2(1988), 243 S246 Amini, Babak. Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class, by Immanuel Ness. 81:3(2017), 457 S460 Anderson, Kevin. Engels Today: A Centenary Appreciation, ed. Christopher J. Arthur. 63:2(1999), 247 S250 Anderson, Kevin. Rosa Luxemburg: Reflections and Writings, ed. Paul Le Blanc. 65:4(2001 S02), 545 S547 Andrews, Gregg. The CIO, 1935 S1955, by Robert H. Zieger. 61:4(1997 S98), 567 S569 Andrews, Sean Johnson. The Geography of Power: The Making of Global Economic Policy, by Richard Peet. 74:2(2010), 274 S276 Angotti, Tom. Soviet But Not Russian: The Other Peoples of the Soviet Union, by William M. Mandel. 51:4(1987 S88), 498 S500 Angotti, Tom. Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning, by Jason Corburn. 77:4(2013), 595 S597 Angotti, Tom. Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change, by Ashley Dawson. 83:2(2019), 273 S276 Angotti, Tom. Marxist Thought and the City, by Henri Lefebvre. 84:2(2020), 290–292 3 Ankomah, Kofi. Decolonization Since 1945: The Collapse of European Overseas Empires, by John Springhall. 67:3(2003), 383 S386 Ankomah, Kofi. The Political Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, by Charles Adom Boateng. 70:3(2006), 426 S428 Appy, Christian G. Inside Hanoi’s Secret Archives: Solving the MIA Mystery, by Malcolm McConnell. M.I.A., or Mythmaking in America, by H. Bruce Franklin. 61:2(1997), 292 S295 Aptheker, Herbert. The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century, by John Hope Franklin. 59:1(1995), 97 S99 Aptheker, Herbert. Black Scholar: Horace Mann Bond, 1904 S1972, by Wayne J. Urban. 57:4(1993 S94), 465 S466 Aptheker, Herbert. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans, by Lydia Maria Child. 62:4(1998 S99), 612 S613 Aptheker, Herbert. Black Leadership, by Manning Marable. 64:3(2000), 384 S386 Arena, John. The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues, by Angela Y. Davis. 79:4(2015), 622 S624 Arena, John. The Self-Help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty, by Erica Kohl-Arenas. 83:3(2019), 427 S430 Aronson, James. Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media, by Michael Parenti. 51:1(1987), 97 S99 Arp, Kristana. Camus: Portrait of a Moralist, by Stephen Eric Bronner. 65:4(2001 S02), 540 S542 Arriola, Joaquín. Transcending the Economy: On the Potential of Passionate Labor and the Wastes of the Market, by Michael Perelman. 66:3(2002), 435 S437 Artner, Annamária. Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography, by Tamás Krausz. 82:2(2018), 315 S318 Artner, Annamária. Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy, by Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght. 82:3(2018), 456 S458 Au, Wayne. On Marx: An Introduction to the Revolutionary Intellect of Karl Marx, by Paula Allman. 74:1(2010), 133 S135 4 Bacon, Michael. Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso’s Barcelona, by Temma Kaplan. 58:2(1994), 226 S228 Badeen, Dennis. The Evil Axis of Finance: The US SJapan SChina Stranglehold on the Global Future, by Richard Westra. 78:3(2014), 411 S414 Baiman, Ron. Socialism After Communism: The New Market Socialism, by Christopher Pierson. 62:2(1998), 297 S300 Baiman, Ron. Market Socialism: The Debate Among Socialists, by David Schweickart, James Lawler, Hillel Ticktin and Bertell Ollman. 63:4(1999 S2000), 518 S522 Baiman, Ron. Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance, by Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright. 70:4(2006), 566 S569 Bakan, Abigail B. Capitalism and Unfree Labour: Anomaly or Necessity?, by Robert Miles. 55:2(1991), 235 S237 Balthaser, Benjamin. Revolutionary Poets Brigade, ed. Jack Hirschman. 77:2(2013), 262 S264 Baragar, Fletcher. Globalization and Technocapitalism: The Political Economy of Corporate Power and Technological Domination, by Luis Suarez-Villa. 78:2(2014), 270 S273 Barbalet, Jack. Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships, by Mancur Olson. 66:3(2002), 420 S423 Barkin, David. Between Earthquakes and Volcanoes: Market, State, and the Revolutions in Central America, by Carlos M. Vilas. 61:2(1997), 289 S292 Barrett, James R. Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan, by Ronald Edsforth. 53:3(1989), 362 S365 Becker, James F. Dangerous Pursuits: Mergers and Acquisitions in the Age of Wall Street, by Walter Adams and James W. Brock. (Book note) 55:4(1991 S92), 503 S504 Becker, Marc. Rebuilding the Left, by Marta Harnecker. 72:4(2008), 495 S497 Bellamy, Brent Ryan. Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, by Ian Angus. 81:3(2017),460 S462 Bell-Villada, Gene H. Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination, by Rosalind Williams. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: 5 Advertising and Spectacle, 1851 S1914, by Thomas Richards. 56:2(1992), 241 S244 Bencivenni, Marcella. Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World, ed. Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman. 71:3(2007), 382 S385 Bendien, Jurriaan. New Dialectics and Political Economy, ed. Robert Albritton and John Simouldis. 72:2(2008), 239 S241 Bennett, Michael. Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion. Essays 1964 S2002, by Martin Duberman. 70:1(2006), 124 S126 Berkman, Ronald. Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, by Noam Chomsky. 55:3(1991), 371 S373 Berman, Ruth. Profitable Promises: Essays on Women, Science and Health, by Ruth Hubbard. 61:3(1997), 423 S426 Bew, Paul. James Connolly: A Political Biography, by Austen Morgan. 53:2(1989), 246 S247 Bidney, Martin. To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss: William Morris’ Radicalism and the Embodiment of Dreams, ed. Michelle Weinroth and Paul Leduc Browne. 82:1(2018), 154 S156 Blaut, J. M. Global Capitalism: Theories of Societal Development, by Richard Peet. 57:1(1993), 106 S107 Blaut, J. M. The East in the West, by Jack Goody. 62:2(1998), 312 S314 Bliss, Marcia. Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States, ed. Wendy E Chmielewski, Louis J. Kern, and Marlyn Klee-Hartzell. 59:2(1995), 248 S250 Blustein, Bonnie Ellen. Sick from Freedom: African American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Jim Downs. 78:1(2014), 140 S142 Boehme, Eric. The Postmodern Turn, by Steven Best and Douglas Kellner. 63:4(1999 S2000), 515 S518 Boger, George. The Problem of the Ideal: The Nature of Mind and Its Relationship to the Brain and Social Medium, by David Dubrovsky. 56:1(1992), 123 S126 Bolton, Frances. Lifelines: Biology Beyond Determinism, by Steven Rose. 63:1(1999), 132 S134 6 Bordoloi, Sudarshana. Capitalist Development in India’s Informal Economy, by Elisabetta Basile. 79:4(2015), 638 S641 Bosworth, Stefan. Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States 1890 S1940, by Marcella Bencivenni. 77:2(2013), 280 S282 Boucher, Douglas H. The Greening of Marxism, ed. Ted Benton. 62:4(1998 S99), 595 S597 Boucher, Douglas H. Made Not Born: The Troubling World of Biotechnology, ed. Casey Walker. 66:4(2002 S03), 567 S569 Brady, Chris. Back From the Future: Cuba Under Castro, by Susan Eva Eckstein. 61:3(1997), 426 S429 Brady, Jacqueline. War Talk, by Arundati Roy. 70:1(2006), 127 S129 Brandon, Pepijn. Tulipmania: Money, Honor and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age, by Anne Goldgar. 72:4(2008), 500 S502 Brass, Tom. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic, by David Caute. 78:4(2014), 537 S540 Brettell, Caroline B. The Revolution Within the Revolution: Workers’ Control in Rural Portugal, by Nancy Gina Bermeo. 53:3(1989), 368 S371 Bridenthal, Renate. Gender and the Politics of History, by Joan Wallach Scott. 54:2(1990), 226 S228 Bridenthal, Renate. The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault, by Michèle Barrett. 58:2(1994), 218 S220 Bridenthal, Renate. The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe, by Andrei S. Markovits and Simon Reich. 64:4(2000 S01), 522 S524 Bridenthal, Renate. On Anti-Semitism and Socialism: Selected Essays, by Mario Kessler. 71:3(2007), 380 S382 Bridenthal, Renate. Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel, by Bettina Aptheker. 72:1(2008), 106 S107 Bridenthal, Renate. Juden im Zeugenstand: Die Spur des Hans Globke im Gedächtnis von Überlebenden der Schoa, by Erika Schwarz. 75:2(2011), 272 S274 7 Bridenthal, Renate. Eleanor Marx: A Life, by Rachel Holmes. 81:2(2017), 316 S319 Bridenthal, Renate. Stalin. Vol. I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878 S1928, by Stephen Kotkin. 81:4(2017), 608 S611 Bridenthal, Renate. In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power, by Alfred W.
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