Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Rist, Gilbert, The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years Tenner, Edward, Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences Yuval‐Davis, Nira, Gender and Nation Davison, Jean Gender, Lineage and Ethnicity in Southern Africa Owen, Margaret, A World of Widows Bandarage, Asoka, Women, Population and Global Crisis, A Political‐Economic Analysis National Research Council, Reproductive Health in Developing Countries. Expanding Dimensions, Building Solutions Stein, Jane, Empowerment and Women’s Health. Theory, Methods and Practice Cole, David C. and Huntington, Richard, Between a Swamp and a Hard Place: Developmental Challenges in Remote Rural Africa Farnham, Dana A. Plows, Prosperity and Cooperation at Agbassa: The Change from Hoes to Plows on a Government‐sponsored Land Settlement Project in Northern Togo Raynaut, Claude and contributors, Societies and Nature in the Sahel Cairns, Edmund, A Safer Future. Reducing the Human Cost of War Eade, Deborah (ed.), Development in States of War (selected articles from Development in Practice ) Prendergast, John, Frontline Diplomacy. Humanitarian Aid and Conflict in Africa Chelliah, Raja J. and Sudarshan, R. (eds), Income Poverty and Beyond. Human Development in India Quibria, M. G. and Dowling J. Malcolm (eds), Current Issues in Economic Development. An Asian Perspective Clark, Cal and Roy, K. C. Comparing Development Patterns in Asia Teunissen, Jan Joost (ed.), Regionalism and the Global Economy. The Case of Central and Eastern Europe Watters, Ray and McGee, Terry (eds), New Geographies of the Pacific Rim: Asia‐Pacific Lavergne, Re´al (ed.), Regional Integration and Cooperation in West Africa. A Multidimensional Perspective