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concise and accessible reference tool for the complex field of global promotion and protection of human rights and it constitutes a valuable addition to reference collections in academic, public and high school libraries.
References Lawson, E. (1996). Encyclopedia of human rights. Washington: Taylor & Francis.
Christof Galli Public Documents and Maps Perkins Library, Duke University Durham, NC 27708-0177, USA PII: S 1 3 5 2 - 0 2 3 7 ( 0 1 ) 0 0 3 3 2 - X
Books and other materials received The Church at the Grassroots in Latin America: Perspectives on Thirty Years of Activism John Burdick and W.E. Hewitt (Eds.); Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 2000, 240 pages, ISBN 0-275-96659-3, US$62.50. The Competitiveness Challenge: Transnational Corporations and Industrial Restructuring in Developing Countries United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2000, 265 pages, ISBN 92-1-112503-0, UN Sales No. E.00.II.D.35, US$42.00. Electoral Management Bodies as Institutions of Governance By Professor Rafael Lo´pezPintor, United Nations Development Programme; United Nations, New York, 2000, ISBN 92-1-126132-5, UN Sales No. E.00.III.B.13, US$20.00. Esteemed Colleagues: Civility and Deliberation in the U.S. Senate Burdett A. Loomis (Ed.); Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2000, 273 pages, ISBN 0-8157-5294-6, US44.95(cloth). ISBN0815752938, US$19.95 (pbk.). Families and the World of Work: Four Country Profiles of Family-Sensitive Policies. Department of Economic and Social Affairs; United Nations, New York, 2000, 46 pages, ISBN 92-1-130206-4, UN Sales No. E.00.IV.5, US$10.00. Financial Globalization and the Emerging Economies Jose Antonio Ocampo, Stephano Zamagni, Ricardo Ffrench-Davis, and Carlo Pietrobelli (Eds.); United Nations and the International Jacques Maritain Institute, Santiago, Chile, 2000, 328 pages, ISBN 92-1121265-0, UN Sales No. E.00.II.G.39, US$25.00. The Fiscal Covenant: Strengths, Weaknesses, Challenges Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; United Nations, Santiago, Chile, 1998, 293 pages, ISBN 92-1121225-1, UN Sales No. E.98.II.G.5, US$10.00.
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Global Biodiversity: Earth’s Living Resources in the 21st Century By B. Groombridge and M.D. Jenkins; World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000, 246 pages, ISBN 1899628-15-0, UN Sales No. E.01.III.D.3, US$50.00 (pbk.). The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transformation of Governance Donald F. Kettl; Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2000, 88 pages, ISBN 08157-4917-1, US$14.95. Governance in a Globalizing World By Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue (Eds.); Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2000, 386 pages, ISBN 0-8157-6408-1, US47.95(cloth).ISBN0815764073, US$18.95 (pbk.). The Guiding Hand: Brokering Partnerships for Sustainable Development Ross Tennyson and Luke Wilde; Published by the United Nations Staff College and the Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum with the assistance of UN Publications, United Nations, New York, 2000, 114 pages, ISBN 92-1-104496-0 (paper), UN Sales No. E.00.II.A.3, US$12.00. Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development United Nations Development Programme; Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 2000, 290 pages, UN Sales No. E.00.III.B.8, ISBN 0-19-521678-4, US$22.95. If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research John Willinsky; Routledge, New York and London, 2000, 252 pages, ISBN 0-415-92652-1, US$22.95. International Biographical Directory of National Archivists, Documentalists, and Librarians, Second Edition Jeffrey M. Wilhite, Todd J. Kosmerick, and Laurie Scrivener (Eds.); Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, 2000, 320 pages, ISBN 0-8108-3780-3, US$60.00. Investment Regimes in the Arab World: Issues and Policies United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2000, ISBN 92-1012045-0, UN Sales No. E/F.00.II.D.32, US$39.00. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice Bruce A. Arrigo (Ed.); Volume 1, Number 1, 2001, The Haworth Maltreatment and Trauma Press, Binghampton, NY, 2000, ISSN 15228932. Subscription rates: Individuals, US$45.00; Institutions, US$75.00; Libraries, US$120.00. Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention: Selective Indignation, Collective Action, and International Citizenship Albrecht Schnabel and Ramesh Thakur (Eds.); United Nations Univ. Press, Tokyo, New York, Paris, 2000, 536 pages, ISBN 92-8081050-2, UN Sales No. E.00.III.A.8, US$39.95 (pbk.). Long-Range World Population Projections: Based on the 1998 Revision Department of Economic and Social Affairs; United Nations, New York, 2000, 92 pages, ISBN 92-1151345-6, UN Sales No. E.00.XIII.8, US$15.00. Patent It Yourself Patent Attorney David Pressman; 8th Edition, Nolo Press, Berkeley, CA, 2000, 496 pages, ISBN 0-87337-563-7, US$49.95. Perspectives on Africa’s Development K.Y. Amoako; Economic Commission for Africa, United Nations, New York, 2000, 277 pages, ISBN 92-1-125078-1, UN Sales No. E.00.II.K.3, US$20.00. Public–Private Policy Partnerships Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau (Ed.); The MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000, 256 pages, ISBN 0-262-68114-5, US$19.95.
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Reflections on Regionalism Bruce Katz (Ed.), foreword by Vice President Al Gore; Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2000, 240 pages, ISBN 0-8157-4825-6, US$18.95. The Regulatory Craft: Controlling Risks, Solving Problems, and Managing Compliance Malcolm K. Sparrow; Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2000, 346 pages, ISBN 0-8157-8065-6, US$20.95. Statistical Indicators for Asia and the Pacific Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific; United Nations, New York, 2000, 98 pages, ISBN 92-1-120004-0, ISSN 0252-4457, UN Sales No. E.00.II.F.57, US$20.00. UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics CD-ROM: Year 2000 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2000, with 24-page booklet, ISBN 92-1-112468-9, ISSN 1020-7988, UN Sales No. E/F.00.II.D.1, US$150.00. The United Nations and Persons with Disabilities: The First 50 Years Department of Economic and Social Affairs; United Nations, New York, 2000, 16 pages, ISBN 92-1130191-2, UN Sales No. E.98.IV.3, US$7.50. The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook Volume 24, 1999. United Nations, New York, 2000, ISBN 92-1-142236-1, ISSN 0252-5607, UN Sales No. E.00.IX.1, US$55.00. What’s God Got To Do with the American Experiment? E.J. Dionne, Jr. and John J. DiIulio, Jr. (Eds.); Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2000, 184 pages, ISBN 0-8157-18691, US$16.95. World Investment Directory: Foreign Direct Investment, and Corporate Data Volume VII, Parts 1 and 2, Asia and the Pacific; United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2000, 638 pages, UN Sales No. E.00.II.D.11, ISBN 92-1-112481-6, US$80.00. World Migration Report 2000 International Organization for Migration; United Nations, New York, 2000, ISBN 92-9068-089-X, UN Sales No. E.00.III.S.3, US$39.00.
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concise and accessible reference tool for the complex field of global promotion and protection of human rights and it constitutes a valuable addition to reference collections in academic, public and high school libraries.
References Lawson, E. (1996). Encyclopedia of human rights. Washington: Taylor & Francis.
Christof Galli Public Documents and Maps Perkins Library, Duke University Durham, NC 27708-0177, USA PII: S 1 3 5 2 - 0 2 3 7 ( 0 1 ) 0 0 3 3 2 - X
Books and other materials received The Church at the Grassroots in Latin America: Perspectives on Thirty Years of Activism John Burdick and W.E. Hewitt (Eds.); Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 2000, 240 pages, ISBN 0-275-96659-3, US$62.50. The Competitiveness Challenge: Transnational Corporations and Industrial Restructuring in Developing Countries United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2000, 265 pages, ISBN 92-1-112503-0, UN Sales No. E.00.II.D.35, US$42.00. Electoral Management Bodies as Institutions of Governance By Professor Rafael Lo´pezPintor, United Nations Development Programme; United Nations, New York, 2000, ISBN 92-1-126132-5, UN Sales No. E.00.III.B.13, US$20.00. Esteemed Colleagues: Civility and Deliberation in the U.S. Senate Burdett A. Loomis (Ed.); Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2000, 273 pages, ISBN 0-8157-5294-6, US44.95(cloth). ISBN0815752938, US$19.95 (pbk.). Families and the World of Work: Four Country Profiles of Family-Sensitive Policies. Department of Economic and Social Affairs; United Nations, New York, 2000, 46 pages, ISBN 92-1-130206-4, UN Sales No. E.00.IV.5, US$10.00. Financial Globalization and the Emerging Economies Jose Antonio Ocampo, Stephano Zamagni, Ricardo Ffrench-Davis, and Carlo Pietrobelli (Eds.); United Nations and the International Jacques Maritain Institute, Santiago, Chile, 2000, 328 pages, ISBN 92-1121265-0, UN Sales No. E.00.II.G.39, US$25.00. The Fiscal Covenant: Strengths, Weaknesses, Challenges Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; United Nations, Santiago, Chile, 1998, 293 pages, ISBN 92-1121225-1, UN Sales No. E.98.II.G.5, US$10.00.
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Book reviews / Journal of Government Information 28 (2001) 457 – 491
Global Biodiversity: Earth’s Living Resources in the 21st Century By B. Groombridge and M.D. Jenkins; World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000, 246 pages, ISBN 1899628-15-0, UN Sales No. E.01.III.D.3, US$50.00 (pbk.). The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transformation of Governance Donald F. Kettl; Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2000, 88 pages, ISBN 08157-4917-1, US$14.95. Governance in a Globalizing World By Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue (Eds.); Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2000, 386 pages, ISBN 0-8157-6408-1, US47.95(cloth).ISBN0815764073, US$18.95 (pbk.). The Guiding Hand: Brokering Partnerships for Sustainable Development Ross Tennyson and Luke Wilde; Published by the United Nations Staff College and the Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum with the assistance of UN Publications, United Nations, New York, 2000, 114 pages, ISBN 92-1-104496-0 (paper), UN Sales No. E.00.II.A.3, US$12.00. Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development United Nations Development Programme; Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 2000, 290 pages, UN Sales No. E.00.III.B.8, ISBN 0-19-521678-4, US$22.95. If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research John Willinsky; Routledge, New York and London, 2000, 252 pages, ISBN 0-415-92652-1, US$22.95. International Biographical Directory of National Archivists, Documentalists, and Librarians, Second Edition Jeffrey M. Wilhite, Todd J. Kosmerick, and Laurie Scrivener (Eds.); Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, 2000, 320 pages, ISBN 0-8108-3780-3, US$60.00. Investment Regimes in the Arab World: Issues and Policies United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2000, ISBN 92-1012045-0, UN Sales No. E/F.00.II.D.32, US$39.00. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice Bruce A. Arrigo (Ed.); Volume 1, Number 1, 2001, The Haworth Maltreatment and Trauma Press, Binghampton, NY, 2000, ISSN 15228932. Subscription rates: Individuals, US$45.00; Institutions, US$75.00; Libraries, US$120.00. Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention: Selective Indignation, Collective Action, and International Citizenship Albrecht Schnabel and Ramesh Thakur (Eds.); United Nations Univ. Press, Tokyo, New York, Paris, 2000, 536 pages, ISBN 92-8081050-2, UN Sales No. E.00.III.A.8, US$39.95 (pbk.). Long-Range World Population Projections: Based on the 1998 Revision Department of Economic and Social Affairs; United Nations, New York, 2000, 92 pages, ISBN 92-1151345-6, UN Sales No. E.00.XIII.8, US$15.00. Patent It Yourself Patent Attorney David Pressman; 8th Edition, Nolo Press, Berkeley, CA, 2000, 496 pages, ISBN 0-87337-563-7, US$49.95. Perspectives on Africa’s Development K.Y. Amoako; Economic Commission for Africa, United Nations, New York, 2000, 277 pages, ISBN 92-1-125078-1, UN Sales No. E.00.II.K.3, US$20.00. Public–Private Policy Partnerships Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau (Ed.); The MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000, 256 pages, ISBN 0-262-68114-5, US$19.95.
Book reviews / Journal of Government Information 28 (2001) 457 – 491
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Reflections on Regionalism Bruce Katz (Ed.), foreword by Vice President Al Gore; Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2000, 240 pages, ISBN 0-8157-4825-6, US$18.95. The Regulatory Craft: Controlling Risks, Solving Problems, and Managing Compliance Malcolm K. Sparrow; Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2000, 346 pages, ISBN 0-8157-8065-6, US$20.95. Statistical Indicators for Asia and the Pacific Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific; United Nations, New York, 2000, 98 pages, ISBN 92-1-120004-0, ISSN 0252-4457, UN Sales No. E.00.II.F.57, US$20.00. UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics CD-ROM: Year 2000 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2000, with 24-page booklet, ISBN 92-1-112468-9, ISSN 1020-7988, UN Sales No. E/F.00.II.D.1, US$150.00. The United Nations and Persons with Disabilities: The First 50 Years Department of Economic and Social Affairs; United Nations, New York, 2000, 16 pages, ISBN 92-1130191-2, UN Sales No. E.98.IV.3, US$7.50. The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook Volume 24, 1999. United Nations, New York, 2000, ISBN 92-1-142236-1, ISSN 0252-5607, UN Sales No. E.00.IX.1, US$55.00. What’s God Got To Do with the American Experiment? E.J. Dionne, Jr. and John J. DiIulio, Jr. (Eds.); Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2000, 184 pages, ISBN 0-8157-18691, US$16.95. World Investment Directory: Foreign Direct Investment, and Corporate Data Volume VII, Parts 1 and 2, Asia and the Pacific; United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2000, 638 pages, UN Sales No. E.00.II.D.11, ISBN 92-1-112481-6, US$80.00. World Migration Report 2000 International Organization for Migration; United Nations, New York, 2000, ISBN 92-9068-089-X, UN Sales No. E.00.III.S.3, US$39.00.
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