SMA - in print: book reviews
Walter Gratzer. Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 288 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 0192806610.
Reviewed by Jane and Michael Stern.
Published in The New York Times (12/4/05)
James J. Ponzetti, Jr., ed. International
Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family. 4 volumes.
Second edition. New York: Macmillan Reference
USA, 2003. xxxv + 1838 pp. Illustrations, bibliography,
index. $495.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-02-865672-5.
Reviewed by Steven Mintz, Department of History,
University of Houston.
Published by H-Childhood (May, 2003)
Elizabeth Isichei. Voices
of the Poor in Africa: Moral Economy and the Popular
Imagination. Rochester Studies in African
History and the Diaspora, vol. 12. Rochester:
University of Rochester Press, 2002. x + 287 pp.
Drawings, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00
(cloth), ISBN 1-158046-107-7.
Reviewed by John Philips, Department of International
Society, Hirosaki University, Japan.
Published by H-Africa (May, 2003)
Mariane C. Ferme. The
Underneath of Things: Violence, History, and the
Everyday in Sierra Leone. Berkeley and London:
University of California Press, 2001. xii + 287
pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
$60.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-22542-2; $24.95 (paper),
ISBN 0-520-22543-0.
Reviewed by Michael C. Lambert, Department of
African and Afro-American Studies, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Published by H-Africa (May, 2003)
Laland, Kevin N. and Gillian R. Brown, Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human
Behaviour. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Reviewed by Herbert Gintis, Professor of Economics,
University of Massachusetts, in Human Nature
Review 2002 (2).