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- Subject: 3RD WROLD RESOURCES V8N3 -- BOOKS (IV)
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- ***<CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: CANADA AND THE THIRD WORLD.>
- ***<CONNECTIONS: LINKING POPULATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT.>
- ***<CURRENT BOOKS ON CHINA, 1983-1988: AN ANNOTATED
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- The following is from the quarterly magazine, THIRD WORLD
- RESOURCES: A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF RESOURCES FROM AND ABOUT THE THIRD
- WORLD; subscriptions to the 24-page hardcopy edition are $35/year
- (organizations) and $35/two years (individuals). For rates outside
- North America, write to: Third World Resources, 464 19th Street,
- Oakland, CA 94612-2297 USA. See also their conference `twr.nl' on
- PeaceNet, or email to tfenton@igc.org (Tom Fenton)
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- Topic 123 BOOKS, 8:3 - 1992 Response 4 of 16
- tfenton
- twr.nl 11:09 am Jul 8, 1992
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- ***<CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: CANADA AND THE THIRD WORLD.>
- Jamie Swift and Brian Tomlinson, eds. Between The Lines, 394
- Euclid Ave., Toronto, ON M6G 2S9, Canada. 1991. 349 pp. ISBN
- 0-921284-41-1. Index, bibliography, notes, tables.
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- Some ten years after the publication of editor Jamie Swift's
- 1982 study of Canada's relations with the Third World--in a
- book entitled <Ties That Bind: Canada and the Third
- World>--the Toronto-based publisher Between The Lines has
- released this sequel that surveys developments during the
- previous decade and analyses the role that Canada can and
- should play in "the international scheme of things" in the
- remaining years of this century.
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- "Canada's special ties with the Third World--through aid and
- trade as well as through its membership in the Commonwealth
- and <la francophonie>--remain ambiguous," editors Swift and
- Tomlinson acknowledge. The ties are also heavily influenced
- by the policies of Canada's "neighbor to the south."
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- "[Canada's official foreign policy] has never strayed far
- off a beaten ideological path," Anton L. Allahar states in
- his essay in <Conflicts of Interest> entitled "Manufacturing
- Legitimacy: Ideology, Politics, and Third World Foreign
- Policy. "It has been consistently vague and consistently
- supportive of U.S. foreign policy on key political and
- economic issues, much to the detriment of most people living
- in the Third World."
-
- In addition to Allahar's contribution (chapter ten) nine
- other essays examine the following issues: Canada's economic
- relations with the Third World during the 1990s; the debt
- crisis; women and development; the Tanzania-Canada wheat
- program; Canadian nongovernmental organizations and "the
- politics of participation"; the enviromental challenge; the
- links between militarization and underdevelopment; a native
- view of development; and Canadian media images of the Third
- World.
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- A 16-page (unannotated) bibliography completes this readable
- and forthright appraisal of Canada's role "in perpetuating
- poverty in the nations of the South."
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- Topic 123 BOOKS, 8:3 - 1992 Response 5 of 16
- tfenton
- twr.nl 11:09 am Jul 8, 1992
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- ***<CONNECTIONS: LINKING POPULATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT.>
- Kimberly A. Crews and Patricia Cancellier, eds. Population
- Reference Bureau, Inc., 1875 Connecticut Ave., NW, Rm. 520,
- Washington, DC 20009-5728. 1991. $13. Spiralbound.
- Oversized. 2 volumes: Teacher's Guide and Student Resource
- Book. Maps, boxes, figures, list of resources, photographs,
- tables.
-
- The lessons in this field-tested curriculum unit are
- designed to help middle and high school level students
- understand the links between population and the fragile
- ecosystem of spaceship Earth.
-
- Lessons begin with a world overview and then move to
- regional studies of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Along
- the way, more than twenty critical geographic/eco-
- nomic/development concepts are treated, including
- deforestation, family planning, land degradation, pollution,
- resources, sustainable development, urbanization, and
- weather/climate. Students are expected to develop skills
- related to the acquiring, presenting, processing and
- analyzing of information.
-
- The 80-page Teacher's Guide provides a wealth of background
- reading suggestions, annotated lists of recommended resource
- materials, checklists of learning objectives and materials
- needed, ideas for extensions and variations, and plenty of
- practical tips.
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- Topic 123 BOOKS, 8:3 - 1992 Response 6 of 16
- tfenton
- twr.nl 11:09 am Jul 8, 1992
-
- ***<CURRENT BOOKS ON CHINA, 1983-1988: AN ANNOTATED
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.> Peter P. Cheng. Garland Publishing, Inc., 136
- Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016. 1990. x + 268 pp. Cloth.
- ISBN 0-8240-3436-8. Indexes.
-
- Designed for an audience of non-specialists this
- bibliography contains annotations of 624 books (no articles)
- listed alphabetically by author in twenty-five subject
- chapters. "Priority in the selection process," Peter Cheng
- states, "was given to works which can be expected to be
- found in larger public and university libraries."
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- Annotations are brief (no more than one paragraph in length)
- and are confined, for the most part, to descriptive
- statements about the purpose and content of the entries.
-
- Subject headings used in <Current Books on China> are: the
- country and its people; geography; archaeology; history;
- biographical works; religion and philosophy; society and
- social structure; population; education; medicine and
- health; law; politics and government; foreign relations;
- economy; finance and banking; trade; industry; agriculture
- and rural development; labor and employment; science and
- technology; language; literature; the arts; mass media; and,
- finally, bibliographies and directories. Entries are indexed
- by author and title.
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- The author doesn't explain why he selected the years 1983-
- 1988 nor does he say whether or not he intends to continue
- compiling bibliographies on China in the future. He did
- publish a volume on China in <The World Bibliographical
- Series> (London: CLIO Press, 1983) and perhaps we are meant
- to infer from that and the present volume that this has been
- and will be Peter Cheng's life's work. If so, he is making a
- significant contribution to our understanding of China (at
- least insofar as this enormously large and complex land of
- more than one billion people is revealed to us through the
- medium of English-language publications produced--for the
- most part--by publishing houses in the United States and
- England).
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