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Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — December 2011
Arrangement is by title.

The city as fulcrum of global sustainability.

Yanarella, Ernest J. and Richard S. Levine. (Anthem environmental studies)
Anthem Press, ©2011    285 p.    $99.00    HT241
978-0-85728-772-4

Yanarella (political science, U. of Kentucky) and Levine (architecture, U. of Kentucky) drilled deeply into the concept of sustainable cities and regions, associated misunderstandings and misconceptions, and their own experience, to develop what they see as a strategy to ensure that sustainability. Topics discussed include the sustainable cities manifesto, the sustainable area budget and rural partnerland, sustainability in China, ecology and technology, and a variety of case studies. Distributed by Books International, Inc. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Institutional provisions and care for the aged; perspectives from Asia and Europe.

Ed. by S. Irudaya Rajan et al. (Anthem South Asian studies)
Anthem Press, ©2011    269 p.    $40.00    HV1484
978-93-80601-09-0

Rajan (Centre for Development Studies, Inida), Risseeuw (U. of Leiden, the Netherlands), and Perera (The Marga Institute, Sri Lanka) present the findings of a collaborative research project titled, "Care of the Aged: gender, institutional provisions and social security in India, The Netherlands, and Sri Lanka," carried out with the financial support of the Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternatives in Development. The research focused on emerging trends and characteristics of elderly populations; patterns of life expectancy; documentation of social safety net policies and programs; living arrangements and economic security issue for elderly populations; the ways in which states, civil societies, and families approach the aging; the experience of the elderly with regard to empowerment; and the operations of gender, marital status, and class on the process of aging. Distributed in the US by Books International, Inc. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

The liquidation of exile; studies in the intellectual emigration of the 1930s.

Kettler, David.
Anthem Press, ©2011    211 p.    $99.00    DD68
978-0-85728-793-9

Kettler (Social Studies, Bard College, New York; emeritus, political and cultural studies, Trent U., Ontario, Canada) was born in Germany in 1930, and moved to the US in 1940, as part of the "second wave" generation of refugees from Nazi Germany. He begins by offering a multifaceted exploration of the concept of exile and its "rich and contested history as a concept in political, literary, and religious reflection." In subsequent chapters he discusses Nina Ruginstein's exile studies, Hans Mayer, Franz L. Neumann, and Erich Kaler. He devotes a chapter to a genre he calls "First Letters" — "written as soon as possible after the war by refugees from Nazi Germany to someone known to them earlier who had remained in Germany during the Hitler years." The final chapter is an "autobiographical exercise." The book is distributed by Books International, Inc. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)