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A down-on-his-luck New York newspaperman hoping to make it big via a lavish TV adaptation of his novel stumbles into controversy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the book "Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World," by Simon Winchester, is presented.

A review of the book "Paying the Land," by Joe Sacco, is presented.

Reviews environmental literature and developments in 1979. Historic preservation; Resources and economics; Land use; Environmental programs; Natural history; Outdoor recreation.

In I Jump-Starting America, How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream i , Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson propose policies they believe can return the USA to those extraordinary growth rates. They use compelling anecdotes to demonstrate why more government R&D expenditures are needed to reverse the productivity slowdown.[4] It is when Gruber and Johnson talk about their policy solution - exactly what and how the issues they raise can be addressed through specific policies - where the book is at its weakest. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Why Planning Does Not Work? Land Use Planning and Residents' Rights in Tanzania," by Tumsifu Jonas Nnkya.

The article reviews the book "Border Landscapes: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand," by Janet C. Sturgeon.

The article reviews the book "Border Landscapes: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand," by Janet C. Sturgeon.

This article reviews the book "Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America," by Bruce Babbitt.

Reviews the book "Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World," by Robbie Ethridge.

Reviews the book "Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000," by William G. Robbins.

The article reviews the second edition of the book "U.S. Land and Natural Resources Policy: A Public Issues Handbook," by Mark Grossman and Gary C. Bryner.

Reviews the book 'The Last Frontier: Fighting Over Land in the Amazon,' by Sue Branford and Oriel Glock.

Reviews the book "Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action," by Elinor Ostrom.

Reviews the book "Changes in the Land," by William Cronon.

Reviews the book "Land Use Control: Evaluating Economic and Political Effects," by David E. Ervin, James F. Fitch, R. Kenneth Godwin, W. Bruce Shepard and Herbert H. Stoevener.

Reviews the book "The Man-Made City: The Land Use Confidence Game in Chicago," by Gerald D. Suttles.

A review of the book "Air Logic: A Novel," by Laurie J. Marks, is presented.

Reviews the book 'The Lands of Hawaii: Their Use and Misuse,' by Thomas H. Creighton.

A review of the book "Making Our Place: Exploring Land-Use Tensions in Aotearoa New Zealand," edited by Jacinta Ruru, Janet Stephenson, and Mick Abbott, is presented.

A review of the book "Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South," by Angela Pulley Hudson, is presented.

A review of the book "Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia," by Derek Hall, Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li is presented.

Overcoming Historical Injustices: Land Reconciliation in South Africa. By James L. Gibson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 328p. $92.00.All three of James Gibson's books on transitional justice in South Africa focus on showing that the politics of reconciliation with the Apartheid regime are less related to economic “self-interest” than to “sociotropic fairness.” On close examination, Gibson concludes that an individual's preferences about land reconciliation are not a direct function of egocentric instrumentalism. Rather, in his view, they are shaped by conceptions of whether one's group has been fairly treated. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A review of the book "Other Landscapes: Colonialism and the Predicament of Authority in Nineteenth-Century South India," by Deborah Sutton is presented.

The article reviews the book "This Land is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil," by Wendy Woldford.

The article reviews the book "Regulating Paradise: Land Use Controls in Hawai'i," by David Callies.

The article reviews the book "Developing China: Land, Politics and Social Conditions," by George C. S. Lin.

The article presents a review of the book "Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia" by Valerie Kivelson.

The article reviews the book "Dragons with Clay Feet? Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam," edited by Max Spoor, Nico Heerink, and Futian Qu.

Reviews the book "The Arid Lands," by John Wesley Powell.