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The article reviews the book "Universities in the Age of Corporate Science: The UC Berkeley-Novartis Controversy," by Alan P. Rudy, Dawn Coppin, Jason Konefal, Bradley T. Shaw, Toby Ten Eyck, Craig Harris and Lawrence Busch.

Reviews the book `Gender and the Academic Experience: Berkeley Women Sociologists,' edited by Kathryn P. Meadow Orlans and Ruth A. Wallace.

The article reviews the book "The Docks," by Bill Sharpsteen.

Digitization is booming, and this is widening inequalities in access to digital technologies including cell phones and the internet. In I Connected: How a Mexican village built its own cell phone network, i Roberto J. Gonzalez sets out to explore these important questions, using the case of Talea, a pueblo in Oaxaca. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley," edited by Kenneth P. Winkler.

The article presents reviews of several non-fiction books related to industrial relations. The books include "Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism," by Ruth Needleman; "Code Green: Money Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing," by Dana Beth Weinberg; and "Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector," edited by Paul F. Clark, John T. Delaney and Ann C. Frost.

The article reviews the book "Mathematics at Berkeley: A History," by Calvin C. Moore.

This article reviews several books including "Clusters and Globalisation: The Development of Urban and Regional Economies," by Christos Pitelis, Roger Sugden, and James R. Wilson, "Commerce and Culture: The Coming of the Carnegie Libraries to the Western Frontier," by Susan Swetnam, and "The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area," by Richard A. Walker.

The article reviews several books including "Can Green Sustain Growth? From the Religion to the Reality of Sustainable Prosperity" by John Zysman and Mark Huberty, "Capitalism and Democracy: A Fragile Alliance" by Theo van de, Klundert, and "Central Banks and Financial Markets: The Declining Power of US Monetary Policy" by Hasan, Cömert.

The article reviews two books which are "Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era" by Julia Bryan-Wilson and "Capitalists, Workers, and Fiscal Policy: A Classical Model of Growth and Distribution" by Thomas R. Michl.

Reviews several books about industrial relations. "City of Clerks," by Jerome P. Bjelopera; "From Welfare to Workfare," by Jennifer Mittelstadt; "The Global Evolution of Industrial Relations: Events, Ideas & the IIRA," by Bruce E. Kaufman; "Law and Employment," edited by James J. Heckman and Carmen Page.

Reviews several books. "The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives From the Colonial Period to the Present," edited by Joe Trotter, Earl Lewis, and Tera Hunter; "American Labor: A Documentary Collection," edited by Melvyn Dubofsky and Joseph A. McCartin; "American Labor and the Cold War," by Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, and Kieran Walsh Taylor; "Backlash Against Welfare Mothers," by Ellen Reese; "Beasts of the Field," by Richard S. Street

Reviews several books. "For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State," by Jennifer Klein; "Identity in Democracy," by Amy Gutmann; and "Principles of Economic Sociology," by Richard Swedberg.

The term "controlling processes" appears in a 1981 letter to her long-time Berkeley colleague Elizabeth Colson (p. 128), years before Nader delivered the 1995 Sidney W. Mintz lecture, bearing that very title. It would be difficult to overstate how much Laura Nader's ideas have influenced the field of anthropology, or her leading role in publicizing the discipline. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews several books, including "Brain Drain and Brain Gain: The Global Competition to Attract High-Skilled Migrants," edited by Tito Boeri, Herbert Brucker, Frederic Doquier, and Hillel Rapoport, "Globalization from Below: The World’s Other Economy," edited by Gordon Mathews, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, and Carlos Alba Vega, and "Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration, and Public Policy," edited by Martin Ruhs and Bridget Anderson.

The article reviews books related to industrial relations including "American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States," by David Pederson, "Capital Accumulation and Women’s Labour in Asian Economies," by Peter Custers, and "Chaos and Organization in Health Care," by Thomas H. Lee and James J. Mongan.

The article presents several book reviews, including "A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment," by Carrie M. Lane, "Hispanics in the United States: A Demographic, Social, and Economic History, 1980–2005," by Laird W. Bergad and Herbert S. Klein, and "Labor’s Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class," by Tom Bramble and Rick Kuhn.

The article reviews the book "The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility in the Indian Ocean," by Engseng Ho.

The article reviews the books "Can Germany be Saved? The Malaise of the World's First Welfare State," by Hans-Werner Sinn, "Citizenship Across Borders: The Political Transnationalism of El Migrante," by Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker, and "Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism," by Susan Gelfand Malka.

The article reviews two books including "Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability and Survival, Berkeley," by Daniel Jaffee, and "Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice," by Gavin Fridell.

The article reviews the book "Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music," by Mark Katz.

This article presents brief information on several recently published books which are related to the field of industrial relations. The book "Affiliation in the Workplace: Value Creation in the New Organization," by Ron Elsdon, explores the links between individual development and organizational value creation. Elsdon argues that managers must focus on strengthening this link in order to build a sense of affiliation and a more productive workforce. The book "After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman," by Susan Eleanor Hirsh, examines the 1894 Pullman strike and the rise of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and assesses the experience of the Pullman Co. in the context of the long-term development of union organizing. Some other books introduced here are: "Blue Collar Bayou: Louisiana Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity," by Jacque M. Henry and Carl L. Bankston; "Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-82," by Najia Aarim-Heriot; and "Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union," by David Witwer.

The article focuses on data archives, a new and growing movements in social sciences. It has long been recognized that while many sociological studies are not initially planned to validate the hypotheses of later investigators, they may nevertheless serve such a purpose. In addition, they provide information useful in the design and interpretation of other studies. The Institute for International Studies at the University of California and the Survey Research Center of the University began to collaborate in the development of a campus facility to serve the needs of local scholars in this regard. Sample survey data conducted by scholars and, in some cases, commercial polling organizations were sought for the archive. The holdings of the International Data Library have grown since that time, and the problems of organizing and maintaining the Archive have grown with them. In order to keep up with the increasingly complex demands of the users, therefore, the archive has shifted, more and more, toward a reliance upon electronic computers for certain kinds of basic operations.

Reviews the book 'Clays and Clay Minerals--Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference, Berkeley, California,' edited by S.W. Bailey.

The article reviews the book "Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Experience and Pain in Yap," by C. Jason Throop.

Reviews the book "Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism (The Theme of Chaos, Hun-Tun)," by N.J. Girardot Berkeley.

The article reviews the book "Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self," by Elly Teman.

The article presents a review of the book "Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left and American Social Thought," by Daniel Geary.

The article reviews the book "Postcolonial Disorders," by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Sarah Pinto, and Byron Good.

The article reviews the book "Enemy Lines: Warfare, Childhood, and Play in Batticaloa," by Margaret Trawick.

The article reviews the book "Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society," by Holly Wardlow.

The article reviews the book "Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas," by Gananath Obeyesekere.

A review is presented of the book "Unsettled Minds: Psychology & the American Search for Spiritual Assurance 1830-1940," by Christopher G. White.

The article reviews the book "BMDP-77, Biomedical Computer Programs, p-Series: Systems, Program and Statistical Development," by L. Engelman, J. W. Frane and R. I. Jennrich, and edited by W. J. Dixon and M. B. Brown.

Reviews the book "George Berkeley in America," by Edwin S. Gaustad.

The article reviews the book "Experiment at Berkeley," by Joseph Tussman.

The article reviews the book "Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa," by Paul Christopher Johnson.

The article reviews the book "Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide," by Alexander Laban Hinton.

The article reviews the book "Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions and the Culture of Self-Help," by Eva Illouz.

The article reviews the book "Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in England, 1820-1860," by Akihito Suzuki.