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Attention is paid to the scriptures written by Ibn Tumart, Abd al-Mu min and Almohad writers and Fierro makes clear that these writings are still in need of in-depth study. Mahdism and Caliphate in the Islamic West, written by Maribel Fierro The new perspective Fierro is offering is her stress on the fact that Abd al-Mu min needed Ibn Tumart as much as Ibn Tumart needed him. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book `Gilgamesh and Akka,' by Dina Katz.

CHRISTENSON, JAMES A. and JERRY W. ROBINSON. Community Development in America (Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University Press, 1980). LINEBERRY, ROBERT L. (ed.), The Politics and Economics of Urban Services, Contemporary Social Science Issues 43 (Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications, Inc., 1978, 160 pp.). ROBERTS, HAYDEN, Community Development: Learning and Action (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979, 201 pp.), cloth $15.00/paper $6.50. BERGER, PETER L., and RICHARD J. NEUHAUS, To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structure in Public Policy (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1976, 45 pp.), $2.50 paper. BLAIR, JOHN P. and DAVID NACHMIAS (eds.), Fiscal Retrenchment and Urban Policy, Volume 17, Urban Affairs Annual Reviews (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, Inc., 1979, 310 pp.), $25.00 cloth/$8.95 paper. CANTANESE, JAMES A. and W. PAUL FARMER (eds.), Personality, Polities and Planning (Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications, 1978, 232 pp.), $15.00 cloth. CORALEY, DEMETRIOS, City Governments and Urban Problems (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1977, 448 pp.). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Verduin, John R., Jr., Harry G. Miller, and Charles E. Greek. Adults Teaching Adults (Austin, Texas: Learning Concepts, 1977, 199 pp.), $14.95. Corden, Carol. Planned Cities: New Towns in Britain and America (Beverly Hills/London: Sage Publications, Inc., 1977, Volume 55 of the Sage Library of Social Research. 224 pp.) $14.00/$6.95 paper. Grandjean, E. and A. Gilgen, Environmental Factors in Urban Planning (New York: Crane, Russak & Co., 1976, 206 pp.). Kemper, Robert V., Migration and Adaptation, Tzintzuntzan Peasants in Mexico City (Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, 1977, 223 pp.). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Leisure Counseling Techniques: Individual and Group Counseling Step by Step. By Patsy B. Edwards. Los Angeles: University Publishers, 1975, 101 pp., $6.50. Leisure Services: The Organized Recreation and Park System. By H. Douglas Sessoms, Harold D. Meyer and Charles K. Brightbill. (5th edition, revised). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, 1975. Interpreting the Environment. Edited by Grant W. Sharpe. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1976, 566 pp. Recreational Geography. Problems in Modern Geography Series. Edited by Patrick Lavery. New York: Halsted Press, A Division of John Wiley & Sons, 1975, 335 pp., $14.95 Second Home Ownership. A Case Study. Richard de Vane. Bangor Occasional Papers, No. 6. Bangor, U.K.: University of Wales Press, 1975, 108 pp., £1.75 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the book "Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times," by Ben Vinson III and Matthew Restall.

Reviews the book "Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico," by Ben Vinson III.

Reviews the book "The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War," by John Prados.

Reviews the book "Foreign Trade and Human Capital," edited by Paul D. Zook.

Reviews the book "Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770," by James H. Sweet.

The article reviews the book "Growing Up in an Anxious Age," edited by Ruth Cunningham.

The article reviews the book "Coaching Freshman & Junior Varsity High School Football," by John T. Reed.

The article reviews the book "Coaching a Wing-T Based Multiple Offense," by Chuck Shroyer.

The article reviews the book "Coaching the Mental Game," by H. A. Dorfman.

This article reviews the book "Sport," by George Plimpton.