From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: 3RD WROLD RESOURCES V8N3 -- BOOKS (IV)
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:56:56 GMT

    ***<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. 

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. 

"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." 

"[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. 

A 16-page (unannotated) bibliography completes this readable  
and forthright appraisal of Canada's role "in perpetuating  
poverty in the nations of the South." 



Topic 123       BOOKS, 8:3 - 1992       Response  5 of 16 
tfenton 
twr.nl  11:09 am  Jul  8, 1992 

***<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. 
  

 
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." 

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. 

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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