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Theories of Local Economic Development. Edited by Richard D. Bingham and Robert Meir. Newbury Park CA, Sage, 1993. Pp. 319. £20.50 pb.

Policy and Change. Edited by Randall Smith and Jane Raistrick. Saus Publications. 1994, Pp.442, £14.95 pb.

Economic Development Work Book ‐ Briefings on Key Economic Development Topics. National Development Project, Employment Department. Researched and Produced by Mersyside TEC and West London TEC, and edited by Andrew Coulson and Paul Lovejoy, 1994. Pp.220. £58.75 (£35.25 for TECs). Available from Nicholas Johnson, West London TEC, Sovereign Court, 15–21 Staines Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 3HA. Tel. 0181–577–1010. Fax 0181–570–9969)

Resolving Conflict: Strategies for Local Government. Edited by Margaret S. Herrman. International City Management Association (P.O. Box 2011, Annapolis Junction, MD 20701, USA), 1994. $29.95.

Local Government in the United Kingdom. By David Wilson and Chris Game (with Steve Leach and Gerry Stoker). Macmillan, 1994. Pp.377. £12.99 pb.

International Handbook of Local and Regional Government: A Comparative Analysis of Advanced Democracies. By Alan Norton. Aldershot, Hants: Edward Elgar, 1994. Pp.559 + xx. £85.00 hb.

Management Innovations in Urban Policy: Lessons from France. By Patrick Le Gales and John Mawson. Local Government Management Board, 1994. Pp.123. Free.

Urban Policy in Britain: The City, the State and the Market. By Rob Atkinson and Graham Moon. Macmillan, 1994. Pp.306. £35.00 hb, £11.99 pb.

Healthy Cities: Research and Practice. Edited by John K. Davies and Michael P. Kelly. Routledge, 1993. Pp.188. £35.00 Hb, £11.99 pb.

Normality is Hard Work—Trade Unions and the Politics of Community Care. By Mick Carpenter. London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1994 (published in association with UNISON). Pp.162. £14.99 pb.

Local Government in Britain (Sixth Edition). By TONY BYRNE. Penguin Books, 1994. Pp.665. £10.00 pb.

The Size and Efficiency Debate: Public Library Authorities in a Time of Change (British Library R & D Report 6143). By Arthur Midwinter and Murray McVicar. Library Association Publishing Limited, 1994. Pp.106. £25.00. (Available from Bookpoint Limited, 39 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4TD.)

Managing Your City or Town: A Reference Guide for the New Public Official. By Kenton G. Griffin. University Press of America, 1994. Pp.282 including appendices. $57.50 hb, $36.50 pb.

Community Profiling: Auditing Social Needs. By Murray Hawtin, Geraint Hughes and Janie Percy‐Smith. Open University Press, 1994. Pp.194. £12.00 pb.

Management of Quality in Local Government. Edited by Ian Sanderson. Longman, 1992. Pp.180. £21.00 hb.

Competing for Quality: A Manager's Guide to Market Testing. By Lynton Barker. Longman, 1993. Pp.217. £35.00 pb.

The Valuation of Changes in Quality in the Public Services: A Report prepared for HM Treasury by Brunei University. By Martin Cave and Others. HMSO, 1994. £19.00.

Research in Public Administration: Reflections on Theory and Practice. Edited by Jay D. White and Guy B. Adams. Sage, 1994. Pp.280. £26.95 hb, £12.95 pb.

Gender Audit 1994. Engender, Scotland. Pp.81, A4 loose‐leaf format. £7.00 (individuals), £15 (institutions).(Available from Scottish Women's Aid, Edinburgh)

Cassell Multilingual Dictionary of Local Government and Business. Edited by Clive Leo McNeir. Cassell, London, 1993. Pp.xv + 222. £50.

A la Recherche du ‘local’. Edited by Albert Mabileau. Paris, L'Harmattan, 1993. Pp.232.

Le système local en France (2nd edition). By Albert Mabileau. Paris, Monchrestien, 1994. Pp.157. FF60.

Gouvernement local et politique urbaines: Actes du colloque international, Grenoble, 2–3 février 1993, Edited by Sylvie Biarez and Jean‐Yves Nevers. Cerat, Paris, 1993. Pp.557.

Ombudsmen in the Public Sector. By Mary Seneviratne. Open University Press, 1994. Pp.148. £15.23 pb, £40.00 hb.

The New American Political (Dis)order. By Robert A. Dahl et al. Institute of Governmental Studies Press, University of California, Berkeley, 1994. Pp.xii + 102. $10.95.

Entwicklungschancen deutscher Stadte ‐ Die Folgen der Vereinigung. D. Henckel, B. Grabow, B. Hollbach, Hartmut Usbeck, Heinz Niemann. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne/Deutsche Ver‐meinde Verlag, 1993. Pp.567. DM78.

French Politics Today. By Peter Morris. Manchester University Press, 1994. Pp.182. £29.99 hb, £8.99 pb.

Lobbying in the European Community. Edited by Sonia Mazey and J. Richardson. Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp.263. £30.00.

Single Market to Social Europe: European Community in the 1990s. By M. Wise and R. Gibb. Longman, 1993. Pp.356. £13.99.

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