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The Death Penalty. Amnesty International, London: Amnesty International. 1979.206 pp International Trade in Wildlife. Tim Inskipp & Sue Wells, London: Earthscan. 1979.104 pp. £2.00 Children in the World. Magda Cordell McKale & John McHale, Washington DC: Population Reference Bureau. 1979. Interfutures: facing the future. OECD, Paris: OECD. 1979.425 pp. £8.90 pb Arid Land Ecosystems: vol 1. Edited by D W Goodall & R A Perry, Cambridge University Press. 1979.881 pp. £45.00 Asia Corporate Profile and National Finance 1977–8. Hong Kong: Asian Finance Publications Limited. 1977.352 pp Nicaragua: dictatorship and revolution. London: Latin America Bureau. 1979.30 pp. 75p Bankers Handbook for Asia: 1977–8 guide to banks and finance companies in Asia. Hong Kong: Asian Finance Publications Limited (distributed in the UK by Kogan Page Limited, London). 1977.344 pp. £15.00 Imperial Russia and the Struggle for Latin American Independence 1808–28. Russell HBartley, Austin: University of Texas Press. 1978.236 pp The Middle East: a physical, social and regional geography. WB Fisher, London: Methuen (seventh edition). 1978.615 pp. £9.95 Church and State in Independent Mexico: a study of the patronage debate, 1821–57. Michael P Costeloe, London: Royal Historical Society. 1978.207 pp. £7.75 Intermediate Technology in Ghana: the experience of Kumasi University's Technology Consultancy Centre. Sally Holtermann, London: Intermediate Technology Publications. 1979. Ill pp. £2.00 Mountbatten: eighty years in pictures. London: Macmillan. 1979.224 pp. £8.95 Atlas of Earth Resources. London: Mitchell Beazeley. 1979.208 pp. £22.50 Deciding What's News: a study of CBS evening news, NBC nightly news, Newsweek and Time. Herbert J Gans, New York: Pantheon. 1979.393 pp. $12.95 Women's Education ‐ a world view: annotated bibliography of doctoral dissertations, vol 1. Compiled by Franklin Parker & Betty June Parker, London: Greenwood Press. 1979.320 pp. £19.50 The State and Society: Peru in comparative perspective. Alfred Stepan, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1978. 316 pp Seapower and Politics: from the Norman Conquest to the present day. Captain John Moore, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1979.184 pp. £7.50