Book Review

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ROOT, AMANDA. Market Citizenship: Experiments in Democracy and Globalization. (London: Sage Publications, 2007, 188 pp.). Reviewed by NORMAN BENDER. NEWMAN, KATHERINE S. Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market. (New York, NY: Russell Sage Press, 2006, 405 pp.). Reviewed by JOHN BLOCH. PARTRIDGE, MARK D and DAN S. R1CKMAN. The Geography of American Poverty: Is There a Need for Place-Based Policies? (Kalamazoo, Michigan: W. F. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2006, 354 pp.) Reviewed by MARY EMERY. SABO-FLORES, KIM. Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for Engaging Young People. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishing, 2008, 208 pp.). Reviewed by ESTHER FARMER. ARBINGER INSTITUTE. The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict. (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, Inc., 2006, 231 pp.). Reviewed by SANDRA HODGE. SMITH, ALISA and J.B. MACKINNON. Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally. (New York: Harmony Books, 2007, 264 pp.). Reviewed by SARAH HULTINE. GUNTER, VALERIE and STEVE KROLL-SMITH. Volatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies. (Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge Press, 2007, 239 pp.). Reviewed by Peter Korsching. LEIN, LAURA and DEANNA SCHEXANAYDER. Life After Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty. (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2007, 173 pp.). Reviewed by MUTHUSAMI KUMARAN. CONNERLEY, MARY L. and PAUL B. PEDERSEN. Leadership in a Diverse and Multicultural Environment: Developing Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills. (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2005, 215 pp.). Reviewed by MAR1SA A. ZAPATA. MARGLIN, STEPHEN A. The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Press, 2008, 359 pp.) Reviewed by KYLE M. WOOSNAM, Ph.D.