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John Knight and Gunther Patz, eds., Australia and the Middle East, Canberra branch of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1976. 106 pp. $4.50. ($3.50 to AIIA members). Donald N. Wilber, IRAN: Past and Present. 8th ed. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1976. 369 pp., illustrations, maps, index. Roger J. Bell, Unequal Allies: Australian‐American Relations and the Pacific War, Melbourne University Press, 1977, 278 pp. Notes, index, bibliog. $15.00. John D. Legge, Indonesia, 2nd ed., Sydney, Prentice‐Hall of Australia, 1977. viii + 208 pp. Index. $3.95. Michael Leifer, The Foreign Relations of the New States (Studies in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Longman Australia, 1974). 114 pp. n.p.g. Milton Osborne, Politics and Power in Cambodia: The Sihanouk Years, Melbourne, Longman Australia, 1973. 120 pp. n.p.g. Jennifer Draskau, ed. and trans., Taw & Other Thai Stories, Writing in Asia Series, Heinemann Educational Books, xiii + 185 pp. Paper. $2.75. Chr. L.M. Penders, ed and trans. Indonesia, Selected Documents on Colonialism and Nationalism, 1830–1942, St. Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1977. xiii + 367 pp, index. $1850 cloth, $9.50 paper. Benedict R.O'G. Anderson, Mitsuo Nakamura, Mohammad Slamet, Religion and social ethos in Indonesia, Monash University Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, 1977, ii + 61 pp. $2.50. John Bastin and Harry J. Benda, A History of Modern Southeast Asia, Sydney, Prentice‐Hall of Australia, 2nd edition 1977. 190 pp., index. $3.95 H.V. Richter, Burma's Rice Surpluses: Accounting for the Decline. Canberra. Development Studies Centre, Australian National University. Occasional Paper No. 3, 1976. 51 pp., bibliog., appendices. $2.00. Ian Willis, Lae: Village and City, Melbourne University Press, 1974, xvi + 173 pp., bibliog., index, maps, photographs. $11.40. Raymond F. Mikesell, Foreign Investment in Copper Mining: Case Studies of Mines in “Peru and Papua New Guinea. Published for Resources for the Future, Inc. by the John Hopkins University Press. Copy supplied by ANZ Book Company, xxii + 143 pp. $11.25. David Arnold, The Congress in Tamilnad: Nationalist Politics in South India, 1919–1937’, New Delhi and Canberra, Manohar Book Service and South Asian History Section, Australian National University, 1977. 189 pp. Maps, tables, notes, glossary, bibliog. $7.50. D. Bing, ed. China: Cultural and Political Perspectives, Auckland, Paul Longman Ltd., 1975, xviii + 237 pp. forward, preface, suggestions for further reading appendix, n.p.g. Yi‐Fu Tuan, China, No 1 in ‘The World's Landscapes’, edited by J.M. Houston. London, Longman, 1970.