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Women and Disability: The Experience of Physical Disability Among Women. By Susan Lonsdale. Macmillan Press, 1990. Pp. 186 £30 (hb), £8.99 (pb). Urban Poverty: The Economy and Public Policy. Options for Ireland in the 1990s. By David Donnison, David Bell, John Benington, John Blackwell, Chris Elphick, Andrew McArthur, Kieran MacKeown and Eamon O'Shea. Dublin: Combat Poverty Agency, 1991. Pp. xi + 134 IR£5 (pb). Retreat from the Regions. Corporate Change and the Closure of Factories. By Stephen Fothergill and Nigel Gray. Regional Studies Association, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1990. Pp. 192, index. £25. The Role of the Chief Executive in British Local Government: Its Origins and Development, Present Reality and Future. By Alan Norton. Institute of Local Government Studies, The University of Birmingham, 1991. Pp. 217. £10 (pb). Localism and Centralism in Europe: The Political and Legal Bases of Local Self‐Government. By Edward C. Page. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. 186 + 10, £27.50. Subsidiarity: The Challenge of Change. Working Document, Proceedings of the Jacques Delors Colloquium 1991 ‐ Subsidiarity ‐ Guiding Principle for Future EC Policy Responsibility? Maastricht: European Institute of Public Administration, 1991. Pp. 161 + x. The Constitution of the United Kingdom. London: Institute for Public Policy Research, 1991. £20. Local Economic Development: Strategies for a Changing Economy. Edited by R. Scott Fosler. Washington: International City Management Association, 1991. Pp. 142. $21.95. Paths of Enterprise: The Future of the Small Business. By James Curran and Robert A. Blackburn. London: Routledge, 1991, Pp. 198. £40 (hb), £10.99 (pb). Public Relations for Local Government. By Dick Fedorcio, Peter Heaton and Kevin Madden. Longman, 1991. P.p 106. £23.00 Buses for People. A Welsh Consumer Council report, July 1991. Full report £10, extract free. IRRV/CIPFA Guide to Local Authority Benefits. Edited by Chris Stew Art and David Magor. Longman, 1991. £150. Urban and Regional Economics. Edited by Paul C. Cheshire and ALAN W. EVANS. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1991. Pp. 380, £69.95