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PUERTO RICO Surenda Bhana, The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question (1936-1968) (University Press of Kansas, 1975). $11 cloth, 290 pgs. An institutional...
...32.50 cloth, 345 pgs...
...Many of the articles focus specifically on that theme (the essays by Agustin Cuevas and Diana L6pez are both quite good), while others present some excellent studies of particular topics, examples of the improving state of social sciences in Puerto Rico...
...Inter-American University Press, GPO Box 3255, San Juan, PR 00936...
...Bhana seeks to analyze the history of relations between the United States and Puerto Rico by explaining the internal logic of parties, legislatures and bureaucracies...
...Puerto Rican Migration Research Consortium, Inc., 1980...
...We would like to call our readers' attention to two current magazines...
...This series of essays grew out of a May 1978 conference on the crisis of social sciences in Puerto Rico...
...Otherwise, his assumptions (e.g., balance of trade is not a concern since Puerto Rico should be examined as one would examine any U.S...
...5 paper, 151 pgs...
...Instead, Farr concentrates on inter-generational struggles in the PPD, etc...
...Farr examines the period leading to the 1968 electoral defeat of the PPD, its first since 1938...
...Among these are NACLA staffer, AmBrico Badillo Veiga's article on migration studies in Puerto Rico, Carlos Ramos on the ideology of family planning, Ricardo Campos on migration, and Jos6 Luis Gonzslez and Antonio Lauria Perricelli on literature and culture in Puerto Rico...
...Write for price, paper, 310 pgs...
...Throughout, the analysis is weak and incomplete...
...Rafael L. Ramirez and Wenceslao Serra Deliz, eds., Crisis y critica de las ciencias sociales en Puerto Rico (Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1980...
...University of Puerto Rico, Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, Rio Piedras, PR 99031...
...state), are highly questionable...
...Its wellresearched and well-written approach provides a comprehensive historical view of the period without claiming to (or, in fact, providing) any larger class analysis of Puerto Rico...
...The March/April 1981 issue of Science for the People contains articles on agrarian reform in Nicaragua, science in Cuba and the history of U.S...
...Originally published in 1960, Mathews' study remains the best English-language treatment of the topic...
...Regents Press of Kansas, 303 Carruth-O'Leary, Lawrence, KS 66045...
...13 paper, $20 cloth, 270 pgs...
...The manual will help with paste-ups and mechanicals for offset printing and silkscreening on paper and textiles...
...A must for all who want to communicate through design...
...Artworks, PO Box 1407, Cathedral Station, New York, NY 10025...
...Puerto Rican Migration Research Consortium, 205 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10016...
...Rarely do any "external" forces enter into this picture, and the study suffers from it...
...Write for price, paper, 358 pgs...
...Inter-American University Press, GPO Box 3255, San Juan, PR 00936,) Jorge F. Freyre, El modelo econ6mico de Puerto Rico (Inter-American University Press, 1979...
...military support to the Salvadorean regime...
...Da Capo Press, 227 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011...
...Very useful as a reference...
...Particularly disappointing is any serious investigation of the Sanchez Vilella administration (1965-68...
...Want to print a T-shirt, a button or a banner...
...2) is devoted to the Nicaraguan literacy crusade and contains some excellent articles...
...MISCELLANEOUS Artworks/The Silkscreen Project, For the Could-Be Artist: A Graphic Arts Manual (Artworks, 1981...
...Also, the new issue of the Interracial Books for Children Bulletin (Vol...
...2.25 per issue/$10 per year to Council on Interracial Books for Children, 1841 Broadway, New York, NY 10023...
...Thirteen essays on the Puerto Rican experience in the United States dealing with topics from economic survival, work and family to barrio politics, music and spiritualism...
...Inter-American University Press, GPO Box 3255, San Juan, PR 00936...
...3.00 paper, 32 pgs...
...Best collection of Muhoz Marin's speeches to the legislature...
...Need to layout a newsletter...
...1.75 per issue/$10 per year to Science for the People, 897 Main St., Cambridge, MA 02139...
...An institutional approach to the history of Puerto Rico...
...Luis Muhoz Marin, Mensajes al pueblo puertorriquefno pronunciados ante las cimaras legislativas, 1949-64 (InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico, 1980...
...Want to find out about typesetters or printers...
...It's all here in a very wellprepared guide for the beginner...
...Clara Rodriguez, Virginia Sgnchez Korrol, Jos6 Oscar Alers, eds., The Puerto Rican Struggle: Essays on Survival in the U.S...
...The best material in the book are the purely statistical and descriptive chapters...
...2 paper, 143 pgs...
...12, no...
...MarlApr 1981 Thomas Mathews, Puerto Rican Politics and the New Deal (Da Capo Press, 1976...
...Freyre's study was commissioned by a group of Puerto Rican banks which wanted an inputoutput, econometric model constructed for Puerto Rico, and much of this book consists of Freyre running a set of variables through his model...
...Kenneth R. Farr, Personalism and Party Politics: Institutionalization of the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico (Inter-American University Press, 1973...
Vol. 15 • March 1981 • No. 2
