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"The RSPAS Print News" electronic journal (ISSN 1440-9127) was established 1 June 1998 to provide online summaries and announcements of the latest print and/or electronic research publications, including recently completed PhD theses, by members of and visitors to the Research School of Pacific Studies and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra.All information published in this journal (bibliographical details, keywords, URLs) has been provided by authors of the announced publications. In case of the URLs their structural validity is always ascertained by "The RSPAS Print News". However, the Editor of this journal assumes, but not verifies, that the supplied hypertext links do indeed lead to the right document on the Web.

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RSPAS Print News Announcements: Mar 2001
Vol. 4, No. 3(25)

• 29 Mar 2001
  Young, Michael (2000) 'The careless collector: Malinowski and the antiquarians'
  in, "Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia", pp.181-201
  Keywords: not supplied
  Publisher:
  Oxford: Berghahn Books
  ISBN 1571818111
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 29 Mar 2001
  Winn, Phillip (1999) 'Tourism, grazing, and cultural authority'
  in, "Tourism, Culture and Communicatiion", pp.85-98
  Keywords: not supplied
  Publisher: not supplied
  ISSN 1098 304X
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 27 Mar 2001
  McWilliam, Andrew (2000) 'A plague on your house? Some impacts of chromolaena odorata on Timorese livelihoods'
  in, "Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal", pp.451-469
  Keywords: not supplied
  Publisher:
  New York: Plenum Press
  ISSN 0300 7839
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 27 Mar 2001
  Athukorala, Prema-chandra and Satish Chand (2000) ''Trade orientation and productivity gains from international production''
  in, "Transnational Corporation", pp.1-31
  Keywords: factor productivity, trade orientation, US multinationals
  Publisher:
  Genera: UNCTAD/United nations
  ISSN 1014 9562
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 27 Mar 2001
  Athukorala, Prema-chandra (2001) 'Capital account regimes, crisis and adjustment in Malaysia'
  in, "Asian Development Review", Vol 18, No. 1, pp.1-32
  Keywords: Malaysia, capital controls, financial crisis
  Publisher:
  Manila, Philippines: Asian Development Bank
  ISSN 0116 1105
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 27 Mar 2001
  Athukorala, Prema-chandra (2000) 'Agricultural trade policy reforms in South Asia'
  in, "Journal of Asian Economics", Vol 11, No. 2, pp.169-193
  Keywords: South Asia, WTO, agricultural trade
  Publisher:
  Amsterdam: North Holland
  ISSN 1049 0078 00 4
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 27 Mar 2001
  Rumsey, Alan and Weiner, James (2001)
  "Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea", vii+281pp.
  Keywords: myth, place, Melanesia, Australian Aborigines
  Publisher:
  Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press
  ISBN 0 8248 2389 3
  RRP: tba
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: on order
  URL http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/

• 26 Mar 2001
  Jha, Raghbendra (1999) 'Some imperatives of the Green Revolution: Technical efficiency and ownership of inputs in Indian agriculture'
  "Agricultural and Resource Economics Review", Vol.28, no.1
  Keywords: Farm size and technical inefficiency
  Publisher: not supplied
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 16 Mar 2001
  Jha, Raghbendra (2000) 'Tax efficiency and productivity analysis: The case of Canadian fiscal federalism'
  in, "Public Finance: Finances Publiques", Vol. 52, no.2
  Keywords: fiscal federalism, Canada
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 21 Mar 2001
  Wickler, Stephen (2001)
  "The Prehistory of Buka: A Stepping Stone Island in the Northern Solomons", xix+306pp.
  Keywords: not supplied
  Publisher:
  Canberra: Department of Archaeology and Natural History and the Centre for Archaeological Research, RSPAS
  ISSN 0725 9018
  RRP: TBA
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 20 Mar 2001
  Munro, Kirsty J (2001) 'Japan's commercial sex industry and female migrants: Presenting the case for social and legal reform'
  in, K Ishido and D Myers (eds), "Reinventing the Old Japan", pp.143-163
  Keywords: Japan, social reform, legal reform
  Publisher:
  Rockhampton, Queensland: Central Queensland University Press
  ISBN: 1 876780 04 5
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 19 Mar 2001
  Ciolek, T Matthew (2000) 'The Internet in 2000: Opportunities and Disadvantages to Scholarly Work'
  in, "History Education Forum", no.7 December 2000, pp.1-16
  Keywords: scholarly communication, e-publishing, digital data
  Publisher:
  Hong Kong: Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  URL http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/brainstorm-mar00.html

• 19 Mar 2001
  Crowley, Terry (2000)
  "An Erromangan (Sye) Dictionary", 281pp.
  Keywords: Erromangan language
  Publisher:
  Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, RSPAS
  ISBN 0 85883 492 8
  RRP: TBA
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  URL http://pacling.anu.edu.au

• 19 Mar 2001
  Jha, Raghbendra (2000) 'Towards a more rational IMF quota structure: Some suggestions ...'
  in, "Development and Change", pp.579-604
  Keywords: rationale for IMF quotas, developing countries,
  Publisher: not supplied
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 19 Mar 2001
  Jha, Raghbendra (2000) 'Productivity, technical and allocative efficiency and farm size in wheat '
  in "Applied Economics Letters", pp.1-7
  Keywords: data envelopment analysis, technical and allocative inefficiency
  Publisher: not supplied
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 19 Mar 2001
  Jha, Raghbendra (1999) 'The provision of public services by government funded decentralized agencies'
  in "Public Choice", pp.157-184
  Keywords: moral hazard and decentralization
  Publisher: not supplied
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 09 Mar 2001
  Dinnen, Sinclair (2001)
  "Law and Order in a Weak State: Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea", Pacific islands monograph series, no. 17, xvi+248pp.
  Keywords: crime prevention, Papua New Guinea, surety of the peace, politics and government
  Publisher:
  Hawai'i: University of Hawai'i Press
  ISBN 0 8248 2280 3
  RRP: TBA
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: paperback on order
  

• 02 Mar 2001
  McCormack, Gavan with Glen Hook (2001)
  "Japan's Contested Constitution - documents and analysis", 212pp.
  Keywords: Japan, constitution, politics
  Publisher:
  London and New York: Routledge
  ISBN: 0 415 24099-9 (hardback), 0 415 24100 6 (paperback)
  RRP: TBA
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: on order

• 02 Mar 2001
  Pretes, Michael (2001)
  "Instructor's Resource Manual" (to accompany "Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Perspective", second edition), 80pp.
  Keywords: human geography, geographic education, globalisation
  Publisher:
  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall
  ISBN 0 13 016832 7
  RRP: TBA
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: on order
  URL http://www.prenhall.com/knox/

• 01 Mar 2001
  McCormack, Gavan (2000) 'Nationalism and Identity in Post-Cold War Japan'
  in, "Pacifica Review", Vol 12, No 3, October, pp.249-265
  Keywords: nationalism, identity, cold war
  Publisher:
  London, UK: Carfax Publishing
  ISSN 1323 9104 (print); ISSN 1469 9974 (online)
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No

• 01 Mar 2001
  McCormack, Gavan and Shikita Asami (2000) 'Shizen kankyo no hozen to kaihatsu no jirenma' (Preservation of the natural environment and the dilemmas of modernization)
  in, Miyamoto Ken'ichi and Sasaki Masayuki, eds, "Okinawa Ð 21 seiki e no chosen" (Okinawa's Challenge to the 21st Century), pp.221-247
  Keywords: development, environment, Okinawa
  Publisher:
  Tokyo: Iwanami shoten
  ISBN: 4 00 022366 6
  RRP:AU$00.00 TBA
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes No

• 01 Mar 2001
  McCormack, Gavan (2000) 'Beginning and Ending the Cold War in East Asia'
  in, Stuart Nagel (ed.), "Handbook of Global International Policy", pp.103-117
  Keywords: Cold War, Korea
  Publisher:
  New York and Basel: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
  ISBN 0 8247 0346 4
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No

• 01 Mar 2001
  McCormack, Gavan (2001) Japan's Houdini (review of Herbert P Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, (NY, 2001))'
  in, "New Left Review", No. 7, Jan-Feb 2001, pp.138-144
  Keywords: Japan, Showa, Hirohito, emperor, history
  Publisher:
  London:
  ISSN 0028 6060
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  URL http://www.newleftreview.net/

• 01 Mar 2001
  McCormack, Gavan (2001) Water Margins: Competing Paradigms in China
  in, "Critical Asian Studies", 33(1), 5-30
  Keywords: water, dams, nature, development, China, paradigms
  Publisher:
  Boulder, CO:
  ISSN 1467 2715 (print); 1472 6033 (online)
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No

• 01 Mar 2001
  McCormack, Gavan (2001) 'Chugoku mizu shigen kaihatsu no doko to sono kankyo eikyo' (Water resource development in China and its environmental impact)
  in, "Kankyo to kogai", February, 2001, pp.9-17
  Keywords: water, dams, nature, development, China, paradigms
  Publisher:
  Tokyo: Iwanami
  ISSN 0918 7537
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No

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