Book Reviews: Moral Culture,Myth and Metropolis: Walter B and the City,Gender,Careers and Organisations: Current Developments in Banking,Nursing and Local Government,Women Headed Households,Kinship and Friendship in Modern Britain,Globalisation and the Postcolonial World: The New Political Economy of Development,Media,Culture and the Environment,Global Television: An Introduction,Health and Illness in a Changing Society,Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory,Consuming Geographies: We are Where We Eat,Music and Cultural Theory,Liberation and Purity,Gender and Nation

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