Jim Dator's Published Book Reviews

Review of Dennis Pirages, Ken Cousins (Eds.), From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security: Exploring New Limits to Growth, The MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2005 in Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 2006

Book review of Islam, Postmodernism and other futures: A Ziauddin Sardar reader. Edited by Sohail Inayatullah and Gail Boxwell. London: Pluto Press, 2003, in Futures, Vol. 36, 2004, pp. 115-129

Book review of Medieval futures: Attitudes to the future in the Middle Ages, by John Burrow and Ian Wei. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2000 ISBN 0 85115 779 3, in Futures, Vol. 35, No. 10, December 2003, pp. 1067-1072.

Review of From imperial myth to democracy: Japan's two constitutions, 1889-2002, by Lawrence W. Beer and John M. Maki. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. In Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 12 No. 12 (December 2002)

Review of Virginia Postrel, The future and its enemies: the growing conflict over creativity, enterprise, and progress. The Free Press, New York, 1998, Futures, Vol. 33, No 7, 2001

Review of Leon Sheleff, The Future of tradition. in The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 10, No. 4. April 2000, 291-297

Review of Arnulf Grubler, Technology and Global Change. In Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 62, No. 3, November 1999, 259-161

Review of David W. Swift Voyager Tales: Personal Views of the Grand Tour Reston, Virginia: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1997. in Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 67 No. 2 & 3, 2001.

 

"This is the future calling," review of Paul Ekins, A new world order. In Futures, October 1992

 

"Thought experiments in politics," review of Theodore L. Becker (editor), Quantum Politics: Applying Quantum Theory to Political Phenomena (Praeger, 1991) in Futures, January/February 1992

 

Review of Carol Gould, ed, The Information Web, in Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 41/1. February, 1992

 

Review of Kelvin Willoughby, Technology Choice, in Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 41/2. March, 1992

 

"Will ET just say no?" Review of Peter Schenkel, ETI: A Challenge for Change, in Space Policy, Vol. 6, No. 3, August 1990

 

Review of Lewis Austin, Saints and Samurai: The Political Attitudes of American and Japanese Elites. in American Political Science Review, 1978

 

Review of Daisaku Ikeda, The Human Revolution, in Asian Student, 1974

 

Review of Gordon R. Taylor, Rethink, in Chicago Tribute Book World, April 29, 1973

 

Review of James White, The Soka Gakkai and Mass Society, in Asian Student 1971

 

Review of Donald Michael, The Unprepared Society, in Technology and Culture, 1971

 

Review of Mitoji Nishimoto, The Development of Educational Broadcasting in Japan, in Pacific Affairs, 1970

 

Review of Theodore Brameld, Japan: Culture, Education and Change in Two Communities, in Pacific Affairs, 1970

 

Review of Fernando Basabe, Religious Attitudes of Japanese Men, in The Journal of Asian Studies, 1970

 

Review of William Woodward, The Allied Occupation of Japan 1945-1952 and Japanese Religion, in Journal of Asian Studies, 1970. Translated and reprinted in Kokusai Shukyo, 1972

 

Review of Robert Ward, ed., Political Development in Modern Japan, in Journal of Developing Areas, 1968

 

Review of Masao Maruyama, Thought and Behavior of Modern Japanese Politics, in Orient/West 1968