Book Reviews
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BOOK REVIEWS / 176 Lovett (a community organizer), and Fels Bord (a participatory researcher)-all standing outside the professoriate and often the field of adult education. We need more books on adult education and social change coming from those on the inside who call themselves adult educators, and Professor Hamilton takes up the chal- lenge. He brings the community into his classroom. Secondly, Hamilton provides us with a book that provides a wide ranging source of community development ideas and experiences from India, Nigeria, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Portugal, and the Philippines. His bibliography contains Af- rican American, Chicano(a), and Native American authors. The text provides the reader with many voices from the margin and in so doing provides an exem- plary commitment to more than the rhetoric of multiculturalism. One can fault Hamilton on the lack of women's voices in his script, but I prefer to note his accomplishment of inclusivity and to find strength in his celebrating diversity. Perhaps that is why this book appeals so to the graduate students I know who have read it. This book is clearly different from the ordinary since it not only revives the truncated tradition within our field of educating for