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• Books received

  - 2005-09-01

  ADNETT, NICK, and STEPHEN HARDY. The European Social Model: Modernisation or Evolution? Chelten-2005. Pp. 244. Cloth $95.00. AGELL, JONAS, MICHAEL KEEN, and ALFONS J. WEICHENREIDER, eds. Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. 228. Cloth $35.00. AGLIETTA, MICHEL, and ANTOINE REBERIOUX. Corporate Governance Adrift:...

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• La poesía como un preludio a la filosofía: algunas reflexiones sobre un poema tardio de Borges.

  - 2005-05-01

  Resumen: En este artículo me propongo analizar un poema breve de Borges y relacionarlo con una idea metafilosófica de Platón; a saber, que la filosofía empieza con el asombro. Mi tesis fundamental es que hay poemas --y, en mi opinión, los versos de Borges que discutiré...

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• Books received

  - 2005-03-01

  AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK. Africa in the Global Trading System: African Development Report 2004. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 337. Paper $29.95. ALESINA, ALBERTO, and EDWARD L. GLAESER. Fighting Poverty in the U.S. and Europe: A World of Difference. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 264. Cloth...

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• Books received

  - 2004-09-01

  31NETWORK. India Infrastructure Report 2004: Ensuring Value for Money. New York: Oxford University press, 2004. Pp. 347. Paper $35.00. ADAMS, WALTER, and JAMES W. BROCK. The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor, and Government in the American Economy. 2d ed. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. 380. Paper $24.95....

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• Tunnelling Research.(Brief Article)

  - 2001-05-01

  Two of the United Kingdom's premier universities, Oxford and Cambridge, are to collaborate on a major tunnelling industry research programme into the effective use of soil conditioning and lubricating agents in association with tunnelling machines. A grant of [pound]400,000 for the three-year study has been secured...

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• BOOKS RECEIVED.(Bibliography)

  - 2000-10-01

  Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning. By William P. Alston. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 327. Nicomachean Ethics. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. By Aristotle. Ed. Roger Crisp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xlii, 213. Metaphysics Book...

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• Books received, to January 2000.(Bibliography)

  - 2000-04-01

  Margo J. Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg, Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999, 319 pp., $32.50 cloth (ISBN 0-87154-246-0) Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Hospitality: Racism and North African Immigrants, New York: Columbia...

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• Books Received

  - 1999-07-01

  Appearance in this list neither guarantees nor precludes a future review of the book. Ackrill, J. and Judson, Lindsay (eds.), Aristotle Politics. Books Vand VI, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 265, 14.99 [pounds sterling]. Addis, Laird, Of Mind and Music, Ithaca, New York, USA, Cornell...

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