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• American Political Science Association Announces 2007 Awards

  - 2007-08-01

  To: EDUCATION EDITORSContact: Bahram Rajaee of the American Political Science Association, +1-202-483-2512, brajaee@apsanet.org WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Political Science Association APSA is pleased to announce its 2007 awards for excellence in the study, teaching, and practice of politics. The awards will be presented at the 103rd APSA...

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• Condorcet and Modernity.(Book review)

  - 2007-06-22

  Condorcet and Modernity. By David Williams. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 306. $75.00.) As it is widely believed that the European Enlightenment is fairly well-tilled ground as far as research and writing go, it tends to cause a measure of surprise...

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• In Memoriam: Notable Physicist and STLE member David Tabor

  - 2006-01-01

  STLE life member David Tabor, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Cambridge University, passed away Nov. 26. Tabor was considered one of the founding fathers of nanoscience. He started his research career working in Australia for Council for Scientific and Industrial Research on lubricants and bearings. He later moved on to...

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• Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938.(Book review)

  - 2005-09-22

  Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938. By Carole Fink. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 448. $80.00.) In this exhaustively researched study, the author addresses a crucial problem of twentieth-century European international relations and...

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• Alma Marie Boatman retires from DPS

  - 2005-07-12

  Michigan Chronicle 07-12-2005 Alma Marie Boatman will celebrate 28 years of service to DPS. She was born July 25, 1944, and married in 1964 a military wedding. She graduated from Wayne State University in 1977 with a bachelor of science degree in education, and began her teaching career at...

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• Review essay: reform and social change

  - 2005-06-22

  Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660-1800. By Joanne Bailey (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii plus 248pp., $65.95). Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850. By Arthur Burns and Joanna Innes (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii plus 349pp., $70)....

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• Arthur Miller—this very American writer

  - 2005-06-01

  Arthur Miller: A Critical Study. Christopher Bigsby. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]55.00. 550 pages. ISBN 0-521-84416-9. With the death of Arthur Miller all consideration of his work at this time gains a poignancy in place of intended celebration. The Methuselah of American theatre leaves behind an indelible imprint. Arthur...

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• Undergraduate Dissertation of the Year.(Frontline)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-03-01

  For the best dissertation presented by a final-year undergraduate at a British university. WINNER Andrew Arsan Cambridge University Shukri Ghanem and the Ottoman Empire 1908-1914 An extraordinarily sophisticated and elegant analysis of the complex political...

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• Howard Walter Florey

  - 2005-01-01

  Howard Walter Florey The Australian experimental pathologist and teacher Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide (1898-1968), helped isolate penicillin and develop it as a successful nontoxic antibacterial agent for use in medical treatment. Howard W. Florey, the son of Joseph Florey, was born on Sept. 24, 1898, at Adelaide....

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• Books received.

  - 2004-12-22

  Adebajo, Adekeye and Ismail Rashid, eds. 2004. West Africa's Security Challenges: Building Peace in a Troubled Region. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. African Women and Peace Support Group. 2004. Liberian Women Peacemakers: Fighting for the Right To Be Seen, Heard and Counted. Trenton:...

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