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• Making Sense: Philosophy behind the headlines. - book review

  - 2003-03-01

  by Julian Baggini Oxford, England and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002); 296 pp; $26.00 cloth. in the Monty Python sketch involving a soccer match between famous Greek philosophers and German philosophers, when the whistle is blown, the overly intellectual opponents commence walking about, stroking their beards instead...

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• The unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the foundation of a theological tradition. (Shorter Reviews).~(book review)

  - 2002-01-01

  by Richard A. Muller Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford University Press, New York, 2000. 320 pp. $65.00 cloth. ISBN 0-19-511681-X. THE PURPOSE OF THIS integrated collection of essays is to consolidate and advance what Muller characterizes as a recent and historic shift away from...

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• Documents on the Laws of War. - Review - book review

  - 2001-03-22

  Documents on the Laws of War, 3d ed., edited by Adam Roberts and Richard Guelff. Oxford University Press (http://www.oup-usa.org/index.html), 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016, 2000, 781 pages, $35.00 paper, $85.00 cloth. Sooner or later, most historical treatments of war and military operations deal with questions of...

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• Books received, to June 2000. (Reviews).

  - 2000-07-01

  Bridget Anderson, Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour, London: Zed Books, 2000, 213 pp., $65.00/45.00 [pounds sterling] h.b. (ISBN 1-85649-760-7); $25.00/14.95 [pounds sterling] p.b. (ISBN 1-85649-761-5) Floya Anthias and Gabriella Lazaridis Eds, Gender and Migration in...

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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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• KARL BARTH: AGAINST HEGEMONY.(Review) (book review)

  - 2000-04-01

  KARL BARTH: AGAINST HEGEMONY. By TIMOTHY J. GORRINGE. Oxford University Press. 312 pp. $ 70 cloth, $19.95 paper. A volume in a series presenting the most notable theologians and theological movements in Christian history. As the subtitle suggests, this is a "rehabilitation" of Barth...

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• CONTEMPORARY JEWISH THEOLOGY: A READER.(Review)

  - 1999-06-01

  CONTEMPORARY JEWISH THEOLOGY: A READER. Edited by ELLIOT N. DORFF and Louis E. NEWMAN. Oxford University Press. 552 pp. $49.95 cloth, $27.95 paper. An extremely useful collection of twentieth-century Jewish theological writings on such varied topics as the nature of God, creation, revelation,...

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• LIBERAL ISLAM.(Review)

  - 1999-04-01

  LIBERAL ISLAM. Edited by CHARLES KURZMAN. Oxford University Press. 340 pp. $49.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. The title of this anthology is not an oxymoron, although some may think it comes close. Thirty-two Muslim essayists affirm conventional Western liberal doctrines such as the separation of...

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• Books received, to November 1998.(Review)

  - 1999-01-01

  Hakim Adi, West Africans in Britain 1900-1960: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 224 pp., n.p. p.b. (ISBN 0 85315 848 7) Haleh Afshar (Ed.), Islam and Feminisms: An Iranian Case Study, Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd., (New York: St....

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• Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life - Review

  - 1998-12-22

  Janet Hadda. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 243pp. $27.50 cloth. This, as Lord Jeffrey famously declared, will never do. Janet Hadda, professor of Yiddish at UCLA, has produced a thin, patchy, slapdash biography of a writer who deserves much better. Singer (1904-91), it must be admitted, is an...

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