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• The Oxford Dictionary of Islam.(Book Review)

  - 2004-01-01

  Edited by John L. Esposito. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 359 pp. $45. In 1995, I wrote in these pages about an earlier co-production by Esposito and the Oxford University Press, the four-volume The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, that "Like...

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• Mandela, Rhodes - what do they have in common?

  - 2003-08-01

  SOUTH AFRICA/ZIMBABWE The seventh Will of Cecil John Rhodes, the British arch colonialist left, created an educational grant known as the 'Rhodes Scholarship' in 1902, But in recent weeks, hairs have been torn over the addition of the Mandela name to the Rhodes Foundation. Shingai Rukwata Ndoro reports....

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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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• Britain and Central Europe, 1918-1933.(Review) (book reviews)

  - 1999-09-22

  Batonyi, Gabor Britain and Central Europe, 1918-1933 Oxford: Clarendon 240 pp., $60.00, ISBN 0-19-820748-4 Publication Date: June 1999 In Britain and Central Europe, 1918-1933, Gabor Batonyi has converted his Oxford University doctoral dissertation into a monograph that attempts to shed new light on...

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