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Polygyny and Christian Marriage in Africa: The Case of Benin: Abstract: Since the arrival of European missionaries in Africa, there has been charged debate over people's marriage choices. This article outlines the major elements in the academic, theological, and popular discourses on marriage in Africa, focusing on two topics: the conceptual divide between monogamous Christian marriage and African polygyny, and...; Tags: A., African, Barrett, C., Catholic, Christians, Church, Colonial, David, East, Europeans, Family, G., Gender, Gray, H., History, INTRODUCTION, James, Jean, Journal, Mann, Marriage, Mission, N., Oxford University Press, R., Religion, Social, Thomas, West, Western; Research articles 2008-09-01
Shaping superstition in late medieval England.(Report): Superstition occupied an ambiguous place in late medieval England. While elsewhere in fifteenth-century Europe the clergy increasingly reviled superstitions in everyday practices as the fearful portal allowing the devil's entry into human affairs, this certainty faltered in England. (1) The English clergy never ignored beliefs and...; Tags: Aquinas, CONCLUSIONS, Dialogue, Early, English, God, H., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Luther, Medieval, Norwich, Oxford University Press, Press, Reformation, Richard, Saint, Thomas, William, York; Research articles 2008-06-22
Visibility, accountability and discourse as essential to democracy: the underlying theme of Alan Dershowitz's writing and teaching: I have been writing about the law and justice for half a century. My first published law review piece appeared in 1960 as a student note in the Yale Law Journal. (1) Since that time, I have published nearly thirty books and hundreds of articles covering a wide range of...; Tags: A14, American, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, David, God, Harvard College, History, Holocaust, INTRODUCTION, J., Jews, John, Justice, King, Paper, Paul, Politics, Power, Rules, Seattle Times Co., U.S. Supreme Court, Warner, Yale University; Research articles 2008-06-22
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS Bonarelli, Guidubaldo. Phyllis of Scyros. Ed. and trans. Nicolas J. Perella. New York: Italica Press, 2007. xxviii + 304 pp. bibl. $25. ISBN: 978-0-934977-61-6. Bruno, Giordano. De la causa, principio et eno/Uber die Ursache, das Prinzip und das Eine. Ed. and trans. Thomas Leinkauf. Giordiano...; Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, David, De, E., Ed, F., G., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, King, La, Les, Letters, Life, Maria, Medieval, Memory, Oxford University Press, Paul, Politics, Reformation, Renaissance, Rome, Strasbourg, Susan, Trans, Walter; Research articles 2007-12-22
Orality and literacy 25 years later: 1. Introduction Walter Ong, S.J., published Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word 25 years ago, in 1982. The book appeared in Methuen Press's New Accents series, under the general editorship of Terence Hawkes, along with titles on literature, literary criticism, and popular culture. The series holds particular...; Tags: African, American, Asian, Communication, E., Ed, English, F., G., History, INTRODUCTION, J., Journal, Oxford University Press, REFLECTIONS, Research, Science, T., Trans, Walter; Research articles 2007-12-01

Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Agostini, Ludovico. L'Epistolario di Ludovico Agostini: Reforma e utopia. Biblioteca dell' "Archivum Romanicum." Serie 1: Storia, Letteratura, Paleographia 335. Ed. Gianluca Montinaro. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2007. 292 pp. index. bibl. [euro]33. ISBN: 978-88-222-5594-5. Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso: secondo la princeps del 1516. Ed. Marco...; Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, Church, Culture, D., David, De, Ed, El, English, God, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, King, La, Leo, Les, Life, M., Nicholas, Paul, Poetry, Politics, Rhetoric, S., Simon, Susan, Theology, Thomas; Research articles 2007-09-22
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: d'Aubigne, Agrippa. Les Tragiques. Champion Classiques Serie "Litteratures" 4. Ed. Jean-Raymond Fanlo. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 1120 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. chron. bibl. [euro]25. ISBN: 2-7453-1475-0. Durning, Louise, ed. Queen Elizabeth's Book of Oxford. Trans. Sarah M. Knight. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2006. 128...; Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, Catherine, Chapel, Church, Court, David, De, E., Ed, Education, English, F., History, II, INTRODUCTION, J., John, La, Les, Maria, Medieval, Nature, Nicholas, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Politics, Rome, Science; Research articles 2007-06-22
Recent titles in philosophy: ABOULAFIA, MITCHELL. The Cosmopolitan Self: George Herbert Mead and Continental Philosophy. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 169 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $20.00. ABRAHAM, WILLIAM J. Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006. 212 pp. Paper, $20.00. ADAMS, NICHOLAS. Habermas and...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, Court, David, God, Graham, INTRODUCTION, James, John, Life, Logic, Martin, Metaphysics, Moore, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philosophy, Science; Research articles 2007-06-01
Sympathy and spectatorship in Scottish writing after Hume: A review of Edmund Husserl's account of "British" empiricism by certain analytic philosophers is both suggestive and misleading. (1) Scottish philosophers have often been cast as English or British for no better reason, it would appear, than that they follow so-called "English" empiricists chronologically, or because of their geographic proximity,...; Tags: CALA, David, English, Gregory, Hegel, INTRODUCTION, James, Lord, Oxford University Press, Robert, Smith, Voltaire Inc.; Research articles 2007-04-01
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Bideaux, Michel, ed., and Herberay des Essarts, trans. Amadis de Gaule. Book 1. Textes de la Renaissance 116. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 706 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. gloss. bibl. [euro]63. ISBN: 2-7453-1422-X. Cardano, Girolamo. Liber de ludo aleae. Filosofia e scienza nell'eta moderna....; Tags: Alexander, Cambridge University Press, Culture, D., David, De, Ed, English, F., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, King, La, Les, M., Mann, Martin, Michel, Oxford University Press, Paul, Poetry, Rome, Thomas, Venice; Research articles 2007-03-22
The moral lexicon of the Warlpiri people of central Australia: 1. Introduction 2. Words that match 'Good' and 'Bad' 3. Examples of 'Good' and 'Bad' behaviour Good Bad 4. Analysis Proper/Improper ...; Tags: Australian, David, English, INTRODUCTION, Meggitt Plc.; Research articles 2007-03-22
Publications received between 2 May 2005 and 1 June 2006: The following list includes recent books potentially relevant to the traditional and/or allied disciplines of linguistics. An effort is made to see that all books of interest to the readers of Linguistics are reviewed. Publishers receive two copies of reviews accepted for publication. We regret that it is not possible...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, Discourse, English, INTRODUCTION, Oxford University Press, Press, Routledge; Research articles 2006-09-01
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Aretino, Pietro. Aretino's Dialogues. The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library. Trans. Raymond Rosenthal. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. vii + 397 pp. chron. bibl. $60 cl, $29.95 pbk. ISBN: 0-8020-9004-4 cl, 0-8020-4890-0 pbk. Beze, Theodore de. Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale. Textes litteraires...; Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, Catherine, David, De, E., Ed, Education, English, Family, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Kemp, La, Les, Letters, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philosophy, Politics, Reformation, Rome, Science, Susan; Research articles 2006-06-22
Recent titles in Philosophy: ABLONDI, FRED. Gerauld de Cordemy: Atomist, Occasionalist, Cartesian. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005. 128 pp. Paper, $17.00. ADLER, JONATHON E. Beliefs Own Ethics. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. xv + 375 pp. Cloth, $40.00. ALLEN, BARRY. Knowledge and Civilization. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004. x + 342 pp. Cloth, $95.00;...; Tags: A., American, Aquinas, Books, Cambridge University Press, Court, Culture, Daniel, David, E., F., G., God, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Joseph, Life, Logic, M., Nature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philosophy, Politics, Routledge, Science, Social, Thomas, Vol, W., Whitehead, William; Research articles 2006-06-01
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Barker, Roberta, ed. Common Conditions [?1576]. The Malone Society Reprints 168. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Reprint. xxx + 56 pp. append. illus. $49.95. ISBN: 0-19-729044-2. Bathe, William. A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song. Ed. Kevin C. Karnes. Music Theory...; Tags: A., Age, Cambridge University Press, Catherine, Church, Court, Criticism, Culture, David, De, Early, Ed, English, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, La, Labor, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Paul, Politics, Reformation, Rome, Science, Thomas, Trans, Vol; Research articles 2005-12-22
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Castellion, Sebastien. Dialogues Sacres: Dialogi Sacri Premier Livre. Eds. David Amherdt and Yves Giraud. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2004. 264 pp. index. append. gloss. bibl. [euro]42. ISBN: 2-600-00930-2. Ceresara, Paride. Rime. Fondazione Banca Agricola Mantovana. Biblioteca Mantovana 1. Ed. Andrea Comboni. Florence: Leo S....; Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, Court, Culture, David, De, E., Early, Ed, English, G., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, La, Leo, Les, Life, Maria, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Paul, Poetry, Politics, Reformation, Simon, Susan, T.; Research articles 2005-09-22
Recent titles in philosophy: ABBEY, RUTH, ed. Charles Taylor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 220 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. ABOULAFIA, MITCHELL, MYRA BOOKMAN, AND CATHERINE KEMP, eds. Habermas and Pragmatism. New York: Routledge, 2002. xi + 244 pp. Paper, $24.95. ABUMALHAM, MONTSERRAT, ed. Ley y religion. Madrid: Servicio...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, Court, David, E., F., God, Hegel, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Life, Nature, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philosophy, Science, Social, W.; Research articles 2005-06-01
Embedded in the "Battle of the Lakes": a report from the textual frontlines of the 1833 Humboldt Sink massacre: The first battle between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in what is today Nevada occurred in 1833 when a party of forty or fifty beaver trappers led by Joseph Walker killed more than twenty-five Paiute Indians near the Humboldt Sink. (1) This battle, where the Humboldt River pools up and sinks...; Tags: American, Chittenden Corp., Ed, Gilbert, Indian, INTRODUCTION, Irving, John, Joseph, Leonard, Newe, Northern Nevada, NUMA, Peter, Reno, U, West, Western; Research articles 2004-12-01
Video: The Etiquette of Proper Introductions in Business: Etiquette coach Syndi Seid explains how to introduce people within a business setting. Learn her two golden rules for the proper introduction. Length: 00:03:02 Other videos in The Business of Etiquette series: Hosting a Business Lunch Business Dining ...; Tags: BNET staff, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Video, Introduction; Blog posts 2007-05-18
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Bodnar, Edward William and Clive Foss, eds. and trans. Later Travels. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 10. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. xxii + 459 pp. + 10 b/w pls. index. illus. map. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-00758-1. Chappuys, Gabriel. Les Facetieuses Journees....; Tags: Authority, Cambridge University Press, Charles, David, De, Early, Ed, English, Florence, Gender, God, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, L., La, Leo, Les, Margaret, Martin, Medieval, Michel, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Pierre, Reformation, Rome, S., Thomas, W., William; Research articles 2004-06-22