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• Tectonic and metamorphic evolution of the Temsamane units, External Rif (northern Morocco): implications for the evolution of the Rif and the Betic-Rif arc

  - 2007-07-01

  Abstract: Located at an intermediate position in the External Rif nappe pile, the Temsamane units northern Morocco are characterized by an abnormally intense metamorphism and a penetrative ductile deformation. We present new metamorphic data showing that, in spite of their external position in the Rif, part of the Temsamane units...

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• Publications received.

  - 2006-09-22

  Raz, Aviad E., THE GENE AND THE GENIE: Tradition, Medicalization and Genetic counseling in a Bedouin Community in Israel. North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press. 2005,192 pp. Paperback $25.00. Bengtson, Vern L., Acock Alan, C., Allen, Katherine, R., Anderson, Peggye, Dilworth., Klein, David,...

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• Books received

  - 2006-09-01

  ABBOTT, FREDERICK M., CHRISTINE BREINING-KAUFMANN, and THOMAS COTTIER, eds. International Trade and Human Rights: Foundations and Conceptual Issues. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. Pp. 383. Cloth $80.00. ARESTIS, PHILIP, MICHELE BADDELEY, and JOHN MCCOMBIE, eds. The New Monetary Policy: Implications and Relevance. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishers,...

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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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• Mill versus liberty: a review of Linda C. Raeder's John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity

  - 2005-04-01

  Introduction SINCE MAURICE COWLING'S CLASSIC BUT SADLY NEGLECTED STUDY 40 years ago, only Joseph Hamburger (1976, 1991, 1995, 1999) has identified the "anti-Christian theme" in the Essay on Liberty or has considered the significance for our understanding of Mill's thought as a whole of his "profound commitment to the...

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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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• Forthcoming reviews.

  - 2004-11-01

  Books listed here have been assigned for review in the past few months. Publication of their reviews or reports generally would occur within the next four issues of the journal. Persons interested in reviewing specific books must notify the editor soon after the publication date for...

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• Economic methodology: heterogeneity and relevance

  - 2004-09-22

  THIS IS AN ISSUE-RAISING, QUESTION-MONGERING PAPER. MANY MORE questions will be asked than will, in fact, be answered. The intention is to propose a broad-based critique of contemporary economic methodology starting off from the recognition of the deep-seated heterogeneity of the subject matter of economics. There is a good...

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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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• REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM: TESTING THE EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF EDIACARAN AND PALEOZOIC PROBLEMATIC FOSSILS USING MOLECULAR DIVERGENCE DATES

  - 2004-01-01

  ABSTRACT-Many of the late Neoproterozoic "Ediacaran fossils" have been referred to the Cnidaria, often on the basis of vague or poorly known features. However, representatives of the living Chondrophorina (=Porpitidae, Hydrozoa), Pennatulacea Anthozoa, and Coronatae and/or Stauromedusae Scyphozoa have all been identified in Ediacaran biotas, based on specific morphological features...

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