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• milton in yosemite: PARADISE LOST AND THE NATIONAL PARKS IDEA

  - 2008-04-01

  ABSTRACT "Milton in Yosemite" investigates the reasons why certain English and American visitors to Yosemite so often described the valley in religious terms, particularly in terms of an Eden. Reformed Protestantism developed a peculiarly strong nostalgia for Eden that John Milton gave a powerful form in Paradise Lost. The poem's...

  Tags: America, angel, Boston, California, Cambridge, Earth, Emerson, garden, Park, Richard, Robert, temple, University of Oxford, Valley, Yale University

• Reconceptualizing religious change: ethno-apostasy and change in religion among American Jews

  - 2006-12-22

  Since the 1960s, observers of American religion have recognized that individuals, through their personal choices, wield a collective power to reshape the religious landscape of the United States. Religious switching and the abandonment of religious affiliation are widely acknowledged to be inherent features of an environment where religion derives its...

  Tags: affiliation, America, analysis, Barry, Cohen, Gary, Israel, M., network, Phillips, Richard, Robert, U.S., University of Oxford

• 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:...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, Innovation, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Poverty, Princeton University, Robert, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• McCarthyism: political repression and the fear of communism

  - 2004-12-22

  THE 28-YEAR-OLD SEAMAN WAS PUZZLED. LAWRENCE PARKER HAD BEEN forced off his job as a waiter on the S.S. President Cleveland in February 1951 as a "poor security risk," but had not been told why. This was not the first time he had been barred from the waterfront under the...

  Tags: America, Communism, FBI, job, Joe, president, Robert, sanction, scare, transcript, U.S., U.S. Congress, University of Oxford, worker

• 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....

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Poverty, Princeton University, Robert, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Summer and investing researchers.

  - 2003-08-01

  Many visiting MBL investigators use marine organisms as models for studying basic biological processes. Research using squids, sea urchins, horseshoe crabs, dogfish, clams, toadfish, and sea slugs, for example, has increase our fundamental understanding of a broad range of diseases and medical conditions including cancer, diabetes,...

  Tags: Benefits, Brown University, Cell, cell, Dr., Duke University, G., HEALTHCARE, HUNTER, M., New York University, Processors, Robert, SOFTWARE, University of California, University of Oxford, University of Texas, Williams, Yale University

• What really matters in history? Environmental perspectives on modern America

  - 2002-04-01

  What really matters in history? In the introduction to Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), editor Harvard Sitkoff addresses that question with unusual candor. To organize the conference that laid the foundation for the book, Sitkoff writes, the history department...

  Tags: America, Conservation, Donald, environment, Environmental, environmentalism, pollution, Richard, Robert, South, University of Oxford, women

• BOOKS RECEIVED.(Bibliography)

  - 2000-10-01

  Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning. By William P. Alston. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 327. Nicomachean Ethics. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. By Aristotle. Ed. Roger Crisp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xlii, 213. Metaphysics Book...

  Tags: Atlantic, Books, Cambridge, Leadership, Newton, Plato, Princeton University, Robert, Skeptic, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• BOOKS RECEIVED.

  - 1999-07-01

  Adelard of Bath, Conversations with his Nephew: On the Same and the Different, Questions on Natural Science and On Birds. Cambridge Medieval Classics. By Adelard of Bath. Ed. Charles Burnett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. Iii, 287. Philosophy and the Many Faces of...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, Leadership, Maryland, Princeton University, Robert, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books Received

  - 1999-04-01

  Appearance in this list neither guarantees nor precludes a future review of the book. Adamson, Jane, Freadman, Richard and Parker, David (eds.), Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 294, 35.00 [pounds sterling], 12.95 [pounds sterling]. Annas, Julia, Platonic Ethics Old...

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