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• Watts, R. J. (2003). Politeness.(Book Review)

  - 2005-03-22

  Watts, R. J. (2003). Politeness. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Politeness is a thoughtful and engaging treatise on the study and understanding of linguistic politeness. Since Brown and Levinson first claimed "universality" in politeness phenomena, scholars have both developed and challenged this idea....

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• Hurwit, Jeffrey M.: The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles.(Book Review)

  - 2005-01-01

  Hurwit, Jeffrey M. The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 330 pp., $75.00, ISBN 0-521-82040-5 Publication Date: August 2004 Students of classical antiquity have long been influenced by Plutarch's account in his writing on Pericles describing the construction of...

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• Emory Elliott, The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature.(Book Review)

  - 2003-10-01

  (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 198 pp., $22.00 paper. For many solicitous readers of Emory Elliott's prior reflections on the New England contribution to U.S. culture and literature (see: The Cambridge History of American Literature. Vol. I., Sacvan Bercovitch, ed., Cambridge University...

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• Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870: A Tragedy of Manners

  - 2003-09-01

  "LITTLE PARIS" IN SOUTH AFRICA Robert Ross. Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870: A Tragedy of Manners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. African Studies Series 98. xii + 203 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. £45.00. Cloth.The broad aim of contemporary historians of nineteenth-century South Africa has been to discern...

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• Bookshelf

  - 2002-07-01

  Catapults, trebuchets, and gunpowder, according to environmental historian Alfred W. Crosby in Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History Cambridge University Press, can be traced back to our ancestors' aptitude for hurling stones and manipulating fire. Evolutionary psychologist Michael C. Corballis, however, makes the case in From Hand to Mouth: The...

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• Judith M. Hadley, The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah. (book review)

  - 2002-01-01

  Judith M. Hadley, The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah. University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, 57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 Archaeologist and feminist scholar Judith Hadley of Villanova University has performed a major service to readers interested in a comprehensive...

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• A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (221 B.C.-A.D. 24). (Reviews).(Book Review)

  - 2001-09-22

  Michael Loewe. A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (221 B.C.-A.D. 24). Handbuch der Orientalistik, pt. 4, vol. 16. Leiden: Brill, 2000. xxiii, 837 pp. Hardcover $245.00, ISBN 90-04-10364-3. Michael Loewe continues decade after decade to be...

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• Political Scientists Elected to American Academy.(the Council of the American Academy of Arts and Science)(Brief Article)

  - 2000-09-01

  On April 15, 2000, the Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected 154 new Fellows and 15 Foreign Honorary Members. Seven political scientists were among the group. The new members, chosen in recognition of their distinguished contributions to science, scholarship, public affairs, and...

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• GREGORY THE GREAT AND HIS WORLD.(Review)

  - 1999-03-01

  GREGORY THE GREAT AND HIS WORLD. By R. A. MARKUS. Cambridge University Press. 241 pp. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. A distinguished patristic scholar evaluates the person and work of Gregory I, who succeeded to the See of Rome in 590. Gregory, who was thoroughly...

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• The Islamic World

  - 1997-01-31

  Domes 01-31-1997 The Islamic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 328 pages. $39.25 (ISBN 0-521-43510-2). Review by Mohamed Aman, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The Islamic World...

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