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Review: Karin Hartbecke, Zwischen Fürstenwillkür Und Menschheitswohl: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Als Bibliothekar, Andre Wakefield
Review: Karin Hartbecke, Zwischen Fürstenwillkür Und Menschheitswohl: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Als Bibliothekar, Andre Wakefield
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
This is a book review of Zwischen Fürstenwillkür und Menschheitswohl: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz als Bibliothekar, edited by Karin Hartbecke. The title of the volume—at least the part before the colon—is misleading. This is not really a book about the tension between human welfare and absolute monarchy. It is instead an extended effort to reconstruct Leibniz's practices of categorizing and acquiring books; it is also about the relationship between Leibniz's written reflections on categorizing books and those practices.
Mata Hari: A Life Of Lies, Olivia Blessing
Mata Hari: A Life Of Lies, Olivia Blessing
Olivia L Blessing
During the international scandal of her 1917 trial and subsequent execution, Mata Hari’s name became a universal title for a traitorous woman. Since then, spies like Tokyo Rose and Radient Jade were known respectively as the "Mata Hari of the airways" and the "Mata Hari of the East." However, unlike the other two women, Mata Hari was famous for being a woman who would do anything for a price years before the French accused her of treason, and this image hurt her during the trial as much as the accusations of treason did.