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The Mormons: An Illustrated History Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Roy A. Prete, Herman Du Toit

BYU Studies Quarterly

Many predicted that the printed book would be doomed by developments in digital media. Far from it. This sumptuously illustrated "coffee table" hardcover publication by Merrell, an independent British publisher, testifies to the value of the printed book. The materiality of the medium emphasizes the synthesis of the complex visual and textual content of this publication--stressing the fact that this is a book and not a digital file after all. Stephen Hales Creative Inc., a design company in Provo, Utah, was responsible for the appealing visual design and layout of the book. The hard cover and dust jacket are both …

The Myth Of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology And The Roots Of Modern Conflict, William T. Cavanaugh, Bryan W. Cottle

BYU Studies Quarterly

Whether or not religion is essentially prone to violence is not a new debate within academia. While many scholars argue religion creates more violence in the world than any other institution, others argue that secular movements are by far the greater culprit, and the remainder struggle to find a middle ground. Despite disagreements, the scholarly discussion has largely hinged on the formation of a religious versus secular dichotomy. Does this paradigm damage our appraisal of religious violence, and are there alternative paradigms to consider?

William Cavanaugh's work, The Myth of Religious Violence, answers in the affirmative. Cavanaugh, a professor …

"A Peculiar People": Anti-Mormonism And The Making Of Religion In Nineteenth-Century America, J. Spencer Fluhman, George L. Mitton

BYU Studies Quarterly

Latter-day Saints were often surprised or astonished at the amount of anti-Mormon rhetoric and sentiment that seemed to come out of the woodwork during the Romney candidacies. While to a varying degree there has always been an obvious anti-Mormon backdrop, it is an awakening to realize the strong, latent undercurrent that surfaces at times. J. Spencer Fluhman's book on anti-Mormonism in the nineteenth century is a helpful contribution to an understanding of the origins, sources, trends, and implications of such religious aversion. Fluhman is a professor of history at Brigham Young University and editor of the Mormon Studies Review. The …

Review Of Making Men In Ghana, Aaron Freedman

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

Review of Making Men in Ghana by Stephan F. Miescher, 2005.

About the author
Aaron Freedman graduated from Swarthmore College in 2014 with High Honors in History and Political Science. He hopes to continue his studies of 20th-century history in the future.

Review: Worlds Without End: The Many Lives Of The Multiverse, Patrick Blanchfield

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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Fabulating Romania: Review Of Filip Florian’S Little Fingers And Alta Ifland’S Elegy For A Fabulous World, Ania Spyra

Ania Spyra

In 2007 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania launched a public image campaign in an effort to create a new brand for the country, a brand that would build a positive image, rather than only counteract – defensively – negative stereotypes. An advertising agency created the new brand by merging the words fabulous and spirit into “fabulouspirit” – a word, which ended up sounding better in Romanian than it does in English even though it was intended for an Anglophone audience. The campaign encountered so much criticism that despite the plans to implement it over several years, the word …

Unsettling The Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction, By Stella Bolaki., Ania Spyra

Ania Spyra

Stella Bolaki gives us in Unsettling the Bildungsroman a useful review of the rich corpus of Bildungsroman scholarship already existing, invoking Franco Moretti, Iris Marion Young, Bonnie Hoover Braendlin, Martin Japtok, Rosemary Marangoly George, Pin-chia Feng, and many others. In order to situate her own intervention in this field, she goes back to early definitions of the traditional Bildungsroman, which saw radical individualism and upward mobility as the most desired end of the Bildung’s trajectory.

Book Review: Princely Brothers And Sisters: The Sibling Bond In German Politics, Joseph P. Huffman

History Educator Scholarship

Much has been made of wider kinship networks and their roles in medieval aristocratic political life, yet lit-tle attention has been given to relations between the closest lifetime kin: siblings. Jonathan R. Lyon provides an engaging study of the most prominent aristocratic families in the German Kingdom between 1138 and 1250, making the case that networks of brothers, and sisters (to a lesser degree), served successfully to curb the authority of Staufen kings and emperors. Lyon challenges the normative European model of lineal descent and title holding based on primogeniture by pointing out that medieval German aristocrats prac-ticed partible inheritance. …

Review Of Prison Noir, Eric K. Anderson

Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies

A review of an anthology edited by Joyce Carol Oates with reference to the editor's literary engagement with the prison system.

Review Of Lovely, Dark, Deep, Eric K. Anderson

Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies

Review of Joyce Carol Oates’s book of short stories Lovely, Dark, Deep considering themes of tumultuous love affairs, Darwinian notion of survival of the fittest, and representations of writers.

"The Notation Is Not The Music: Reflections On Early Music Practice And Performance" By Barthold Kuijken, Colin Lawson

Performance Practice Review

Colin Lawson discusses and reviews Kuijken's 2013 work.

Kuijken, Barthold. The Notation Is Not the Music: Reflections on Early Music Practice and Performance. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013.

ISBN: 978-0-253-01060-5

"Off The Record: Performing Practices In Romantic Piano Playing" By Neal Peres Da Costa, William Kinderman

Performance Practice Review

William Kinderman discusses and reviews Peres Da Costa's 2012 work.

Peres Da Costa, Neal. Off the Record: Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

ISBN: 978-0-19-538691-2

Boies And Olson’S Redeeming The Dream: The Case For Marriage Equality: A Review Essay, Jack Van Der Slik

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: David Boies and Theodore B. Olson, Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality. New York: Viking, 2014. $28.95, 310 pp. ISBN 978-0-670- 01596-2.

The Shell Of The Tortoise: Four Essays & An Assemblage By Don Mckay, Tonia L. Payne

The Goose

Review of The Shell of the Tortoise: Four Essays & an Assemblage by Don McKay.

Supplying Salt And Light By Lorna Goodison, Pamela Herron

The Goose

Review of Supplying Salt and Light by Lorna Goodison.

The Polymers By Adam Dickinson, Camilla Nelson

The Goose

Review of The Polymers by Adam Dickinson.

The Forest Unseen: A Year’S Watch In Nature By David George Haskell, Brigette Bernagozzi

The Goose

Review of The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell.

Caraway & Pippins By Harold Rhenisch, Laura Castonguay

The Goose

Review of Caraway & Pippins by Harold Rhenisch.

Human Dependence On Nature: How To Help Solve The Environmental Crisis By Haydn Washington, Lorelei Hanson

The Goose

Review of Human Dependence on Nature: How to Help Solve the Environmental Crisis by Haydn Washington.

Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers And The Politics Of Genetically Modified Wheat By Emily Eaton, Aubrey R. Streit Krug

The Goose

Review of Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat by Emily Eaton.

Ornithologies Of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, And Don Mckay By Travis V. Mason, Maureen Scott Harris

The Goose

Review of Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. Mason.

Fire Watcher By Vivian Demuth, Anna Banks

The Goose

Review of Fire Watcher by Vivian Demuth.

Late Moon By Pamela Porter And The Family China By Ann Shin, Lindsay Diehl

The Goose

Review of Late Moon by Pamela Porter and The Family China by Ann Shin.

Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction By Dawne Mccance, Rosemary-Claire Collard

The Goose

Review of Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction by Dawne McCance.

Review Of Marya: A Life, Eric K. Anderson

Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies

Review of Joyce Carol Oates' novel Marya: A Life considering the autobiographical content and exploration of self in the narrative.

Review Of "Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact Of Culture, Power, And Migration On Changing Identities", Su-Mei Ooi

Su-Mei Ooi

The article reviews the book Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities by Melissa J. Brown.

The Lease By Mathew Henderson, Jon Gordon

The Goose

Review of The Lease by Mathew Henderson.

Ocean By Sue Goyette And Timely Irreverence By Jay Millar, Chad Weidner

The Goose

Review of Ocean by Sue Goyette and Timely Irreverence by Jay MillAr.

Perdita By Hilary Scharper, Nicole Bartley

The Goose

Review of Perdita by Hilary Scharper.

Brilliant Falls By John Terpstra And Placeholder By Charmaine Cadeau, Matthew Zantingh

The Goose

Review of Brilliant Falls by John Terpstra and placeholder by Charmaine Cadeau.