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Climate Change And Our Political Future, Harry Van Der Linden Nov 2018

Climate Change And Our Political Future, Harry Van Der Linden

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Harry van der Linden's review of Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future. Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright. Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2018, ISBN 978178663429-0.


No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’S Shock Politics And Winning The World We Need, Harry Van Der Linden May 2018

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’S Shock Politics And Winning The World We Need, Harry Van Der Linden

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Review of Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017).


Review Of Telling Tales About Jesus: An Introduction To The New Testament Gospels, James F. Mcgrath Apr 2018

Review Of Telling Tales About Jesus: An Introduction To The New Testament Gospels, James F. Mcgrath

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Article reviews the book, Telling Tales about Jesus: An Introduction to the New Testament Gospels, by Warren Carter.


Review: Killing By Remote Control: The Ethics Of An Unmanned Military, Edited By Bradley Jay Strawser, Harry Van Der Linden Jan 2015

Review: Killing By Remote Control: The Ethics Of An Unmanned Military, Edited By Bradley Jay Strawser, Harry Van Der Linden

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Dr. Harry van der Linden's review of: Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military, edited by Bradley Jay Strawser. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 (264 pages, cloth).


Carl F. Craver And Lindley Darden: In Search Of Mechanisms: Discoveries Across The Life Sciences, Stuart Glennan Jul 2014

Carl F. Craver And Lindley Darden: In Search Of Mechanisms: Discoveries Across The Life Sciences, Stuart Glennan

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Carl Craver and Lindley Darden are two of the foremost proponents of a recent approach to the philosophy of biology that is often called the New Mechanism. In this book they seek to make available to a broader readership insights gained from more than two decades of work on the nature of mechanisms and how they are described and discovered. The book is not primarily aimed at specialists working on the New Mechanism, but rather targets scientists, students and teachers who are looking for a broad, philosophically and historically informed image of discovery in the life sciences.


(Review) Jones, Christine A. And Jennifer Schacker, Eds., Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology Of Fairy Tales And Contemporary Critical Perspectives And Raynard, Sophie, Ed., The Teller’S Tale: Lives Of The Classic Fairy Tale Writers, Jeana Jorgensen Jan 2014

(Review) Jones, Christine A. And Jennifer Schacker, Eds., Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology Of Fairy Tales And Contemporary Critical Perspectives And Raynard, Sophie, Ed., The Teller’S Tale: Lives Of The Classic Fairy Tale Writers, Jeana Jorgensen

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Jeana Jorgensen's review of:

Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Ed. Christine A. Jones and Jennifer Schacker. (Peterborough, ON : Broadview Press, 2013. Pp. 580, introduction, notes on contributors, sources.)

The Teller’s Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers. Ed. Sophie Raynard. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. Pp. vi + 183, introduction, list of contributors, index.)


Review Of "Thinking Christ: Christology And Contemporary Critics", Brent A. R. Hege Jul 2013

Review Of "Thinking Christ: Christology And Contemporary Critics", Brent A. R. Hege

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A review of Thinking Christ: Christology and Contemporary Critics by Jane Barter Moulaison.


Permanent Wartime, Harry Van Der Linden Jan 2013

Permanent Wartime, Harry Van Der Linden

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This article reviews War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences by Mary L. Dudziak, published by Oxford University Press in 2012.


Sabry, Somaya Sami, Arab-American Women’S Writing And Performance: Orientalism, Race, And The Idea Of The Arabian Nights, Jeana Jorgensen Jan 2013

Sabry, Somaya Sami, Arab-American Women’S Writing And Performance: Orientalism, Race, And The Idea Of The Arabian Nights, Jeana Jorgensen

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No abstract provided.


Review Of "The Church Event: Call And Challenge Of A Church Protestant", Brent A. R. Hege Oct 2012

Review Of "The Church Event: Call And Challenge Of A Church Protestant", Brent A. R. Hege

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A review of "The Church Event: Call and Challenge of a Church Protestant" by Vitor Westhelle.


Review Of "Take My Hand: A Theological Memoir", Brent A. R. Hege Oct 2012

Review Of "Take My Hand: A Theological Memoir", Brent A. R. Hege

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A review of "Take My Hand: A Theological Memoir" by Andrew Taylor-Troutman.


Review Of "What’S Wrong With Sin? Sin In Individual And Social Perspective From Schleiermacher To Theologies Of Liberation", Brent A. R. Hege Jul 2012

Review Of "What’S Wrong With Sin? Sin In Individual And Social Perspective From Schleiermacher To Theologies Of Liberation", Brent A. R. Hege

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A review of "What’s Wrong with Sin? Sin in Individual and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher to Theologies of Liberation" by Derek R. Nelson.


Bottigheimer, Ruth B., Fairy Tales: A New History, Jeana Jorgensen Jan 2012

Bottigheimer, Ruth B., Fairy Tales: A New History, Jeana Jorgensen

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No abstract provided.


Review Of Nagihan Haliloğlu’S Narrating From The Margins: Self-Representation Of Female And Colonial Subjectivities In Jean Rhys’S Novels, Lee Garver Jan 2012

Review Of Nagihan Haliloğlu’S Narrating From The Margins: Self-Representation Of Female And Colonial Subjectivities In Jean Rhys’S Novels, Lee Garver

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Book review of:

Narrating from the Margins: Self-Representation of Female and Colonial Subjectivities in Jean Rhys’s Novels by Nagihan Haliloğlu. 222 pages, 2011, $64.00 USD (hardcover) Amsterdam, Rodopi


Review Of "An Introduction To Christian Theology", Brent A. R. Hege Jan 2012

Review Of "An Introduction To Christian Theology", Brent A. R. Hege

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A review of "An Introduction to Christian Theology" by Richard J. Plantinga, Thomas R. Thompson, and Matthew D. Lundberg.


Review Of "Thinking With The Church: Essays In Historical Theology", Brent A. R. Hege Oct 2011

Review Of "Thinking With The Church: Essays In Historical Theology", Brent A. R. Hege

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A review of "Thinking with the Church: Essays in Historical Theology" by B. A. Gerrish.


Review Of Missionaries And Their Medicine, Chad M. Bauman May 2011

Review Of Missionaries And Their Medicine, Chad M. Bauman

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A review of Missionaries And Their Medicine: A Christian Modernity for Tribal India, by David Hardiman, Manchester University Press, 2008.


Rich Man’S War, Poor Man’S Fight, Harry Van Der Linden Jan 2011

Rich Man’S War, Poor Man’S Fight, Harry Van Der Linden

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This article reviews The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities by Douglas L. Kriner and Francis X. Shen, published by Oxford University Press in 2010.


Political Theology In A Postsecularist Key, Brent A. R. Hege Jan 2011

Political Theology In A Postsecularist Key, Brent A. R. Hege

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A review of Clayton Crockett, Radical Political Theology: Religion and Politics after Liberalism. Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. $50.00 216 pp. ISBN: 9780231149822


"Del Infierno Al Cuerpo: La Otredad En La Narrativa Y En El Cine Español Contemporáneo," Katarzyna Olga Beoñom, Terri Carney Jan 2010

"Del Infierno Al Cuerpo: La Otredad En La Narrativa Y En El Cine Español Contemporáneo," Katarzyna Olga Beoñom, Terri Carney

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A review of Katarzyna Olga Beoñom's "Del infierno al cuerpo: La otredad en la narrativa y en el cine español contemporáneo."


Review: Bourgeois Hinduism, Or The Faith Of The Modern Vedantists: Rare Discourses From Early Colonial Bengal, Chad Bauman Jan 2009

Review: Bourgeois Hinduism, Or The Faith Of The Modern Vedantists: Rare Discourses From Early Colonial Bengal, Chad Bauman

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The article reviews the book "Bourgeois Hinduism, or The Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare Discourses from Early Colonial Bengal," by Brian Hatcher.


Lydia Murdoch, Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, And Contested Citizenship In London, John D. Ramsbottom Sep 2008

Lydia Murdoch, Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, And Contested Citizenship In London, John D. Ramsbottom

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Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London"


Review Of "Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact Of Culture, Power, And Migration On Changing Identities", Su-Mei Ooi Sep 2007

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

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


Review: Converting Women: Gender And Protestant Christianity In Colonial South India, Chad Bauman Jan 2007

Review: Converting Women: Gender And Protestant Christianity In Colonial South India, Chad Bauman

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The article reviews the book "Converting Women: Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India," by Eliza Kent.


Review, Trafficking And Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives On Migration, Sex Work, And Human Rights, Brooke M. Beloso Jan 2007

Review, Trafficking And Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives On Migration, Sex Work, And Human Rights, Brooke M. Beloso

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Book Review: Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights edited by Kamala Kempadoo Boulder, CO & London, England: Paradigm Publishers, 2005, 248 pages,$26.95 paper.


Comparative Cultural Perspectives For The Study Of The Americas: New Work By Imbert And Mcclennen And Fitz, Irune Del Rio Gabiola Jan 2006

Comparative Cultural Perspectives For The Study Of The Americas: New Work By Imbert And Mcclennen And Fitz, Irune Del Rio Gabiola

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This review article covers two new volumes of scholarship dedicated to the comparative study of the Americas: Patrick Imbert's Trajectoires culturelles transaméricaines (Ottawa: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2004) and the edited volume by Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz, Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2004). The latter volume is the revised and updated book form version of the thematic issue Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America, edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 4.2 (2002): ). These books represent a new wave of innovative …


Sean Shesgreen, Images Of The Outcast: The Urban Poor In The Cries Of London, John D. Ramsbottom Apr 2004

Sean Shesgreen, Images Of The Outcast: The Urban Poor In The Cries Of London, John D. Ramsbottom

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Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London"


Reviewed Work: Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience In The Mexican War, George W. Geib Jan 2002

Reviewed Work: Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience In The Mexican War, George W. Geib

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Book review of Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War. By Richard Bruce Winders. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 284. Illustrations. Paper, $17.95.)


Tim Hitchcock And John Black, Eds., Chelsea Settlement And Bastardy Examinations, 1733-1766, John D. Ramsbottom Jul 2000

Tim Hitchcock And John Black, Eds., Chelsea Settlement And Bastardy Examinations, 1733-1766, John D. Ramsbottom

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Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Tim Hitchcock and John Black, eds., Chelsea Settlement and Bastardy Examinations, 1733-1766"


Review Of "Bernard Shaw And Gabriel Pascal." Edited By Bernard F. Dukore., Lee Garver Jan 1998

Review Of "Bernard Shaw And Gabriel Pascal." Edited By Bernard F. Dukore., Lee Garver

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Dr. Lee Garver's review of Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal. Edited by Bernard F. Dukore. Volume 3 of Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. 224. $40.00.