Those who can, teachDarwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind By Kevin N. Laland Princeton: Princeton University Press. xiv, 450 p. $35.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-691-15118-2.
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DOI: 10.1002/evan.21561
Abstract: Book review for: "Darwin's unfinished symphony: How culture made the human mind" By Kevin N. Laland. Princeton: Princeton University Press. xiv, 450 p. $35.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-691-15118-2. read more here.
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Darwin meets Waddington Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution Russell Bonduriansky and Troy Day (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; 2018) ISBN: 978-0-691-15767-2
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.010
Abstract: R682 Current Biology 28, R679–R694, June 18, 2018 © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. Silva from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Jamshid Tehrani from Durham University, UK, have recently shown that, among dozens of folk… read more here.
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Richard Bourke and Ian McBride, eds. The Princeton History of Modern Ireland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 552. $27.00 (cloth).
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2016.151
Abstract: graphic areas, this book can be regarded as a basic reference source for anyone doing research on the Irish diaspora. Still, there are some problems. Mainly, there’s a conceptual slipperiness about just whose “vision of… read more here.
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Capitalism: A Short History. By Jürgen Kocka, trans. Jeremiah Riemer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. viii + 198 pp. Bibliography, notes. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16522-6
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DOI: 10.1017/s0007680517000782
Abstract: to stand out as exceptional enough to trigger a major shift in cultural attitudes. Where does Mokyr stand on the Great Divergence debate? There are some interesting comparisons in later chapters between Britain and China,… read more here.
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Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State. By Jonathan Laurence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. xxviii + 579 pages. $99.95 cloth, $35.00 paper.
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Abstract: lished in the Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora Series (and Odamtten references Hamilton’s idea of “global Africa” [2] though this is seemingly at odds with his insistence that Blyden be labeled an African instead of… read more here.
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State of Repression: Iraq Under Saddam Hussein. Lisa Blaydes (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018). Pp. 376. $35.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780691180274
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Abstract: entrepot” (p. 135), and the 1973 amendments to the Law of Money and Credit that transformed the Central Bank into a “lender of first rather than last resort” (p. 168). There are some areas in… read more here.
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Walter Armbrust, Martyrs & Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution, Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019). Pp. 344. $99.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780691162638
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Abstract: throughout the book—the issue of control. British policies towards Waziristan, whether in terms of the forward orclosed border policyor the “peaceful penetration” pursued during the interwar years, were all intended to assert British influence over… read more here.
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Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson (2016), Unequal gains: American growth and inequality since 1700, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, £27.95, pp. 424, hbk.
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Abstract: and twenty-first century literature and culture’ returns to examining the journalistic ‘slumming’ of the 19th century, now applied to the council estates. Here Cuming explores surveying and narrating the council house estate through the work… read more here.
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Karen B. Stern. Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. 312 pp.
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Abstract: side-by-side stories that feature a range of characters and plots in an entwined final form” (191–2). The study focuses on the significance of the coexistence of different tendencies within the biblical texts, rather than on… read more here.
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Sarah Stroumsa. Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. xvii + 220 pp.
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Abstract: mythical speculation. It is in this respect that Berman’s argument emphasizing the polysemy of the Zohar does not go far enough. Behind these texts stands an authorship that promotes devotion and piety in addition to… read more here.
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An Age of Risk: Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain. By Emily C. Nacol. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 184p. $39.95 cloth.
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Abstract: “better” outcomes. Engster’s focus on defending the welfare state appears to lead him to misunderstand important components of Rawls’s theory, and to obscure some important issues. For example, Engster criticizes Rawls for rejecting the capitalist… read more here.
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