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Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Change in Nineteenth‐Century Religious Belief. Edited by Richard J. Helmstadter and Bernard Lightman (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990) xii + 391 pp.

The Wars of the Lord. By Gersonides, edited by Seymour Feldman, 2 vols, (third volume forthcoming). (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1984–87) 256/288 pp.

Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist. A Study of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century. By Geoffrey Cantor (London: Macmillan, 1991) xi + 359 pp.

Nature Lost? Natural Science and the German Theological Traditions of the Nineteenth Century, Frederick Gregory (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992) viii + 341 pp.

Science and Religious Thought: A Darwinian Case Study. By Walter J. Wilkins III (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1987) 213 pp.

Lifting the Veil: The Feminine Face of Science. By Linda Jean Shepherd (Boston: Shambhala, 1993) xv + 284 pp.

The Emerging Religion of Science. By Richard C. Rothschild (New York, Westport, Conn., London: Praeger, 1989) 176pp.

Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West. By John Saul (Toronto, London, New York, and Ringwood, Victoria, Australia: Penguin Books, 1993) 640 pp.

Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives. By John Hedley Brooke (The Cambridge History of Science Series: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) x + 422 pp.

The Return to Cosmology: Postmodern Science and the Theology of Nature. By Stephen Toulmin (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1982) 283 pp.

Cosmology: Historical, Literary, Philosophical, Religious and Scientific Perspectives. Edited by Norris S. Hetherington. (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1993) xi + 631 pp.

Colonial Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge. By George W. Stocking, Jr. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), History of Anthropology vol. 7, viii + 340 pp. $25.00.

Inscribing the Other. By Sander L. Gilman (University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln & London, 1991).

A Rural Society after the Black Death, Essex 1350–1525. By L. R. Poos, Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) xv + 330 pp. $59.50.

Modernists, Marxists and the Nation. The Ukrainian Literary Discussion of the 1920s. By Myroslav Shkandrij (Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, University of Alberta, 1991) xii, 265 pp.

The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages. Edited by R. K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992) xiv + 428 pp. $21.95 paper $54.95 cloth.

Correspondance entre Charles Andler et Lucien Herr, 1891–1926. Edited by Antoinette Blum. (Paris: Presses de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 1992) pp. 298.195 Fr.

Contemporary Western European Feminism. By Gisela Kaplan (London: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd.; New York: New York University Press, 1992) xxvi, 340 pp. $40.00

Grub Street Abroad: Aspects of the French Cosmopolitan Press from the Age of Louis XIV to the French Revolution. Lyell Lectures, 1989–1990. By Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 1992), 172 pp. $35.00 cloth.

Eros and Anteros: The Medical Traditions of Love in the Renaissance. Edited by Donald A. Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella (University of Toronto Italian Studies; 9. Ottawa, Ont.: Dovehouse Editions Inc., 1992), 231 pp. m.p.g.

The Cognitive Paradigm: An Integrated Understanding of Scientific Development. By Marc De Mey (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) xxx + 314 pp. $15.95 paper.

Truth and Objectivity. By Crispin Wright (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992) x + 247 pp. $14.95.

Writing Women's History: International Perspectives. Edited by Karen Offen, Ruth Roach Pierson, and Jane Rendall. (London: MacMillan, 1991) (reprinted 1992) xli + 552 pps. £14.99 p.b.

The Two Gods of Leviathan. By A. P. Martinich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) xiv + 430 pp.

Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli‐Vettori Letters of 1513–1515. By John N. Najemy. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993) xii + 358 pp.

Norms of Rhetorical Culture. By Thomas Farrell (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993) x + 374 pp. £27.50/$60.00 cloth.

Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings from Being and Time (1927) to The Task of Writing (1964). Edited by David Farrell Krell. (Routledge, 1993) xii + 452 pp. £9.99 paper.

Science and Anti‐Science. By Gerald Holton (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1993) 203 pp. $24.95.

European Identity and the Search for Legitimacy. Edited by Soledad García (London and New York: Pinter Publishers, 1993) xiv + 185 pp. £37.50 cloth.

Les Signes de Dieu aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Actes du colloque organisé par le Centre de recherches sur la Réforme et la Contre‐Réforme avec le concours du CNRS. Edited by Geneviève Demerson and Bernard Dompnier (Clermont‐Ferrand, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines de l'Université Biaise‐Pascal, fascicule 41,1993) 212 pp., FF 160.

Intellectuals in the Middle Ages. By Jacques Le Guff, trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993). pp. xxv, 194. £35.00/£12.99.

Engagement et distanciation. Contributions à la sociologie de la connaissance. By Norbert Elias, translated by Michèle Hulin, Avant‐propos de Roger Chartier (Paris: Fayard, 1993) 259 pp. FF 120.

Machiavelli and Republicanism. Edited by Gisela Bock, Quentin Skinner, and Maurizio Viroli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), Ideas in Context, Vol. 18, 316 pp. cloth. £40.00 ($59.95) paper £13.95 ($16.95).

La crise des économies socialistes: la rupture d'un système. By Wladimir Andreff (Grenoble: Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1993) 447 pp. FF 140.

Journal inédit. By Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, preface by George Daumas in Folio; Essais, 248 (Paris: Gallimard, 1994) 160 pp.

Fashioning The Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century. By Philippe Perrot, translated by Richard Bienvenu (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), m.p.g.

From India to the Planet Mars: A Case of Multiple Personality with Imaginary Languages. Edited by Théodore Flournoy, Sonu Shamdasani (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) 335 pp. $49.50/£33.50 cloth, $16.95/£12.95 paper.

The Victorians and the Stuart Heritage. By Timothy Lang, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) pp. ix, 227 plus index.

Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized. By John M. Rist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) 334 + xix pp. $59.95.

L'esprit baroque. ByAnne‐Laure Angoulvent (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1994) 128 pp.

Moral Prejudices: Essays on Ethics. By Annette C. Baier (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994) pp. xiv, 353, $42.50 cloth.

A Progress of Sentiments: Reflections of Hume's Treatise. By Annette C. Baier, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994) pp. xiv, 333. $19.95 paper.

The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, Correspondence: volume 10, July 1820‐December 1821. Edited by Stephen Conway. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994) xxvi + 492 pp. £55.00 cloth.

The Deaths of Louis XVI Regicide and the French Political Imagination. By Susan Dunn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) xi + 178 pp. $29.95/£23.50 cloth.

Austrian Economics in America: The Migration of a Tradition. By Karen I. Vaughn (Cambridge University Press, 1994) xiv + 198 pp. £30.00/$49.95 cloth.

Die christlichen Adversus‐Judaeos‐Texte und ihr literarisches und historisches Umfeld (13.‐20. Jh.). By Heinz Schreckenberg (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1994) 774 pp. 157DM cloth.

Small Privatization. The Transformation of Retail Trade and Consumer Services in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. By John S. Earle, Roman Frydman, Andrzej Rapaczynski, and Joel Turkewitz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) 301 pp.£30.00/£10.00.

Natural Rights and the New Republicanism. By Michael P. Zuckert (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) xx + 397 pp. $39.50 cloth.

The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement. By Richard Noll (California University Press, 1994) 370 pp. $27.95.

The Humanist‐Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and Reformation. By Erika Rummel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995) 249 pp. $45.00 cloth.

Cults, Territory and the Origins of the Greek City‐State. By F. de Polignac (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995) xvi + 187 pp. £31.95/$45.95 cloth £11.95/$17.25 paper.

Richard III and the Princes in the Tower. By A. J. Pollard (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995) xvi + 260 pp. $17.95.

Erasme: Précepteur de l'Europe. By Jean‐Claude Margolin (Paris: Julliard, 1995) 421 pp. FF 145.

Change and Stability: Natural Philosophy at the Academy of Turku 1640–1713. By Maija Kallinen, (Helsinki: Studia Historica 51, 1995) 439 pp. m.p.g.

Instruments and the Imagination. By Thomas L. Hankins and Robert J. Silverman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) xiv + pp. 338, 90 halftones, 76 fig. $39.50.

Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature. By Valeria Finucci & Regina Schwartz eds., (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) 273 pp., $39.50/£32.00 cloth, $14.95/£11.95 paper.

Bernini: Flights of Love, the Art of Devotion. By Giovanni Careri, trans. Linda Lappin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 118 pp. 41 illustrations, $45.95, $19.95 paper/£31.95, £13.50.

American Education, Still Separate, Still “Unequal.” In Daedalus, Journal of the American Society of Arts & Sciences, Fall 1995 200 pp.

Early Modern Conceptions of Property. Edited by John Brewer and Susan Staves (London and New York: Routledge, 1995) pp. xiv + 599, 7 tables, 18 plates £80 cloth.

Statesman. By Plato, edited by Julia Annas and Robin Waterfield, translated by Robin Waterfield (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) xxix + 89 pp. £9.95/$14.95 paper £27.95/$39.95 cloth.

Comte After Positivism. By Robert C. Scharff (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995) 227 + xvi pp.

Philosophical Arguments. By Charles Taylor (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995) xii + 318 pp. $35.00 cloth.

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