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A characteristically well-informed, erudite chapter by Margarita Díaz-Andreu reviews the development of archaeological theory in Gilman's American and British education and Iberian-American career. This luxurious book is composed mainly of papers delivered at a session in honor of distinguished Hispano-American archaeologist Antonio Gilman at the 2018 European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting in Barcelona. The scene for illuminating Gilman's principal contributions is set by Tim Earle and Kristian Kristiansen, who stress the role of "decentralized complexity" in the Germanic Mode of Production that characterized the European Bronze Age. [Extracted from the article]

Such thoughts are perhaps uppermost on a perusal of Peterson's full bibliography of literary publications and lectures, appended to the essays distinguished here. If this essay collection anticipated the anniversaries of the Kelmscott Press and its I Chaucer i by a year, it arrived just in time for the fuller appreciation of William Morris's influences and his legacy. A book more sumptuously styled by its author would not be as tasteful a tribute to Morris's foliated ornaments, ample margins, and Troy and Golden types; though not vellum, its pages are a pleasure to handle (and Morris preferred paper anyway). [Extracted from the article]

Discovering Snakes in Wild Places: Stories of Passion, Adventure and Science. Harvey Lillywhite has authored dozens of scientific papers, mostly focusing on snake physiology. [Extracted from the article]

Although this reviewer is not a student of public administration, Olaopa successfully takes what some might see as a niche issue and cogently connects it to the broader issues of social justice, human resource development, and economic empowerment on the continent. In sum, Olaopa adroitly demonstrates that Africa will never be ascendant until its collective bureaucracies free themselves from the chains imposed by external forces and from self-imposed maladies and limitations. Olaopa brings to bear a strong command of the theories of public administration, as well as the extant scholarship and research papers from government entities and think tanks. [Extracted from the article]

With democratization, the Taiwanese were able to freely express their Taiwanese identity, especially in opposition to efforts to bring Taiwan closer to China. This book derives from a wide-ranging conference on Taiwan at the University of Alberta from which the editors chose papers dealing with democratization and nation building. Ashley Esarey examines relevant events in the creation of the nation from the Japanese colonial period, through authoritarian Kuomintang (KMT) rule, and the democratization process up to the 2018 elections. [Extracted from the article]

Reminiscing about the origins of his lifelong interest in rare books and the Aldine press as a young classicist at Princeton, the renowned bibliophile brings a unique perspective from his thirty-plus-year career as an Aldine collector. Yet, he argues, sale catalogues offer a vantage point on the antiquarian book trade of the time, and therefore can lend significant support to the study of early printed editions - Aldine books in particular - providing unique insights into the changing "notions of rarity and collectability" over time and place (148). Luca Rivali begins the second part of the book with a broad survey of five centuries of Italian Aldine collecting. [Extracted from the article]

Milman summarizes in a highly readable style hundreds of recently published scientific papers, most pointing to the loss or reduction of insect populations around the world as a consequence of human activities. Chemical pesticides, introduced species, light pollution, and climate change follow as part of the array of insults our actions have inflicted on the insects of the world. [Extracted from the article]

One chapter in this book is dedicated to her mass of ballooning ephemera, and readers wanting still more can go to Kacie Wills and Erica Y. Hayes's www.sarahsophiabanks.com for a survey of her collection of African money. Russell, Gillian.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii, 304 pp. [Extracted from the article]

Making Archives in Early Modern Europe: Proof, Information, and Political Record-Keeping, 1400-1700 Second, Head carefully tracks the political and cultural attitudes toward the affordances of records that simultaneously contributed to and emerged from these shifting documentary practices. Head also highlights more successful projects, whose shared trait, he argues, was conceptual flexibility, usually enabled by the use of a registry system, something Head singles out as a key development of early modern Europe. [Extracted from the article]

Bearing in mind the rich body of work upon which the collection builds, the claims that this is "the first edited collection on book publishers that sold modernist texts to a wide range of readers across the Atlantic and elsewhere" or indeed that "publishers are nearly invisible in New Modernist Studies" are a little disingenuous (2). This backs up Jaillant's introduction, addressing how the Woolfs' publishing house "is really the only modernist publishing house to have received a thorough "material modernism" treatment by a variety of scholars" (71). "Few scholars and students of literature pay attention to book publishers", Jaillant argues in her polemical opening (1). [Extracted from the article]

Selby's book breaks the nearly complete silence of the past five decades regarding the Freedom Libraries' crucial role in civil rights history, not to mention American library history. Anyone directing a library, anyone working in a library, anyone using a library, and anyone paying taxes for library services should read this book. Selby avoids confining the Freedom Libraries and the Civil Rights Movement to the southern states. [Extracted from the article]

It is certainly possible to page through the book looking only at these 140 illustrations and their captions and to conclude that Loxley has succeeded admirably in painting a full and nuanced picture of Walker's life. This material was given by Walker to Sir Sydney Cockerell, then by Cockerell to Ronald C. H. Briggs, who in turn passed it on to Richard Mathews while they were working on I Sir Emory Walker: A Memoir i , which was eventually published in 2011. Among numerous other fruitful sources, Loxley has drawn heavily from material at Emery Walker's house at 7 Hammersmith Terrace and the Walker archives at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. [Extracted from the article]

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $100.00 (hardcover); $50.00 (paper). xiii + 221 p.; ill.; name and subject indexes. Edited by Maria Baker, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, and Paul Tyler. [Extracted from the article]

Benjamin Wardhaugh starts this section with an examination of the use of marks and more deliberate marginalia in 366 copies of eighteenth-century mathematical books; he finds approximately 85% of books bore varying evidence of use, which is likely an I under i count, particularly with respect to heavily annotated books, which are less likely to have been preserved than cleaner books. Together, these chapters expand our understanding of how university students and scholars - particularly those who would not go on to become professional mathematicians - encountered mathematics and engaged with mathematical books during the early modern period. Overall, this book is a thought-provoking collection of case studies that fulfills its subtitle's promise to explore the production, collection, and - most of all - use of early modern mathematical books. [Extracted from the article]