Books reviewed in this issue. Jews, Christians and the Abode of Islam: Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities. By Jacob Lassner Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin. By Emily O'Gorman Roving Mariners: Australian Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Ocean, 1790-1870. By Lynette Russell Phillip Parker King 1791- 1856: A Most Admirable Australian. By Brian Douglas Abbott, with a Foreword by Paul Brunton Men and Manliness on the Frontier: Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By Robert Hogg Larrikins: A History. By Melissa Bellanta In the Shadow of Gallipoli: The Hidden History of Australia in World War I. By Robert Bollard Kitty's War: The Remarkable Wartime Experiences of Kit McNaughton. By Janet Butler Australia and the World Crisis, 1914-1923: Volume 2: A History of Australian Defence and Foreign Policy. By Neville Meaney Looking After One's Own: The Rise of Nationalism and the Politics of the Neuendettelsauer Mission in Australia, New Guinea and Germany (1921-1933). By Christine Winter W. Macmahon Ball: Politics for the People. By Ai Kobayashi Immigrants Turned Activists: Italians in 1970s Melbourne. By Simone Battiston Australia and the United Nations. Edited by James Cotton and David Lee Transforming a 'White Australia': Issues of Racism and Immigration. By Laksiri Jayasuriya Australia's Asia: from Yellow Peril to Asian Century. Edited by David Walker and Agnieszka Sobocinska Roddy's Folly: R. P. Meagher QC - Art Lover and Lawyer. By Damien Freeman Middle Power Dreaming: Australia in World Affairs, 2006-2010. Edited by James Cotton and John Ravenhill Inclusive Growth in Australia: Social Policy as Economic Investment. Edited by Paul Smyth and John Buchanan Violent Victorians. Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London. By Rosalind Crone India and the British Empire: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series. Edited by Douglas M. Peers and Nandini Gooptu The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire. By Giordano Nanni G.K. Chesterton: A Biography. By Ian Ker The Crisis of Theory. E.P. Thompson, the New Left and Postwar British Politics. By Scott Hamilton The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History. Edited by Dan Stone Moscow, 1937. By Karl Schlögel, translated by Rodney Livingstone It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway. Russia and the Communist Past. By David Satter The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, The Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s. By Richard Wolin Wood: A History. By Joachim Radkau, trans. Patrick Camiller The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War. By James Q. Whitman Egypt and the Origin of Civilization: The British School of Culture Diffusion, 1890s-1940s. By Joshua Smith [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]