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The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "The Prelude," by William Wordsworth, focusing on the section "Cambridge and the Alps" in Book 6 of the poem. It examines the role of the poem in determining biographical information about Wordsworth from the summer of 1790, when he and friend Robert Jones traveled in Europe and the Alps. The author discusses the poem in light of cartography and a letter written from Wordsworth to his sister during the European tour.

The article presents information about paper "Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family: Papers Presented at a Colloquium Hosted by the University of Richmond, March 18-19, 2000," edited by Robert Drews. These exemplarily edited conference proceedings are thought-provoking and richly informative. Writer Cohn Renfrew reaffirms and updates his own 1973 theory that Proto-Indo-European accompanied the diffusion of farming into Europe, splitting from PIH in Anatolia. Scholar Peter Kuniholm observes that, according to dendrochronological evidence, Anatolia's high settlement density over time is compatible with Renfrew's theory.

Reviews the book 'Dams in a European Context,' edited by G.H. Midtomme, B. Honningsvag, K. Repp. K. Vaskinn and T. Westeren.

The article reviews the book "Islam in Inter-War Europe," edited by Nathalie Clayer and Eric Germain.

The article reviews the book "Resorts and Ports: European Seaside Towns Since 1700," edited by Peter Borsay and John K. Walton.

The reduction of non-wage labour costs has become a top priority of virtually all social insurance reforms in the European Union. This paper starts out by discussing the levers politicians can theoretically manipulate to lower non-wage labour costs without undermining the equilibrium between revenue and expenditure in social security, focusing on pension schemes. After a discussion of general options open to policymakers, the paper discusses the reforms in Germany during the past decade, in particular the most recent pension reform that seeks to introduce a privately administered funded element into the statutory scheme. It concludes by critically assessing the extent to which this partial return to funding will allow the country to overcome the pending demographic crisis of social security, and by pointing to reform options that have not been considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Labour, Education and Society: New Forms of Work Organisation and Industrial Relations in Southern Europe," edited by Francesco Garibaldo and Volker Telljohan.

The article reviews the book "Singular Europe: Economy and Polity of the European Community After 1992," edited by William James Adams.

The article reviews the book "European Private Law--Current Status and Perspectives," edited by Reiner Schulze and Hans Schulte-Nölke.

Reviews the book 'Education in Europe: Sociological Research,' edited by M.A. Matthijssen and C.E. Vervoort.

The article reviews the book ``Health care reform and globalisation: The US, China and Europe in comparative perspective,'' edited by Peggy Watson.

The article reviews the book "The Globalisation Challenge for European Higher Education: Convergence and Diversity, Centres and Peripheries" edited by P. Zgaga, U. Teichler, and J. Brennan.

Reviews the book 'European Moslems: Economy and Ethnicity in Western Bosnia,' by William G. Lockwood.

Reviews the journal 'The European Physical Journal E--Soft Matter,' edited by A.M Donald, J.-F. Joanny, M. Moller, and G. Reiter.

The article reviews the textiles exhibitions "Katagami Style," held at the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo, Japan from April 6 through May 27, 2012, and one entitled "'The Stuff that Matters:' Textiles collected by Seth Siegelaub for the Centre for Social Research on Old Textiles" held in London, England March 1 through May 6, 2012.

The article reviews the book "European Private Law: Current Status and Perspectives," edited by Hans Schulte-Nölke and Reiner Schulze.

The article reviews the books "Essays in the History of Youth and Community Work: Discovering the Past," edited by R. Gilcrest, T. Jeffs, J. Spence, and J. Walker and "Amid Social Contradictions: Towards a History of Social Work in Europe," edited by G. Hauss and Dagmar Schulte.

The article reviews the book "Europe: The Strange Superpower," by David Buchan.

The article reviews the book "Pocket Guide to the European Community," by Dick Leonard.

Reviews three books on the history of towns in Europe. `Towns in Tudor and Stuart Britain,' by Sybil M. Jack; `Small Towns in Early Modern Europe,' edited by Peter Clark; `Markets, Market Culture and Popular Protest in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland,' edited by Adrian Randall and Andrew Charlesworth.

Reviews two books about the towns and cities in the Medieval Europe. `Death in Towns: Urban Responses to the Dying and the Dead,' edited by Steven Bassett; `City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe,' edited by Barbara A. Hanawalt and Kathryn L. Reyerson.

Rodney Wilson of Emeritus Professor, Durham University reviews, 'Islamic Finance in Europe: Towards a Plural Financial System' by Valentino Cattelan. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: 'Fifteen papers investigate Islamic finance in Europe as part of a plural financial system in the current age of globalization, through a multi- and interdisciplinary approach to law and economics. Papers discuss law as a kite-managing legal pluralism in the context of Islamic finance; a glimpse through the veil of Maya-Islamic finance and its truths on property rights; Islamic moral economy as the foundation of Islamic finance; financial stability and economic development-an Islamic perspective; Islamic banking contracts and the risk profile of Islamic banks; the economic impact of Islamic finance and the European Union; migrant banking in Europe-approaches, meanings, and perspectives; women's empowerment and Islam-open issues from the Arab world to Europe; Islamic banking in the EU legal framework; regulating Islamic financial institutions in the United Kingdom; Luxembourg-a leading domicile for Shari'ah compliant investments; managing Islamic finance vis-à-vis laïcité-the case of France; a critical view on Islamic finance in Germany; the development of Islamic banking in Turkey-regulation, performance, and political economy; and the move toward a plural financial system. Cattelan is Lecturer in Islamic Finance at the University of Rome ''Tor Vergata.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'The First European Revolution, c. 970-1215,' by R.I. Moore.

The article reviews the book "Rivalry and Conflict: European Traders and Asian Trading Networks in the 16th and 17th Centuries," edited by Ernst Van Veen and Leonard Blessé.

Reviews the book 'Jews and Christians in Twelfth-Century Europe,' edited by Michael A. Signer and John Van Engen.

Reviews the book "Consciousness and Class Experience in Nineteenth-Century Europe," edited by John M. Merriman.

Reviews the book 'Guide to the Archives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the Member States, of the European Communities and of the European Political Cooperation.'

Reviews the book 'European Integration and Industry,' edited by Malcolm Macmillan, David Mayers and Pieter van Veen.

Reviews the book 'The European Monetary System: Towards More Convergence and Closer Integration,' edited by Paul van den Bempt.