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A list of books this magazine has received from January to March 2006 is presented. Included are "Xul Solar: Visions and Revelations," by Patricia M. Artundo, Jorge Schwartz and Daniel Nelson; "Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life," by Pieter Biesboer; and "The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display in France after 1968," by Rebecca J. Deroo.

A list of art related books from September-December 2006 is presented. "Else/where: Mapping," edited by Janet Abrams and Peter Hall is listed. "Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents," by Dawn Ades and Simon Baker is featured. "Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice," by Juliette Aristides is also mentioned.

Presents a list of books concerning African Americans. "Pan-African History: Political Figures From Africa & the Diaspora Since 1787," by Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood; "Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader," edited by Jana Evans Braziel and Anita Mannur; "Race, Racism & Reparations," by J. Angelo Corlett.

This paper examines chronic poverty in the developing country context within the entitlement theory approach. The dialogue on entitlement theory originally introduced by Sen is extended here to explore poverty and its persistence, or chronic poverty. A conceptual framework is presented, in which poverty and its persistence are explained within the context of the individual's economic and non-economic situation and development incentives. These attributes are influenced by the individual's entitlements. It is shown that poor endowments and resource base are important causes of persistent poverty. Policies aimed at reducing poverty therefore must address problems associated with improving the entitlements of individuals and households. The definition of ‘entitlements’ in the paper is not restricted to material possessions—the economic entitlements of the individual or the household—but is extended to incorporate the individual's skills, education and productive ability—the non-economic entitlements. The discussion is rooted in the increasing awareness of multidimensional poverty. The paper focuses on rural poverty in certain parts of India, where most of India's chronic poverty is situated. Over a million people can be classified as chronically poor in terms of duration, severity and deprivation. This is despite the government's commitment to the eradication of poverty since the early 1950s, with a total expenditure of nearly $7 billion in the past 50 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "A Long View of Research and Practice in Operations Research and Management Science: The Past and the Future" edited by Man Mohan S. Sodhi and Christopher S. Tang.

This paper begins with a brief description of the fundamental change in the way India is perceived today compared to its image in its early decades after independence - from a weak player in the international system to a potential great power in the twenty-first century. The author then places Edward Luce's In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India and Mira Kamdar's Planet India: How the World's Fastest Growing Democracy is Transforming America and the World within this changed perception of the India, and evaluates the arguments made by them. While Kamdar's book conveys the message that India is rising even as it has multiple challenges to overcome, it does not tell us much more. By contrast, Luce's excellent book presents the most definitive non-academic account of the rise of India by focusing on its economy, politics, society, and foreign policy. The paper also places India's "rise" in an historical context and shows that what we are witnessing is not just India's rise, but its recrudescence. The paper concludes by briefly discussing what a rising India seeks from the world and what kind of a power it wants to be. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the first part of this essay review (“ Bildung Between Human Value, Political Rhetoric and Historical Transformation”), the term Bildung is introduced and central questions for the review are raised. How can a term that is charged with the utopian hopes of enlightenment and the appropriation of these hopes by the rising middle class between 1770 and 1830 guide the current discourse on education? How can Bildung serve as a principle of contemporary educational practice? In the second part of this essay review (“Rewriting Bildung: The Place of a Normative Theory of Education”), I look at the rewriting of this idea in a collection of essays written by educational philosophers in Educating Humanity: Bildung in Postmodernity ( Løvlie, Mortensen, & Nordenbo, 2003 ). These authors present transformations of Bildung to cope with postmodern realities. I review these essays in terms of their potential to save human values against dehumanizing trends of postmodernity and globalization. In the third part of this essay, I examine the transformation of Bildung into educational practice via “ Bildung-centered Didaktik.” Two German Didaktik traditions are explained and the other two books, Looking Into Classrooms: Papers on Didactics ( Menck, 2002 ) and Teaching as Reflective Practice: The German Didaktik Tradition ( Westbury, Hopmann, & Riquarts, 2000 ), are reviewed with respect to their role for the contemporary discourse on Didaktik and their contribution to classroom practice. The relationship between Bildung and curriculum serves as a background to several of the papers. I also discuss the role of Bildung and Didaktik for teacher education and confront the books’ theoretical ideas with current issues of educational reform. Finally, I present a discussion of the different approaches and my own conclusions. They include arguments to defend a utopian and partly idealist concept against managerial approaches to education that restrict themselves to performativity and effectiveness. My conclusions also underline the need for rewriting Bildung in the late modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A list of books related to sex is presented. Included are "Genetics and Social Structure," edited by Paul Ballanoff, "Values in Sexuality: A New Approach to Sex Education," by Eleanor S. Morrison and Mila U. Price and "Male Homosexuality: Their Problems and Adaptations," by Martin S. Weinberg and Colin J. Williams.

The article reviews the art exhibition "In the Network of Modernism: Kirchner, Braque, Kandinsky, Klee... Richter, Bacon, Altenbourg and Their Critic Will Grohmann," which featured works by various artists including Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Gerhard Richter, held at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in Dresden, Germany, from September 7, 2012 through January 6, 2013. The books "Im Netzwerk der Moderne: Kirchner, Braque, Kandinsky, Klee, Richter, Bacon, Altenbourg und ihr Kritiker Will Grohmann," edited by Konstanze Rudert and "Will Grohmann: Texte zur Kunst der Moderne," edited by Konstanze Rudert and Volkmar Billig.

The article reviews the book "Elements of Information Theory" by Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas.

An essay is presented which examines the representation of African oral law in the book "The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta," by Montagu Slater. It explores the status of the book in issues between oral culture and colonial literature culture in Africa which involves literal electronic amplification. It offers brief overview of the history of militant liberation movement Mau Mau and determines the law that confronts orality in the trial of Kenyan nationalist leader Jomo kenyatta.

Jacqueline Best (2005) The Limits of Transparency: Ambiguity and the History of International Finance, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Pepper D. Culpepper (2003) Creating Cooperation: How States Develop Human Capital in Europe, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several books including "Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention," edited by James F. Keenan, "Doing Theology and Development: Meeting the Challenge of Poverty," by Romy Tiongco and Sarah White, and "Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis," by Haideh Moghissi.

Nicholas Beattie, The Freinet Movements of France, Italy, and Germany, 1920–2000: Versions of Educational Progressivism. Terence Copley, Indoctrination, Education and God: The Struggle for the Mind. Fred Inglis (ed.), Education and the Good Society. Christopher Winch and John Gingell, Philosophy and Educational Policy: A Critical Introduction. Denis Lawton, Education and Labour Party Ideologies 1900–2001 and Beyond. Richard Willis, The Struggle for the General Teaching Council. Tony Gallagher, Education in Divided Societies. Andrew Goodwyn and Andrew Stables, Learning to Read Critically in Language and Literacy. Bridget Somekh and Cathy Lewin (eds), Research Methods in the Social Sciences. Peter K. Smith, Debra Pepler and Ken Rigby (eds), Bullying in Schools: How Successful Can Interventions Be? J. Ahier, J. Beck and R. Moore, Graduate Citizens? Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education. Audrey Osler and Hugh Starkey (eds), Citizenship and Language Learning: International Perspectives. Felicity Armstrong and Michele Moore (eds), Action Research for Inclusive Education: Changing Places, Changing Practices, Changing Minds. Dennis Hayes (ed.), The RoutledgeFalmer Guide to Key Debates in Education. Thomas S. Weisner (ed.), Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development: Mixed Methods in the Study of Childhood and Family Life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews are presented of books, articles and blog posts including "The Little Black Book of Innovation," by Scott Anthony, "The Perils of Best Practice: Should You Imitate Apple?" by Maria Capozzi, Ari Kellen and Sven Smit published in the September 2012 issue of "McKinsey Quarterly" and a 2010 blog post on the Website "The Hawthorne Effect" at http://thehawthorneeffect.com by advertising executive Bill Evans.

The article reviews the 2010-2011 exhibition "Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936," held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, and the accompanying catalogue "Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936," edited by Kenneth E. Silver.

Presents several books on education. "The Managerial Approach to Tertiary Education: A Critical Analysis," by B. Baron; "The Tutor," by K. Blackburn; "The Perceptual World of the Child," by T. Bower; "The Little Ed Book," by G. Claxton; Others.