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This paper treats the articles as represented in A.E. Housman: Classical Scholar. Since Housman wrote on a wide variety of ancient authors, the numerous areas of expertise in which he engaged are noted and examined by a cadre of scholars who are marked by eminence. Each of these papers is summarily critiqued in the following review-essay. Moreover notation of two distinct pathways toward original studies of Housman's rigorous scholarship are then supplied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 "Primary Prevention by Nutrition Intervention in Infancy and Childhood: Nestlé Nutrition Workshop Series Pediatric Program," Volume 57, edited by A. Lucas and H. A. Sampson.

During the summer of 2006, over four hundred Catholic ethicists from around the world gathered for four days in Padua, Italy. About sixty of the conference papers have become available in two edited collections, Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church: The Plenary Papers from the First Cross-cultural Conference on Catholic Theological Ethics, and Applied Ethics in a World Church: The Padua Conference. As the conference was marked by a distinctive and creative tension-between the diversity which characterized the nationalities and cultural identities of the participants, on the one hand, and the commonness of their religious heritage, on the other-these essays can tell us much about contemporary Catholic ethics in its response to global pluralism. The following develops four reflections. First, the conference papers pursue a style of scholarship that is at once critically creative and ecclesially rooted. Second, the conference raises new concerns about the importance that Christian formation must have in a pluralist world. Third, the participants affirm and defend the ultimate universality of moral goods while also arguing that these goods are expressed and embodied in unavoidably particular ways. Finally, the most important contribution that Catholic ethics can make to public conversations about issues of common concern is through its articulation and defense of key human values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

This paper is a review essay of three books representing new research into the relationship between Cold War mobilization and postwar American political development: Michael Hogan, A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954 (Cambridge University Press, 1998); Guy Oakes, The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture (Oxford University Press, 1994); and Peter Trubowitz, Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy (University of Chicago Press, 1998). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mind and Social Practice: Selected Writings of Sylvia Scribner. Ethel Tobach, Rachel Joffe Falmagne, Mary Brown Parlee, Laura M. W. Martin, and Aggie Scribner Kapelman, eds. New York Cambridge University Press, 1997. 425 pp. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teaching LA Wyers' Skills [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Christopher Endy. Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France. Chapel Hill, NC and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 286 pp. $49.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Andrew J. Deroche. Andrew Young: Civil Rights Ambassador. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2003. xxiii + 193 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. $65.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section is maintained by Vladik Kreinovich. Please send your abstracts (or copies of papers that you want to see reviewed here) to vladik@utep.edu, or by regular mail to: Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Role of State Departments of Education in Complex School Reform. Susan Lusi. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997. 217 pp. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Financial Services Yearbook," Volume One, edited by Robert L. Kemper.

This article presents information about several books related to economics. "Economic and Social Problems of the Machine Age," by A.B. Anthony attempts to discuss economic problems as the continued recurrence of industrial depression; the conservation of national resources; inequality in the distribution of wealth; industrial combinations and monopolies; and dangerous economic international rivalries. Necessarily this reduces the discussion to the briefest of summaries. "American Standards and Planes of Living," by T.D. Eliot is made up of an introduction and nearly two hundred selections on consumption grouped under fourteen heads. To each section is appended a long list of additional references. "World Workers' Educational Movements: Their Social Significance," by M. Hansome is on the basis of a study of 67 workers' educational enterprises, grouped according to their emphasis-cooperative, trade union, political, cultural, or integration. The author discusses the general character and problems of workers' education and its social implications.

Oxford University Press; 2011; XXIV+478 pages; US$79.95; ISBN 978-0-19-956877-2 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Reviews two books on communication. "Communicating Science--The Scientific Article From the 17th Century to the Present," by A.G. Gross, J.E. Harmon and M. Reidy; "Mountain Flowers: A Field Guide to the Flora of the Drakensberg and Lesotho," by E. Pooley.

The article focuses on the book "Operational Research '90," edited by Hugh E. Bradley. The book is a compendium of 67 papers from the twelfth IFORS international conference on operational research held in Athens, Greece during June 1990, in which 500 papers were presented. This volume offers three areas of interest to readers of Transportation Science: technical papers related to transportation and location; the broader theme of the role and practice of operations research (OR) and accounts of the status of OR in specific countries, with special emphasis on developing countries. The paper presents an iterative solution procedure for the case of a single stack and notes the added complexity of multiple stacks. The allocation is based on a game theoretic interpretation that requires multi-period capacitated network design programs to be solved. Vehicle routing is represented in three papers. A. Lukka and M. Lukka give a summary account of a simulation model designed to assess the benefits of combining local dispatching operations.

Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood. Shirley R. Steinberg and Joe L. Kincheloe, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. 270 pp. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on some books on agriculture, mining, forestry and fisheries. Some of these books include "Oil Fields in the United States," by W.A. Ver Wiebe, "Petroleum Coke: An Economic Survey of Its Production and Uses," by E.B. Swanson, "Cooperative Marketing of Fluid Milk," by H. Metzger, "Petroleum Refinery Statistics, 1928," by C.R. Hopkins, "Economic and Social Aspects of Federal Reclamation," by D. Lampen, "My Experience As a Miner," by A. Stenbock-Fermor and "Principles of Agricultural Credit," by V.P. Lee.

The article reviews the exhibition "Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit" at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from January 28 to April 15, 2012, also shown at the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, as well as the book "Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit," edited by Anna O. Marley.

Bloomsbury Press, New York, USA; 2009; 288 pages; ISBN 978-1608190553 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews both periodicals and books focused on the theory and philosophy of history including the Volume XLVIII, the four 2009 issues of the journal "History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History," as well as the books "What if? Counterfactualism and the Problem of History," by Jeremy Black, and "At the Limits of History: Essays on Theory and Practice," by Keith Jenkins.

These three books have little in common; that they make an appearance in one review is pure coincidence. Lynn Garafola employs analytical dance historical methods with an acute sense of the implications of theoretical frameworks, Ivor Guest provides an example of empiricist scholarship as does Marina Grut. The latter believes in history as an accumulation of rich documentation that is self-selecting (through time) and self-evident as well as self-explanatory (through its written content). Guest focuses on an institution that came to represent an era of dance whereas Grut writes about an institution that happened to represent a national empire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Though Ronald Dworkin has directed his most recent book, Is Democracy Possible Here?, at a lay audience, its accessibility gives academics an opportunity to consider his more philosophically rigorous works with fresh eyes. In particular, it gives us a chance to re-evaluate Dworkin's distinction between principles and policies and to reconsider the place of arguments of virtue in his theory of constitutional interpretation. Furthermore, we are better able to understand various cases and doctrines in constitutional criminal procedure when we acknowledge the role of arguments of virtue in legal debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The topic of divine action has been central to the theology-and-science discussion over the last twenty years. Some tentative conclusions are currently being drawn in light of research initiatives that have been engaged on this topic. I review three recent books that have responded in some way to the ongoing discussion. These responses show that, notwithstanding the advances made in the conversation, much work remains to be done before a plausible theory of divine action emerges at the interface of theology and science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freakonomics is more about entertainment than it is a serious attempt at popularization. Consequently, rather than conduct a comprehensive fact check, I use the book as a springboard for a broader inquiry into social science research and take issue with the book's surprising premise that Economics is a science with excellent tools for gaining answers but a serious shortage of interesting questions. Using examples from Freakonomics, I argue that some of the questions the book addresses are uninteresting because it is impossible to even imagine what a good answer would look like. I conclude with some thoughts about the role of economic theory in generating interesting questions and/or answers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a review of the book "Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning," by David H. Rose and Anne Meyer.

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]