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Presents books written by authors with a emphasis on the culture of public credit while excoriating it in favor of the landed interest. "The Discourse of the Sublime: Readings in History, Aesthetics and the Subject," by Peter De Bolla; "Writings and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century," by Colin Nicholson; "Models of Value: Eighteenth-Century Political Economy and the Novel," by James Thompson.

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 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]

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 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]

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 main substance of this paper is the postscript of a book currently awaiting publication ‘Life in a Kam Village in Southwest China, 1930 – 1949’. The book was written by a Kam professor and then translated into English. In this paper, the translator first introduces the forthcoming book and presents some Chinese historical background to contextualize the story of the postscript. In his postscript, the author briefly describes the culture of the village where he was born and lived for 20 years, before leaving in 1950. The author's father died in 1944, but his mother lived for more than 20 years after Liberation in 1949. By reference to his four return visits between 1964 and 1990 and in particular to his mother's post-Liberation experiences, the author outlines how the inter-personal and material culture of his home village changed irrevocably during the second half of the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In The whale caller, published in 2005, Mda has cast his net, literally as it were, off the Cape coast for his thematic framework. Although the title of his fifth novel accords centre stage to its human protagonist, the presence of the southern right whale, christened Sharisha by the whale caller, vies for equal space with the protagonist and his mistress Saluni. Marshalling the precepts of Jacques Derrida, Victor Turner, and not least of all Coleridge, this paper proposes to explore the uncanny relationship of the whale caller and Sharisha, whose annual dalliance in the bay of Hermanus gives meaning and identity to her surrogate human lover. In problematizing this relationship between the human and the non-human, this paper attempts to come to grips with the ontology of human and non-human relationships in general, and with the relationship between the whale caller and Sharisha in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the relationship between photography, sculpture and language in La Mort et les statues, a book co-published by Pierre Jahan and Jean Cocteau in 1946. The book comprises Jahan's photographs of the destruction of bronze statues that had been requisitioned for scrap metal during the Second World War. While the imagery commemorates violence done to the landscape, the addition of Cocteau's commentaries transforms documentary realism into surreal effect. The book is discussed in the context of the wider artistic output of its authors. It is argued that Cocteau's participation in the project constituted an important public statement about his immediate political past, including his support of Arno Breker. When viewed in the light of other documentary photography of the Second World War, the book stands as a unique construction of cultural memory and a powerful personal statement by a photographer and a poet with contrasting artistic styles and motives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Phelan, William. (2012) What Is Sui Generis About the European Union? Costly International Cooperation in a Self-Contained Regime. International Studies Review, doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2012.01136.x It is widely agreed that the EU is a sui generis international organization, but current scholarship rarely specifies why. This paper identifies the EU as a 'self-contained regime', a treaty institution that imposes costly requirements on its member states but rejects the use of inter-state countermeasure and reciprocity mechanisms. As a self-contained regime, the EU is a puzzle because international relations theory emphasizes the importance of inter-state countermeasures as incentives for states to fulfill costly obligations, as is illustrated by scholarly debates on the politics of both trade and human rights regimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kadercan, Burak. (2012) Military Competition and the Emergence of Nationalism: Putting the Logic of Political Survival into Historical Context. International Studies Review, doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2012.01135.x This essay aims to make a contribution to the conversation between IR and nationalism literatures by considering a particular question: What is the relationship between interstate military competition and the emergence of nationalism as a potent force in world politics? The conventional wisdom among international security scholars, especially neorealists, holds that nationalism can be more or less treated like a 'technology' that allowed states to extract significant resources as well as manpower from their respective populations. This paper underlines some of the problems involved with this perspective and pushes forward an interpretation that is based on the logic of political survival. I argue that nationalism's emergence as a powerful force in world politics followed from the 'mutation' and absorption of the universalistic/cosmopolitan republican ideas that gained temporary primacy in Europe during the eighteenth century into particularistic nationalist ideologies. This transformation, in turn, can be best explained by the French Revolution's dramatic impacts on rulers' political survival calculi vis-à-vis both interstate and domestic political challenges. The analysis offered in this essay contributes to our understanding of the relationship between IR and nationalism while also highlighting the potential value of the political survival framework for exploring macrohistorical puzzles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite its admirable bottom-up methodology, Roy Sorensen's Seeing Dark Things (OUP, 2008) raises difficult theoretical questions concerning the metaphysics and perception of absences. Metaphysical difficulties include how to individuate, count, locate, and classify absences, and what determines their features. Perceptual difficulties include how to distinguish experiences of absences and presences, especially when nonveridical, and what subjects contribute to perceptual experience according to Sorensen's causal theory. In addition to articulating these difficulties, this paper also presents and explores, on Sorensen's terms, an alternative account of silence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his book A Secular Age, Charles Taylor appeals to the metaphysical-normative distinction between 'immanence' and 'transcendence' as definitive for post-Axial religion. On Taylor's view, therefore, those of us who embrace a fully secular modernity can be described as having abandoned 'transcendence' to take up our lives wholly within the confines of the immanent frame, though he grants we may seek alternative satisfactions or 'substitutes' for eternity. But the notion that any metaphysical-normative model of sacred experience can serve as an irresistible foundation is open to doubt if one recalls the Heideggerian insight that any metaphysical picture both reveals and conceals aspects of our experience. Taylor's own description of sacred and non-sacred experience within the immanent frame seems to rely upon this foundational distinction, without entertaining the possibility that the language itself may very well actually distort what our experience is like. This paper pursues the above objections to Taylor's argument, focusing special attention on the assumption that one can judge aesthetic experience (such as listening to a Beethoven string quartet) with the criteria we have inherited from post-Axial religion. The overwhelming authority of the Axial tradition might seem to validate questions such as, 'Is there an object?' or 'Is the experience purely immanent?' But to such questions we might respond that such language simply has no grip on the phenomena. Any such talk of 'substitution' might therefore be understood as an historical remnant in Taylor's book of the traditional monotheist's critique of idolatry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In their book Unto Others, Sober and Wilson argue that various evolutionary considerations (based on the logic of natural selection) lend support to the truth of psychological altruism. However, recently, Stephen Stich has raised a number of challenges to their reasoning: in particular, he claims that three out of the four evolutionary arguments they give are internally unconvincing, and that the one that is initially plausible fails to take into account recent findings from cognitive science and thus leaves open a number of egoistic responses. These challenges make it necessary to reassess the plausibility of Sober & Wilson's evolutionary account-which is what I aim to do in this paper. In particular, I try to show that, as a matter of fact, Sober & Wilson's case remains compelling, as some of Stich's concerns rest on a confusion, and those that do not are not sufficiently strong to establish all the conclusions he is after. The upshot is that no reason has been given to abandon the view that evolutionary theory has advanced the debate surrounding psychological altruism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Doing Without Concepts Edouard Machery New York: Oxford University Press, 2009 296 pages, ISBN: 0195306880 (hbk); $65.00 This paper offers a critical review of Edouard Machery's Doing Without Concepts, with a particular emphasis on an approach to concept individuation that is consistent with many of Machery's arguments but has the potential to avoid his eliminativist conclusion. The approach agrees with Machery's claims to the effect that prototypes, exemplars, theories (and so on) form a heterogeneous class, but construes these theoretical entities as implementing a unified, albeit coarse-grained, notion of a concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories, edited by Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2009 (xi and 529 pp., £135, $250). This paper reviews the contributions in The Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories, edited by Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp. The book's coverage is comprehensive in a conventional way. It emphasizes the significance of recent developments in theoretical and empirical regional analysis that have occurred in both neoclassical (convergence) and new economic geography (concentration) contexts. The role of knowledge spillovers in regional growth receives special attention. Given the recent advances in the field, and renewed interest in regional issues, it is time to expand the focus of analysis from relatively narrow production and distribution concerns, to broader ones that incorporate the effects of structural/sectoral, demographic, and environmental change on the future prospects of regional economies. Such an expansion would not only contribute to the theoretical richness of regional growth and development analysis, it would also do much to expand its utility in guiding public policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Michael Kenstowicz and George Akanlig-Pare: Studies in Buli Grammar. (Working Papers on Endangered and Less Familiar Languages, Volume 4). Cambridge: Department of Linguistics, 2003. $16. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Giovanni Dondi,Tractatus Astrarii(Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2003). Translation and critical edition by Emmanuel Poulle. 468 pp. hc. ISBN 2-600-00810-1.Bodil Branner; Jesper Lützen (eds.),Caspar Wessel: On the Analytical Representation of Direction(Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1999). 143 pp. pb. DKK 500. ISBN 87-7876-158-1.Jesper Luuml;tzen (ed.),Around Caspar Wessel and the Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers(Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2001). 293 pp. pb. DKK 300. ISBN 87-7876-236-7.Frank A.J.L. James (ed.),‘The Common Purposes of Life’: Science and society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002). 472 pp.£55. hc. ISBN 7546-0960-X.Anastasios Brenner,Les origines françaises de la philosophie des sciences(Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2003). 224 pp. ISBN 2-13-053150-4.David Knight,Science and Spirituality: The Volatile Connection(London: Routledge,2003). 230 pp. pb.£18.99. ISBN 0-415-25769-7.Sungook Hong,Wireless: From Marconi's Black Box to the Audion(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001). 248 pp. hc.$34.95 /£23.50. ISBN 0-262-08298-5.Peter J. Ramberg,Chemical Structure, Spatial Arrangement: The Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874-1914(London: Ashgate, 2003). 424 pp. hc.£57.50. ISBN 0-7546-0397-0.Jean-François Stoffel,Le phénoménalisme problématique de Pierre Duhem, Brussels (Académie royale de Belgique) 2002. 392 pp. Eur. 32 pb. ISBN 2-8031-0190-4.Rienk Vermij,The Calvinist Copernicans:The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575-1750(Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2002). 433 pp. hc. EUR 49. ISBN 90-6984-340-4.Alois Kernbauer (ed.),Die‘klinische Chemie’ Jahre 1850. Johann Florian Heller Berichtüber seine Studienreise in die deutschen Länder, in die Schweiz, nach Frankreich und Belgien im Jahre 1850(Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002). 192 pp. EUR 34. ISBN 3-515-08122-4.Ursula Klein,Experiments, Models, Paper Tools. Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003). xi+305 pp. hc. ISBN 0-8047-4359-2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: Gerald M. Meier and Joseph E. Stiglitz, Frontiers of Development Economics: The Future in Perspective. Achille Mbembe, On The Postcolony. Oswaldo de Rivero, The Myth of Development: The Non-Viable Economies of the 21st Century. Irma T. Alonso, Caribbean Economies in the Twenty-first Century. John Foran, The Future of Revolutions: Rethinking Radical Change in the Age of Globalization. Noreena Hertz, The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy. K. S. Jomo, Southeast Asian Paper Tigers? From Miracle to Debacle and Beyond. Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability. Stephen Baron, John Field and Tom Schuller, Social Capital:Critical Perspectives. Ben Fine, Social Capital versus Social Theory:Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millennium. Christiaan Grootaert and Thierry van Bastelaer, The Role of Social Capital in Development: An Empirical Assessment. Tim Campbell, The Quiet Revolution: Decentralization and the Rise of Political Participation in Latin American Cities. Max Spoor, Transition,Institutions, and the Rural Sector. Roger Jeffery and Bhaskar Vira, Conflict and Co-operation in Participatory Natural Resource Management. Kevin P. Gallagher and Jacob Werksman, The Earthscan Reader on International Trade and Sustainable Development. Michael Edwards and Alan Fowler, The Earthscan Reader on NGO Management. Imrana Qadeer, Kasturi Sen and K. R. Nayar, Public Health and the Poverty of Reforms: The South Asian Predicament. Aidan Cox, Steen Folke, Lau Schulpen and Neil Webster, Do the Poor Matter Enough? A Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India. Norman Long, Development Sociology: Actor Perspectives. [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]

My main reason for wanting to read this book was to find out what a well-known publicist from the world of OO would have to say about the state of the art of domain specific languages (DSLs), in particular when it comes to type error feedback, functional programming, and the combination. As most readers will be aware, languages like Scheme and Haskell are very well suited to embed DSLs in: Scheme can be considered a core language to which new language facilities can be easily added by means of hygienic syntax macro's (Abelson et al. 1998), and there are so many papers on embedded DSLs in Haskell (Hudak, 1998), that any realistic selection would aggravate more people than I would please. Great was my disappointment when I read on page XXV that these topics were not discussed at all in the book. Although I can imagine that Fowler does not feel comfortable writing about subjects he is not sufficiently at home with, the question does arise whether the title of this book is sufficiently covered by its contents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Myth, Telos, Identity: The Tragic Schema in Greek and Shakespearean Drama. By Iván Nyusztay (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2002), 202 pp. $45.00/£24.85 paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This book collects together papers presented at a colloquium where scholars in the fields of biblical exegesis, Hebrew lexicography and cognitive linguistics reflected on the wisdom poem in Job 28. Some of the contributions are fairly standard approaches to the biblical text (though no less valuable for that!) by well-known biblical scholars; others are rather technical linguistic studies with little or no explicit connection to Job 28, written by eminent linguists. A number of chapters -- by both biblical scholars and linguists -- are explicitly inter-disciplinary. Overall the book helps those of us engaged in Biblical Studies to engage with cognitive linguistics and demonstrates something of the value of such inter-disciplinary work for better understanding of how biblical texts 'work' as well as what they 'mean'. This is a valuable volume, but is rather heavy going at times for those not well acquainted with cognitive linguistics. [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]

Ernest B. Hook (Ed.). Prematurity in Scientific Discovery: On Resistance and Neglect . Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2002. xx + 378 pp. $80.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-520-23106-6. Margaret P. Munger (Ed.). The History of Psychology: Fundamental Questions . New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xi + 514 pp. $69.95 (paper). ISBN 0-19-515154-2. James Moor (Ed.). The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence . Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. ix + 445 pp. $37.00 (paper). ISBN: 1-4020-1205-5. John P. Jackson Jr. (Ed.). Science, Race, and Ethnicity: Readings from Isis and Osiris . Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. 452 pp. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-226-38934-0. $27.00 (paper). ISBN 0-226-38935-9. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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.

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]

Objective To determine the prevalence of potential dosing errors of medication dispensed to children for 22 common medications. Study design The investigators used automated pharmacy data from three health maintenance organizations. Children were eligible if they were less than 17 years old at the time of dispensing. The investigators randomly selected up to 120 children with a new dispensing prescription for each drug of interest, giving 1933 study subjects. Errors were defined as potential overdoses or potential under-doses. The error rate in two health maintenance organizations that use paper prescriptions was compared with one health maintenance organization that uses an electronic prescription writer. Results Approximately 15% of children were dispensed a medication with a potential dosing error: 8% were potential overdoses and 7% were potential under-doses. Among children weighing less than 35 kg, only 67% of doses were dispensed within recommended dosing ranges, and more than 1% were dispensed at more than twice the recommended maximum dose. Analgesics were most likely to be potentially overdosed (15%), whereas anti-epileptics were most likely potentially under-dosed (20%). Potential error rates were not lower at the site with an electronic prescription writer. Conclusions Potential medication dosing errors occur frequently in outpatient paediatrics. Studies on the clinical impact of these potential errors and effective error prevention strategies are needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This collection of articles represents papers read at the conference on "Mission in the Former Soviet Union" held in February 2003 at the International Baptist Seminary in Prague. The articles analyse the historical background and the praxis of Evangelical mission, as it began soon after the opening-up of the Soviet Union through Michail Gorbachov. Of special interest might be the articles by W. W. Sawatsky dealing with the question of missionary dialogue in the CIS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The collection of essays presents the papers which were given at the second European conference of orthodox and western exegetes in 2001. Catholic, Protestant and Eastern Orthodox exegetes as well as a Jewish representative met in the Bulgarian monastery of Rila. The them of the conference was ‚the Old Testament as Christian bible'. The 15 essays deals with 4 subject areas: the OT in the Christian tradition, the OT in the New Testament and in ancient Judaism, the canon of the OT, and messianic texts and their Christian meaning. Biblical Interpretation and Hermeneutics of various faith-traditions were clearly worked out in the contributions. The increasing insight into the deficiency of the literary-historical approach in view of theology and proclamation contributes, according to the contributors, to an openness to seek and open up new ways for exegesis [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces the publication of "Nature Milestones in Gene Expression." It is a supplement representing a collaborative effort between Nature journals. It covers key papers that reported groundbreaking finding in transcription, chromatin, and epigenetic, against the backdrop of established views at the time of their publication and their impact on the evolution of the field.