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Paper Tangos Author: Julie Taylor Publisher: Public Planet Books, Duke University Press, 1998 ISBN: 0-8223-2191-2 [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]

Second Language Learning Theories (2nd ed.). Rosamond Mitchell and Florence Myles. London: Arnold, 2004. Pp. xiii + 303. $21.95 paper.According to one authority, there are over 20 theories of SLA. This book attempts to help students without a substantial background in linguistics make sense of this diverse field by explaining and relating the most important of these. The second edition updates the original by dropping or shortening the discussion of older theories (Schumann's, 1986, acculturation model is now discussed in the chapter on historical antecedents) and updating the discussion of others (the expanded chapter on Vygotsky is particularly good). Chapter 1 contains a discussion of what an adequate theory of SLA would look like, pointing out, for example, the distinction between a property theory like Universal Grammar (UG) and a transition theory like connectionism; this distinction is referred to throughout the book. Chapter 2 offers a valuable account of the historical development of the SLA field, which includes discussions of behaviorism and the monitor model. Again, this preliminary groundwork is referred to in subsequent chapters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: PAPERS IN HONOR OF HENNING WODE. Petra Burmeister, Thorsten Piske, and Andreas Rohde (Eds.). Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2002. Pp. xxv + 552. 40.00 € paper.Wode's lifetime of scholarship can be divided loosely into three general research areas, each of which comprises one section of this edited volume: theory-building in first (L1) and second (L2) language acquisition, the development of speech production and perception skills in L1 and L2, and immersion education and foreign language teaching. This first area of work, dating from the 1970s and early 1980s, draws in part from Wode's detailed analysis of the language of his four young children. The second, initiated in 1989 with Pieper, stems from a large-scale study of early phonological development. Finally, the third, begun in the wake of European integration, came out of his work to support immersion programs and language learning in preschools and elementary and secondary institutions. [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]

Ngessimo M. Mutaka and Sammy B. Chumbow (eds.): Research Mate in African Linguistics: Focus on Cameroon. A fieldworker’s tool for deciphering the stories Cameroonian languages have to tell. In honor of Larry N. Hyman. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2001, xvi + 359 pp. EUR 75.67. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Eliminating World Poverty: Building Our Common Future. By the UK Department for International Development. [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]

Presents several books. "Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Scripture in Puritan New England," by Lisa M. Gordis; "Moses in America: The Cultural Uses of Biblical Narrative," by Melanie J. Wright; "Everyday Apocalypse: The Secret Revealed in Radiohead," by David Dark.

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 presents a philosophical reading of “ The Idiot”, which perceives its main protagonist, Prince Myshkin, as a literary hero who chooses the path of generosity. The paper exposes Dostoevsky’s generosity-ethics against the background of Christian ethics, virtue ethics, and the Nietzschean notion of generosity; it further analyzes the problematic aspects of Myshkin’s version of generosity-ethics, and discusses several possible explanations of its catastrophic outcomes in the novel. The paper consists of three parts. The first part presents the rich and profound sense that Dostoevsky gives to generosity-ethics in the novel, while showing the good it may bring to one’s life. The second part exposes the dangers and the limits of generosity-ethics, because of which the Prince may be referred to as “an idiot”. The third and final part reevaluates generosity-ethics, discusses its relation to reason, and puts forth another version of generosity-ethics that may overcome most of the flaws in Myshkin’s generosity. Offering such a philosophical reading of this great literary work of art, the paper also says some things about the relation between philosophy and literature, and aims at a fruitful dialogue between the two. [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]

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]

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]

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]

Philanthropy and Social Change in Latin America, edited by Cynthia Sanborn and Felipe Portocarrero. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 480 pp., $24.95 paper. New Patterns for Mexico: Observations on Remittances, Philanthropic Giving, and Equitable Development, edited by Barbara J. Merz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 312 pp., $19.95 paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most of the titles reviewed in this section of Ibis are available for reference at the Alexander Library of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK. The library is open to BOU members, Monday to Friday (09:00–17:00 h). Please write or telephone (+44 (0)1865 271 143) prior to your visit to ensure the library is open. The aim of the Alexander Library is to build up a comprehensive collection of literature as a service to ornithologists. Its holdings include an extensive range of periodicals and a large number of reprints drawn from many sources: additional reprints of readers’ papers are always welcome. The library has always greatly benefited from its close relationship with the BOU. For a number of years, all journals received in exchange for Ibis have been deposited in the library, as also, through the generosity of reviewers, are most of the books sent for review. In return, as a service to readers, this review section of Ibis is organized and edited by Dr M.L. Birch and Dr B. Sheldon of the Edward Grey Institute, with the help of a panel of contributors. They are always grateful for offers of further assistance with reviewing, especially with foreign language titles. Part of the cost of this book review section has been subsidized by Subbuteo Natural History Books. Subbuteo are an international mail-order book company stocking over 2000 titles covering all natural and environmental sciences. They can also source titles from around the world. Titles reviewed here can be ordered from Subbuteo and payment can be accepted by credit card or cheques in £/$. Postage, packing and insurance is £1.99 per order. International postage is charged at cost; please contact them for a quote. To order a book or to request the full 2003–4 catalogue please contact: Subbuteo Natural History Books Ref. 0252, The Rea, Upton Magna, Shrewsbury SY4 4UR, UK. Tel: 0870 010 9700 Fax: 0870 010 9699. Email: Website: [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Olav Arnfinn Laudal; Ragni Piene (eds.), The Legacy of Niels Henrik Abel. The Abel Bicentennial, reviewed by Henrik Kragh Sørensen Michael Weichenhan, “Ergo perit coelum...” Die Supernova des Jahres 1572 und die Überwindung der aristotelischen Kosmologie, Boethius. Texte und Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften, vol. 49, reviewed by Charlotte Methuen [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]