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What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming: Aurelia Campbell. I What the Emperor Built i is not a simple architectural history, but a reconstruction of how Yongle's architecture of power manifested in the Ming's built environment. Though not part of the statist ideological narrative, it remains an important example of how the Ming sought to preserve the Muslims' religion and identity, while safely amalgamating them into the Ming political ecumene. [Extracted from the article]

The perennial struggle of the Ming military to secure enough horses has been well-documented,[5] and indeed was characteristic of polities based in the Central Plains.[6] Tonio Andrade has already suggested that the Ming was at its core a gunpowder empire,[7] but Dardess provides an operational view. His present work is an exhaustive chronological cataloguing of Ming era border security events and court debates that bring the Ming state into focus, rather than steppe socio-politics or wall-building. This reasoning leads Dardess to absolve the Ming military for the dynasty's collapse: "it wasn't because its border system failed them." Dardess' study is further valuable for its excavation of the role gunpowder played in the Ming military's counter-strategy to the steppe horse-archer. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Örmény diaspora a Kárpát-medencében II/Armenian Diaspora in the Carpathian Basin," edited by Sándor Öze and Bálint Kováca.

The reviewed book contains 26 studies about 16th-17th century trade, social structure, and city management in Hungary. The subject of most of the studies is the city of Gyor. The reader gets a glimpse of everyday life during the Ottoman occupation, then, during the recovery-reconstruction period. The expanding trade brought social changes, and with it changes in city governance. The author studies individual and family careers and relationships to give a broad-based picture of his subjects.

The article reviews the book "Technologies of (In)Security: The Surveillance of Everyday Life," by Katja Franko Aas.

The article reviews the book "Technologies of Insecurity: The Surveillance of Everyday Life," Franko Aas, Katja, Helene Oppen Gudnhus and Heidi Mork Lomell.

Reviews the book "Longing for the House of God, Dwelling in the House of the Ancestors: Local Belief, Christianity, and Islam Among the Kéo of Central Flores," by Philipus Tule.

The article reviews the book "The Berth Lectures," by Colin E. Gunton and edited by P. H. Brazier.

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The article reviews the book "Language, Identity and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba," by Joel C. Kuipers.

The article reviews the book "Work Health and Safety Law and Policy," by Richard Johnstone, Elizabeth Bluff and Alan Clayton.

The article reviews the documentary film "Home," directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

The article reviews the book "An Introduction to Drugs in Sport: Addicted to Winning," by I. Waddington and A. Smith.

The article reviews the second edition of the book "Safety, Security, Health and Environmental Law," by Michael Tooma.

The article reviews the music release "Acis und Galatea," by Georg Friedrich Händel.

The article reviews the book "Safety, Security, Health and Environment Law," by Michael Tooma.

The article reviews the alternative rock album "Cosmos," by The Send.

The article reviews the music release "Secrets Keep You Sick," performed by The Fold.

The article reviews the book "Hiring and Firing: The Smart Business Guide to Australian Employment Law," by John Grant.

Reviews the book "The Personal Efficiency Program," by Kerry Gleeson.