“…Here she explores her family history, looking for the answers to her mother's death. This beautiful and moving novel steps between Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia, evoking the life, traditions, and tastes of a forceful Chinese family as well as the hardship, cruelty, and pain. …”

“…This book provides, first, a clearly written introduction to Durkheim's major works, looking at each of the major fields to which he contributed. …”

“…Drawing on the latest findings in psychology, conversational interaction, ethnography, and history, Ethical Life takes readers from inner city America to Samoa and the Inuit Arctic to reveal how we are creatures of our biology as well as our history--and how our ethical lives are contingent on both. Keane looks at Melanesian theories of mind and the training of Buddhist monks, and discusses important social causes such as the British abolitionist movement and American feminism. …”

“…Traversing mathematical history and the foundations of numerals in different cultures, Mazur looks at how historians have disagreed over the origins of the numerical system for the past two centuries. …”

“…In the context of the new individualistic historiography of the Renaissance, this study examines the rhetorical construction of the history of the conquest of Mexico. The author looks at the different perceptions of three selected chroniclers – Diáz del Castillo, de las Casas and Fernández de Oviedo – and at the resulting narrative presentation of the Conquista. …”
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“…Along the way, Lerer also looks at the changing environments of family life and human growth, schooling and scholarship, and publishing and politics in which children found themselves changed by the books they read. …”
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“…From a relentlessly global point of view, Tunstall looks closely at China and India--and at their rapidly burgeoning populations--and also at the rise of the mass media in the Muslim world. …”

“…Looking at the artworld of the 1960s, Caroline Jones explores pervasive imagery of the American artist at work and the implications of those images for understandings of their art. …”

“…Another chapter describes the extent to which the weak enforcement provisions of GATT can be understood as a mechanism to cope with uncertain but intermittent interest group demands for protection. The third chapter looks at the impact of uncertainty on the creation, survival, and membership of multilateral regulatory institutions, such as the Montreal Protocol and EU, when some states question the capacity of other states to meet their treaty obligations…”
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“…The second part of the volume considers questions regarding authority and ascription in relation to the authorial voice. In particular, it looks at how later readers - and later authors - may understand the authority of a text's author or supposed author. …”

“…Dyzenhaus deals with the urgent question of how governments should respond to emergencies and terrorism by exploring the idea that there is an unwritten constitution of law, exemplified in the common law constitution of Commonwealth countries. He looks mainly to cases decided in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada to demonstrate that even in the absence of an entrenched bill of rights, the law provides a moral resource that can inform a rule-of-law project capable of responding to situations which place legal and political order under great stress. …”
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“…They are all seeking a better life (and in their different ways they are also, of course, looking for love) and they've come to England, some legally, some illegally, to find it. …”
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“…Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the esteemed doctor, was in fact tampering with a corpse—and concealing the cause of death. …”
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“…The myth "The Contendings of Horus and Seth" is looked at in detail, and the many interpretations it has provoked are examined. …”
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“…This compelling Very Short Introduction looks at how the ancient regime that the revolution destroyed had become so entrenched and also examines cases in which revolutionary achievement failed to match ambition. …”
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“…This illuminating new book looks closely at these classic films to explore their complex relationship to national identity, and their developing interest in exile, borderlands, utopias, escapism, art and fantasy. …”
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“…"The Convention on the Rights of the Child has changed the paradigm of how (human rights) law looks at children : from "objects" of protection to full rights-holders of all human rights. …”

“…Finally, Richard Aldrich looks forward to a transformation both of the nature and practice of education and of its history…”

“…The first paper discusses the size of the sun, and the last looks at Plato and Aristotle in Victorian Oxford. …”