Books Received

Artha: Meaning. By Jonardon Ganeri. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. ix + 258. Hardcover Rs 920.00.

Buddhism in the Public Square: Reorienting Global Interdependence. By Peter D. Hershock. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. x + 229. Price not given.

Chinese Theories of Fiction: A Non-Western Narrative System. By Ming Dong Gu. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. xvi + 286. Hardcover $80.00.

Conceptions of Virtue: East and West. Edited by Kim-Chong Chong and Yuli Liu. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2006. Pp. vi + 301. Paper $32.00.

Debates in Indian Philosophy: Classical, Colonial, and Contemporary. By A. Raghuramaraju. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xi + 139. Hardcover Rs 760.00.

The Emergence of Buddhism. By Jacob N. Kinnard. Westport (CT) and London: Greenwood Press, 2006. Pp. xvii + 165. Price not given.

Ethics, Values and Society: Social Transformation: Conference Proceedings. Edited by Ghazala Irfan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxii + 315. Price not given.

The Experience of Meditation: Experts Introduce the Major Traditions. Edited by Jonathan Shear. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2006. Pp. xxii + 286. Paper $19.95.

Four Essays on Aesthetics: Toward a Global View. By Zehou Li and Jane Cauvel. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. Pp. xiv + 205. Hardcover $60.00. Paper $26.00.

Gandhi's Experiments with Truth: Essential Writings by and about Mahatma Gandhi. Edited by Richard L. Johnson. Oxford: Lexington Books, 2006. Pp. xviii + 388. Price not given.

The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eighth- through Tenth-Century China. By Jinhua Jia. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. xv + 220. Hardcover $65.00.

An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology. By Padmasiri de Silva. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xvi + 200. Price not given.

Jōkei and Buddhist Devotion in Early Medieval Japan. By James L. Ford. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii + 317. Price not given.

Learning from Chinese Philosophies: Ethics of Interdependent and Contextualised Self. By Karyn Lai. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. ix + 209. Hardcover $89.95.

Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism: The Other Way of Speaking. By Youru Wang. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Pp. xi + 251. Price not given.

Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts. Selected and translated by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu and Howard Goldblatt. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Pp. xxiii + 239. Hardcover $24.50, £16.00.

Loving the Fine-Virtue and Happiness in Aristotle's Ethics. By Anna Lännström. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. Pp. xii + 145. Paper $27.50.

Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism. By Hugh B. Urban. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xi + 336. Hardcover $55.00, £35.95.

Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism: The Doctrinal History of Nirvana. By Soonil Hwang. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xv + 160. Price not given.

The Myth of Evil: Demonizing the Enemy. By Phillip Cole. Westport (CT) and London: Praeger Publishers, 2006. Pp. viii + 256. Price not given.

Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Daoist Thought: Crossing Paths In-Between. By Katrin Froese. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. x + 256. Hardcover $70.00.

On the Scope and Truth of Theology: Theology as Symbolic Engagement. By Robert Cummings Neville. New York and London: T and T Clark International, 2006. Pp. xx + 236. Paper $29.95.

Organizing Knowledge: Encyclopedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World. Edited by Gerhard Endress. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. Pp. xvii + 234. Price not given.

Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine. By Aaron Stalnaker. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi + 330. Hardcover $49.95.

The Philosophy of the Vāllabha School of Vedānta. By K. Narain. Varanasi: Indological Research Centre, 2004. Pp. ix + 466. Hardcover Rs 495.

Re-ethnicizing the Minds? Cultural Revival in Contemporary Thought. Edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Jürgen Hengelbrock. Amsterdam and New York: Editions RODOPI B.V., 2006. Pp. 494. Hardcover €100.00, $130.00.

Religious and Symbolic Game Theory. By William Woods Higgins. Philadelphia: Xlibris Corporation, 2006. Pp. 106. Hardcover $30.99. Paper $20.99.

Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie = Review of Bibliography in Sinology 2003-2005. Paris: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2006. Pp xxiii + 318. Price not given.

Ron The Philosopher: The Rediscovery of the Human Soul. By L. Ron Hubbard. Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, Inc., 1996. Pp. 87. Price not given.

Studies in Vedānta: Essays in Honour of Professor S. S. Rama Rao Pappu. Edited by P. George Victor and V.V.S. Saibaba. New Dehli: D. K. Printworld (P) Ltd., 2006. Pp. xxi + 330. Price not given.

Taijiquan: Through the Western Gate. By Rick Barrett. Berkeley: Blue Snake Books, 2006. Pp. xiv + 265. Paper $16.95.

True to Our Feelings: What Our Emotions Have to Tell Us. By Robert C. Solomon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 279. Paper $26.00.

Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics. By Nicholas Davey. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. xvii + 291. Hardcover $89.50. Paper $28.95.

Wisdom in Early Confucian and Israelite Traditions. By Xinzhong Yao. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. xvi + 239. Hardcover $99.95.