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Bailey, Jeremy D. Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power. New York: Cambridge UP, 2007. xvi, 280p., index. $80. Close examination of Jefferson's theory of executive power, contrasted with that of Alexander Hamilton.
Doody, Margaret. Tropic of Venice. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2007. x, 347p., ill., index. $32.50. Various aspects of Venetian culture, including the art, architecture, and writers' and travelers' impressions.
Ferreiro, Larrie D. Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600–1800 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology, Jed Z. Buchwald, gen. ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 2007. xxiv, 441p., bibl., ill., index. Development of naval architecture in Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Italy.
Fontana, Biancamaria. Montaigne's Politics: Authority and Governance in the Essais. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008.vii, 205p., bibl., index. $29.95. Posits the Essais as the first major critique of France's ancien régime.
Furey, Constance M. Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters. New York: Cambridge UP, 2006. xiv, 255p., bibl, index. $65. Analyzes the lives and works of Erasmus, Thomas More, Margaret More Roper, Reginald Pole, Gasparo Contarini, and Vittoria Colonna.
Goffart, Walter. Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire (The Middle Ages Series, Ruth Mazo Karras, gen. ed.). Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2006. x, 372p., bibl., index. $69.95. Challenges the old notion of the onrush of invading "Germans."
Gowland, Angus. The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context (Ideas in Context, Quentin Skinner and James Tully, gen. eds.). xii, 338p., bibl., index. $90. Contextual analysis of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (1621).
Hotta, Eri. Pan-Asianism and Japan's War 1931–1945 (Palgrave Macmillan Series in Transnational History, Akira Iriye and Rana Mitter, gen. eds.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xiv, 290p., bibl., index. $79.95. Pan-Asianism as a crucial component of Japanese foreign policy.
Howie, Cary. Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (The New Middle Ages, Bonnie Wheeler, gen. ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. $69.95. xii, 196p., bibl., index. Focusing on hermits Marie l'Egyptienne and Jehan Bouche d'Or, Saint Peter Damian, Iacopone da Todi, Bonagiunta da Lucca, Marie de France, and Julian of Norwich.
Landini, Gregory. Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell. New York: Cambridge UP, 2007. xi, 300p., bibl., index. $90. Reappraisal of Russell's influence on Wittgenstein.
Ligota, C. R., and J.-L. Quantin, eds. History of Scholarship: A Selection of Papers from the Seminar on the History of Scholarship Held Annually at the Warburg Institute (Oxford-Warburg Studies). x, 504p., index. Collection [End Page 349] of fourteen essays on the history of scholarship, focusing on the period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.
Malcolm, Noel. Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes. Oxford: Clarendon P, 2007. x, 227p., bibl., index. Presents Hobbes's translation of Altera secretissima instruction, with a substantial introduction by Malcolm.
Murphy, Nancey. Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? (Current Issues in Theology, Iain Torrance, gen. ed.). New York: Cambridge UP, 2006. x, 154p., index. $65; pb. $22.99. Arguing from a "physicalist" position that humans are also intelligent, moral, and spiritual.
Osborn, Eric. Clement of Alexandria. New York: Cambridge UP, 2005. xviii, 324p., bibl., indices. $85. Clement on the New Testament via Platonism.
Purcell, Michael. Levinas and Theology. New York: Cambridge UP, 2006. 198p, index. $70; pb. $27.99. Introduction to Levinas and his significance for theology.
Redding, Paul. Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought (Modern European Philosophy, Robert B. Pippin, gen. ed.). New York: Cambridge UP, 2007. x, 252p., bibl., index. $95. Rehabilitation of Hegelian thought with current analytic philosophy.
Taylor, Marion Ann, and Heather E. Weir. Let Her Speak for Herself: Nineteenth-Century Women Writing on the Women of Genesis. Waco, Texas: Baylor UP, 2006. xvii, 495p., bibl., indices. $44.95. Anthology of ninety selections with brief biographical notes.
