Books Received

Åckerberg, Sofia. Knowledge and Pleasure at Regent's Park: The Gardens of the Zoological Society of London during the Nineteenth Century. Umeå, Sweden: Umeå UP, 2002. 254p. Changing attitudes toward popular science and zoology in nineteenth-century Britain.

Adams, Michael C.C. Echoes of War: A Thousand Years of Military History in Popular Culture. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 2002. xviii, 277p., index, bibl. $29.95. Imaging and remembering war.

Akam, Everett Helmut. Transnational America: Cultural Pluralist Thought in the Twentieth Century. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. x, 227p., index, bibl. $70. Horace Kallen, John Collier, Alain Locke, the decline of pluralism, and the rise of the civil rights movement.

Alder, Ken. The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World. New York: Free P, 2002. x, 422p., index. $27. An episode in the history of the meter in the late eighteenth century.

Angle, Stephen, C. Human Rights and Chinese Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. xvii, 285p., bibl. index. Broad survey.

Argyle, Gisela. Germany as Model and Monster: Allusions in English Fiction, 1830s-1930s. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2002. x, 257p., bibl., index. $70. References to Germany in English literature of the nineteenth-twentieth centuries.

Bailey, Alan. Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonean Scepticism. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002. xv, 302p., index, bibl. Apologetic survey.

Ball, Howard. The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans. New York: New York UP, 2002, 263p., bibl., index. $35. Family and personal rights in court.

Barnaby, Andrew, and Lisa J. Schnell. Literate Experience: The Work of Knowing in the Seventeenth-Century English Writing. New York: Palgrave, 2002. xiii, 243p., index. Miscellaneous studies of making knowledge public.

Barnard, Suzanne, and Bruce Fink, eds. Reading Seminar XX: Lacan's Major Work on Love, Knowledge, and Feminine Sexuality. Albany: State U of NYP, 2002. vi, 192p., index. Nine essays on Lacan.

Bar On, Bat-Ami. The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in Understanding. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. xv, 201p., index, bibl. $24.95. Ethico-political reflections on Arendt.

Bartolovich, Crystal, and Neil Lazarus, eds. Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (Cultural Margins, Timothy Brennan, gen. ed.). New York: Cambridge UP, 2002. x, 290p., bibl., index. $60. Thirteen contributions to the rethinking of Marxism.

Becker, Marvin B. Florentine Essays: Selected Writings. Ed. by James Banker and Carol Lansing. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2002. viii, 312p., $60. Eleven previously published essays.

Bell, Janis, and Thomas Willette, eds. Art History in the Age of Bellori: Scholarship and Cultural Politics in Seventeenth-Century Rome. New York: Cambridge UP, 2002. xvi, 396p., index, bibl. $90. Eleven scholarly essays

Benthien, Claudia. Skin: On the Cultural Border between Self and the World. New York: Columbia UP, 2002. vii, 290p., bibl., index. Translation of Haut: Literatur-geschichte, Körperbilder, Grenzdiskurse (1999).

Berghahn, Volker R. America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2002. xx, 373p., index, bibl. $21.95. Biography of Shepard Stone and tghe defense of American culture.

Bisha, Robin, Jehanne M. Gheith, Christine Holden, and William G. Wagner, eds. Russian Women 1698-1917 Experience and Expression: An Anthology of Sources. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2002. xxix, 408p., index. $59.95. Private lives.

Block de Behar, Lisa. Borges: The Passion of an Endless Quotation. Trans. William Eggington. Albany: State U of New York P, 2003. xvi, 206p., index. Translation of Borges, la pasion di una cita sin fin.

Borg, Emma, ed. Meaning and Representation. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. vi, 117p., index. Seven studies.

Brague, Rémi. Eccentric Culture: A Theory of Western Culture. South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine's P, 2002. 205p., index. European civilization as Roman derivative.

Brandom, Robert B. Tales of the Mighty Dead: Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of Intentionality. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2002. x, 430p., index. $39.95. Revisionist survey of philosophy through one theme.

Brewer, Daniel, and Julie Candler Hayes, eds. Using the Encyclopédie: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Reading (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Anthony Strugnell,gen. ed.) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation...