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Amato, Joseph A. The Book of Twos. Granite Falls, Minn.: Ellis, 2015. 318p., index, $29.95. Historical personages, texts, and events set as pairs and opposites to distinguish one set from another.
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Axtell, James. Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2016. xx, 417p., bibl., ill., index, $35. Postwar US universities transformed a second time (the first was in adopting nineteenth-century German forms) from their roots in Tudor-Stuart Oxbridge and before.
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Badiou, Alain and Marcel Gauchet. What Is to Be Done? A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy. Trans. Susan Spitzer. Malden, Mass.: Polity, 2016. xvi, 155p., index. An extended debate over whether democracy can regain control of globalized financial capitalism.
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Baltussen, Han and Peter J. Davis, eds. The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2015. vi, 328p., index, $79.95. Fourteen essays on word play and innuendo in concealing subversive views in antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Batchelor, Stephen. After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age. New Haven: Yale UP, 2015. xi, 381p., bibl., index, $28.50. Buddhism as a culture of awakening, able to reinvent itself in a changing world.
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Battini, Michele. Socialism of Fools: Capitalism and Modern Anti-Semitism. New York: Columbia UP, 2016. viii, 321p., index, $65. The liberal state and market usury as a Jewish conspiracy in the eyes of nineteenth-century Catholics, Christian Socialists, and nationalists.
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Berger, Stefan and Chris Lorenz, eds. Nationalizing the Past: Historians as Nation Builders in Modern Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xvi, 529p., index, $32. Twenty-two essays on the writing of national histories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Blumenthal, Susanna L. Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2016. 385p., index, $45. Early Republic judges struggle to reconcile common-sense notions of rationality with novel concepts of deviant behavior and disease.
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Bowker, Geoffrey C., et al., eds. Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 2016. vii, 548p., bibl., ill., index $38. Twenty-four essays on taxonomy, infrastructures, and methodologies in science studies as a posthumous Festschrift.
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Brenner, William J. Confounding Powers: Anarchy and International Society from the Assassins to Al Qaeda. New York: Cambridge UP, 2016. xii, 276p., index. Also Genghis Khan and the Barbary pirates.
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Cairns, John W. Law, Lawyers, and Humanism: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 1. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2015. xxv, 532p., [End Page 509] index, $100. The common law and feudal institutions and the reception of Roman civil law from Dutch sources in the eighteenth century.
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Chaplin, Joyce E. and Darrin M. McMahon, eds. Genealogies of Genius. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xi, 191p., ill., index, $30. Ten essays, mostly nineteenth century, on talent and ability (not innate qualities).
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Chuanacháin, Deirdre Ní. Utopianism in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Cork: Cork UP, 2016. xi, 260p., bibl., ill., index, 39. Nostalgia for a golden age and realistic discourses of improvement, self-reliance, and patriotism.
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Cowie, Jefferson. The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2016. viii, 273p., ill., index, $27.95. The realignment of government and class relations during the Depression and World War II as a temporary solution not a permanent triumph of the welfare state.
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Critchley, Simon. The Problem with Levinas. New York: Oxford UP, 2015. xii, 156p., bibl., index, $45. Mystical love as the answer to escaping the tragic fatality of being described by Heidegger.
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Darwin, Charles. The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Vol. 23, 1875. New York: Cambridge UP, 2016. xlv, 799p., ill., index, $152. Insectivorous Plants, second editions, scientific news, and disputes with neighbors.
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Deuchler, Martina. Under the Ancestors’ Eyes: Kinship, Status, and Locality in Premodern Korea. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U Asian Center, 2015. xix, 609p., bibl., ill., index, $79.95. The origin and development of the indigenous descent group from the fifth to the nineteenth century.
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