Our new publications this week include: Philosophy of Religion by John Cottingham; described as A lovely work: passionately engaged and intellectually serious … it shows how philosophy of religion really can be more humane, engaging with our deepest faculties of need and desire, while remaining thoroughly rigorous … Christopher Hamilton, Kings College London The Cambridge Companion to the French #Enlightenment edited by Daniel Brewer. The Enlightenment has long been seen as synonymous with the beginnings of modern Western intellectual and political culture. As a set of ideas and a social movement, this historical moment, the age of reason of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, is marked by attempts to place knowledge on new foundations. The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment brings together essays by leading scholars representing disciplines ranging from philosophy, religion and literature, to art, medicine, anthropology and architecture, to analyse the French Enlightenment. The second edition of Evolution of the Social Contract by Brian Skyrms. In this new edition, Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice, communication, altruism, and bargaining. Leo Strauss Man of Peace by Robert Howse; Leo Strauss is known to many people as a thinker of the right, who inspired hawkish views on national security and perhaps advocated war without limits. Moving beyond gossip and innuendo about Strausss followers and the Bush administration, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Strausss writings on political violence, considering also what he taught in the classroom on this subject. Thomas Pynchon and American #Counterculture by Joanna Freer employs the revolutionary sixties as a lens through which to view the anarchist politics of Pynchons novels. Joanna Freer identifies and elucidates Pynchons commentaries on such groups as the Beats, the New Left and the Black Panther Party and on such movements as the psychedelic movement and the womens movement, drawing out points of critique to build a picture of a complex countercultural sensibility at work in Pynchons fiction. A History of Modern #India by Ishita Banerjee-Dube; Through a dynamic combination of history-telling and in-depth historiographical analysis, Ishita Banerjee-Dubes A History of Modern India breaks exciting new ground for students and scholars alike. She discards the familiar, and all too predictable, colony-to-nation narrative for an approach that exposes the troubled and uncertain course of modern Indian history, unravels the startling heterogeneity of that history, explores the radical possibilities of recent historical reinterpretation, and provides fascinating insights into the conflicts and contradictions that make up Indias multiple and many layered pasts. This imaginative rethinking of Indias history and the complex fashioning of its modernity deserves a wide and appreciative audience. David Arnold, Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick The second edition of The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning by Richard E Mayer. Multimedia learning, or learning from words and images, has developed into a coherent discipline with a significant research base. The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning is unique in offering a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of research and theory in the field, with a focus on computer-based learning. The second edition of God Vs the Gavel by Marci A. Hamilton; No one in the public square has articulated more presciently than Professor Marci Hamilton the dangers of socially harmful religious exemptions; and no book argues the case for ordered religious liberty more vividly than God vs. the Gavel. This updated edition of Hamiltons text arrives at a watershed moment in our countrys church-state conversation, when even for-profit corporations are invoking the First Amendments protections to avoid complying with neutral, generally applicable laws. If the special religious interests win this fight, the recent progress of faith-based institutions toward transparency and accountability in the area of child protection will be undone. For the sake of children, of believers, and of the general American public, the Supreme Court must get this right. Anne Barrett Doyle, Co-Director, BishopAccountability.org Model Building in Economics by Lawrence A. Boland; As with his earlier insightful books on methodology, Larry Boland clearly and comprehensively dissects model building in all its guises of theory, computer representations, lab and field experiments, and empirical (econometric) studies. This new contribution is filled with both pithy comments and deep analyses, highlighting the limits of many approaches currently in vogue. Sir David F. Hendry, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford Constitution Making During State Building by Joanne Wallis of The Australian National University; How can fragmented, divided societies that are not immediately compatible with centralised statehood best adjust to state structures? This book employs both comparative constitutional law and comparative politics, as it proposes the idea of a constituent process, whereby public participation in constitution making plays a positive role in state building. This book represents a sustained attempt to examine the role that public participation has played during state building and the consequences it has had for the performance of the state. It is also the first attempt to conduct a detailed empirical study of the role played by the liberal-local-hybrid approach in state building.
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