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In writing this review I am in no small danger of running short of superlatives. To put it simply, this is a sublime scholarly achievement. Knowing the intense labour and demanding exactitude of a project like this, I am very impressed. It is difficult to conceive how Chad van Dixhoorn could have done a better job of putting these minutes and papers at the service of the scholarly community. He had help along the way, to be sure, and the skilful guidance of David F. Wright and John Morrill, but one quickly gets the sense that this is the fruit of his singular vision. If we count his years as a Cambridge PhD student, van Dixhoorn has worked full-time on the Westminster Assembly for longer than it existed in the first place. I recall being told that he had calculated (I think with tape measure in hand) that, yes, all the members of the assembly could squeeze into the smallish Jerusalem Chamber in which they met; he had even taken a shrewd guess, based on the voting records, as to which groups of divines sat next to whom, and where. He once had a dream, he tells us, in which one of the Scottish commissioners to the assembly, Samuel Rutherford, offered to help interpret the nearly impenetrable handwriting of the assembly's main scribe, Adoniram Byfield. It is as good an indication as any of the all-consuming nature of van Dixhoorn's task. Perhaps we should add here a note of thanks not just to him (and his assistants) but to his wife and children as well. For this set represents a generous gift to scholars of the seventeenth century and to all those interested in the development of Reformed Protestantism in the English–speaking world and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Reviews the book "Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World," by Jonathan M. Bloom.

The article reviews the eight-volume book "The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton," edited by D. T. Whiteside

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The article reviews the book "Elite and Popular Religion. Papers Read at the 2004 Summer Meeting and the 2005 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society," edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory.

The article reviews the book "The Further Academic Papers of Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones," by Hugh Lloyd-Jones.

The article reviews the book "Papers on Time and Tense," by Kit Fine.

The article reviews the book "Approaches to Wittgenstein: Collected Papers," by Brian McGuinness.

Reviews two books. "Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England," edited by Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson, and A.R. Buck; "Early Modern Women's Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium," edited by Victoria Burke and Jonathan Gibson.

Reviews the book "International Law: Being the Collected Papers of Hersch Lauterpacht," Vol.5: Disputes, War and Neutrality, Parts IX-XIV, edited by Elihu Lauterpacht.

July 2017 saw the outbreak of yet another border conflict between India and China. It is therefore timely to review two books that deal with the border issues that China has with its neighbours. China is one of a few countries that have borders with many other states, most of which are small. To see how China has dealt with these small countries is relevant to the fact that China, being labelled as a communist dictatorial state, has often been perceived to be unpredictable and lacking transparency in its behaviour. The two books reviewed here may therefore surprise some readers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the books "Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c. 950-1300," by Simon Franklin and "Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana: The Encounter Between the LoDagaa and 'The World on Paper'," by Sean Hawkins.

Reviews the book 'The Tiananmen Papers,' compiled by Zhang Liang, edited by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link, with an afterword by Orville Schell.