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Reviews the book 'Knowledge, Science and Relativism. Philosophical Papers,' by P.K. Feyerabend.

This article reviews three recent books on nationalism, each focusing on a different aspect of this multifaceted phenomenon. Mylonas and Radnitz's volume explores the relationships between nationalism and the politics of treason, Hadžidedic's book zooms in on the historical interdependence of capitalism and nationalism, while Maxwell's historical monograph explores nationalist habitus as a form of lived experience. These three insightful contributions show the diversity and plasticity of nationalist ideology and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the books `The Philosophical Papers of Alan Donagan Volume 1: Historical Understanding and the History of Philosopy,' and `Volume 2: Action, Reason and Value,' edited by J.E. Malpas.

The article reviews the book "Magical Practice in the Latin West. Papers From the International Conference Held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept.-I Oct. 2005," edited by R. L. Gordon and F. Marco Simón.

The article reviews the book "Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar. Hellenistic Greek and Augustan Latin Poetry. Flavian and Post-Flavian Latin Poetry. Greek and Roman Prose," Thirteenth Volume 2008, edited by F. Cairns.

The article reviews the book "Classical Constructions. Papers in Memory of Don Fowler, Classicist and Epicurean," edited by S. J. Harrison, P. G. Fowler and S. J. Heyworth.

The article reviews the book "Tragedy, Euripides and Euripideans: Selected Papers," by C. Collard.

The article reviews the book "Pictorial Pursuits. Figurative Painting on Mycenaean and Geometric Pottery. Papers from Two Seminars at the Swedish Institute of Athens in 1999 and 2001," edited by E. Rystedt and B. Wells .

The article reviews the book "Collected Papers on Latin Poetry," by R.O.A.M. Lyne.

The article reviews the books "The Roots of Use-Wear Analysis: Selected Papers of S.A. Semenov," edited by L. Longo and N. Skakun, and "Prehistoric Technology 40 Years Later: Functional Studies and the Russian Legacy: Book of Abstracts."

Jelena Subotić's Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism has already received such broad recognition and numerous awards that its invaluable contribution to memory studies likely does not need repeating. It is not only a study of Holocaust remembrance in particular, but contributes broadly to our understanding of memory appropriation by the state, through a careful and vivid analysis of its transformation over time in several Eastern and Central European countries. Subotić provides a study of how memory can serve as a strategic tool for reinforcing state interests. The central argument of the book is that the states in question – Croatia, Lithuania, and Serbia – engage in memory appropriation in order to qualify their ontological insecurities (14). The strategies include "memory inversion," appropriating the Holocaust to emphasize crimes against them (primarily in Serbia), "memory divergence," placing blame for the genocide on German Nazis (Croatia), or "memory conflation," wherein Holocaust memory is combined and equated with Communist crimes (Lithuania, 15). These appropriation strategies, which overlap and are combined in the various states, allow states to paint themselves as the ultimate victims, absolving them of responsibility for their role in Holocaust crimes. The danger, of course, is that this not only set ups the false equivalence between victims of Communism and of the Holocaust, allowing for the relativization of Nazi collaboration as anti-Communist resistance, but also because it banalizes and trivializes the specific suffering of the Jewish population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early Modern France. Papers from the Exeter Conference, April 1999,' edited by Keith Cameron, Mark Greengrass and Penny Roberts.

Reviews the book 'Twentieth-Century Russian Literature: Selected Papers From the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995,' edited by Karen L. Ryan and Barry P. Scherr.

Reviews the books 'Carthage Papers. The Early Colony's Economy, Water Supply, a Public Bath and the Mobilization of the State Olive Oil,' by J.T. Pena, J.J. Rossiter, A.I. Wilson and C. Wells, M. Carroll, J. Freed and D. Godden and 'The Sanctuary of Tanit at Carthage in the Roman Period. A Reinterpretation,' by H. Hurst.

The article reviews the book "Paper Memory: A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World," by Matthew Lundin, volume 179 in the book series entitled "Harvard Historical Studies."

The article reviews the book "Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan," by Matthew S. Hull.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784,' Vol.9, edited by Elizabeth M. Nuxoll and Mary A. Gallagher.

The article reviews the book "Languages and Cultures in the Caucasus," edited by Vittorio Springfield Tomelleri, Manana Topadze, and Anna Lukianowics, with the collaboration of Oleg Rumjancev, Studies on Language and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe, 16.

The article reviews the book "The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet," by Erik Mueggler.

The article reviews the book "Creating a Physical Biology: The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology," edited by Phillip R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel.

A review of the book "Reconsidering Eusebius. Collected papers on literary, historical, and theological issues," edited by Sabrina Inowlocki and Claudio Zamagni, volume 107 in the book series entitled "Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language," is presented.

The article reviews the book "Language Variation-European Perspectives III: Selected Papers From the 5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5), Copenhagen, June 2009," edited by Frans Gregersen, Jeffrey K. Parrott, and Pia Quist.

Reviews the book 'The Papers of Joseph Henry,' Volume VII and VIII, edited by Marc Rothenberg, Paul H. Theerman, Kathleen W. Doorman, John C. Rumm, Deborah Y. Jeffries and Frank R. Millikan.

The article reviews the book "Intersections. The archaeology and history of Christianity in England, 400–1200. Papers in honour of Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle," edited by Martin Henig and Nigel Ramsay.

Reviews the book `Agricultural Development in China, 1949-1989: The Collected Papers of Kenneth R. Walker (1931-1989),' edited by Robert F. Ash.

Reviews the book `Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry. Labour, Capital, and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914,' by Gary Bryan Magee.

A review of the book "Argentine Railways: Seven Papers on Their Economics & History," by Sylvester Damus is presented.

The article reviews the book "The Church, the Afterlife and the Fate of the Soul: Papers Read at the 2007 Summer Meeting & the 2008 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society," edited by Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon.

The article reviews the book "Ideal Constitutions in the Renaissance: Papers from the Munich February 2006 Conference," edited by Heinrich C. Kuhn and Diana Stanciu.

The article reviews the book "Papers on Roman Elegy 1969-2003," by F. Cairns.

The article reviews the book "Aspects of the Roman East: Papers in Honour of Professor Fergus Millar FBA," Volume I, by Richard Alston and Samuel N. C. Lieu.

The article reviews the book "Discipline and Diversity. Papers Read at the 2005 Summer Meeting and the 2006 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society," edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory.