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The article reviews the book "Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture After Waterloo," by Richard Cronin.

Reviews the book 'Paper Mage,' by Leah R. Cutter.

Reviews the book "Distorted Perspectives: Five Papers on the Image of Africa," edited by Raoul Granqvist.

The article reviews the book "For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings," by Janet Lee Scott.

Reviews the book "Culture and Human Nature: Theoretical Papers of Melford E. Spiro," edited by Benjamin Kilborne and L.L. Langness.

The article reviews the book "Culture, Class, Distinction," by Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright.

The article reviews the book "Visual Impact: Culture and the Meaning of Images," by Terence Wright.

Reviews the book 'The Transmission of Culture in Western Europe, 1750-1850: Papers Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Foundation of the 'Bibliotheque britannique' (1796-1815) in Geneva,' edited by David Bickerton and Judith Proud.

Reviews the book "The Puerto Rican Papers: Notes on the Re-Emergence of a Nation," by Alfredo Lopez.

Reviews the book "Capitalism in Contrasting Cultures," edited by S.R. Clegg and S.G. Redding.

It appears that infants can distinguish precisely between small numbers such as one, two and three; they can also distinguish in an approximate way between large and small quantities as long as they are sufficiently different (e.g. quantities of 8 and 16 are seen as different; 8 and 12 not so), but they have no precise understanding of numbers more than three. It appears that formal number systems were originally developed to refer to very concrete and material quantities in the real world (e.g. the number of fingers on my hand, which is five - no more, no less), overcoming the fuzzy quantity perceptions that people are born with in relation to numbers greater than three. We show in our paper how that pseudo-objective number scheme was sustained by the political rationality of the concrete decisions it produced, rather than by the accuracy of the numbers themselves. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Culture and Social Character: The Work of David Riesman Reviewed," edited by Seymour Martin Lipset and Leo Lowenthal.

Reviews the book "Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940," by Susan Porter Benson.

Reviews the book "Measuring Culture: A Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Organization," by Jonathan L. Gross and Steve Rayner.

A review of the book "Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories," by John Edgar Wideman, is presented.

Reviews the book "A Land Flowing With Milk and Honey: Visions of Israel From Biblical to Modern Times," edited by Leonard J. Greenspan and Ronald A. Simkins.

Solimar Otero, I Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures i . (Paper US$ 30.00) Solimar Otero's latest book is not an easy one to read, even for scholars of Cuba and Brazil like myself. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Traditional Cultures: And the Impact of Technological Change," by George M. Foster.

Jeffrey Alexander and Erik Olin Wright are among the leading sociologists of their generation. Each has published his magnum opus in the past several years: The Civil Sphere (Alexander) and Envisioning Real Utopias (Wright). This paper—a dual review essay—lays out the core arguments of each work; situates each within the personal and intellectual contexts of its production; and critically assesses each in terms of its contributions to sociological theory and research. It also argues that the works converge (unexpectedly, given Alexander’s intellectual origins in neo-functionalism and Wright’s in neo-Marxism) upon a common intellectual position, that of Deweyan pragmatism. It tries to make sense of Alexander’s and Wright’s peculiar dual voyage in a Deweyan direction and offers some reflections as to what that journey might tell us about social theory and political thought today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Jesuit Astrology: Prognostication and Science in Early Modern Culture" by Luís Campos Ribeiro explores the teaching and practice of astrology in the Society of Jesus. The book focuses on the College of Santo Antão in Lisbon, where Jesuits taught astrology alongside other mathematical disciplines between 1590 and 1759. Ribeiro challenges the prevailing view that the Jesuits were uniformly opposed to astrology, showing that attitudes towards the practice varied among individuals. The book provides a comprehensive account of the history of astrology in the Catholic world during the early modern period and offers a nuanced understanding of the tension between tradition and modernity in Jesuit science and education. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Culture and Behavior: Collected Essays of Clyde Kluckhohn. Edited by Richard Kluckhohn.

The article reviews the book "Sastra Indonesia Awal: Kontribusi Orang Tionghoa," by Claudine Salmon.

Wole Soyinka is a prolific Nigerian dramatist, poet, novelist, autobiographer, scriptwriter and critic. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, he is in the forefront of African writers today, along with Chinua Achebe and Ngugi Wa Thiang'o. His works reveal the major conflict in the post-colonial concepts like domination, suppression, and search for identity. This paper is an attempt to bring out how his play 'The Lion and the Jewel' characterized by culture conflict, rude comedy and love, where the old culture represented by the uneducated people in Ilunjunle, led by Baroka, Sidi and the rest, conflict with the new culture led by Wole Soyinka, The Lion and the Jewel, domination, suppression, culture, identity Lakunle, who is educated, school teacher by profession is influenced by the western ways. The central idea of this study is to show of how Soyinka through his themes, plot and characters finds out the conflict between the cultures, further the study concludes by proving to the world thoughts and condition of culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using the feminist qualified by the sociological critical framework, this paper demonstrates how the psychological disposition of the characters in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story exhibits the mentality of urban-dwellers, revealing some western culture contact and conflict with traditional African culture. Consequently, it also attempts to analyse how Aidoo artistically exploits the disorganization of social life and the disintegration and erosion of traditional values in post- colonial Africa extrapolating from Ghana for the amelioration of women's condition. Esi and Opokuya the two middle class modern educate African women are compared and contrasted in this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Culture and Management in Japan," by Shuji Hayashi and translated by Frank Baldwin.

Reviews the book "Symbolizing America," edited by Herve Varenne.

Reviews the book "Culture and Society in India," by Nirmal Kumar Bose.

Reviews the book "Japanese Culture: Its Development and Characteristics," by Robert J. Smith and Richard K. Beardsley.

Reviews the book "Aspects of Culture and Personality: A Symposium," edited by Francis L. K. Hsu.

Reviews the book "Personal Character and Cultural Millieu," by Douglas G. Haring.

Reviews the book "Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898-1938," by Keith D. Revell.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Ábbasid Society (Second-Fourth/Eight-Tenth Centuries),' by Dimitri Gutas.

Reviews the book 'The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality,' edited by James J. Fox.

The article reviews the book "Mobile Work, Mobile Lives: Cultural Accounts of Lived Experiences," edited by Tracy L. Meerwarth, Julia C. Gluesing and Brigitte Jordan.

The article reviews the book "Written Cultures in Mainland Southeast Asia," edited by Masao Kashinaga.

This paper focuses on one particular migrant family settled in United States; describing hardships of a lonely Indian woman became adapted to her life in the foreign culture. As each one of the family feels about his or her own identity as an Indian, American, or Indian-American affects their idealistic decision making. The Namesake reflects the perspectives and changing family ties of the Gangulis, who are Indian in an arrange marriage and they relocate to America, in search of American dream of wealth and success. The novel expresses about how the family stand alienated from their own culture along with practices they cherished in previous years. And also the novel is an autobiographical in portraying repercussions of what the children of immigrants have to experience when they are intended to born in a country which does not belong to their parents, which bear the burden of individual conflicts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]