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Reviews the concert performances of Hungary's Kodaly Quartet at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, England. Concert of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel and Bela Bartok; Capacity to blend together; Unanimity of attack; Delicacy and passion; Subtle shifts of colors with heart rending sensibility.

Reviews the book `Oskar Panizza: Ein literarisches Portrat,' by Michael Bauer.

Reviews the concert performance` Fairest Isle', by Andrew Carwood.

Reviews the book 'Hanging Out A Shingle,' by Harry F. Weyher.

Sens et présence du sujet poétique. La poésie de la France et du monde francophone depuis 1980, Michael Brophy et Mary Gallagher (eds) (2006) Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 368 pp., ISBN: 90-420-2039-3 (pbk), €74, US$100 Calixthe Beyala, Performances of Migration, Nicki Hitchcott (2006) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 190 pp., ISBN 1-84631-028-8 (hbk), $70 Littératures d'émergence et mondialisation, Sonia Faessel and Michel Pérez (eds) (2004) Paris: Editions In Press, 376 pp., ISBN 2-84835-055-5... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews performance offered at music festivals in Great Britain and overseas including "The Rape of Lucretia" for the 2011 Aldenburgh Festival, the Herrenchiemsee Festival in Bavaria offering performance by the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Lake District Summer Festival with La Serenissima to perform the music of Antonio Vivaldi.

The article reviews several books on leisure including "The Economics of Sport: An International Perspective," by Robert Sandy, Peter J. Sloane and Mark S. Rosentraub, "The Proximate Principle. The Impact of Parks, Open Space and Water Features on Residential Property Values and the Property Tax Base," 2nd edition, by John L. Crompton, "The Economics of Staging the Olympic Games: A Comparison of the Games 1972-2008," by Holger Preuss, and "Public Space and the Culture of Childhood," by Gill Valentine.

The article reviews the book “The Lost Man: Wilhelm Solf in German History,” by Peter J. Hempenstall and Paula Tanaka Mochida.

Reviews the book `History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders,' by Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum and translated by Thomas Dunlap.

Reviews the book `History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders,' by Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum and translated by Thomas Dunlap.

Books reviewed. John Gascoigne, Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Use of Science in the Age of Revolutions . Carlo Cercignani, Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms . Massimiano Bucchi, Science and the Media: Alternative Routes in Scientific Communication . Laura Otis, Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics. Alison Winter, Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain . Emile den Tex, Een Voorspel van de Moderne Vulkaankunde in West-Europa met Nadruk op de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden . John Forge, Explanation, Quantity and Law . Wang Yuan, Hua Loo-Keng . Lewis Petrinovich, Darwinian Dominion: Animal Welfare and Human Interests . Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind’s Past . Herbert Gottweiss, Governing Molecules: The Discursive Politics of Genetic Engineering in Europe and the United States . Karl R. Popper, The World of Parmenides: Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment . Patricia Fara and Karalyn Patterson (eds), Memory . Alicia Juarrero, Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System . L. Ahistroüm, Does the End Justify the Means? William Ryan and Walter Pitman, Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History . Helen King, Hippocrates’ Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece . Elena Castellani (ed.), Interpreting Bodies: Classical and Quantum Objects in Modern Physics . Evelyn L. Forget, The Social Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say: Markets and Virtue . David Baird, R. I. G. Hughes and Alfred Nordmann (eds), Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher . Brendan Larvor, Lakatos: An Introduction . Laurence B. McCullough, John Gregory and the Invention of Professional Medical Ethics and the Profession of Medicine . Laurence B. McCullough (ed.), John Gregory’s Writings on Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine . Lawrence M. Principe, The Aspiring Adept: Rob... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]