Ahmed Shahab, 2015, What Is Islam ? The Importance of Being Islamic. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 610 p., bibliogr., index

Billions and billions of bad tomorrows The Worst of Times: Paul B. Wignall, (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; 2015) ISBN: 9780691142098

Had Scarlett O’Hara faced life in the aftermath of the Capitanian mass extinction, 260 million years ago, rather than the chaos of life in a war-stricken land, a better tomorrow sure would have been a long time in coming. In The Worst of Times, Paul Wignall marshals the most recent paleontological and geological evidence to argue that life on earth faced its roughest patch yet during a vast eig...

Philosophy, who needs it? Philosophy of Biology Peter Godfrey-Smith (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey; 2013) ISBN: 9780691140018

on what one wants those terms to mean, so disputes about them are semantic: but not merely so. Unpacking words and concepts is essential to understanding the natural phenomena to which they are meant to refer. As to Godfrey-Smith's little book, it provides an authoritative but easy starting place for readers of Current Biology who want to root out tacit philosophical commitments in their discip...

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Marking Time. On the Anthropology of the Contemporary, by Paul Rabinow: Princeton University Press, 2008

Rabinow starts his search for new anthropological methods with the question of what the contemporary is. He identifies two meanings. The first is the ordinary English-language meaning: contemporary means that something occurs at the same period of time as something else. The issue is not when something happened, but that it happened at the same period of time. Cicero was the contemporary of Cae...

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. By Gregory Clark. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 420. $29.95, cloth