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Journal of the History of Ideas 61.3 (2000) 533-538

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Al-Ghazali. The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Islamic Translation Series). Trans. and intro. by Michael E. Marmura. Provo: Brigham Young UP, 2000. xxix, 258p., index. Parallel English-Arabic text with corrections of the first edition.

Barrett, Jeffrey A. The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. xv, 267p., bibl., index. $45. Interpreting the quantum measurement problem.

Bayle, Pierre. Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet. Trans. and intro. by Robert C. Bartlett. Albany: State U of New York P, 2000. xlvii, 332p., bibl., index. $26.95. Translation of Pensées divers sur la comète from the critical edition (1911), with critical introduction.

Ben Gershom, Levi (Gersonides). The Wars of the Lord, Vol. 3: Book Five: The Heavenly Bodies and Their Movers; The Relationships amongst These Movers, and the Relationship between Them and God; Book Six: Creation of the Universe. Trans. by Seymour Feldman. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1999. 580p., index. Continuing cosmological and theological reflections of a fourteenth-century scholar; vols. 1 and 2 to follow.

Bernasconi, Robert, and Tommy L. Lott, eds. The Idea of Race (Readings in Philosophy). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2000. xviii, 212p. Eighteen collected essays including Voltaire, Kant, Herder, Hegel, Gobineau, Darwin, Du Bois, and Senghor.

Bottéro, Jean et al., eds. Ancestors of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam and Greece. Trans. by Teresa Lavender Fagan with foreword by François Zabbal. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000. xiii, 192p., index. Translation of L'Orient ancien et nous: L'écriture, la raison, les dieux (1996).

Brann, Eva. What, Then, Is Time? Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. xvi, 236p., bibl., index, $23.95. Inquiry into the question of time through Plato, Augustine, Husserl, Husserl, Heidegger, et al.

Bronner, Stephen Eric. A Rumor About the Jews: Reflections on Antisemitism and the Protocals of the Learned Elders of Zion. New York: St. Martin's P, 2000. 177p., index. $24.95. Significance and repercussions of a notorious text.

Brooke, John, and Geoffrey Cantor. Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion. New York: Oxford UP, 2000. ix, 359p., ill., index. Revisionist approach to case studies in "science-religion" nexus from Galileo to the nineteenth-century.

Brown, Richard Harvey, and J. Daniel Schubert, eds. Knowledge and Power in Higher Education. New York: Teachers College P, 2000. vi, 207p., index. Ten papers.

Buchanan, Allan et al. From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. xiv, 408p., bibl., index. $29.95 Applying genetic technologies to humans and the "shadow of eugenics."

Bulgakov, Sergei. Philosophy of Econo-my: The World as Household. Trans. and ed. by Catherine Evtuhov. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000. vii, 347p., index. $35. Translation of Filosofiia Khoziaistva (1912).

Ciardi, Marco. La fine dei privilegi: Scienze fisiche, tecnologia e istituzioni scientifiche sabaude nel Risorgimento. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1999. 349p., bibl., index. Avogadro, the Academy of Sciences of Turin, and "sublime physics."

Clark, J. C. D. English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics during the ancien regime. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. xi, 580p., bibl., index. $74.95 Second edition of 1985 book that reassesses the role of religion in English society.

Cusa, Nicholas of. Metaphysical Speculations, Vol. II. Trans. and intro. by Jasper Hopkins. Minneapolis: The Arthur J. Banning P, 2000. 437p., index. $30. De coniecturis and De ludo globi, with critical "orienting study" and other apparatus.

Dahood, Roger, ed. The Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Problems, Trends, and Opportunities for Research (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, vol. 2). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1998. xvi, 194p. Twelve presentations.

Daston, Lorraine, ed. Biographies of Scientific Objects. Chicago: The U of Chicago P, 2000. ix, 307p., index. Eleven essays on applied metaphysics and the scientific categories of object, experience, and proof.

Dever, Mark E. Richard Sibbes: Puritanism and Calvinism in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England. Macon, Ga.: Mercer UP, 2000. xiii, 270p., app., bibl., index. Theological biography.