This collection provides a listing of book and article reviews submitted and published in journals and newspapers by members of the Puget Sound staff.
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Submissions from 2021
Review of Beyond Exception: New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula, Andrew M. Gardner
Submissions from 2017
Review of Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine by Teresia Hofer, Denise M. Glover
Submissions from 2016
Review of Environmental Education in China by Gerald A. McBeath and Jenifer Huang McBeath, Denise M. Glover
Submissions from 2015
Reviewed work(s): Slote, Michael. From Enlightenment to Receptivity: Rethinking Our Values, Ariela Tubert
Submissions from 2014
Review of: Scribit Mater, Mary and the Language Arts in the Literature of Medieval England by Georgiana Donovan, Denise Despres
The Amoeba In The Room: Lives Of The Microbes, Mark O. Martin
Review of: Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages eds. P.H. Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis, Katherine Allen Smith
Review of: Agency and the Foundations of Ethics: Nietzschean Constitutivism by Paul Katsafanas, Ariela Tubert
Submissions from 2013
Review of: Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical by Stuart J. Hecht, Geoffrey Block
The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza And The Politics Of Public Health In Canada, Nancy K. Bristow
Review of: Of empires and citizens: pro-American democracy or no democracy at all? by Jamal, Amaney A., Bradford Dillman
Taking The Back Off The Watch: A Personal Memoir, James C. Evans
The Mathematics Of The Heavens And The Earth: The Early History Of Trigonometry, James C. Evans
Review of Qatar: A Modern History, by Allen J. Fromherz, Andrew Gardner
Gyatso & Hakim Essentials of Tibetan Traditional Medicine, Denise M. Glover
Review of: Economists and Societies: National Context and Modern Economics, D. Wade Hands
Review of: The Indian Periodical Press And The Production Of Nationalist Rhetoric by Sukeshi Kamra, Priti Joshi
Submissions from 2012
Review of: Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theater Music of Louis A. Hirsch [recording], Geoffrey Block
The Muddy Circle Of Human Destiny - Friedrich Schiller's Path From The Enlightenment To Kant, Jennifer Driscoll Colosimo
Review of: Palestinian Ethnonationalism in Israel by Oded Haklai, Bradford Dillman
Review of: Saddam Hussein's Ba’th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime by Joseph Sassoon, Bradford Dillman
Review of: The role of sisters in women’s development by Sue A. Kuba, Lisa Fortlouis Wood
Review of: British Asian Theatre: Dramaturgy, Process, and Performance by Dominic Hingorani by Dominic Hingorani, Sara Freeman
Letters Of A Sufi Scholar, Matthew B. Ingalls
Letters Of A Sufi Scholar: The Correspondence Of 'abd Al-ghani Al-nabulusi (1641-1731), Matthew B. Ingalls
Review: Letters of a Sufi Scholar: The Correspondence of ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (1641–1731), Matthew B. Ingalls
Review of: Epic and History edited by David Konstan and Kurt A. Raaflaub., Aislinn A. Melchior
Review of: The Frontier Of Leisure: Southern California And The Shaping Of Modern America by Lawrence Culver, Douglas Cazaux Sackman
Rock And Roll In The Rocket City: The West, Identity, And Ideology In Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985, Benjamin Tromly
The Role Of Sisters In Women's Development., Lisa Fortlouis Wood
Submissions from 2011
Canon Law And The Letters Of Ivo Of Chartres, Greta Austin
Alexandria Lost: From The Advent Of Christianity To The Arab Conquest, William D. Barry
Bojana Mojsov, Alexandria Lost: From The Advent Of Christianity To The Arab Conquest (london: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2010), 155 Pp, William D. Barry
Review of: Assignment Problems by Rainer Burkard, Mauro Dell'Amico, and Silvano Martello, Robert A. Beezer
The Entrepreneurial Group: Social Identifies, Relations, and Collective Action (book review), Lynnette Claire
Review of: Tunisia: Stability and Reform in the Modern Maghreb by Christopher Alexander, Bradford Dillman
Review: Briggs, Ronald. Tropes of Enlightenment in the Age of Bolívar: Simón Rodríguez and the American Essay at Revolution, Brendan Lanctot
Review of: The Lotus And The Lion: Buddhism And The British Empire by J. Jeffrey Franklin, Jonathan Stockdale
Gauriel Von Muntabel, David F. Tinsley
German Romance, Vol 2, Gauriel Von Muntabel, David F. Tinsley
Submissions from 2010
Review of: Pearls Of Discrete Mathematics by Martin Erickson, Robert A. Beezer
Surgeon Green, Beverly H. Conner
Review of: Drugs and Contemporary Warfare by Rexton Paul Kan, Bradford Dillman
Review of: Human Trafficking, Human Misery: The Global Trade in Human Beings by Alexis Aronowitz, Bradford Dillman
Review of: Transnational Organized Crime by Frank Madsen, Bradford Dillman
Review of: Political Theatre in Post-Thatcher Britain: New Writing 1995-2005 by Amelia Howe Kritzer, Sara Freeman
Review of: The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy by Jennifer Wallace, Sara Freeman
The Invisible Hand In Economics: How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences, Douglas Wade Hands
Review of: The Invisible Hand in Economics: How Economists Explain Unintended Consequences, D. Wade Hands
Review of: New Race Politics In America: Understanding Minority And Immigrant Politics edited by Jane Junn and Kerry L. Haynie, Robin Dale Jacobson
Book Review: Adroitly and Persuasively Preaching to the Microbial Choir, Mark O. Martin, E. A. Kennedy, and J. A. Bernard
The U.s. Military Intervention In Panama: Origins, Planning, And Crisis Management, June 1987 - December 1989, Jeffrey J. Matthews
Review: Lawrence A. Yates, The U.S. Military Intervention in Panama: Origins, Planning, and Crisis Management June 1987–December 1989, Jeffrey J. Matthews and Dawn Swink
Review of: Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions by Mitchell A. Orenstein, Stephen Bloom, and Nicole Lindstrom, Patrick H. O'neil
Review: Alfred Hiatt, Terra incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600, David F. Tinsley
Review: Erika Lauren Lindgren. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany, David F. Tinsley
Review: American Families: A Multicultural Reader, Jennifer Utrata
Review: Needed by Nobody: Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Socialist Russia, Jennifer Utrata
Submissions from 2009
Review of: Vector Calculus by Michael Corral, Robert A. Beezer
Featured Review: Sage (Version 3.4), Robert A. Beezer
Review of: The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe by Richard Block, Jennifer Driscoll Colosimo
Decoding The Heavens: A 2000-year-old Computer And The Century-long Search To Discover Its Secrets, James C. Evans
Review of: A Brief History Of Ancient Astrology by R. Beck, James C. Evans
Review of: Aetna And The Moon: Explaining Nature In Ancient Greece And Rome by Liba Taub, James C. Evans
Review of: 1857: War Of Independence Or Clash Of Civilizations? British Public Reactions by Salahudddin Malik, Priti Joshi
Review of: A Companion to Roman Rhetoric by William Dominik and Jon Hall, Aislinn A. Melchior
Divine Qualities: Cult And Community In Republican Rome, Eric M. Orlin
Mere Thermodynamics, Andrew Rex
Review of: Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s by Michael Reid Soul, Don Share
Review of: Spanish Politics by Omar Encarnación, Don Share
Review of: Forgotten Continent: The Battle For Latin America's Soul by Michael Reid, Donald Share
Review of: Freedom and Anthropology in Kant's Moral Philosophy by Patrick R. Frierson., Ariela Tubert
American Families: A Multicultural Reader, Jennifer Utrata
Review of: Masculinidades En Obras: El Drama De La Hombría En La España Imperial by José Reinaldo Cartagena Calderón, Harry Vélez-Quiñones
Submissions from 2008
Review of: Graph Theory by J. A. Bondy and U. S. R. Murty, Robert A. Beezer
Review of: The Art of Mathematics: Coffee Time in Memphis by Béla Bollobás, Robert A. Beezer
Anglo-norman Verse Prophecies Of Merlin, Michael Curley
Book Review: “Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and The United States”, Monica DeHart
Review of: The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Nomination Process by Trevor Parry-Giles, James Jasinski
Review of China Blue, Directed by Micha Peled, Nick Kontogeorgopoulos
Review of: Caesar's Civil War by W. W. Batstone and C. Damon, Aislinn A. Melchior
Review of: Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge by Linda Nash, Douglas Cazaux Sackman
Submissions from 2007
Review of: Spinoza To The Letter: Studies In Words, Texts And Books by Fokke Akkerman and Piet Steenbakkerseds, William H. Beardsley
Review of: A Java Library of Graph Algorithms and Optimization by Hang T. Lau, Robert A. Beezer
Review of: Earl "Fatha" Hines: Selected Piano Solos, 1928-1941," composed by Earl "Fatha" Hines, edited by Jeffrey Taylor, Geoffrey Block
Review of: The Jew In The Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms, 1350-1500 by Anthony Bale, Denise L. Despres
Movies On Trial: The Legal System On The Silver Screen, By Anthony Chase, William Haltom
William Stanley Jevons And The Making Of Modern Economics, Douglas Wade Hands
Review of: Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics, D. Wade Hands
Review of: William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics, D. Wade Hands