Bruce Ackerman, Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law, Belknap Press: Harvard University Press, 2019, 472 pp, hb £28.95.

TAKING RIGHTS SERIOUSLY. By Ronald Dworkin. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1977. Pp. 563

Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. xvi + 367p. $18.95 (ISBN 9780674023147). LC 2007-273343

made accessible. Fisher’s early modern audience recognizes the metaphysical comparison of Christ to a book because of their familiarity with contemporary books and the materials from which they are made. The metaphor endures centuries past the days of wood boards and vellum leaves because early modern manuscript books have been preserved as historical artifacts. Discussions of girdle books come...

University Press, 2005.

Constructions of Intersubjectivity (CoI) is an important addition to the growing body of work on ‘cognitive’ and construction-based grammars, which CoI links to evolutionary issues in interesting ways. CoI also touches upon a number of fundamental (indeed philosophical) issues in the study of linguistic communication, meaning, and human cognition; it should be applauded for the explicitness wit...

American birds: Audubon was not the first Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology, Edward A. Burtt, Jr and William E. Davis, Jr., (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013), ISBN 978-0-674-07255-8

Many people believe that John James Audubon was the first American ornithologist, but in reality it was Alexander Wilson who was first, and probably gave Audubon the idea for his Birds of America. Because Audubon produced a much larger book, the double elephant folio, with larger and more artistic plates, he tends to get the credit. Yet it was really Wilson who started it all. In 1800, most boo...

3 Review of “ Knots ” by Alexei Sossinsky , Harvard University Press , 2002 , ISBN 0 - 674 - 00944 - 4

”Butterfly knot, clove hitch knot, Gordian knot, hangman’s knot, vipers’ tangle knots are familiar objects, symbols of complexity, occasionally metaphors for evil. For reasons I do not entirely understand, they were long ignored by mathematicians. A tentative effort by Alexandre-Th[e]ophile Vandermonde at the end of the eighteenth century was short-lived, and a preliminary study by the young Ka...