Christine Hayes . What's Divine about Divine Law? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. 412 pp.

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

The Theory of Ecological Communities. Monographs in Population Biology 57, Mark Vellend, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA (2016). 248 pp., $49.95, ISBN: 9780691164847 (Hardback), 9781400883790 (eBook)

A productive concept, or “theory” in ecological jargon, trikes just the right balance between abstract universality nd specific applicability. Too abstract, and ecologists will gnore it as too aloof; too specific, and it will not cross ub-disciplinary boundaries and fade away. Darwin’s Thery of Natural Selection fits this bill, as does MacArthur Wilson’s Island Biogeography. Will Vellend’s Theo...

RUPP, LEILA J. Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1998. xiii, 325 pp. Ill. 39.50

This book explores the complex process at work as women from far-flung countries came together in transnational women’s organizations and constructed an international collective identity. Rupp, a professor of history at Ohio State University, rejects the idea that international organizations of any kind had been left to political scientists. She does not want to write an organizational history....

Pure Food. Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906. James Harvey Young. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1989. xiv, 312 pp. $29.95.

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...