FAREED ZAKARIA. In Defense of a Liberal Education. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. (2015). 208 pp. $23.95 (paperback). (ISBN 978-0-393-24768-8)

George Makari, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (New York and London: Norton, 2015), pp. xvi, 656, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-393-05965-6.

public financial resources to the latter areas and away from family planning services with uneven success. The author successfully navigates these overlapping layers of social, political and economic interest, and interprets the Peruvian experience in its particularities but also within patterns that emerged in Latin American–U.S. relations. In all of this and from multiple directions, A Histor...

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2010, 276 pp. $26.95. ISBN 0393072223 (hardcover)

David Anthony Forrester, Nursing's Greatest Leaders: A History of Activism (New York: Springer, 2016), pp. xix, 293, $65.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8261-3007-5.

contributions on patient labour in North America, Britain, Europe, the West Indies, India and Japan, allowing the reader to make comparisons. Moreover, many of the chapters show how ideas about patient work moved across national boundaries. In her chapter on patient work in colonial hospitals in South Asia, Waltraud Ernst argues that in British India, ‘ideas and practices of patient work in the...

Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet: by Todd W. Taylor and Irene Ward (Editors). Columbia University Press, New York, 1998, 200 pp. ISBN 0231113315 $17.50 (paperback)

In their introduction the editors claim that this is a book for writing instructors written by writing instructors. Although they do not mention this explicitly it is clear that they are assuming a USA context. Not only are all the contributors from universities in the United States but many chapters also refer to the contemporary situation of what they calìcomposition and rhetoric studies' in ...

Mary de Young, Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015), pp. vi, 368, $55, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-7864-6897-3.

Life Atomic is thus a historical epistemology from the inside out. Creager’s method is reminiscent of what Marxists call immanent critique and what Clifford Geertz once called ‘internal conversion’. (It is, I think, an accident of history that Geertz’s term is drawn from atomic physics.) Methodological innovation, in this mode, need not be imported. It can be found in the sources themselves. Cr...