Jonathan Marc Gribetz. Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. 312 pp.

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.

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...

See life at the extremes Extreme Life of the Sea: Stephen R. Palumbi and Anthony R. Palumbi (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; 2014) ISBN-10: 0691149569

Extreme Life of the Sea is a wonderful book, written in an engaging style by world-renowned marine biologist Stephen Palumbi and his science writer/novelist son, Anthony Palumbi. Between the two of them, they have managed to write a book that presents information in a way that a layman without a marine science background will enjoy, but with enough science to make it a useful text for marine bi...

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....