Robert Heffner & Muhammad Qasim Zaman (red.): Schooling Islam – The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education. Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford, 2007. 277 sider.

Born and Made. An Ethnography of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis Sarah Franklin and Celia Roberts Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 20061

Born and Made “tells the story of a specific technique in a particular country and during a distinct historical period” (p. xv). The technique is Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis or PGD, the country the United Kingdom, the historical period a decade after the first successful PGD application in London in 1990. Yet despite its particular setting, Sarah Franklin and Celia Roberts’ book addresses...

Searching for ourselves Stranger in the Mirror: The Scientific Search for the Self Robert V. Levine (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; 2016) ISBN: 978-0-691167-916

and we know other couples who pursue careers in different areas of science, or where one half makes the money which softens the rigours of academic life for the other. JA: Any partnership, whether it’s purely scientifi c or personal as well, depends on appreciating and respecting the particular strengths and quirks of the other half. I think that Ol and I have been fortunate in complementing ea...

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

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...

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