REVIEW
BOOKS
Adeney, Frances S. & Arvind Sharma, eds. 2007.
Christianity and Human Rights: Influences
and Issues. Albany,
NY: SUNY Press. Paper. 228 p. $24.95.
Baggett, David, et al, eds. 2008.
C. S. Lewis as Philosopher: Truth, Goodness
and Beauty.
Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic.
Paper. 268 p.
$23.
Baumol, William J., Robert E. Litan & Carl J. Schramm. 2007.
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and
the Economics of Growth and
Prosperity. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Cloth. 321 p. $30.
Charles, J. Daryl. 2008. Retrieving
the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Paper. 346 p.
$34.
Clawson, Dan et al, eds. 2007.
Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent
Sociologists Debate Politics
& the
Profession in the Twenty-First Century. Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press.
Paper. 275
p. $21.95.
D'Souza, Dinesh. 2008. What's So Great About
Christianity. Carol Stream, IL:
Tyndale House Publishers. Paper.
348 p. $14.99.
Garrard, John & Carol. 2008. Russian
Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press. Cloth. 326
p. $29.95.
Grinnell, Frederick. 2009. Everyday Practice
of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet
Objectivity and Logic.
New York: Oxford University Press.
Cloth. 230 p.
$27.95.
Hankins, Barry. 2008. Francis
Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Paper. 272 p.
$20.
Headley, John M. 2008. The Europeanization of the World: On the
Origins of Human Rights
and Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press. Cloth. 290 p. $26.95.
Kramer, Lawrence. 2007. Why Classical Music Still Matters.
Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press. Cloth. 242 p.
$24.95.
Kronman, Anthony T. 2007. Education's End: Why Our Colleges and
Universities Have Given Up
on the Meaning of Life. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press. Cloth. 3 08 p. $27.50.
Lichterman, Paul & C. Brady Potts, eds. 2009. The Civic Life of
American Religion.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Paper.
164 p.
Livio, Mario. 2009. Is God a Mathematician? New York:
Simon & Schuster. Cloth. 308 p. $26.
Noll, Mark A. & James Turner. 2008.
The Future of Christian Learning: An
Evangelical and Catholic
Dialogue. Ed.
Thomas A. Howard. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos
Press. Paper. 144
p. $16.99.
O'Donnell, Guillermo. 2007. Dissonances: Democratic Critiques of Democracy.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. Paper. 179
p. $25.
Perry, Tim, ed. 2007. The
Legacy of John Paul II: An Evangelical Assessment.
Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic.
Paper. 327 p.
$25.
Pottenger, John R. 2007. Reaping
the Whirlwind: Liberal Democracy and the Religious Axis.
Washington, DC: Georgetown
University Press. Paper. 342
p. $29.95.
Powell, Benjamin W., ed. 2008.
Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship
and the Process
of Economic Development.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Paper. 452 p.
$29.95.
Shields, Jon A. 2009. The
Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right. Princeton,
NJ:
Princeton University Press.
Cloth. 198 p.
$29.95.
Sommerville, C. John. 2006. The Decline of
the Secular University. New York:
Oxford University Press.
Cloth. 147 p. $22.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. 2007. Making Globalization
Work. New York: Norton.
Paper.
324 p. $15.95.
Thirring, Walter. 2007. Cosmic
Impressions: Traces of God in the Laws of Nature. Tr.
Margaret
A. Schellenberg. Philadelphia,
PA: Templeton Foundation Press. Paper.
188 p. $19.95.
Webb, Adam K. 2009. A
Path of Our Own: An Andean Village and Tomorrow's Economy of Values.
Wilmington, DE: ISI Books.
Cloth. 258 p.
$28.
Wuthnow, Robert. 2009. Boundless
Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches.
Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press. Cloth. 345
p. $26.95.
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