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Summer 2006

CURRENT EVENTS Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement, edited by David Naguib  Pellow and Robert J. Brulle. MIT, November 2005. $25 paper In the 1970s and ’80s scholars and activist [...]

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Spring 2006

HISTORY Born Jewish: A Childhood in Occupied Europe, by Marcel Liebman. Verso, December 2005. $25 This fascinating and scathing indictment of Belgian Jews who cooperated with Nazis during the reign of the Third Reich first appeared in French [...]

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Fall 2005

CURRENT EVENTS Water for Sale, by Fredrik Segerfeldt. Cato Institute, June 2005. $12.95 The Cato Institute can be depended upon to publish work which genuflects before the market, abhors government regulation, and searches for situations in which th [...]

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Summer 2005

EDITOR’S PICKAn Unexpected Life, by Joseph Blotner. LSU, March 2005. $29.95 Joseph Blotner will be remembered as a giant of American literary scholarship. His editions of William Faulkner’s works, especially the Uncollected Stories and Selected L [...]

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