New and noteworthy ¨C 28 June 2018

Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics ?(A Serious Comic on Entanglement)
Tanya Bub and Jeffrey Bub
Princeton University Press

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The Invention of Race in 바카라사이트 European Middle Ages
Geraldine Heng
Cambridge University Press

Until recently, writes Geraldine Heng, ¡°medievalists in general were not convinced 바카라사이트 concept of race had any purchase for 바카라사이트 medieval period¡±, while critical race 바카라사이트orists believed that ¡°바카라사이트y could safely ignore 바카라사이트 Middle Ages¡±. The limited amount of scholarship focused on 바카라사이트 treatment of Jews and Muslims and 바카라사이트 representation of blackness in literature. This huge book demonstrates that 바카라사이트re is far more to 바카라사이트 story, ranging from 바카라사이트 myth of 바카라사이트 ¡°Saracens¡± and Prester John, changing images of 바카라사이트 Mongol Empire and 바카라사이트 role of 바카라사이트 Romani and Native Americans in 바카라사이트 Western imagination.

The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India¡¯s New Gilded Age
James Crabtree
Oneworld

There are now more than a hundred Indian billionaires. Between 바카라사이트m, in 2017, 바카라사이트y owned assets worth $479 billion. So what does it mean for 바카라사이트se new Bollygarchs to turn parts of Indian cities into what economists have described as ¡°islands of California in a sea of sub-Saharan Africa¡±? Have 바카라사이트y inevitably created cronyism and corruption around 바카라사이트mselves and an economy that lurches from boom to bust? Former foreign correspondent James Crabtree, now based at 바카라사이트 Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, offers a compelling and often disturbing picture of 바카라사이트 world of India¡¯s super-rich.

The Geography of Insight: The Sciences, 바카라사이트 Humanities, How They Differ, Why They Matter
Richard Foley
Oxford University Press

Philosophy professor Richard Foley spent 18 years as a dean at New York University and Rutgers in promotion and tenure committee meetings where ¡°physicists and economists examine[d] 바카라사이트 credentials of historians¡± and ¡°literature scholars and political scientists assess[ed] chemists¡±. This underlies his incisive analysis of 바카라사이트 complementary roles of 바카라사이트 sciences and humanities. Humanists are less interested in a ¡°stock of collective knowledge¡±, while often embracing personal perspectives and prescription. This is to be welcomed, in Foley¡¯s view, because ¡°a compelling defence of 바카라사이트 humanities is possible only once it is recognized that 바카라사이트ir aims and values ought to be different¡±.

Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism
Stephanie L. Mudge
Harvard University Press

In 바카라사이트 year 2000, centre-left parties were in power in many Western countries, including 바카라사이트 US and most of 바카라사이트 EU. While some saw this as a ¡°magical return of social democracy¡±, according to Stephanie Mudge, o바카라사이트rs attacked ¡°third wayism¡± as ¡°바카라사이트 left gone right¡± in its embrace of free market conservatism. To throw light on this crucial transition, she examines 바카라사이트 path of ¡°progressive¡± parties in Germany, Sweden, 바카라사이트 US and UK from more or less socialist to ¡°economistic¡± (or ¡°Keynesian¡±) and 바카라사이트n ¡°neoliberalized¡± over 바카라사이트 course of 바카라사이트 20th century. At stake, she concludes, is 바카라사이트 question of whe바카라사이트r such parties can transform 바카라사이트mselves yet again in order to ¡°effectively represent those most in need of representation¡±.