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Authority and Political Culture in Shi'ism, Said Amir Arjomand, ed., Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1988, 393 pp., index. $19.95, paperback. $49.50, cloth.

A Lonely Woman: Forugh Farrokhzad and her Poetry, Michael C. Hillmann, Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press and Mage Publishers, 1987, 181 pp.

The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan, Lisa Golombek and Donald Wilber, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988; Vol. 1: 510 pp. of text; Vol. 2: 16 color plates, 481 black‐and‐white photographs, 8 maps, 162 plans and sections. $130.

Timurid Architecture in Khurasan, Bernard O'Kane, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1987, 418 pp., numerous figures and plates. $49.95.

Iranian Immigrants in the United States: A Case Study of Dual Marginality, Abdolmaboud Ansari, Millwood, N.Y.: Associated Faculty Press, 1988, xii + 148 pp.

Aux Sources de la Nouvelle Persane, Christophe Balay and Michel Cuypers, Paris: Institut Français d'Iranologie de Teheran, 1983, 222 pp., bibiography, indexes of proper names, books and journals. 124 Fr. paperback.

Post‐Revolutionary Iran, Hooshang Amirahmadi and Manoucher Parvin, eds., Boulder: Westview Press, 1988, 262 pp. $39.50.

Islamic Art and Spirituality, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987, 213 pp., 10 monochrome plates. $75.00.

Nishapur: Some Early Islamic Buildings and Their Decoration, Charles J. Wilkinson, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986, 328 pp., num. ill., 29 col. pl. $75.00.

The Making of Iran's Islamic Revolution: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic, Mohsen M. Milani, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1988, xiv + 361.

The Poet Sa'di: A Persian Humanist, John D. Yohannan, (Persian Studies Series, No. 11) Lanham, Md.: University Press of America; Bibliotheca Persica, 1987, 149 pp.

The Destiny of a King, Georges Dum´ezil (translated by Alf Hiltebeitel), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, 155 pp. $11.95.

Revolutionary Iran, R.K. Ramazani, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986, xvi + 254 pp., appendix to p. 282, notes to p. 294, bibliography to p. 302, index to p. 311. $27.50.

A Bibliography of the Iran‐Iraq Borderland, Keith MacLachlan and Richard Schofield, Cambridge, U.K.: Middle East and North African Press, 1987, 383 pp.

Tales from Luristan (Matalya Lurissu): Tales, Fables and Folk Poetry from the Lur of Bala‐Gariva, Sekandar Amanolahi and W.M. Thackston, transcribed and translated with notes on the phonology, the grammar of Luri and Luri‐English vocabulary. Harvard Iranian Series, Vol. 4, 1986, XIII + 250 pp. $19.95 paperback.

Shi'ism and Social Protest, Juan R. I. Cole and Nikki R. Keddie, eds., New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986, x + 321 pp.

My Memories of Baha'u'llah, Ustad Muhammad‐'Aliy‐i‐Salmani, the Barber, translated from the original Persian by Marzieh Gail, Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1982, 122 pp., appendices, short biographies of Baha'is mentioned in the text, as well as notes, selected bibliography and selected love poems of Ustad Muhammad‐'Aliy‐i‐Salmani.

Agricultural Change and Rural Society in Southern Iran, C. Salmanzadeh, Cambridgeshire, England: MENAS Press Ltd., 1980, 275 pp. £17.00 hardback, £10.50 paperback.

Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Clergy‐State Relations in the Pahlavi Period, Shahrough Akhavi, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1980, xx + 255 pp.

Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution, Michael M.J. Fischer, Cambridge, Mass., and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1980, xviii + 314 pp.     

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Flößereiin Deutschland,
HANS-WALTER KEWELOH (Ed.)
Auf den Spuren der Flößer—Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte eines Gewerbes, HANS-WALTER KEWELOH (Ed.)
Medieval fish, fisheries and fishponds in England, MICHAEL ASTON (Ed.)
Les galèriens, vies et destins de 60,000 forçats sur les galères de France 1680–1748, ANDRÉ ZYSBERG
Pacific sail ROGER MORRIS     

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Excavations at Carthage: The British Mission, Volume II, 1: The Circular Harbour, North Side: The Site and Finds Other Than Pottery H. R. HURST 335 pp., many illustrations Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1994, £75, ISBN 0-17-727003-4 Excavations at Carthage, The British Mission Volume II, 2: The Circular Harbour, North Side: The Pottery (BA Monographs in Archaeology No. 5) M. G. FULFORD and D. P. S. PEACOCK with contributions from Henry Hurst, Kathryn Knowles and Jane Timby 124 pp., 39 line-drawings, 1 half-tone illustration British Academy and Oxford University Press, 1995, £30, ISBN 0-19-727004-2 Saint-Blaise/Bains des Dames 1: palynologie d'un site néolithique et histoire de la végetation des derniers 16,000 ans (Archéologie Neuchâteloise 18) PHILIPPE HADORN 121 pp.+ 50 pp., illustrated (colour plates) Musée Cantonal d'Archéologie, CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1994, Sw.Fr. 70 The History of English Sea Ordnance 1523–1715, Volume I: 1523–1715, The Age of Evolution ADRIAN B. CARUANA 237 pp., illustrated Jean Boudriot Publications, Rotherfield, Sussex TN6 3QX, UK, 1994, £50 The Sea-Gunner (1691) JOHN SELLER 258 pp + xiv, 3 plates Facsimile reprint with an Introduction by Adrian B. Caruana Jean Boudriot Publications, Rotherfield, 1994, £37 (cloth bound), £60 (leather bound), ISBN 0-948864-25-7 or ISBN 0-948864-26-5 (respectively) Die Reise nach Batavia, Deutsche Abenteurer in Ostasien, 1609 bis 1695 PETER KIRSCH 440 PP. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg, 1994, D.mk.49.80 ISBN 3-8225-0297 La Grotte Cosquer—Peintures et Gravures de la Caverne engloutie JEAN CLOTTES and JEAN COURTIN 189 pp., illustrated Editions du Seuil. Paris. 1994, F.fr 390, ISBN 2-020-198207 La Grotte Cosquer: Plongée dans la Prehistoire HENRI COSQUER 119 pp., 119 photographs + 2 plans in colour (all) Solar, Spain, 1992, F.fr. 150, ISBN 2-263-01943-X A History of Working Watercraft of the Western World (2nd edition) THOMAS C. GILLMER 276 pp., illustrated International Marine, P.O. Box 220, Camden, Maine, 04843, USA, 1994. £17.95 or $25.95, ISBN 0-07-023616-X The New Maritime History of Devon vol. II—from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day M. DUFFY, S. FISHER, B. GREENHILL, D. STARKEY and JOYCE YOUINGS 272 pp., illustrated University of Exeter & Conway Maritime Press, London, 1994, £35, ISBN 0-85177-6337     

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“MUST WE LOSE AFRICA?” by Colin Legum. (Allen, London) pp. 264: 16/ stg.

ANCIENT FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMICS IN INDIA, by K. T. Shah, Bombay, 1954. Pp. 175.

THE PROSPECTS FOR COMMUNIST CHINA, by W. W. Rostov, in collaboration with Richard W. Hatch, Frank A. Kierman, jun., and Alexander Eckstein. Technology Press and John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1955. Pp. xx plus 379. $5.00.     

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G arry W. T rompf : The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought from Antiquity to the Reformation.
J ames T hrower : The Alternative Tradition: Religion and the Rejection of Religion in the Ancient World.
A listair F ox : Thomas More's History and Providence. Oxford, Basil Blackwell
R ichard M. G olden : The Godly Rebellion: Parisian Cures and the Religious Fronde, 1652-1662. Chapel Hill
I. J. G entles & W. J. S heils : Confiscation and Restoration: The Archbishopric Estates and the Civil War (Borthwick Papers No. 39)
P eter C. K ent : The Pope and the Duce: The International Impact of the Lateran Agreements.
A ndrew L emon : The Young Man From Home: James Balfour, 1830-1913. Melbourne University Press.
H ans M ol: The Fixed and the Fickle: Religion and Identity in New Zealand. Waterloo, Ontario     

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W. E. G regory F loyd : Clement of Alexandria's Treatment of the Problem of Evil .
J ohn M eyendroff : Byzantine Theology: Historic Trends and Doctrinal Themes .
D. F. W right (trans. and ed.): Common Places of Martin Bucer (The Courtenay Library of Reformation Classics, 4).
J ohn W. P acker : The Transformation of Anglicanism, 1643–1660 .
P. J. M arshall (ed.): The British Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century .
J ohn M c M anners : The French Revolution and the Church (Church History Outlines, 4).
G raeme K ent : Company of Heaven: Early Missionaries in the South Seas .
P aul Y ounger : Introduction to Indian Religious Thought .
M arvin H enry H arper : Gurus, Swamis, and Avataras: Spiritual Masters and their American Disciples .
R ichard P. D avis : Irish Issues in New Zealand Politics 1868–1922 .     

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Book reviewed in this article: J. Gilchrist : The Church and Ecnomic Activity in the Middle Ages Cchistopher Haigh : The Last Days of the Lancashire Monasteries and the Pilgrimage of Grace Patrick Collinson : The Elizabethan Puritan Movement Judith Binney : The Legacy of Guilt. A Life of Thomas Kendall E. R. Norman : Anti-Catholicism in Victorian England John N. Molony : The Roman Mould of the Australian Catholic Church John Tracy Ellis : Essays in Seminary Education William V. Spanos : The Christian Tradition in Modern British Verse Drama: The Poetics of Sacramental Time Emilio Willems : Followers of the New Faith: Culture Change and the Rise of Protestantism in Brazil and Chile A. J. Arberry (Ed.): Religion in the Middle East. Three Religions in Concord and Conflict     

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Archaeologia IX Underwater Archaeology 1. GERARD WILKE (Ed.)
The Graveney Boat. VALERIE FENWICK (Ed.)
Les Côtes de la Tunisie—Variations du niveau marin depuis le Tyrrhénien. ROLAND PASKOFF and PAUL SANLAVILLE
Law and the cultural heritage Vol. 1: Discovery and excavation. P. J. O'KEEFE and L. V. PROTT     

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Book reviewed in this article:
El Naufragio de Valgius. FEDERICO FOERSTER and RICARDO PASCUAL
Les bois gorgés d'eau—étude et conservation. R. RAMIÈRE and M. COLARDELLE
Seamanship in the age of sail. JOHN HARLAND
A treatise on practical seamanship. WILLIAM HUTCHINSON
The lashed-lug boat of the eastern archipelagoes. Maritime Monograph 54. G. ADRIAN HORRIDGE     

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Book reviewed in this article: Alexander von Humboldt, Kosmos: fürdie Gegenwart , edited by Hanno Beck, Brockhaus The first English translation of sections from Humboldt's introduction to Volume V will appear in Empiricism and Geographical Thought: From Francis Bacon to Alexander von Humboldt, by M. J. Bowen Biology and Quaternary Environments , edited by D. Walker and J. C. Guppy, Australian Academy of Science Social Justice and Australian Federalism: An Inquiry into Territorial Justice and Life Chances in Australia , by D. J. Wulmsley Silerete in Australia , edited by T. Langford-Smith     

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Book reviewed in this article: Desert Landforms , by J. A. Mabbutt Internal Migration in Australia by D. T. Rowland Social Organization in Aboriginal Australia , by Warren Shapiro Your Own Pigs You May Not Eat: A Comparative Study of New Guinea Societies , by Paula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman Food, Shelter and Transport in Southeast Asia and the Pacific: Challenging the ‘Unconventional Wisdom’ of Development Studies in the Third World , edited by P. J. Rimmer, D. W. Drakakis-Smith and T. G. McGee Landform Evolution in Australasia , edited by J. L. Davies and M. A. J. Williams