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The Reading Room -
Rewiews from around the world
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Written by Picky
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in The Washington Post (Sunday, August 29, 2010)
John Smolens reviews Alex Butterworth's The World That Never Was, a history of anarchism in its heyday from the Paris Commune to the Bolshevik Revolution: "...too seldom was it acknowledged that these killers were also moved by the highest ideals and dreams of utopia."
in Inside Higher Ed (August 18, 2010)
Scott McLemee reviews The Professional Guinea Pig, by Roberto Abadie: "His book is an ethnographic account of the subculture of “paid volunteers”...Most of Abadie’s informants are also members of an anarchist counterculture that prides itself on remaining outside corporate capitalism."
new from Notre Dame Press (August 2010)
Opening the Qur'an by Walter H. Wagner, "For non-Muslim, English-speaking readers of the Qur'an who become overwhelmed and perplexed, Wagner comes to the rescue..." -- Library Journal
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