Julie Seifert
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Great Lives from History: American Women
Recommended for a variety of collections, especially those with a strong focus on women's studies.
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The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Philosophy
The editors and contributors delve deeply into their subject and examine it from many different perspectives. This thorough guide will be useful to anyone looking for a comprehensive resource on analytic philosophy.
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Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
Entries in this work are dense, opaque, and often unapproachable. Although the material may be of interest to those with a love of linguistics or translation, the long, confusing entries do little to aid one's understanding of a term. The entries are so impenetrable that it would be difficult for all but the most intense scholar to read through them.
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The Virgil Encyclopedia
This well-written encyclopedia clearly explains the alliances of various topics and people to Virgil. The references to specific lines of his work are useful. While too detailed for the casual student of the classics, Thomas and Ziolkowski's work will certainly be useful in academic libraries where scholars are pursuing in-depth Virgil study.
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Recommended for academic libraries that support programs in philosophy and social sciences, as well as scholars in those fields, especially those with a strong interest in interdisciplinary studies.
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Encyclopedia of Religious Controversies in the United States
The entries here are clearly written and convey the basic facts related to the origins and development of each debate. The authors cover the full spectrum of religious controversies, and it seems that none has been overlooked. Because of the brevity of the entries, this work will be best used as an introduction to a particular topic or to American religious life in general.
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Voices of Unbelief: Documents from Atheists and Agnostics
Strengths of this text are the many resources that will help readers engage with and understand the material, and the array of perspectives from different eras (though there are not as many from earlier times, perhaps because of availability), regions, cultures, and social groups. Overall, a helpful primer on the many different perspectives on a complex subject.
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Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalism
With its with clear, concise entries and extensive extra features, this resource stands out from other material on the topic and provides a useful starting point for researchers and those who need a brief definition of a particular term.
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