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The ancient world
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N. M. SWERDLOW (ed.): Ancient astronomy and celestial divination. (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) x, 378 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2000. £33.50.
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General
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DAURIL ALDEN, assisted by JAMES M. CUMMINS and MICHAEL COOPER: Charles R. Boxer: an uncommon life. 616 pp. Lisbon: Fundacão Oriente, 2001.
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The Near and Middle East
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The Chronicle of Abraham of Crete (Patmut'iwn of Kat'oghikos Abraham Kretats'i). Annotated translation from the Critical Text with Introduction and Commentary by George A. Bournoutian. (Armenian Studies Series, 1.) 190 pp. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 1999.
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Africa
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DERYCK SCARR: Seychelles since 1770: history of a slave and post-slavery society. xiv, 232 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2000. £16.50 (paper).
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East Asia
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ZHOU XUN: Chinese perceptions of the ‘Jews’ and Judaism: a history of the Youtai. v, 202 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. £40.
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TUDOR PARFITT (ed.): Israel and Ishmael: studies in Muslim-Jewish relations. xii, 249 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £45.
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South-East Asia
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JOHN OKELL and ANNA ALLOTT: Burmese/Myanmar dictionary of grammatical forms. xvii, 312 pp. Richmond: Curzon Press, 2001. £50 hardback, £16.99 paperback.
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TEUKU ISKANDAR: Catalogue of Malay, Minangkabau, and South Sumatran manuscripts in the Netherlands. 2 vols., xiv, 1095 pp. Leiden: Documentatiebureau Islam-Christendom, 1999.
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The Near and Middle East
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BOšKO I. BOJOVIĆ: Raguse et l'empire ottoman (1430-1520). Les actes impériaux en vieux-Serbe de Murad II à Selim Ier. (Textes, Documents, Études sur le Monde Byzantin, Hélénique et Balkanique, 3.) lii, 420 pp. Paris: Éditions de l'Association Pierre Belon, 1998.
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ABRAHAM OF EREVAN: History of the Wars (1721–1738) (Abraham Erewants'i‘s, Patmut'iwn Paterazmats'n). Annotated translation from the original eighteenth-century texts, with introductory notes by George A. Bournoutian. (Armenian Studies Series, 3.) 111 pp. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 1999.
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TIM POTIER: Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. A legal appraisal. xvi, 314 pp. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2001. Euro 102.
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South Asia
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TAPAN RAYCHAUDHURI: Perceptions, emotions, sensibilities: essays on India's colonial and post-colonial sensibilities. xiv, 245 pp. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. £20.
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East Asia
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WILLIAM W. FITZHUGH and CHISATO O. DUBREUIL (ed.): Ainu, spirit of a northern people. 415 pp. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 1999. HONDA KATSUICHI (translated by KYOKO SELDEN HARAKUR): An Ainu woman's tale. (Voices from Asia, 11.) 350 pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. £31.50, £12.50 (paper).
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The Near and Middle East
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TIMOTHY GABASHVILI: Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, Constantinople and Jerusalem 1755–1759. (Translated and annotated by Mzia Ebanoidze and John Wilkinson). 224 pp. Richmond: Curzon Press (Caucasus World), 2001. £45.
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CAROLE HILLENBRAND: The Crusades: Islamic perspectives. lvi, 649 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999. £29.95 (paper).
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Africa
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ALEX BORAINE: A country unmasked: inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. xviii, 466 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. £20. DOROTHY SHEA: The South African Truth Commission: the politics of reconciliation. (Perspectives Series.) xiv, 107 pp. Washington D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2000. $8, £6.50.
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East Asia
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KAREN E. SANDNESS: The evolution of the Japanese past and perfective suffixes. viii, 264 pp. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1999. $32.95.
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The Near and Middle East
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ANDREW J. NEWMAN: The formative period of Twelver Shī‘ism: hadīth as discourse between Qum and Baghdad. (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East Series.) xxviii, 222 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £45.
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East Asia
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DENNIS HIROTA (ed.): Toward a contemporary understanding of Pure Land Buddhism: creating a Shin Buddhist theology in a religiously plural world. (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies.) ix, 257 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. $21.95.
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South Asia
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ROGER MARCAURELLE: Freedom through inner renunciation: Śan˙kara's philosophy in a new light. 269 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000.
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