Book Reviews : The Egyptian Army in Politics: Pattern for New Nations? By P. J. VATIKIOTIS. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961. Pp. xvii, 299. $7.95.)
Bernard Perron and Felix Schröter, eds., Video Games and the Mind: Essays on Cognition, Affect and Emotion (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016), 224 pp., $39.95 (softcover), ISBN: 9780786499090.Christopher Holliday, The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018), 272 pp., $39.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781474427890.Aubrey Anable, Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2018), 200 pp., $25.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9781517900250.
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Christopher Hanson, Game Time: Understanding Temporality in Video Games (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018), 296 pp., $38.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9780253032867.
Bar Mitzvah: A History, by Rabbi Michael Hilton, University of Nebraska
Press/Jewish Publication Society, 2014, ISBN: 978-0-8276-0947-1,
360pp., £22.99The Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and His Readers, by Olga
Borovaya, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-
253-02552-4 (hardback), 317 pp., $60.00Deep Calls to Deep: Transforming Conversations between Jews and Christians,
edited by Tony Bayfield, London, SCM, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-334-05512-9
(paperback), 368 pp., £40.00Confessions of a Rabbi, by Jonathan Romain, London, Biteback Publishing,
2017, ISBN: 978-1-78590-189-8 (paperback), 306 pp., £12.99
David Audretsch of Indiana University reviews “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure” by Tim Harford. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins: Explores how we can learn to use adaptive trial and error to solve current complex situations and problems in politics and the social sciences. Discusses conflict, or how organizations learn; creating new ideas that matter, or variation; finding what works for the poor, or selection; climate change, or changing the rules for success; preventing financial meltdowns, or decoupling; the adaptive organization; and adapting and you. Harford is a columnist for the Financial Times. Index.
Roy Thurik of Erasmus School of Economics and GSCM Montpellier Business School reviews, “Valuing an Entrepreneurial Enterprise” by David B. Audretsch and Albert N. Link. The EconLit abstract of this book begins: “Presents a valuation method for emerging technology-based ventures without a revenue history. Discusses innovative activity—alternative economic frameworks and policy approaches; valuation methods—tools of the trade; traditionally used valuation methods; applications of traditional valuation methods; alternative approaches to the valuations of Video, Inc.; the move toward a methodology for valuing an entrepreneurial enterprise; and a valuation of Metal Brothers, Inc. Audretsch is Distinguished Professor, Ameritech Chair of Economic Development, and Director of the Institute for Development Strategies at Indiana University. Link is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Index.”
Book Reviews : The Impact of Feminist Research in the Academy. Edited by Christine Farnham. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987, 228 pp., $12.95 (paperback