Book Reviews

2021 ◽  
Vol VII (1) ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
Jack Shanley ◽  
Danny Michael ◽  
Patrick Senft

A History of the Small Arms Made by the Sterling Armament Company: Excellence in Adversity Reviewed by: Jack Shanley Peter Laidler, James Edmiston & David Howroyd. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2020. ISBN 978-15-26773-30-2. xv + 352 pp., 32 col. illus., 350 b. & w. illus. £40. Winchester Model 1895: Last of the Classic Lever Actions Reviewed by: Danny Michael Rob Kassab & Brad Dunbar. Boca Raton: Buffalo Cove Publishing, 2019. ISBN 978-0-578-46655-2. 432 pp., numerous col. illus. $89.99. Firearms of the Texas Rangers: From the Frontier Era to the Modern Age Reviewed by: Patrick Senft Doug Dukes. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-574-41810-1. 640 pp., 182 b. & w. illus. $45.

Sibirica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-99
Author(s):  
Ryan T. Jones ◽  
Anna Bara ◽  
Galina V Grosheva ◽  
Ekaterina Gruzdeva ◽  
Peter Schweitzer ◽  
...  

A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule Jonathan Schlesinger (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017), 288 pp. ISBN: 9780804799966Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Stalin’s Soviet Union: New Dimensions of Research Andrej Kotljarchuk and Olle Sundström, eds. (Stockholm: Elanders, 2017), 283 pp., paperback $27.00. ISBN: 978-91-7601-777-7.Kosmologiia i praktika sibirskogo shamanizma Elena V. Nam (Tomsk: Tomskii gosudarstvennyi universitet, 2017), 296 pp. ISBN: 978-5-7511-2521-9.Kul’tura i resursy. Opyt etnologicheskogo obsledovaniia sovremennogo polozheniia narodov Severnogo Sakhalina Dmitrii Funk, ed. (Moscow: “Demos,” 2015), 272 pp. ISBN 978-5-9904710-6-1.Maritime Hunting Culture of Chukotka: Traditions and Modern Practices Igor Krupnik and Rachel Mason, eds. (Anchorage, AK: National Park Service, Shared Beringian Heritage Program, 2016), 343 pp. ISBN: 9780990725251. Litsom k moriu: Pamiati Liudmily Bogoslovskoi Igor Krupnik, ed. (Moscow: Moskva, 2016), 647 pp. ISBN 9785600013650.T-Bone Whacks and Caviar Snacks: Cooking with Two Texans in Siberia and the Russian Far East Sharon Hudgins (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2018), 448 pp. ISBN: 9781574417142.Bij de Joekagieren. Het oudste toendravolk van Noord-Oost Siberië / Life with the Yukaghir: Northeast Siberia’s Oldest Tundra People Cecilia Odé (Lias, Uitgeverij: Verschijningsjass, 2018), 240 pp., €29.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978-90-8803-099-4.


2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrid S. Glenn ◽  
Shahla Ala'i-Rosales

Author(s):  
L. M. Besov

Presidents of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for 100 years of its existence: Scientific and organizational cont ribution to the progress of fundamental science / VN Gamalia, Yu. K. Duplenko, V. I. Onoprienko, S. P. Ruda, V. S. Savchuk; for ed. V.I. Onoprienko; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; State Institution "G. M. Dobrov Institute Research of Scientific-Technical Potential and History of Science". - Kyiv: SE "Inf.-analytical Agency ", 2018. - 215 p.


This issue of the history of universities contains, as usual, an interesting mix of learned articles and book reviews covering topics related to the history of higher education. The volume combines original research and reference material. This issue includes articles on the topics of Alard Palenc; Joseph Belcher and Latin at Harvard; Queens College in Massachusetts; and university reform in Europe. The text includes a review essay as well as the usual book reviews.


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