The University Bookman

Volume 46, Number 2 (Summer 2008)

Contents

Editor’s Note: Farewells and Looking Ahead

Essay 6 September 2008

The Non-Human World of China Miéville
by Craig Bernthal

Review 6 September 2008

Rhyming the Right
a review by Sally Cook

The Conservative Poets: A Contemporary Anthology Edited by William Baer. University of Evansville Press (Evansville, Ind.) 182 pp., $20.00 cloth, 2006.

Review 6 September 2008

The Prince Redeemed
a review by Chuck Chalberg

The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington by Robert Novak. Crown Forum (New York) 662 pp., $29.95 cloth, 2007

Review 6 September 2008

Alasdair Macintyre: Philosopher of the Ages
a review by Adam A.J. DeVille

Books by Alasdair MacIntyre: Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922 Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, Md.) 208 pp., $33.00 cloth, 2005 The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays, Vol. 1 Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, U.K.) 244 pp., $70.00 cloth, 2006 Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays, Vol. 2 Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, U.K.) 252 pp., $70.00 cloth, 2006

Review 6 September 2008

Acton in Italy
a review by Flavio Felice

Lord Acton, Il Liberalismo Etico Edited By Massimo Baldini. Armando Editore (Rome) 125 pp., $18.53 paper, 2006

Review 7 September 2008

America’s Image Abroad
a review by Zbigniew Janowski

Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice by Juliana Geran Pilon Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, Md.) 280 pp., $26.95 paper, 2007

Review 7 September 2008

History’s Story
a review by William Anthony Hay

A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by John Burrow Random House (New York) 540 pp., $35.00 cloth, 2007

Review 7 September 2008

Reasons to Believe
a review by Louis Markos

The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins Free Press (New York) 304 pp., $26.00 cloth, 2006

Review 7 September 2008

Against Postmodernity
a review by Lee Trepanier

Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth by David Bentley Hart William B. Eerdmans (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 448 pp., $36.00 paper, 2003

Review 7 September 2008

Order Gets Physical
a review by James Kalb

The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life by Christopher Alexander Center for Environmental Structure (Berkeley, Calif.) 476 pp., $75.00 cloth, 2002

Essay 7 September 2008

What Everybody Can Enjoy
by James V. Schall, S.J.

On Essays and Letters

Essay 7 September 2008

In Memoriam: Richard Durant
by Clark Durant

An Obituary

Essay 7 September 2008

The Necessity for a General Culture
by Russell Kirk

“What Does Culture Mean?” From America’s British Culture, pp. 1–3

Review 7 September 2008

Books in Little
a review by The Editors