Tuesday, May 13, 2003

SOCIETY - Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. By Bill McKibben, Times Books, 288 pp. Review: 'Please, sir, could I have less?' Bill McKibben argues that our thirst for technological progress threatens the nature of humanity. [Christian Science Monitor | Books

SOCIETY - After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy. By Noah Feldman, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 260 pp. Review: Islam and democracy - not an impossible marriage. Noah Feldman is writing a new constitution for Iraq. [Christian Science Monitor | Books

SOCIETY - The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn. By Diane Ravitch. 255 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Review: 'The Language Police': Watch Your Mouth. Educational bias and sensitivity panels are shaping schoolbooks to suit their own values, sensitivities and political ends, reports Diane Ravitch. [New York Times: Books

SOCIETY - The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland. By Karl E. Meyer. Illustrated. 252 pp. New York: A Century Foundation Book/PublicAffairs. Review: 'The Dust of Empire:' After the Great Game. Karl E. Meyer's political history of the tinderbox known as Central Asia is not only readable and well informed but timely to an almost painful degree. [New York Times: Books

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