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ANNE BULLEY: The Bombay country ships, 1790–1833. xvi, 288 pp. 6 maps, 12 plates. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £40.00.
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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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A. G. MCDOWELL: Village life in Ancient Egypt: laundry lists and love songs. xvii, 279 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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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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SAIME GÖKSU and EDWARD TIMMS: Romantic Communist: the life and work of Nazım Hikmet. xxiv, 367 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 1999.
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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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CARMEN BLACKER: The Catalpa Bow: a study of shamanistic practices in Japan. 384 pp. (Third edition.) Richmond: Curzon, 1999. £16.99.
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BRIAN A. HATCHER: Eclecticism and modern Hindu discourse. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. £32.50.
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DAVID BROWN: Mesopotamian planetary astronomy-astrology. (Cuneiform Monographs, no. 18). xii, 322 pp. Groningen: Styx Publications, 2000. HFL. 180.
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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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VICTOR T. KING (ed.): Environmental challenges in Southeast Asia. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1998.
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JOHN WILLIAM JOHNSON, THOMAS A. HALE and STEPHEN BELCHER (ed.): Oral epics from Africa: vibrant voices from a vast continent. xxii, 331 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997. $14.95.
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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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WINANT M. CALLEWAERT in collaboration with SWAPNA SHARMA (ed.): The hagiographies of Anantadās: the bhakti poets of North India. [iv], 414 pp. Richmond: Curzon Press, 2000. £45.00.
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DAVID J. MATTHEWS and RAVIL BUKHARAEV (ed. and tr.): Historical anthology of Kazan Tatar verse: voices of eternity. xix, 209pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £35. RAVIL BUKHARAEV: Islam in Russia: the four seasons. xiv, 334 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £40.
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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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A. D. H. BIVAR, with contributions by GÉZA FEHÉRVÁRI, PATRICIA BAKER, ELIZABETH and NIGEL ERRINGTON: Excavations at Ghubayra¯, Iran. xviii, 508 pp., including 87 diagrams and 144 b/w illus. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2000. £95.
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BEVERLEY MILTON-EDWARDS: Contemporary politics in the Middle East. 256 pp. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000.
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ELIZABETH J. PERRY and MARK SELDEN (ed.): Chinese society: change, conflict and resistance. (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations.) xi, 241 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. £16.99 (paper).
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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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