From the Journal of Global History, a review of Pathfinders: a global history of exploration by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto; a review of Bound together: how traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors shaped globalization by Nayan Chanda; a review of Dictating development: how Europe shaped the global periphery by Jonathan Krieckhaus; and a review of The shock of the old: technology and global history since 1900 by David Edgerton. From Think, Paul Kurtz (SUNY-Buffalo): Why I am a Skeptic About Religious Claims; Lisa Bortolotti (Birmingham): What Does Fido Believe? A review of Farm Friends: From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond by Tom Fels. From New Statesman, a look why greens must learn to love nuclear power. When two intrepid women set out to slay the Wedding Industrial Complex, things get complicated fast. A review of The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul by Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary. The introduction to Public Freedom by Dana Villa. A review of The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy by Frank Prochaska and In Defence of America by Bronwen Maddox. A review of Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq by Linda Robinson.
