From the Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, Chato Rasoal (Linkoping) and Jakob Eklund and Eric M. Hansen (Malardalen): Toward a Conceptualization of Ethnocultural Empathy; and Aurelio Jose Figueredo and Dok J. Andrzejczak (Arizona), Daniel Nelson (UBC), and Vanessa Smith-Castro and Eiliana Montero (Costa Rica): Reproductive Strategy and Ethnic Conflict: Slow Life History as a Protective Factor Against Negative Ethnocentrism in Two Contemporary Societies. Beyond Orientalism: A review of Nabil I. Matar's Islam in Britain, 1558-1685, Alastair Hamilton and Francis Richard's Andre du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France, Paula Sutter Fichtner's Terror and Toleration: The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526-1850, and Ziad Elmarsafy's The Enlightenment Qur'an: The Politics of Translation and the Construction of Islam. The decline of nudism either means we're all letting it all hang out now, or else we've really gotten more uptight than ever. Tono-Bungay: Michael Dirda on how H.G. Wells's most insightful visions concerned money, ambition, and the human heart.
