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Life Stories: The Creation of Coherence. Charlotte Linde.Storied Lives: The Cultural Politics of Self‐Understanding. George C. Rosenwald and Richard L. Ochberg, eds.

Based on a brief account of 1,000 years of river floods and flood management in the Dutch Rhine delta, it is argued that vulnerability to river floods depends on the complex interaction of economics, institutions, politics and, to a limited extent, climate. Response functions and thresholds for climate change impacts should take this complexity into account rather than assuming society to be constant or evolving in a straightforward manner.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Lonergan and Historiography -- Introduction Restoration of the Philosophy of History -- Chapter 1 Basic Horizon and Historiography -- Chapter 2 Critique of Historical Reason -- Chapter 3 History of Thought and Praxis -- Chapter 4 History of Consciousness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

1. IVF and Assisted Reproduction: Global Visions, Local Stories -- 2. Towards the Two 1978 Births -- 3. The Foundations of Global Assisted Reproduction -- 4. Regulation and Risk -- 5. Oocytes, Surrogacy and Cross-Border Reproduction -- 6. Testing Boundaries, Finding Limits -- 7. Thresholds of the Future: New Directions in Assisted Reproduction.

Diasporas Jewish and non-Jewish and the world maritime empires / Jonathan Israel -- Global trading ambitions in diaspora: the Armenians and their Eurasian silk trade, 1530-1750 / Ina Baghdiantz McCabe -- Trading networks in a traditional diaspora: Armenians in India, c. 1600-1800 / Sushil Chaudhury -- The seventeenth century Japanese diaspora: questions of boundary and policy / William D. Wray -- Coping with transition: Greek merchants and shipowners between Venice and England in the late sixteenth century / Maria Fusaro -- Maltese entrepreneurial networks / Carmel Vassallo -- Mapping the Greek maritime diaspora from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries / Gelina Harlaftis -- Toward a typology of Greek-diaspora entrepreneurship / Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou -- Jewish bankers, 1850-1914: internationalization along ethnic lines / Huibert Schiff -- Middle-Eastern entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, c.1750-c. 1940 / William Gervase Clarence-Smith -- Globalizing ethnicity with multi-local identifications: the Parsee, Indian Muslim, and Sephardic trade diasporas in Hong Kong / Caroline Pl(c)ơss -- The trade diaspora of Baghdadi Jews: from India to China's treaty ports, 1842-1937 / Chiara Betta -- Western corporate forms and the social origins of Chinese diaspora entrepreneurial networks / Wai-keung Chung -- Irrational exuberance: the fatal conceit of Chinese financial capitalism in contemporary Indonesia / Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown -- Diaspora networks in the Asian maritime context / Antony Reid -- A profile of ethnonational diasporas / Gabriel Sheffer -- Greek merchant networks in the Age of Empires, 1770-1780 / Maria Christina Chatziioannou -- The concept of diaspora in the contemporary world / Stathis Gourgouris -- A Scottish merchant in Batabia, 1820-1840: Gilean McClain and Dutch connections / Frank Broeze

In A History of the World Since 9/11 Dominic Streatfeild expertly combines history, biography and investigative journalism to show how a massacre on a clear September day in 2001 has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. In a series of brilliantly interlinked chapters he shows how an Afghani wedding party; and a gas station proprietor in Texas; and a planespotter in Mallorca have been affected, sometimes devastatingly, by the American response to the attacks on the Twin Towers. Streatfeild shows how the sleep of reason and good sense in successive US administrations pos