"This is an excellent and versatile textbook, as well as an intervention in the scholarly debate on the Asian economies. During the last few years Lim has paid particular attention to China, realizing that the Chinese and Japanese economies are complementary and dependent on each other....

It has long been taught in the church that Saul was rejected because of his disobedience to God. In recent literary studies on the First Book of Samuel, however, God is portrayed as malicious, hostile, ambiguous, or problematic, especially in God\"\"s relation to King Saul....

In this volume eighteen scholars have contributed chapters exploring themes such as the history of economic theory, applied economics and an evaluation of Mark Perlman\'s written contributions....