Here are some book reviews of note from recent weeks that you may find to be of interest:

Charles H. Parker. The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572-1620. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv + 221 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, sources cited, index. $37.99 (paper), ISBN 0-521-02540-0. Reviewed by Victoria Christman, Department of History, Luther College.Gertrude Himmelfarb. The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. xv + 259 pp. Notes, index. $26.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-56663-624-8; $16.95 (paper), ISBN 1-56663-722-8. Reviewed for H-Albion by Stewart Weaver, Department of History, University of Rochester.Norman Etherington, ed. Missions and Empire. Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiii + 332 pp. Notes, chapter bibliographies, index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-025347-1. Reviewed for H-Albion by Jane Samson, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta.Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. ISBN-10: 0691121354; ISBN-13: 978-0691121352. Reviewed for the New York Times by Nicholas Wade.Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI). Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration. New York and London: Doubleday, 2007. xxiv + 374 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-385-52341-7. Reviewed for Denver Journal by Craig Blomberg, Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Denver Seminary.Stephen J. Grabill, Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics. Emory University Studies in Law and Religion; Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006, x + 310. $38.00 (paperback). Reviewed for the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary by W. Travis McMaken.