Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics by Armen Marsoobian (Editor), Robert S. Corrington (Editor), Kathleen Wallace (Editor)

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Focuses on biology, health, and characteristic illnesses of prehistoric, historical, and contemporary native populations of Canada. It contains 2,100 entries (eighty percent of which are annotated) collected from the Masterfile data base of the University of Manitoba. generation of eco-theorists. Paper edition (0492-7), $24.95. (RC) An anthology of both original and reprinted essays on the work of philosopher Justus Buchler (b. 1914), intended not as a festschrift but as a study in ordinal metaphysics for philosophers and scholars. The ordinal framework refuses to privilege the traits of the human process and project them onto nature as a whole; it entails, rather, that there is no privileged order of nature, and that human perspectives (even of other human perspectives) are in, of, and about nature. A powerful position, powerfully examined, and one that deserves the attention not only of philosophers, but of the current Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)