STARS OF SCHOLARSHIP Library of Social Science brings together in a single place significant papers and essays—and distributes these works of scholarship widely. A contribution disseminated through our Newsletter attains a more substantial readership in a day than most journal articles receive in a lifetime. A characteristic of the Web is the visual dimension. I was shocked when I explored photos that Orion had curated. Putting authors’ pictures together with their writings, I felt I knew them in a different (deeper) way. If you look at the photos below—then click through to read the authors' writing—you’ll see what I mean. —Richard Koenigsberg Michael Vlahos Rites of Spring Kelly Denton-Borhaug Review of War and the American Difference Alexander Chirila Creating the Idealized Nemesis Michael Geyer The Nazi-Soviet War as a System of Violence Myra Mendible Post-Vietnam Syndrome Murray Schwartz   Review of A Century of Genocide Pingchao Zhu Mao’s Martyrs Walter Skya Culture of Death: Japanese Nationalism Scott Atran The Devoted Actor Uriel Abulof The Liberal Uncanny Geoffrey Cocks The Body Politic Brian Crim Review of SS Thinking and the Holocaust Sam Cox Review of Nations Have the Right to Kill Yael Feldman Dying for the Motherland Emilio Gentile A Never-Never Religion Liah Greenfeld Review of Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust Roger Griffin The Meaning of ‘Sacrifice’ Nicoletta Gullace White Feathers and Wounded Men Adam Henry The Nation-State, Killing and Death Jeffrey Herf The Jewish Enemy James Jones Why Does Religion Turn Violent? Paul Kahn Political Evil Akio Kimura Mishima’s Negative Political Theology Alan Kramer Dynamic of Destruction Renee Lockwood Sacrifice and the Creation of Group of Identity Carolyn Marvin Blood Sacrifice and the Nation Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet War and National Renewal Gerald V. O'Brien Metaphors of Immigrants Meghan O’Donnell Death, Sacrifice and Ruin in Third Reich Germany Panayiotis Demopoulos Suicide Music and the National Self David Redles Dietrich Eckart & the Religious Origins of the Holocaust Michael Roberts Nationalism & the Ideology of Sacrificial Death Rana Salimi Review of Awaiting the Heavenly Country Elaine Scarry The Body in Pain Jonna Scutts Review of Dynamic of Destruction Ruth Stein Fundamentalism, Father and Son, & Vertical Desire Ivan Strenski How to Think About Suicide Bombers Mikkel Thorup Total Enemies Brian Victoria Holy War