The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, launched on 2004 November 20, is a multiwavelength, autonomous, rapid-slewing observatory for gamma-ray burst (GRB) astronomy. On 2004 December 23, during the ...activation phase of the mission, the Swift X-Ray Telescope (XRT) was pointed at a burst discovered earlier that day by the Swift Burst Alert Telescope. A fading, uncataloged X-ray source was discovered by the XRT and was observed over a period of about 3 hours, beginning 4.6 hours after the burst. The X-ray detection triggered a VLT observation of the optical/NIR counterpart, located about 1.1 arcseconds from the XRT position. The X-ray counterpart faded rapidly, with a power law index of -1.72 +/- 0.20. The average unabsorbed X-ray flux 4.6-7.9 hours after the burst was 6.5 x 10^{-12} erg cm^{-2} s^{-1} in the 0.5-10 keV band, for a power-law spectrum of photon index 2.02 +/- 0.13 with Galactic absorption. The NIR counterpart was observed at three epochs between 16 and 87 hours after the burst, and faded with a power-law index of -1.14 +/- 0.08 with a reddening-corrected SED power-law slope of -0.40 +/- 0.03. We find that the X-ray and NIR data are consistent with a two-component jet in a wind medium, with an early jet break in the narrow component and an underlying electron index of 1.8-2.0.
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Philip Hanson, Advertising and Socialism. The Nature and Extent of Consumer Advertising in the Soviet Union. London: Macmillan, 1974. x + 171 pp. £4.95.
Thomas V. Greer, Marketing in the Soviet ...Union. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973 and London: Pall Mall Press, 1974. xi + 188 pp. £6.50.
Radoslav Selucky, Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe. Political Background and Economic Significance, (Praeger Special Studies in International Economics and Development.) New York: Praeger Publishers and London: Pall Mall Press, 1972. x + 179 pp. £6.25.
Steven J. Rosen and James R. Kurth, Testing Theories of Economic Imperialism. Farnborough: Lexington Books D. C. Heath, 1974. x + 284 pp. £8.05.
Dimitrije Dimitrijevic and George Macesich (eds.), Money and Finance in Contemporary Yugoslavia. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973. xviii + 261 pp. £7.25.
Bogoslav Dobrin, Bulgarian Economic Development Since World War II. (Praeger Special Studies in International Economics and Development.) New York: Praeger Publishers and London: Pall Mall Press, 1973. xv + 185 pp. £6.25.
Kazimierz Laski, The Rate of Growth and the Rate of Interest in the Socialist Economy. Vienna and New York: Springer-Verlag, 1972. 238 pp. S 430.-DM 62.40. $23.10.
Frederic L. Pryor, Property and Industrial Organization in Communist and Capitalist Nations. Bloomington and London: Indiana UP, 1974. xviii + $13 pp. $17.50.
Michael Glenny (ed.), Novy Mir. A Selection 1925-1967. London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. 415 pp. £5.00.
Elizabeth Ann Weinberg, The Development of Sociology in the Soviet Union. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. xv + 173 pp. £4.50.
Richard J. Erickson, International Law and the Revolutionary State, A Case Study of the Soviet Union and Customary International Law. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications and Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff, 1972. xiii + 254 pp. $15.00.
Harold J. Berman, Soviet Criminal Law and Procedure. The RSFSR Codes. Introduction and Analysis. Second edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1972 and London: OUP, 1973. xi + 399 pp. £6.00.
George Feifer, Russia Close-up. London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. 235 pp. £3.95.
Walter D. Connor, Deviance in Soviet Society. Crime, Delinquency, and Alcoholism. New York and London: Columbia UP, 1972. (First published in 1969.) 327 pp. £6.00.
A. H. Brown, Soviet Politics and Political Science. (Studies in Comparative Politics.) London: Macmillan, 1974. 128 pp. £1.20 (paperback).
Borys Levytsky (comp.), The Stalinist Terror in the Thirties, Documentation from the Soviet Press. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1974. xxvii + 521 pp. $14.50.
Benjamin M. Weissman, Herbert Hoover and Famine Relief to Soviet Russia, 1921-1923. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1974. xv + 247 pp. $7.95.
James D. Theberge (ed.), Soviet Seapower in the Caribbean: Political and Strategic Implications. New York: Praeger Publishers and London: Pall Mall Press, 1972. xv + 175 pp. £5.75.
Paul Dukes, The Emergence of the Super-Powers: a Short Comparative History of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. London: Macmillan, 1972. 155 pp. £1.00.
René Girault and Marc Ferro, De la Russie à l'U.R.S.S. L'histoire de la Russie de 1850 à nos jours. Paris: Nathan, 1974. 222 pp. 28 F.
Z. Anthony Kruszewski, The Oder-Neisse Boundary and Poland's Modernization: The Socioeconomic and Political Impact. (Praeger Special Studies in International Politics and Public Affairs.) New York: Praeger Publishers and London: Pall Mall Press, 1972. xviii + 245 pp. £5.25.
Gerald Stone, The Smallest Slavonic Nation: The Sorbs of Lusatia. London: The Athlone Press, 1972. xiv + 201 pp. £3.50.
Birmingham University Language Laboratory Course in Russian for Social Scientists, University of Birmingham Department of Russian Language and Literature, 1972-74. Basic Course, vi + 323 pp., £2.00; Companion Reference Grammar, 144 pp., £1.00; Politics Reader, 125 + xxxvii pp., £1.25; Economics Reader, 113 + xxxvii pp., £1.25; Sociology Reader, 113 + xxxvii pp., £1.25; accompanying tapes of Basic Course and Readers.
Alexander S. Birkos and Lewis A. Tambs (comps. and eds.), Academic Writer's Guide to Periodicals: II. East European and Slavic Studies. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State UP, 1973. 572 pp. $10.00, $7.50 (paperback).
Sergej Woronitzin (comp.), Bibliographie der Sozialforschung in der Sowjetunion (1960-1970). Pullach bei München: Verlag Dokumentation, 1973. 215 pp. DM 48.00.
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JERRY H. BENTLEY. Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. viii, 220. $20.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by André Wink
...ALAN CAMERON and JACQUELINE LONG. Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 441. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by John Vanderspoel
MARCUS GRAHAM BULL. Knightly Piety and the Lay Response to the First Crusade: The Limousin and Gascony, c. 970 - c. 1130. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 328. $108.00 (CDN). Reviewed by James A. Bhundage
S. A. M. ADSHEAD. Central Asia in World History. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. vii, 291.£35.00. Reviewed by Denis Sinor
DAVID POTTER. War and Government in the French Provinces: Picardy, 1470-1560. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 393. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by John A. Lynn
JAN GLETE. Navies and Nations: Warships, Navies, and State Building in Europe and America, 1500-1860. Two volumes. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1993. Pp. ix, 752. SEK 460 per volume. Reviewed by John B. Hattendorf
RICHARD MACKENNEY. Sixteenth Century Europe: Expansion and Conflict. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xxxi, 393. £40.00. Reviewed by Mary Lave
DAVID LOADES. The Tudor Navy: An Administrative, Political, and Military History. Aldershot, UK: Scolar Press, 1992; dist. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company. Pp. 317. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by John C. Appl
ALISON GILBERT OLSON. Making the Empire Work: London and American Interest Groups, 1690-1790. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 261. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Barbara C. Murison
ELENA FRANGAKIS-SYRETT. The Commerce of Smyrna in the Eighteenth Century (1700-1820). Athens: Centre for Asia Minor Studies, 1992. Pp. xix, 375. No Price Available. Reviewed by Palmira Brummett
WILLIAM R. WEISBERGER. Speculative Freemasonry and the Enlightenment: A Study of the Craft in London, Paris, Prague, and Vienna. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. viii, 243. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Jeremy Black
ANTHONY CROSS. Anglo-Russica: Aspects of Cultural Relations between Great Britain and Russia in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. Oxford and Providence, RJ: Berg Publishers, 1993. Pp. x, 269. $48.00 (US). Reviewed by M. S. Anderson
RICHARD SYLLA and GIANNI TONIOLO, eds. Patterns of European Industrialization: The Nineteenth Century. London and New York: Roudedge, 1992. Pp. xii, 276. £14.99. Reviewed by Pat Hudson
RUSSELL J. LENG. Interstate Crisis Behavior, 1816-1980: Realism versus Reciprocity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 259. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Jack S. Levy
ALFONSO W. QUIROZ. Domestic and Foreign Finance in Modem Peru, 1850-1950: Financing Visions of Development. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xiv, 297. £45.00. Reviewed by Nils Jacobsen
ADRIAN GRAVES. Cane and Labour: The Political Economy of the Queensland Sugar Industry, 1862-1906. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993. Pp. xxi, 282. £35.00. Reviewed by Doug Munro
GHAYDON A. TUNSTALL, JR. Planning for War against Russia and Serbia: Austro- Hungarian and German Military Strategies, 1871-1914. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. viii, 373. $53.00 (US). Reviewed by Gunther E. Rothenberg
DAVID JAY BERCUSON. True Patriot: The Life of Brooke Claxton, 1898-1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 363. $35.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Greg Don
ROBERT H. MACDONALD. Sons of the Empire: The Frontier and the Boy Scout Movement, 1890-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Pp. viii, 258. $35.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Simon Fraser University MARTHA MCLAREN
MICHAEL BERKOWITZ. Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xviii, 255. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Mark A. Raider
ROBERT F. MELSON. Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Pp. xxi, 363. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by R. Hrair Dekmejian
LARRY L. WATTS.Romanian Cassandra: Ion Antonescu and the Struggle for Reform, 1916-1941. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 390. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Dov B. Lungu
FREDERICK S. CALHOUN. Uses of Force and Wilsonian Foreign Policy. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 172. $15.00 (US). Reviewed by Arthur S. Link
PETER N. STEARNS. The Industrial Revolution in World History. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 254. $54.95 (US), cloth; $12.95 (US), paper; CLEMENS WURM. Business, Politics, and International Relations: Steel, Cotton, and International Cartels in British Politics, 1924-1939, trans. Patrick Salmon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 398. $79.95 (US). Reviewed by Sidney Pollard
MICHAEL KETTLE. Russia and the Allies, 1917-1920: Volume 3: Churchill and the Archangel Fiasco, November 1918-July 1919. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. xiv, 582. £60.00. Reviewed by Keith Neilson
DAVID W. MCFADDEN. Alternative Paths: Soviets and Americans, 1917-1920. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 448. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Norman E. Saul
CHRISTINE A. WHITE. British and American Commercial Relations with Soviet Russia, 1918-1924. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 345. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Gordon W. Morrell
BARUCH HIRSON and LORRAINE VIVIAN. Strike across the Empire: The Seamen's Strike of 1925 in Britain, South Africa, and Australasia. London: Clio Publications, 1993. Pp. iii, 117. £7.00. Reviewed by W. David Mcintyre
LAURI KARVONEN. Fragmentation and Consensus: Political Organization and the Interwar Crisis in Europe. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. 185. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Sally Mar
MARTIN KOLINSKY. Law, Order, and Riots in Mandatory Palestine, 1928-35. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xviii, 295. £45.00. Reviewed by Ann M. Lesch
PAOLO NELLO. Un fedele disubbidiente: Dino Grandi da Palazzo Chigi al 25 luglio. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1993. Pp. 432. L. 42.000. Reviewed by Alan Cassels
JOHN KENT. The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France, and Black africa, 1939-1956. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 192. Pp. xi, 365. $121.50 (CDN). Reviewed by A. S. Kanya-Forstner
JOHN GARRARD and CAROL GARRARD, eds. World War 2 and the Soviet People: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990. New York: St Martin's Press, 1993. Pp. xxix, 268. 45.00. Reviewed by Richard Bidlack
KIRK FORD, JR. OSS and the Yugoslav Resistance, 1943-1945. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 249. $39.50 (US); FRANKLIN LINDSAY. Beacons in the Night: With the OSS and Tito's Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. Pp. xxii, 383. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by David Stafford
NICHOLAS TARLING. The Fall of Imperial Britain in South-East Asia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 229. $39.00 (US). Reviewed by Simon C. Smith
MICHAEL W. WEIS. Cold Warriors and Coups d'Etat: Brazilian-American Relations, I945-1964. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 162. $37.50 (US). Reviewed by Sonny B. Davis
DAN KEOHANE. Labour Party Defence Policy since 1945. Leicester and London: Leicester University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 174. £35.00. Reviewed by C. J. Bartlett
NATHAN A. PELCOVITS. The Long Armistice: UN Peacekeeping and the Arab- Israeli Conflict, 1948-1960. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 264. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Benny Morris
BENNY MORRIS, Israel's Border Wars, 1949--1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 451. $90.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ritchie Ovendale
ELMER BERGER. Peace for Palestine: First Lost Opportunity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993. Pp. xv, 287. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael J. Cohen
LAWHENCE WITTNER. The Struggle against the Bomb: Volume I: One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement through 1953. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 456. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert Malcolmson
SAM C. SARKESIAN. Unconventional Conflicts in a New Security Era: Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 225. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas Tarling
PASCALINE WIN AND. Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the United States of Europe. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 432. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Jussi M. Hanhimäki
JAN WILLEM HONIG. Defense Policy in the North Atlantic Alliance: The Case of The Netherlands. New York: Praeger, 1993. Pp. xii, 263. $49,95 (US). Reviewed by Bert Zeeman
TIMOTHY N. CASTLE. At War in the Shadow of Vietnam: US Military Aid to the Royal Lao Government, 1955-1975. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 210. $4.7.50 (US). Reviewed by William J. Duiker
CHARLES S. SAMPSON, ed. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958-1960: Volume VIII: Berlin Crisis, 1958-1959. Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1993. Pp. xxxviii, I,142. $47.00 (US); DAVID M. BAEHLER and CHARLES S. SAMPSON, eds. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958-1960: Volume IX: Berlin Crisis, 1959-1960; Germany; Austria. Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1993. Pp. xxxix, 860. $38.00 (US). Reviewed by William Burr
MASAO MIYOSHI and H. D. HAROOTUNIAN, eds. Japan in the World. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993. Pp. iv, 365. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Antony Best
LIAH GREENFELD. Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 581. $
