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Author Podcasts   A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring, There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Alexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold. George Bernard Shaw Over 400 issues of scholarly interest are reviewed in this Compendium Project , which consists of both hardback and online versions. The review essays are designed to serve bright undergraduates with a thirst for knowledge, graduate students charged with learning huge amounts of material in a short time, more senior colleagues who want to introduce new subjects to their students or explore questions outside their traditional areas of expertise, or other professionals who want to see what academics have been up to. The average length of these review essays is about 10,000 words. Authors were asked to provide a long-term sense of a given topic's intellectual and social context. The review essays in this project should begin with the earliest treatments, and include as comprehensive a consideration as possible. We were looking for wide coverage, and not simply the historical roots of recent trends. Review essays also cover the most current literature. How are we now approaching this issue? What do the major epistemological, methodological, ... log in or subscribe to read full text