I was delighted to receive in the mail today copies of the newest volumes in The Routledge Philosophers series: Merleau-Ponty by Taylor Carman (Barnard College & Columbia University) and  Spinoza by Michael Della Rocca (Yale University).  Anyone familiar with the work of these scholars knows that these books are likely to quickly become the leading works on these philosophers for both students and scholars seeking an authoritative introduction to these thinkers.