Juan Manuel studies. Ed. by Ian Macpherson. Tamesis Books, London, 1977; 199 pp.

Juan Manuel Taveras 1919-2002.

Juan M. Taveras, MD, Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Medical School and Radiologist-in-Chief Emeritus of the Massachusetts General Hospital, died in his native Dominican Republic on March 28, 2002. His death marks the passing of a dominant force in the establishment and advancement of the specialty of neuroradiology. His landmark innovations in training, investigation, radiologic administrati...

Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval. Edited by Ian Ruthven and Diane Kelly. London: Facet publishing, 2011, 296 pp. $ 89.95 (paperback). (isbn: 978-1-85604-707-4)

This book is a must if one is a student or researcher new to information science and, in particular, to information retrieval (IR) interaction and multimedia research. It will be especially valuable to those interested in human factors of IR in a social search context combined with information representation, access and interaction techniques, interface and evaluation methodology issues, and We...

TAKING RIGHTS SERIOUSLY. By Ronald Dworkin. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1977. Pp. 563

Epic Heroes in Ossian by Macpherson and Shahnameh by Firdausi

Nationalist sentiments characterize the Scotish James Macpherson’s Ossianic tales and the Persian Abul-Ghasim Ferdausi’s Shahnameh. Macpherson is remembered for his role in the nationalist Gaelic revival against the cultural dominance of Great Britain and Ferdausi is credited for enlivening Persian language and culture at the time of Arab dominance. However, Macpherson’s dual position, both as ...

Medical Diseases of the War *By A. F. Hurst, London. Ed. Arnold, 1916. Price 6s.

name from Hertz) is a pbysioian and neurologist at Guy's, and has served in charge of military hospitals in England as well as in Egypt, at Lemnos, and at Salonica. The first chapter deals with functional nervous disorders, mainly produced by high-explosive shells, and he discusses, in a very interesting way, shell shock, its varied train of symptoms, its diagnosis from hysteria, and its treatm...