Mike Hepworth & Mike Featherstone, Surviving Middle Age, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1982. 204 pp. £3.50 (paperback), £9.95 (library edition). ISBN 0 631 12955 3.

KIM STERELNY Thought in a Hostile World Oxford : Blackwell , 2003 Paperback £ 17 . 99 ISBN : 0 - 631 - 18887 - 8 Nicholas Shea

Once someone hits upon a good idea, others can learn it from them with ease, and develop it further. This oft-noted human ability is surely remarkable, but can it do explanatory work, and can it in turn be explained? Re-labelled ‘memetics’ the idea has generated excitement, but little insight. Sterelny’s great achievement is to transcend the platitude, to provide an illuminating account of the ...

X-Ray Crystallography. Second Edition. By William Clegg. Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 128. Price GBP 14.99 (paperback). ISBN 9780198700975.

During my career, I have taught undergraduates majoring in physics and undergraduates majoring in chemistry. I have also taught molecular biologists and biochemists. My initial preference in teaching X-ray crystallography to any undergraduate was for my physics undergraduate course book in crystallography by Michael Woolfson (1970). However, that book, with its clear mathematical foundation, is...

Hugh LaFollette: The Practice of Ethics - Blackwell, viii, 300 p. ISBN: 0-631-21945-5

The Practice of Ethics is an introduction to moral philosophy. It starts from a series of practical questions, which range from the personal and picayune (‘If a friend has had an awful haircut and asks your opinion of his new hairdo, should you lie to avoid hurting his feelings?’) to political, life-and-death issues (‘Is the death penalty justified?’). The book uses these questions as routes in...

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Mike Holcombe

The generalized stream X-machines (stream X-machines with basic functions replaced by relations and having as output, strings of symbols rather than single symbols) with output delimiter (any output string has at the right end side a special delimiter) are introduced. It is proved that testing methods similar to those already developed for ordinary determi-nistic stream X-machines may be applie...