Race. By John R. Baker. xviii + 625 pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. Oxford University Press, New York. 1974. $15.00 (cloth)

Dementia: Management of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms. Clive Ballard, John O'Brien, Ian James, and Alan Swann. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 324 pp., 29.95 (paperback)

Dementia: Management of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms is an ambitious undertaking. Building on the excellent work of Lawlor’s Behavioral Complications in Alzheimer’s Disease, in addition to the proceedings of two International Psychogeriatric Association consensus conferences on behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), the authors present a thorough review of the relev...

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cortical circuits during postnatal development. In the standing of development in terms of the genes and mole-midst of the numerous chapters on the higher vertebrate cules involved was hampered by the relative inaccessi-forebrain, there is an excellent chapter that reviews de-bility of plants to genetics. The use of model plant velopment of the fly visual system (chapter 13). systems, mainly Ar...

Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture . New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 475 pp

Genetics and Epigenetics of Human Diseases Non-Mendelian Genetics in Humans By Harry Ostrer New York: Oxford University Press (1998). 202 pp. $39.95

how do they relate to the ubiquitin system, and for that did not disprove Mendel's rules; they only indicated exceptions or variations to those rules. matter, how did protein conjugation get started in the first place? The issues raised in the past decade of The book is organized into ten short chapters. The first two are extremely basic descriptions of Mendel's ubiquitin research may well take...

Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence by Peter Unger (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) pp. xii 1 186

Peter Singer’s ‘Famine, Affluence, and Morality’ appeared in Philosophy and Public Affairs in 1972. It is a thoughtful and direct essay. Singer claims that a certain moral principle is true. He claims that it implies that affluent people such as ourselves ought to give very substantial assistance to the poverty-stricken victims of natural disaster in East Bengal. He goes further; he claims that...