This book consists of six substantive and relatively independent chapters addressing various aspects of Cuba’s economic system, the policies that have governed its functioning and potential changes in the near future. While the first chapter provides a historical overview of the policies followed by the Castro regime between 1960 and 2004, the last chapter focuses attention on possible future r...

If you’re a casual reader looking for a spellbinding page-turner, or a curious amateur technophile, this is not the book for you. It is filled with grammatical errors and clumsy diction, the tone is as dry as the Gobi Desert, and there is no graceful introduction beyond the excellent summary in the short Foreword by Albert Fert. After that the various authors plunge directly into advanced techn...

In her engaging and useful book, Accounting for Profit for Breach of Contract: Theory and Practice, Katy Barnett presents a theory of disgorgement damages for breach of contract. This is a welcome publication, as disgorgement damages continue to present both theoretical and practical puzzles for the law of contract, and Barnett makes a valuable contribution to this important topic. By way of ba...

With the recent publication of the human genome sequence, biology and medicine have entered an extra-ordinary era. This accomplishment has raised hope that the complexity of a living organism, including its perplexing behavior and various disease states, is tractable. In this issue, our book reviews focus on current books that discuss the build up to this monumental event in science, the import...

As a longtime reader and contributor to NVSQ, I have been occupied for quite a while with trying to select what book is worthy of a review in NVSQ. So many new books cover aspects of the nonprofit sector or voluntary action, or both, that the list of books alone would take the entire space allocated for book reviews. Rarely do I encounter a book that is unknown by most scholars in the field yet...

introduction:the aim of this study was to evaluate a review article published in the ketabmah: kolliat based on brem.materials and methods: the study method was applied and bibliometric and data gathering tool is the standard checklist. population included all book review articles published in the ketabmah: kolliat in 1390. statistical methods in descriptive and inferential statistics ( indepen...

How to cite this book review: How to cite this book review: Huchzermeyer K.D.A., 2013, 'Book review: Ziekten van vissen, schaal-, en schelpdieren, van belang voor de Nederlandse aquacultuur'84(1), Art. #1016, 1 page.http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jsava.v84i1.1016.