The paper attempts to make a contrastive analysis of English and Chinese book reviews on linguistics in the light of the appraisal theory to discover the similarities and differences between English book reviews on linguistics (henceforth EBRLs) and Chinese book reviews on linguistics (henceforth CBRLs) with respect to the three attitude variables of affect, judgment and valuation. In both EBRL...

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...

It is perhaps unusual to write an academic review of a casebook. After all, the received wisdom in academia is that casebooks rank somewhere just above book reviews in the hierarchy of intellectual merit. When I began my career in teaching, I received no shortage of advice about different forms of scholarship. Despite the fact that many of the biggest names in scholarship had pinned their names...

DUNCAN SINCLAIR AND HIS COLLEAGUES (HealthcarePapers Vol. 1 No.3) have provided thoughtful reviews of some potential approaches to sustaining publicly funded medicare in Canada. The collection begins with Sinclair’s five propositions, briefly: 1. Provide more funding – Sinclair thinks it would most likely come from private sources, and he is concerned about the size of the relative GDP share go...

A lack of political diversity in psychology is said to lead to a number of pernicious outcomes, including biased research and active discrimination against conservatives. We surveyed a large number (combined N = 800) of social and personality psychologists and discovered several interesting facts. First, although only 6% described themselves as conservative “overall,” there was more diversity o...

Parker and her colleagues begin their chapter with a fundamental question, i.e., what is the nature of aversion learning. Specifically, they describe the early work of Garcia and his colleagues who interpreted the avoidance of taste associated with various toxic treatments to be a function of conditioned nausea or conditioned disgust. According to this interpretation, the association between th...

A lack of political diversity in psychology is said to lead to a number of pernicious outcomes, including biased research and active discrimination against conservatives. We surveyed a large number (combined N = 800) of social and personality psychologists and discovered several interesting facts. First, although only 6% described themselves as conservative "overall," there was more diversity o...

This paper reviews the need for a new land administration vision that takes a more integrated approach rather than the historic fragmented approach and examines change management of land administration and cadastral systems in the context of global drivers of change. This results in the development of a framework for re-engineering land administration systems. After discussing a land administra...

Author's response to reviews: We have seeked two fluent English speaking colleagues to correct the language in our manuscript. The revisions have been marked in the main document. And particular attention has been paid to the abstract. Thanks for your advice.

The Pediatric ID Consultant section provides brief reviews of topics relevant to the day-to-day practice of pediatric infectious diseases. The reviews are placed in context by a short vignette, followed by one or more questions which are addressed. Pediatric infectious diseases physicians are often asked by medical colleagues to provide recommendations for management of a patient without the be...