This book constitutes an impassioned plea for providing substitute family life for deprived young children. It has the backing of Miss Balls' experience in the Northumberland Children's Department, where she was able to promote a policy of closing nurseries and enlisting the help of foster parents. The question arises whether her championship of the deprived child, illustrated by selective mate...

Tangents of plurisubharmonic functions Local properties of plurisubharmonic functions are studied by means of the notion of tangent which describes the behavior of the function near a given point. We show that there are plurisubharmonic functions with several tangents, disproving a conjecture of Reese Harvey.

.................................................................................................... 1 1.0 Introduction .............................................................................................. 2 2.0 Methods ..................................................................................................... 3 2.1 Cockburn Sound fishing trials .................................

unprotected intercourse, followed by another dose 12 hours later. The most recent data available confirm that compliance with this regime reduces the risk of pregnancy by 75%.4 Despite the demonstrated efficacy of oral contraceptives as emergency contraception, several problems have prevented the widespread distribution and use of this method. First, health care providers lack detailed knowledg...

Paul Harvey is head of the Zoology Department at the University of Oxford and Secretary of the Zoological Society of London, which runs field conservation programmes around the world, as well as the Institute of Zoology, London Zoo, and Whipsnade Wild Animal Park. An evolutionary biologist with interests in ecology and behaviour, he has pioneered the use of crosstaxonomic analyses to reveal com...