Otto Loewi was born in Frankfurt in 1873, became professor of pharmacology in Graz in 1909 and laid the foundation of the theory of neurochemical transmission in 1920. For this he shared a Nobel prize with Dale in 1936, and in 1938, for being Jewish, he was briefly imprisoned and then expelled from Australia. He then emigrated to the United States where he spent the rest of his life. Loewi wrot...

In his blurb on the back cover, Mark Liberman calls this book " the biggest step forward [in research on discourse structure] since Aristotle. " Given this eminent recommendation , I read the book with great interest and some anticipation. Wolf and Gibson's book contributes to the growing body of work on computational models of text structure. Following a tradition originating with Mann and Tho...

(including an introduction) with footnotes, in over four hundred pages. The limitations of this approach are obvious. Too many of the papers are too short, or superficial. Worse, there is far too much repetition. There are, for instance, several papers on Ossian, all of which recite the background to the "discovery" of the poems; and biographical repetition, notably with regard to James Beattie...

Renewing Europe’s Housing provides an extensive overview of contemporary housing renewal policies and practices in Europe during the last four decades. The subject is of high and still increasing importance. During the time covered by the book, housing and urban policies in most European countries shifted thoroughly. After half a century of unsurpassed mass housing construction and urban growth...

John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice (1971) is widely credited with having revived post–World War II Anglo American political philosophy. This book together with his later writings are routinely judged to constitute the most important body of work in that field. Indeed, with the collapse of Second World and Third World socialist ideologico-political alternatives, liberalism in one form or another h...

himself a past President of the Royal Microscopical Society, covers in 379 pages the development of the light microscope since 1839, when the Society began. Six pages of Society history are followed by 10 describing the development of the European microscope manufacturing trade in the nineteenth century, and 8 pages introducing the reader to the catalogue. The remainder describe the 452 numbere...

references in this volume, was not always accurate and that by the time he contributed the veterinary medicine chapters to Laignel-Lavastine's comprehensive history two years later, he had removed this paragraph from the section on plagues and contagions in the middle ages which otherwise closely follows his previous volume. This was possibly done with a little help from his medical history fri...

It is of interest that two such books should have appeared almost simultaneously , and that such should be the case indicates a broadening point of view toward the whole problem. Herein we find a presentation of the pertinent facts relating to man and his disease, with the ecological aspects of the problem brought to the fore; a treatment wherein we find both man and parasite of essentially equ...

Belief revision is a well-research topic within AI. We argue that the new model of distributed belief revision as discussed here is suitable for general modelling of judicial decision making, along with extant approach as known from jury research. The new approach to belief revision is of general interest, whenever attitudes to information are to be simulated within a multi-agent environment wi...

continued that "the very worst showing [is] made in the matter of obstetrics". And not only were doctors ignorant: their impatience led to an orgy of hazardous interference, such as the "prophylactic forceps operation". Many of the eventual advances, of course, were to come as a spin-off from other disciplines, such as anaesthesia, bacteriology, antisepsis, and surgery, while in 1929 in Britain...