Books are one of the most important tools to convey knowledge, they survived to be a convenient and portable source of information. On the other side, Electronic books (e-books) are playing a big role in attracting a huge number of readers, but still paper books are preferable by many people due to some drawbacks in e-books. Yet, Interactive books combines all positive features in ordinary book...

Iris Borowy (ed.), Uneasy encounters: the politics of medicine and health in China 1900–1937, Frankfurt am Main and Oxford, Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 230, £40.00 (paperback 978-3-631-57803-2). Iris Bruijn, Ship’s surgeons of the Dutch East India Company: commerce and the progress of medicine in the eighteenth century, Leiden University Press, 2009, pp. 388, illus., e39.50 (paperback 978-90-87-28-05...

If a D V I file requests a font at a size that does not exist, but the requested size is within 0.2 % of a supported magnification with the font at that size existing, the D V I processor must use the latter font without warning. Explanation: TQX and METAFONT compute font magnifications with different precisions. Further; calculations done by TEX and/or a DVI processor are subject to roundoff e...

Véronique Dasen (ed.) in collaboration with I Villeveygoux and S Ducaté-Paarmann, Naissance et petite enfance dans l’Antiquité. Actes du colloque de Fribourg 28 novembre–1 décembre 2001, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis vol. 203, Fribourg, Academic Press, and Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, pp. 417, illus., SFr 120.00 (hardback: Academic Press, 3-7278-1453-5; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 3-525-5...