SERGIO SCONOCCHIA (editor), Scribonii Largi Compositiones, Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1983, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 130, M. 38.00. Ten years ago, in Toledo, Dr Sconocchia discovered what is today the only surviving manuscript of an author whose life and works merit considerable attention. Scribonius Largus, a Roman pharmacologist, probably a bilingual Sicilian, came to Britain in AD 43 with the army of the...

SERGIO SCONOCCHIA (editor), Scribonii Largi Compositiones, Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1983, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 130, M. 38.00. Ten years ago, in Toledo, Dr Sconocchia discovered what is today the only surviving manuscript of an author whose life and works merit considerable attention. Scribonius Largus, a Roman pharmacologist, probably a bilingual Sicilian, came to Britain in AD 43 with the army of the...

www.aana.com/aanajournalonline Our Tormenters Have Been Chastised by Their Peers: Lucy Richards and the AANA To the editor: A beautiful blackand-white photograph of AANA Past President Lucy Richards appeared on the cover of the April 2014 issue (Vol. 82, No. 2). On page 92 of that issue, a blurb containing just 2 sentences traced the photograph to a brochure published by the AANA in 1956 entitl...

At first glance, it might seem odd that a public health journal would initiate a section about arts and humanities. Public health, after all, deals with populations; it eschews the individual except as it forms one of a group. The creative arts, however, deal almost exclusively with individuals. Literature, in particular, always has a protagonist, and the protagonist is never ‘alcoholics with p...

We do not encounter “generic 4/4” […] but a pattern of timing and dynamics that is particular to the piece, performer, musical style. Therefore, give an ecologically valid account meter, we must move beyond theory tempo-metrical types metrical representation involves relationships […]. (London 2004, p. 159) Similarly, as Hasty illustrates in his analyses two nominally similar Courantes by Johan...

I’m not serving them, no f*cking way.—Chef Gordon RamsayKnowing that is unhappy with our first dish…it’s devastating.—Contestant Shari Mukherjee, MasterChef USA, season 10, episode 22“Pressure,” “embarrassment,” “devastating”: these are words commonly episodes of MasterChef. With the eleventh series popular competitive cooking show imminent, it will soon be time to don aprons and sharpen knives...

Purpose Based on a paper given at the Fiesole Retreat held in Lund in July 2006. This article seeks to explore issues on the future relevance of libraries in a world dominated by the web and how far off-web? resources will have any relevance to users. Design/methodology/approach ?#8364;“ The article combines narrative and analysis. Findings "Libraries are slow to respond to external competitors...

The physics that was taught in the 20th century was supposedly based on Einstein. In fact this is not the case, there was a conspiracy against Einstein and his theory was replaced by the physics establishment in 1925/ 1926 by a false theory that is still called Einstein’s theory. The conspiracy started before World war 2, and was maintained after the war because of Cold War tensions of wanting ...

This paper is concerned with the question of how to ethnographically account for race as a complex knowledge formation and political reality. I focus on South Africa which occupies a special place in global scientific debates on race and human origins – historically as well as presently. From the early twentieth century onwards, paleoanthropology, physical anthropology and genetics were preoccu...

In her article "Singapore, State Nationalism, and the Production of Diaspora" Cheryl Narumi Naruse examines The Straits Times series "Singaporean Abroad" and analyzes how conceptions of national time, space, and community are restructured by state concerns of economic survival within the era of globalization. In "Singaporean Abroad," readers find a curious amalgamation of feature writing, trave...