Psychoanalysis as a living, growing science is illumined brightly by this examination of the biographies of its foremost exponents. Forty individuals are presented, ranging from early workers such as Abraham, Ferenczi, Jung and Adler to contemporary thinkers such as Alexander, Hartmann, Anna Freud and Erikson. Two additional chapters deal with special developments in the U.SA. and Eng-land. The...

This edited volume provides an excellent, comprehensive introduction to recent research on open-domain question answering, meaning that the question-answering systems are not used merely in specific, narrow domains, but rather in domains such as news or the Internet. Most of the chapters describe systems that have been developed for the Advanced Question Answering for Intelligence, or AQUAINT, ...

This interesting volume is an outgrowth of the Workshop on Inertial-Range Dynamics and Mixing held in the fall of 2008 at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge. As the title indicates, it consists of 10 independent chapters, each written by prominent turbulence researchers. The preface includes musings on the difficulty of the subject and the hope for a satisfactory theory. Chapters 1–4 focus...

We characterize the collapse of Buss’ bounded arithmetic in terms of the prov­ able collapse of the polynomial time hierarchy. We include also some general model-theoretical investigations on fragments of bounded arithmetic.

As you may imagine, I feel quite privileged to deliver the first presidential address to this Society. Although somewhat overlooked, in recent years the evolution of the field of genetic epidemiology has been just as dramatic as the evolution of other fields of genetic research, and the formation of this Society is a timely development. In 1954, W.J. Schull and I published a little textbook ent...

particularly valuable chapter on some modem African medical men and their work, 1940-1960, and has more tables. It is especially aimed at those studying selected aspects of the medical history of Ghana in depth, who may wish to use it as initial source material. It is this book, particularly, that is covered by this review although much also applies to The history of western medicine. Stephen A...