Epigenetics is a rapidly evolving science that is often only described in scientific literature or textbooks. In " The Epigenetics Revolution " , Nessa Carey eloquently bridges the spheres of academia and scientific journalism (Carey, 2012). The phrasing " revolution " is a dramatic use of English that effectively portrays a momentous shift in biological thinking. For the novice, it is a good i...

This book is a multiauthored collection of 20 chapters, divided into 2 parts, reviewing the techniques (part 1, 14 chapters) and current applications (part 2, 6 chapters) for different image-guided neurosurgical and endovascular procedures. A better title might have been “Image-Guided Neurosurgery” or “Image-Guided Neurointervention.” The range of procedures considered to be minimally invasive ...

Emma Rushbrooke and K. Todd Houston and contributing chapter authors have produced an excellent book, Telepractice in Audiology. It includes practical information on how to develop and implement a successful telepractice program. The book’s organization is easy to follow with key points and a summary section for individual chapters. The authors address technological requirements, service delive...

“Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services” written by Michael L. Pinedo and published in the Springer Series in Operations Research is a recent book intended for a senior level or master level course on planning and scheduling either in an engineering or a business school. The book consists of four parts. Part I introduces the main features of scheduling models in manufacturing and...

As the first to provide a thorough overview of the history of philosophical thinking about memory, this book fills an important gap in the literature (Nikulin, 2015). Despite some minor omissions in its coverage and some unusual features of its format (see below), Dmitri Nikulin's edited collection does an admirable job of providing a synoptic view of memory in the history of philosophy, and it...

Usually, we think of scientific laboratories as technological environments consisting of mainly inorganic materials such as glass or metal containers, wires, electronic apparatus, technical tools, and diverse chemicals, but in many cases also living or dead organisms are used for which no technological variants exist. Harré’s general aim of studying ‘scenes from the living laboratory’ is to sho...