In this first volume in the new Palgrave “History of Britain” series, Jeremy Black builds a picture of 18th century society and polity distinguished by its range, diversity of example, and engaging freshness of style. Students should find this an invaluable guide to the period, and others will enjoy the lightness of touch with which [...]
February 10th, 2010
Head and Neck Cancer (Cancer Treatment and Research)
Exciting advances are occurring in the understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of squamous head and neck cancers. Epidemiology, staging and screening, as well as premalignancy, chemoprevention and the molecular biology of head and neck cancer, lay the groundwork for the understanding of the clinical chapters that follow. Controversial treatments will be compared to the standard [...]
February 10th, 2010
Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
As the legal controversy continues–this newly revised and updated third edition of the landmark bestseller contains new, critically important information for patients, loved ones, and medical personnel.
The original publication of Final Exit stunned the nation by offering people with terminal illness a choice on how–and when–to end their suffering. It helped thousands by giving clear [...]
February 10th, 2010
DNA Repair Protocols: Prokaryotic Systems (Methods in Molecular Biology) by Pat Vaughan
“An informative collection of techniques and protocols for characterizing and utilizing DNA repair activities and enzymes from some of the leading names in DNA repair field. This collection of protocols is ideal for both the novice in the field and to the experienced applied researcher.” – Lavoisier Librairie
February 10th, 2010
Science in the Third Reich
How true is it that National Socialism led to an ideologically distorted pseudo-science? What was the relationship between the regime funding “useful” scientific projects and the scientists offering their expertise? And what happened to the German scientific community after 1945, especially to those who betrayed and denounced Jewish colleagues? In recent years, the history of [...]
February 10th, 2010
The Library in Alexandria and the Bible in Greek
Ancient evidence reveals that the earliest, written translation of the Bible in Greek was completed in Alexandria in 281 BCE, probably by 71 scholars, invited especially from Judaea by Ptolemy II. The work was organised by Demetrius of Phalerum, the trusted librarian of Ptolemy II, and the translation was made despite Jewish opposition and the [...]
February 10th, 2010
First Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age
At her first press conference, Eleanor Roosevelt, uncertain of her role as hostess or leader, passed a box of candied grapefruit peel to the thirty-five women journalists. Nearly sixty years later, Hillary Clinton, an accomplished professional woman and lawyer, tried to mollify her critics by handing out her chocolate-chip cookie recipe. These exchanges tell us [...]
February 10th, 2010
Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Communities have often shaped themselves around cultural spaces set apart and declared sacred. For this purpose, churches, priests or scholars no less than writers frequently participate in giving sacred figures a local habitation and, sometimes, voice or name. But whatever sites, rites, images or narratives have thus been constructed, they also raise some complex questions: [...]
February 10th, 2010
Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century: One Hundred Years of Trade and Prejudice
After the horrors of World War II in Asia and the appalling mistreatment of Allied prisoners-of-war by Japanese soldiers during World War II, few would have predicted that Britain’s relationship with Japan would flourish into a booming partnership of economic interdependence by the start of the twenty-first century. This ambitious examination of Anglo-Japanese relations over [...]
February 10th, 2010
The State and the Subaltern: Modernization, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran
This is the first study to observe the practice of modernization in Turkey and Iran not only from above, by examining the measures adopted by the political regimes of the late Ottomans, Ataturk and Reza Shah, but also from below, exploring how different social levels contributed to the drive for modernity. It is a full [...]