Ani Loomba: Colonialism/Postcolonialism. The New Critical Idiom Series. New York: Routledge. 1998. 289 pp. $16.95 Robert J. C. Young: Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. 178 pp. $9.95

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as an obligation of the state and a right of citizens, helping fuel a cross-class and -race alliance that pressured the colonial government to step up to the plate. The chapters cover a wide range of topics including the control of infectious diseases, city sanitation reform, the gender/race biases shaping health systems and health education. They also employ different methodological approaches...

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cortical circuits during postnatal development. In the standing of development in terms of the genes and mole-midst of the numerous chapters on the higher vertebrate cules involved was hampered by the relative inaccessi-forebrain, there is an excellent chapter that reviews de-bility of plants to genetics. The use of model plant velopment of the fly visual system (chapter 13). systems, mainly Ar...

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physiology, " commences with a review of mutations in † Computational Biology Branch cis-acting transcriptional regulatory elements. Some of National Center for Biotechnology Information this material is old hat: promoter mutations in the National Library of Medicine ␤-globin promoter in thalassemia, or in the F9 promoter National Institutes of Health encoding Factor IX in hemophilia B Leyden. ...

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how do they relate to the ubiquitin system, and for that did not disprove Mendel's rules; they only indicated exceptions or variations to those rules. matter, how did protein conjugation get started in the first place? The issues raised in the past decade of The book is organized into ten short chapters. The first two are extremely basic descriptions of Mendel's ubiquitin research may well take...