Bonnie Morgan. Ordinary Saints: Women, Work, and Faith in Newfoundland. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-77355-890-8

Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750-2015 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. xiii, 378, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-9769-0.

to have it and to rely on it. The price of the book, at £90, makes it inaccessible to them. I don’t know of plans to make the book more easily available in East Africa, but it is vital that this happen. In conclusion, Doyle’s analysis is subtle and rich. The body of research on which it is based is monumental. It is a book we can all rely on in moving towards the next stage in studying the prob...

Language, Culture, and Society - An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, Zdenek Salzmann, James Stanlaw, & Nobuko Adachi (2015), Westview Press, ISBN 978-0-8133-4955-8

His intended biography, and why Nature’s Oracle: The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton Ullica Segerstrasse (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013) ISBN 978-0-198-60727-4

approaches it will be difficult to make progress,” comments Terrence Sejnowski from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. “There are enough good neuroscientists working on the Human Brain Project that biological progress can surely be made, and the same holds for the computer science part of the project.” The project may still have a whiff of science fiction and megalomania attached to it...

Primate neuroscience and ethology — an enduring union? Primate Neuroethology, Michael Platt and Asif Ghazanfar Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-532659-8

The sperm whale represents one of the most remarkable mammalian evolutionary achievements. The animal is capable of diving to depths of 3,000 metres in its search for giant squid, its main prey. But the whale dives amongst an extraordinary array of creatures such as the Black Sea devil, distinctly disturbing in appearance. Females have huge teeth and a light organ on a stalk between their eyes....

Alison Bashford, Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), pp. I-XII, 1-466, ISBN: 978-0-231-14766-8.

confidentiality oblige, when it concerns – as is often the case – genital or urinary disease. Coste successfully underlines that the writing of consilia can be linked with a poetic or literary approach: the medical expert writes the private history of a patient, as a worthy heir to Hippocrates; he selects words and suitable expressions according to the recipient (an esteemed fellow-member will ...