Book Review: Business Economics (Second Edition)

Book review: Epigenetics (second edition, eds. Allis, Caparros, Jenuwein, Reinberg)

A book review on Epigenetics, second edition Edited by C. Epigenetics is a dynamic and well-established branch of genetics. It deals with heritable traits, which are not transmitted by the sequence of DNA but rather by the state of chromatin. The evolving landscape of epigenetic research has been reviewed in many excellent books and monographs. Amongst these, the second edition of Epigenetics b...

The Economics of Microfinance, Second Edition

Book Review: 'Teaching and Researching Writing (3rd Edition)'

Writing has an overarching significance in our lives. We experience this significance in our personal, professional and social activities. Much of who we are and who we wish to become in our social life, in the professional community we belong to and even in the privacy of our individual life is the outcome of what we write and how we write. We are often judged and evaluated by our control of i...

Book Review: Speech and Language Processing (second edition) Daniel Jurafsky and Martin, H. James

Speech and Language Processing is a general textbook on natural language processing, with an excellent coverage of the area and an unusually broad scope of topics. It includes statistical and symbolic approaches to NLP, as well as the main methods of speech processing. I would rank it as the most appropriate introductory and reference textbook for purposes such as an introductory fourth-year un...

Book Review The Economics of Russian Transition

This formidable book, organised into 26 chapters plus 6 scientific and statistical appendices, provides very detailed testimony and analysis of a group of economists, most members of the Institute of Economic Transition (IET) headed by Gaidar, intermittently at or near the helm of the Russian Government and the reforms during 1991–1993, and later leader of 'Democratic Choice', a liberal, market...