Brian Christopher Thompson, Anthems and Minstrel Shows: The Life and Times of Calixa Lavallée, 1842-1891, Montréal-Kingston, McGill/ Queen’s University Press, 2015, 522 p. ISBN 978-0-7735-4555-7

Noise knows no limits Noise Matters: The Evolution of Communication R. Haven Wiley (Harvard University Press, Cambridge and London; 2015) ISBN: 978-0-674-74412-7.

Independently, Attila Andics and colleagues at Budapest have also used functional MRI to compare dogs and humans and found that a voice area in the dog brain exists and responds to vocal stimuli in very similar ways to ours (Curr. Biol. (2014) 24, 574–578). Furthermore, Victoria Ratcliffe and David Reby from the University of Sussex at Falmer, UK, have reported behavioural studies suggesting th...

Global Competitive Strategy, by Daniel F. Spulber, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 290 pp., ISBN 978-0-521880-81-7

Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. Érudit offre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Note : les règles d'écriture des références bibliographiques peuvent varier selon les différents domaines du savoir. Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduct...

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...

A wild life indeed Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist Robert Trivers (2015, Plympton Press) ISBN: 978–1938972126

nationalism fi rst, including Republican candidate for the US presidency, Donald Trump, and the leader of the French Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen. Like the Leave campaign in the UK, both are offering simplistic pseudosolutions to the complex problems of today’s world, thus offering comfort to voters who may feel left behind by the rapid changes of modern times. If Trump were to be elected...

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