Egyptian Oedipuses: Comedies or Tragedies?

Triumphs or tragedies: A new perspective on the Vietnamese revolution

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies / Volume 45 / Issue 02 / June 2014, pp 236 257 DOI: 10.1017/S0022463414000083, Published online: 19 May 2014 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022463414000083 How to cite this article: Tuong Vu (2014). Triumphs or tragedies: A new perspective on the Vietnamese revolution . Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 45, pp 236-257 doi:10.1...

Tragedies to Come

A book on the Mary Bell case acts, once again, as a depressing reminder that psychiatric facilities for children and adolescents are dangerously inadequate and that, until we devote enough resources and mobilise the right skills, further tragedies may still occur. Gitta Sereny's clear and readable book* will help many people, who had only the Press accounts to guide them, to make some sense of ...

The Tragedy of Tragedies

Egyptian Blue And/or Atacamite in an Ancient Egyptian Coffin

This work deals with the composition of the blue and green pigments used in the wooden sarcophagus studied by Abdelaal et al. and published in 2014 in this journal. From the published data, a degradation of the originally used Egyptian blue pigment is proposed. The presence of chlorine in the pigment deduced from SEM-EDS analyses and the greenish hue observed point to the formation of a certain...

Symmetric Tragedies: Commons and Anticommons

An anticommons problem arises when there exist multiple rights to exclude. In a lengthy law review paper, Michael A. Heller has examined "The Tragedy of the Anticommons," especially in regard to disappointing experiences with efforts to shift from socialist to market institutions in Russia. In an early footnote, Heller suggests that a formal economic model of the anticommons has not been develo...