Frank Zappa and the And. Edited by Paul Carr. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 247 pp. ISBN 978-1-409-43337-8

Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio and Jenni Kuuliala (eds.), Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Social and Cultural Approaches to Health, Weakness and Care (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), pp. xii, 311, £ 75, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4724-3834-8.

disease epidemics and control programmes, and more generally of the medical aspects of the post-1945 reinvention of Congo as a ‘model colony’ will be of interest to the historians and epidemiologists working on the emergence of HIV in Central Africa: her study is cautious and subtle (contrary to much of the work on ‘HIV origins’), but does provide fascinating evidence of potential sexual and ia...

Jurisprudence for an interconnected globe Edited by Catherine Dauvergne. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. 253 pp. ISBN 0754622827. $114.95/59.95.

Although the enthusiasm for the concept of globalisation has taken a darker complexion since 9/11, it still provides a convenient label for a variety of purposes. However, its attractions also make it unhelpful and misleading, not least because while it suggests increasing global unity, it is generally used to draw attention to the often competitive interactions between diverse societies and cu...

The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict, and Change, Edited by Lid King & Lorna Carson (2006), Multilingual Matters, ISBN-13 978-1-78309-477-6

Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods: Development Challenges in an Era of Globalization, edited by Emma Gilberthorpe and Gavin Hilson (Surrey: Ashgate, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4094-3777-2, £65.60 (h/b), pp. 279)

This geographically wide-ranging edited collection, featuring 12 original contributions from anthropologists, legal scholars, geographers and management accountants, provides a much-needed critical response to the recent proliferation of extractive industry ‘best practice’ standards for interaction with indigenous people. As Andrew Barry notes in his erudite afterword, the World Bank’s own Oper...

Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval. Edited by Ian Ruthven and Diane Kelly. London: Facet publishing, 2011, 296 pp. $ 89.95 (paperback). (isbn: 978-1-85604-707-4)

This book is a must if one is a student or researcher new to information science and, in particular, to information retrieval (IR) interaction and multimedia research. It will be especially valuable to those interested in human factors of IR in a social search context combined with information representation, access and interaction techniques, interface and evaluation methodology issues, and We...