HIV/AIDS in South Africa. By Salim Karim and Quarraisha Karim. Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 700; £35.00 (pb). ISBN: 0521616298.

Salim “Slim” Abdool Karim: Attacking AIDS in South Africa

When Karim met Nelson Mandela for the second time in 2000, he had his camera in tow, ready to capture a photo of him shaking the hand of his hero. Mandela later wrote the foreword to Karim and his wife's book, HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Karim has witnessed the emergence and exponential growth of the AIDS epidemic in his country, along with the concurrent explosion of tuberculosis. To reverse the...

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...

Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 184 pp., ISBN 0-521-69269-5

The proposed solution runs entirely against the orthodoxy that compositionality is necessary for modularity, but it is persausive. Much to their credit, the authors have robustly defended this view and others in several online forums, and have shown they are prepared to accept and develop viewpoints distinct from their own. In closing, I must ask the inevitable rhetorical questions: would CTM h...

1 Eternal Universe Karim

In December of 1998, there was published a seminal work using precise measurements of supernovae magnitudes and leading to the conclusion of an apparent accelerated expansion of observed part of Universe. But when we approach the processing of these precise data from a classical ethereal position, without relativistic adjustments, we get another picture, and we believe it is the correct one. It...

Hans Peeters University Press , 2005 , 177 pp . , ISBN 0521796679 , £ 15 . 99 On the Principles of Analytical Sociology . Cambridge : Cambridge Review : Theoretical Approaches