Hydrogen: The Essential Element Hydrogen: The Essential Element , John S. Rigden Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2002. $28.00 (280 pp.). ISBN 0-674-00738-7

3 Review of “ Knots ” by Alexei Sossinsky , Harvard University Press , 2002 , ISBN 0 - 674 - 00944 - 4

”Butterfly knot, clove hitch knot, Gordian knot, hangman’s knot, vipers’ tangle knots are familiar objects, symbols of complexity, occasionally metaphors for evil. For reasons I do not entirely understand, they were long ignored by mathematicians. A tentative effort by Alexandre-Th[e]ophile Vandermonde at the end of the eighteenth century was short-lived, and a preliminary study by the young Ka...

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...

Group-mindedness A Natural History of Human Thinking, Michael Tomasello (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; 2014) ISBN 978-0-674-72477-8

requirements of the predatory lifestyle of many species have led to complex and interesting abilities. The group of Jayne Gardiner from the University of South Florida at Tampa, US, together with researchers from the University of South Florida and Boston University, recently described how several shark species can combine input from multiple sensory channels and switch between them if necessar...

Rigden, John S.: Rabi’s Resonance Method