Joseph Hooker: Botanical Trailblazer by Pat Griggs, with an introduction by Jim Endersby. Kew Publishing, 2011. 64 pp. Paperback. ISBN 9781842464694. £8.

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...

Crystallography - An Introduction, 3rd ed. By Walter Borchardt-Ott. Springer, 2012. Pp. xvi + 357. Price (paperback) EUR 42.75. ISBN 978-3-642-16451-4

Virginia Berridge, Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) pp. 160, £7.99, paperback, ISBN: 9780199688463.

as an obligation of the state and a right of citizens, helping fuel a cross-class and -race alliance that pressured the colonial government to step up to the plate. The chapters cover a wide range of topics including the control of infectious diseases, city sanitation reform, the gender/race biases shaping health systems and health education. They also employ different methodological approaches...

Joseph Hooker: the making of a botanist.

Joseph Hooker became one of the most influential botanists of his day. He is best remembered as a friend of Charles Darwin and an early advocate of natural selection. However, after returning to Britain from his first major voyage, Hooker spent years struggling to find a paid position that would allow him to pursue his studies of plant classification and distribution. As he worked to establish ...

X-Ray Crystallography. Second Edition. By William Clegg. Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 128. Price GBP 14.99 (paperback). ISBN 9780198700975.

During my career, I have taught undergraduates majoring in physics and undergraduates majoring in chemistry. I have also taught molecular biologists and biochemists. My initial preference in teaching X-ray crystallography to any undergraduate was for my physics undergraduate course book in crystallography by Michael Woolfson (1970). However, that book, with its clear mathematical foundation, is...