Psychiatric Emergencies. by S. Merson & D. Baldwin 1995. Oxford University Press. Pp. 122. Hb: ISBN 019 262 4784; pb: ISBN 019 262 4776.

Critical Play: Radical Game Design by Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 353 pp., ISBN 978-0-262-06268-8

THE PAST DECADE HAS SEEN A RAPID EXPANSION in the field of academic writing on the subject of computer and video games. The formerly marginalized field is now receiving its scholarly due as part of an increased focus on popular culture influenced by the development of Cultural Studies departments in universities. Early contributors to this scholarly field, such as Michel de Certeau and Dick Heb...

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...

The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution Partha Niyogi (University of Chicago) The MIT Press, 2006, xviii+482 pp; hardbound, ISBN 0-262-14094-2

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...

Book Review: "Improvizational design" by Suguru Ishizaki; MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003, ISBN 0-262-09035-X

Motivated by the lack of models and languages for visual designs to address design solutions that continuously change over time, Suguru Ishizaki proposes a common model for designing dynamic information. Such a design embodies harmonious and complex interactions of design parameters, analogous to the three-dimensional colour model (hue, value and chroma). The author identifies three characteris...