RAHNEMA, Majid et Victoria BAWTREE. The Post-Development Reader. London, Zed Books, 1997, 460 p.

Protecting Reader Privacy in Digital Books

What you choose to read says a lot about who you are, what you value, and what you believe. That’s why you should be able to learn about anything from politics to health without worrying that someone is looking over your shoulder. However, as books move into digital form, new reader privacy issues are emerging. In stark contrast to libraries that retain as little information about readers as po...

The Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast. A History 1797-1997

This has been a vintage decade for commemorating Irish teaching hospitals. In Dublin alone seven general, and three specialist ones, have attracted histories, six of the former on their downtown closure and move to the Beaumont, Tallaght or St. James's complexes: only Sir Patrick Dun's has failed to find a chronicler. It is now Belfast's turn and this sensibly planned, beautifully produced, han...

E-books, P-books, and the Durapolist Problem

This proposed paper provides a novel explanation to some controversial recent and historic practices in the book trade. Last year, antitrust regulators in the US and the EU challenged the e-book distribution agreements between Apple and leading book publishers. At the heart of these challenges was the publishers’ concern about Amazon’s discounted pricing for e-books. The lawsuits have alleged t...

Salmonella in Victoria, 1997: the story so far.

The Infectious Diseases Unit of the Department of Human Services, Victoria, reported an increased incidence of Salmonella infections in early 1997. To 21 April 1997, 944 notifications had been received, passing the previous year's total of 915. Five outbreaks of five separate serovars have been investigated and traced to their sources. The outbreaks, their sources and the control measures under...

Introducing Books/ Iranian Art: Collecting Iranian Art Pieces for Victoria and Albert Museum, Mohammad Javad Ahmadinia