Ruiz Miguel, Carlos, Derecho «constitucional» de la Unión Europea, Editorial Dykinson, Madrid, 2020, 292 pp., ISBN 978-84-1324-980-3

José María Borrás Llop (ed.), El trabajo infantil en España (1700-1950) (Barcelona: Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2014), pp. 511, €25, paperback, ISBN: 978-84-475-3797-6; ISBN: 978-84-9888-550-7.Peter Kirby, Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain, 1780-1850 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013), pp. 224, £17.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-18-438-3884-5.

as those on deschi da parto (Italian trays given as birth gifts), or in frescoes of the birth of the Virgin Mary or of John the Baptist. One wonders whether late medieval artists knew of similar ancient Roman scenes, like those included by Berg in nicely presented black and white images. Or is it possible that medieval basins just continued to play crucial yet often overlooked roles in the huma...

Joël Coste, Les Ecrits de la souffrance: la consultation médicale en France, 1550-1825 (Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2014), pp. 272, €25, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-87673-973-4.

This book by Joël Coste tries to fill a gap in the medical historiography of Early Modern France. Indeed, studies specific to medical correspondence are extremely rare; it is what makes the book all the more invaluable. A specialist of the consilia, the epistolary consultations which date from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, Professor Coste has produced a new, quality volume which wi...

Stanis Perez, Histoire des médecins: Artisans et artistes de la santé de l'Antiquité à nos jours (Paris: Perrin, 2015), €24,50, pp. 469, paperback, ISBN: 978-2262039448.

Stanis Perez, Histoire des médecins: Artisans et artistes de la santé de l'Antiquitéà nos jours For a long time, medical history was written by physicians, many of whom cast their fellow practitioners in largely hagiographical terms. In the twentieth century, historians, sociologists and philosophers also began to study medicine's past and the result was an important historiographic turn toward...

Mathematical Stereochemistry. By Shinsaku Fujita. De Gruyter, 2015. Pp. xviii + 437. Price EUR 129.95, USD 182.00, GBP 97.99. ISBN 978-3-11-036669-3.

The author of this book, Professor Shinsaku Fujita, has had a long and productive research career as a chemist, both in industry and in academic research laboratories. This is his fourth book, which builds on the theory developed in the others while minimizing overlap. The author states that the purpose of this book is to disambiguate vocabulary terms used in stereochemistry by introducing more...

La Gestion de la Diversité Linguistique dans les Villes Africaines/Management of Linguistic Diversity in African Urban Cities, Gabriel Mba & Etienne Sadembouo (Eds.). (2012), L’Harmattan, ISBN 978-2-296-99091-3