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Nanoparticles. By Raz Jelinek. De Gruyter, 2015. Pp. 283. Price EUR 69.95. ISBN 9783110330021.

As the title indicates, the book ‘Nanoparticles’ by R. Jelinek deals with objects at the nanometric scale. As nanoscience and nanotechnology devoted to nanoparticles represent an ‘enormous scope’, carboneous nanomaterials and preparation processes like lithography are excluded from the content. The aim of this book is to give an overview of nanoparticles to a reader who is not necessarily activ...

Hadwen of Gloucester, Man, Medico, Martyr

A CRANK has been defined, probably by Bernard Shaw, champion of all cranks, as a person who holds and acts upon an opinion that is contrary to orthodox teaching, but it is claimed directly he has converted a sufficiently large number of his fellows to his point of view he ceases to be a crank. This is seldom true, as all worthy cranks have more than one arrow in their quiver. They have made the...

Judith Godden, Crown Street Women's Hospital: A History, 1893-1983 (Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, London: Allen & Unwin, 2016), pp. xi, 382, $45.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-74331-840-9.

rhetoric buoyed by the support of violent youth groups, both significant components of the fascist push for national rejuvenation. Negative measures like sterilisation – so popular in other countries at the time – were overlooked in favour of positive racial hygiene that placed ‘physical education on a par with academic training’ and encouraged citizens to start ‘large, “valuable” families’ (p....

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