The Brave New World of Work by Ulrich Beck, Oxford: Polity Press, 2000, 202 pp., ISBN 0-7456-2398-0.

American Multinationals in Europe: Managing Employment Relations across National Borders, edited by Phil Almond and Anthony Ferner, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 346 pp., ISBN-10: 0-19-927463-0 and ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927463-5

Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. Érudit offre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Note : les règles d'écriture des références bibliographiques peuvent varier selon les différents domaines du savoir. Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduct...

The origin of species by means of ecological selection Ecological Speciation Patrik Nosil (Oxford University Press, Oxford; 2012) ISBN 978-0-19-958710-0

they can use both design and directed evolution to build on that achievement, improving the performance of the new catalyst or shifting its specificity towards new tasks. Manfred Reetz came to enzyme catalysis from organic chemistry, with the wishes of synthetic chemists in mind. Working at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research at Mülheim and at the University of Marburg, he spent much of ...

Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey, Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. xii, 312, $105.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-967813-6.

This innovative and imaginatively researched study more than fulfils its ambition to explore the relationship between physicians and the lay public in early modern Italy. Taking a fresh perspective on medical history, the authors focus on the texts and practices devoted to staying healthy rather than coping with illness and demonstrate the growing appetite for such knowledge. Although they high...

His intended biography, and why Nature’s Oracle: The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton Ullica Segerstrasse (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013) ISBN 978-0-198-60727-4

approaches it will be difficult to make progress,” comments Terrence Sejnowski from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. “There are enough good neuroscientists working on the Human Brain Project that biological progress can surely be made, and the same holds for the computer science part of the project.” The project may still have a whiff of science fiction and megalomania attached to it...

Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence by Andy Clark, Oxford University Press, 229 pp., $14.95, ISBN 0-19-517751-7