The Great Gould – by Peter Goddard (Book Review)

BOOK REVIEW* Responsibility in Law and Morality by PETER CANE

The concept of responsibility underlies many legal rules and remedies. For the most part, criminal liability is incurred only in respect of acts for which the accused is considered responsible; and civil liability is incurred only in respect of loss or damage for which the defendant is considered responsible. However, it seems often to be suggested that questions of responsibility are matters f...

Book Review of Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry by Peter Stastny and Peter Lehmann (Eds)

Peter Stastny and Peter Lehmann's Alternatives beyond Psychiatry offers a comprehensive and up to date account of the alternatives to mainstream psychiatry that are being developed by service consumers and survivors across the world. As psychiatry moves into a new age less dominated by a biomedical paradigm many of the approaches described in this book may be adopted by mainstream health servic...

Review of Spatial Organization: The Geographer's View of the World by Ronald Abler, John S. Adams, and Peter Gould

Book Review: The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism

A successful global entertainment franchise, “Transformers,” was developed in the 1980s from a production line of a Japanese toy maker, Takara, although those who enjoy the franchise products today may pay little attention to its East Asian origin. Academic discussion on the Japanese economy generally posits an opposite story to the robust growth of the Transformers franchise: since the early 1...

BOOK REVIEW Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems: Ecology, Management, and Restoration

Applied ecosystem scientists tend to share several articles of faith: (1) that a clearer understanding of spatial and temporal patterns will better inform management decisions; (2) that patterns and relationships need to be examined at multiple scales; and (3) that effective study of ecosystems is fundamentally interdisciplinary. Occasionally a project such as the one described in this book aff...