The sudden death of the pioneer American Hebrew publisher, Henry Frank, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., on July 31, 1868, went unnoticed by the non-Jewish press of New York. Indeed, it was apparently only in the Hebrew Leader that his productive life was summarized, the editor remarking that, "during his long career in t h s country, which brought him in contact with persons of all creeds and natio...

The current difficulties of scholarly publishing are set out and a response to them based upon publishing by the institutions of the authors involved is described. An account of the role of the FIGARO Project in facilitating such a response is then given. Learned Publishing (2003)16, 183–188 Bas Savenije The FIGARO project: a new approach towards academic publishing 183 L E A R N E D P U B L I ...

Newtonian mechanics posited mass as a primary quality of matter, incapable of further elucidation. We now see Newtonian mass as an emergent property. That mass-concept is tremendously useful in the approximate description of baryon-dominated matter at low energy – that is, the standard “matter” of everyday life, and of most of science and engineering – but it originates in a highly contingent a...

As we begin our sixth year of publishing Pulmonary Circulation, we are excited about several new developments. First, we welcome two new Deputy Editors to the editorial leadership team: Kurt R. Stenmark, MD, and Irene M. Lang, MD. Dr. Stenmark is Professor of Pediatrics, Head of the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Director of the Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratory at ...

Review Number: 1849 Publish date: Thursday, 29 October, 2015 Author: Luis Martínez Fernández ISBN: 9780813049953 Date of Publication: 2014 Price: £40.95 Pages: 368pp. Publisher: University Press of Florida Publisher url: http://upf.com/book.asp?id=MARTI004 Place of Publication: Miami, Florida Author: Antoni Kapcia ISBN: 9781780325279 Date of Publication: 2014 Price: £16.99 Pages: 256pp. Publish...