Jorge Nef responds to one of the most pressing intellectual challenges of the post-Cold War era: the search for an analytical framework that will help us understand this turbulent and chaotic period in human history. His lucid and visionary analysis rests on the concept of mutual vulnerability: that in an increasingly interdependent world, global security is only as strong as the weakest link i...

Sir Hugh Cairns, the first Nuffield Professor of Surgery in Oxford and consultant neurosurgeon to the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II, was a leader in helping to establish neurosurgery as a speciality in Britain. After learning the craft from Dr Harvey Cushing in Boston, Cairns fought against the general surgical orthodoxy in London to establish the first specialised neurosurgical ...

the present paper is concerned with the structural characteristics and contents of the russian resistance poets from the outset up to the end of the world war ii, 1941-1945. regarding the linguistic and literary structures of the resistance poetry of this period, such features as changes in the lexical structure of poems, outspokenness, proximity of poetry to slogans can be easily observed. sem...

Polybius was right. The world must be seen as an organic whole where everything affects everything else. That being the case, we are faced with such complexity that attempts to understand the full ramifications of any given event or person's life are fraught with peril, including the attempt to understand Alexander D. Langmuir's impact on public health. Some people are indeed "larger than life"...

Like in most other countries after World War II, in the Netherlands the traditional system of educational quality control came to a definite end. This system was characterised by small numbers of students and intensive personal contact between the university professor and his (or in exceptional cases: her graduates). This enabled the individual professor’s status as a scholar to be taken as evi...

It covers research, teaching, departmental governance, students and social life. It also highlights the extraordinary contributions made to the war effort in both the first and second world wars. From its first professors, A. Wilhelm Hofmann and Edward Frankland, the department has been home to many eminent chemists, including, in the later twentieth century, the Nobel laureates Derek Barton an...

Evolutionary understanding of behaviour of firms is gradually becoming more accepted in a variety of disciplines such as economics, management and organization. Contributing to a multidisciplinary understanding of strategic behaviour, this paper analyzes foreign direct investment strategies of US firms in Europe since the second world war. Taking routinized investment behaviour, satisficing str...

1. A case is described of an Englishman who suffered severe 'wet beriberi' whilst a prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese in World War II. 2. Following release he developed a congestive cardiomyopathy which increased in severity until his death 31 years after repatriation. 3. Autopsy findings were consistent with chronic cardiac damage due to beriberi.