While the daily papers and women's maga^'Iles print frequent and regular articles on the Puririging of children, and at the/ same time unierous excellent text-books on the subject e published, these are usually mainly con^rned with the health of the baby and small ftud. Occasionally, though much more rarely, subject of the diet and care of adolescents Cr?ps up, and it is seldom that we have pre...

This book is based on a series of case studies of audiences in England, the USA, and Australia, largely using detailed ethnographic and qualitative research. Tulloch is particularly interested in the relationship between spectator positions often constructed in production and social audience readings taking place among actual audiences. ‘Liveness’ and recent conceptual research around the theat...

and of Theorem 7.2 on p. 206) Lang requires essentially the same result about finitely generated abelian groups. Every time he gives a proof at (unusual) length. At the first occurrence he attributes it to me, but it is a commonplace I probably learnt from Mordell. The original Diophantine geometry expected the reader to have at his fingertips that part of algebraic geometry, in the formulation...

This volume is the first contributed by the medical and consultant staff of the Stoke Park Colony, near Bristol, under the editorship of the Medical Director, Professor Berry. It is dedicated to the memory of the late Reverend H. N. Burden, who founded the Colony and who, until his death in 1930, acted as Warden, a position now held by Mrs. Burden. It gives, in a memoir on the life of the found...

algebra. After the first page or so, group theory is not concerned with the features common to all models of the group axioms, but rather with relationships among different models of those axioms, which is to say, different groups, especially those relationships established by certain kinds of functions, called homomorphisms. This makes it difficult even to imagine what a structuralist interpre...

" sentence " should be based upon the therapeutic needs of each case with the necessity for knowledge rather than force as the deciding factor in the solution of individual problems. The treatise forms a practical, scientific and constructive statement of the present position with regard to mental hygiene and is eminently readable. It is limited in one direction only in its usefulness in that i...

Alex Voorhoeve sets the stage for his book by quoting Plato's Phaedrus in which the “the living, breathing discourse of the man who knows” (1) is deemed superior to the written discourse. Socrates's vindication of the dialogue as the blessed form of philosophical investigation is thus presented as the inspiration for these eleven conversations with prominent thinkers on ethics ― most of them pr...