n The Federalist, James Madison wrote that in fashioning the federal relationship "the convention must have been compelled to sacrifice theoretical propriety to the force of extraneous circumstances." These sacrifices which produced a "compound republic, partaking both of the national and federal character" were "rendered indispensable" by what Madison termed "the peculiarity of our political s...

Let R be a commutative ring. Unless indicated otherwise, all modules are R-modules and all tensor products are taken over R, so we abbreviate ⊗R to ⊗. A bilinear function out of M1 × M2 turns into a linear function out of the tensor product M1 ⊗ M2. In a similar way, a multilinear function out of M1 × · · · ×Mk turns into a linear function out of the k-fold tensor product M1 ⊗ · · · ⊗Mk. We wil...

The Unitary Executive offers a powerful case for the historical pedigree of the unitary executive theory. Offering an account of presidential practice stemming from George Washington to George W. Bush, the book seeks to ground unitary executive theory with exhaustive historical evidence. Although the authors do not purport to present a history of the presidency, they do provide important and co...

Scientists working in areas that are (rightly or wrongly) socially contentious might benefit by perusing readers' comments lodged on online newspaper websites after the appearance of announcements in their fields. On many occasions, they would find not only approving sentiments but also a surprising degree of hostility. The recent announcement of draft sequence coverage of the wheat genome prov...

IN this paper I propose to deal with some of the diseases of animals which are communicable to man, to discuss some of the analogies and differences shown in these diseases, and the way in which they affect the different species. A study of the different ways in which a disease affects man with his highly developed thinking powers, and the various species of animals which have no thought for th...

The investigation of the asymptotic behaviour of various parameters of powers of a fixed graph leads to many fascinating problems, some of which are motivated by questions in information theory, communication complexity, geometry and Ramsey theory. In this survey we discuss these problems and describe the techniques used in their study which combine combinatorial, geometric, probabilistic and l...