The Benedictine Archives at Lazkao contain a multitude of propaganda stickers and related visual media that provide snapshot the Basque region’s artful political culture in 1970s 1980s. Some most compelling examples include several items remix Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, referencing famous antiwar painting to become form mass-circulated pastiche. This move was somewhat unusual amid strong nationa...

This article looks at time banking ­– a system of exchange in which people trade services with one another using instead money as currency. Time is framed from social work perspective innovation that contributes to poverty alleviation and increasing inclusion. However, most such organizations fail institutionalize care providers within the first three years. In this paper, I discuss rare succes...

A metric for evaluating the creativity of a music-generating system is presented, the objective being to generate mazurka-style music that inherits salient patterns from an original excerpt by Frédéric Chopin. The metric acts as a filter within our overall system, causing rejection of generated passages that do not inherit salient patterns, until a generated passage survives. Over fifty iterati...

Methods of manufacture and storage are fully described, together with the advance from primitive apparatus as used by Davy and Wells to the controllable nitrous oxide/oxygen percentage and pressure devices of Bert, Hewitt, and others. Dr Smith pays attention to the no less important social aspect of his subject. He reproduces playbills advertising demonstrations of nitrous oxide and the title s...

This article progresses long-term researches on Hogarth and book history, the iconography of skimmington transnational receptions Don Quixote, by introducing a substantial new group images potentially illuminating Hogarth's lost activities as young painter, before he turned 30 in 1727. Astoundingly, no previous research-based study them exists. Unknown to specialists dismissed art historians, t...

HORACE W. DAVENPORT, Doctor Dock: teaching and learning medicine at the turn of the century, New Brunswick, NJ, and London, Rutgers University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. xvi, 342, illus., $35.00. Between 1899 and 1908, George Dock, MD held a diagnostic clinic for senior medical students at the University of Michigan twice a week during the school term. Dock, professor of theory and practice of medic...

Kate Seear’s The Makings of a Modern Epidemic offers readers an in-depth critical examination of a modern illness from the perspective of the medical profession and the community of women who suffer its symptoms. She combines interview data alongside analysis of self-help and historical medical literature to tell the story of this contested illness and the dynamics of gender and discourse that ...

Prevalent not only in political rhetoric, but also in foreign policy, metaphor has an impact on the way we define and carry out war. In my research I investigated the following themes: the purpose and meaning of metaphor in language; how metaphor shapes foreign policy; how metaphorical rhetoric was used by politicians from September 11, 2001 to President Bush’s State of the Union Address in Jan...

HORACE W. DAVENPORT, Doctor Dock: teaching and learning medicine at the turn of the century, New Brunswick, NJ, and London, Rutgers University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. xvi, 342, illus., $35.00. Between 1899 and 1908, George Dock, MD held a diagnostic clinic for senior medical students at the University of Michigan twice a week during the school term. Dock, professor of theory and practice of medic...