The author has set out to provide the minimum information of preventive medicine which a practitioner of medicine should have: accordingly this book reads in many places like a series of notes for a course of lectures. The word " Practical " in the title is misleading; the most practical items in the book are the photographs which show various up-to-date methods of disease prevention, and with ...

The encyrtid wasp, Psyllaphycus diaphorinae Hayat, was reared from nymphs of Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, on Citrus spp. and Murraya sp. collected in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. This discovery is a new host record for P. diaphorinae, which previously had been known only from India from a different, congeneric host. Taxonomic notes on this little known species are given, il...

In his celebrated 2013 volume, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty set out a detailed empirical account of accelerated growth inequality within and between societies around globe, noting that over past two centuries increases wealth have increasingly made their way into pockets fewer people. His latest book returns to question inequality, but focus is on what he sees as its ideo...

‘I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. . .I sat at the table turning the pages, my mind barely aware that I was reading, and my whole life was changing as I read the new words on each page.’ [From the opening paragraph of Orhan Pamuk’s Yeni Hayat (New Life), English translation by Güneli Gün]. Had Pamuk’s protagonist been a behavioural neurologist, he might have chosen similar wo...

karaji has introduced and explained the leveling instruments which were used at that time, in his book inb?t? al-miah al-khafiyyat (exploration for hidden water). added to the four studied leveling instruments, karaji introduces two more; “scaled vertical level” and “scaled telescopic level” which he mentions as his own inventions. in this paper after presenting these first four, the two levels...