book, and he has produced a valuable volume on neoplasms of the skin. Although consideration of malignant conditions occupy the greater part of this volume benign neoplasms also receive their due amount of attention. The book is copiously illustrated by excellent photographs and on the whole is clearly written, but we are sorry to see that the author talks of ' tubercular' skin lesions, when re...

This book aims to develop a concept of semiotic theory imagination as expressive production, which recognizes maze fictional dimensions

Traders Versus the State: Anthropological Approaches to Unofficial Economics is at once both a frustrating book to read and a fascinating book to review. One might suppose from its title that the book deals with conflict between officials on the one hand and those engaged in tradingor merchandising on the other. And one might suppose from reading the subtitle that the book focuses on the activi...

This paper presents the results of two separate studies into electronic book production. The Visual Book (Landoni, 1997) which explored the importance of the visual component of the book metaphor in the production of “good” electronic books, and the Hyper-TextBook (Crestani and Melucci, 1998a) which instead concentrated on the importance of hypertext models for the automatic production of funct...

This Open Access book includes focused case studies, broad policy syntheses and chapters on knowledge production systems in the field