Abstract This paper explores the ambiguous role of magic in controversy over draining fens, last bastion wilderness seventeenth-century England. In what now looks like an early form environmentalist resistance to destruction these wetlands, opponents drainage accused undertakers invoking diabolical aid their audacious efforts tamper with God’s creation. Evidence this mentality can be found both...

hether one considers it a curse or a blessing to be born in “interesting” times, such is the plight or good fortune of the current generation. Events and inventions of the past several years strain credulity even for those accustomed to seeing the unlikely occur. There is little doubt that the years at the later part of the 20th century will provide a rich subject for historians as they explain...

P rofessors Freeman and Medoff have created quite a stir with What Do Unions Do?—the first substantial pro-union book by economists in decades. The book has drawn an extraordinary amount of (mostly favorable) attention, with articles in magazines such as Business Week and Fortune, a full-scale symposium in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and coverage in many academic journals. All the at...

ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR, VOL. 1. Edited by Daniel S. Lehrman, Robert A. Hinde, and Evelyn Shaw. New York and London, Academic Press, 1965. The first volume of this series sets a high standard which one hopes will be maintained. In it six topics, rather diverse in nature, are treated extensively. The unity of the volume comes primarily from the general orientation which is ethnological...

Understatement might not seem like a big deal, but it is a force to be reckoned with. The phenomenon is paradoxical on the face of it: minus dicimus, plus significamus, say less and mean more. An understatement is a statement which, somehow, because it is conspicuously less informative than some other statement, can be used to express the meaning of the more informative statement. It is not a p...

2 Introduction Metro has developed a regional econometric model (MARIO), a residential real estate model (RELM), a nonresidential real estate model and a transportation model. We have embedded the four models in a GIS based accounting and visualization tool that we call Metroscope. In regard to Metro's model development this paper discusses the reasons that Metro engages in modeling, shows how ...

In spite of their therapeutic significance for much of human history, mineral waters have been largely ignored by historians of medicine. One suspects that this neglect has to do with the perception that spa medicine has owed more to human credulity than to medical science. This volume of essays suggests that such neglect and dismissal are about to give way to more thoughtful assessment. Althou...

What is it like doing science in India? Let me make the operating rules clear before I answer. Every question about India has two ‘correct’ answers which say exactly opposite things. Furthermore, each of the one billion Indians will disagree with one another and with what any outsider has to say about India. Being a scientist in India is wonderful. Really. Every good grant proposal gets funded....

and the pharmaceutical implications are vast: for example, the development of a widely used type of antihypertensive agent, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, derived from snake venom research. Grenard is to be commended on his succinct thoroughness and attention to detail. Every organism is identified by its common and taxonomic name. Facts are quantitative rather than qualitative where...

Though in the time we have at our disposal there is much ground to be covered on a specific subject, it will be worth while just to take a very cursory glance at the histor;cal aspect of mental healing. The treatment of disease by mental means can be traced back to the earliest times. Its beginnings were of a mnagical nature and in the hands of the primitive medicine man, and later in those. of...