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2020 STAFLEU MEDAL

IAPT is pleased to announce the 2020 Stafleu Medal for an outstanding publication on historical, bibliographic, and/or nomenclatural aspects of systematics and taxonomy. For this award, the Stafleu Award Committee considered papers published in 2017–2018. The 2020 Stafleu Medal is awarded to: Kathryn Mauz for her 2018 book, C. G. Pringle: Botanist, Traveler, and the “Flora of the Pacific Slope” (1881–1884). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 120, Heritage Series 3. New York: The New York Botanical Garden Press. This magnificent hardcover volume (Fig. 1) covers in detail a less well-documented period in the life of Cyrus Guernsey Pringle, a well-known botanist, plant collector, and photographer whose collections and travels are important even today for their documentation of plant occurrences in areas of the southwestern United States that are now much changed. Pringle is better known for his later work in Mexico. This well-written volume represents a high level of botanical scholarship. Dr. Mauz worked at and consulted with 24 herbaria to locate all of Pringle's collections, and she verified or updated the determinations for all of them. Pringle left no field books or diaries from this period, so his itinerary was recreated from his personal papers, correspondence with other botanists, and the 2700+ specimens, which are detailed in some of the appendices. The book also sheds light on an era when paid plant collectors explored many parts of North America, ensuring the careers of their prominent botanical patrons in universities and botanical gardens in the United States. Kathryn Mauz is an independent scholar, but her passion is botanical history. She has held Research Associate positions at the herbaria of the University of Arizona and the University of Vermont. She lives in Colorado, U.S.A., where she assisted with seed collections for restoration and ex-situ conservation projects, as well as botanical inventories. Kathryn received her Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Arizona. Her doctoral research involved historical changes in plant diversity of the Tucson, Arizona, area stemming from changes in hydrology and ecology as the city developed into an agricultural and urban center, starting from the first scientific historical accounts in the mid-19th century. This research resulted in her first book, An Agreeable Landscape: Historical Botany and Plant Biodiversity of a Sonoran Desert Bottomland, 1855–1920, which was published in 2011 by BRIT Press. During her herbarium investigations toward her dissertation, Mauz became interested in collections made in Arizona by Cyrus Pringle. The realization that this period in Pringle's life was not well known gave rise to the present volume. Congratulations to Kathryn Mauz! The IAPT Council is grateful to the Stafleu Award Committee for their hard work in making this selection. The Stafleu Award Committee consisted of George Yatskievych (U.S.A.), Nicholas Hind (U.K.), Vinita Gowda (India), and Jefferson Prado, Chair (Brazil).

The Late-Victorian Little Magazine, by Koenraad Claes

Reviewed by: The Late-Victorian Little Magazine by Koenraad Claes David Finkelstein (bio) The Late-Victorian Little Magazine, by Koenraad Claes; pp. x + 278. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018, £89.50, $110.00. The nineteenth century saw explosive growth in the number of journals and literary periodicals issued for sale and subscription to an ever-expanding British reading public. The number of newspapers and periodicals produced in Britain over this period was staggering: John North, the general editor of The Waterloo Directory series on English, Irish, and Scottish nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals, has published evidence of over 3,900 Irish titles, 7,300 Scottish titles, and over 100,000 English titles appearing over the course of the century. Many of these were short lived, with small readership numbers who failed to repay editorial energies with good money for variable periodical contents. Some journals were more successful in carving out spaces for enlightening and entertaining general readers, with heavyweight monthly literary periodicals such as early-century Blackwood’s Magazine (1817–1980), or mid-century-founded The Cornhill Magazine (1860–1975), sailing alongside nimble successors that sprang up in the wake of the demotic, pacy style of new journalism from the 1880s onward, championed by newspapers and journals such as Tit-Bits (1881–84). Comically dismissed by Matthew Arnold in 1887, the appeal of miscellanies such as George Newnes’s Tit-Bits lay in being light and wholesome but also serious enough to offer readers an appreciation of what its editor saw as higher forms of literature. Aspirational readers also found great pleasure in the fare offered in journals such as Newnes’s Strand Magazine (1891–1950), whose mix of interviews, articles, illustrations, and light fiction could be seen to sail along better than heavily laden, essay-based periodicals such as the Edinburgh Review (1802–1929) and the Quarterly Review (1809–1967). The fin de siècle saw a number of little magazines spring up espousing a fusion of visual culture, artisanal craftsmanship, and radical aesthetic considerations. Koenraad Claes’s The Late-Victorian Little Magazine takes up the story of a number of these little magazine productions and their earlier inspirations, focusing on a range of better-known English periodicals (such as the 1850 Pre-Raphaelite-inspired The Germ, the 1856 William Morris-initiated journal Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, and the 1890s Yellow Book [1894–97] and The Savoy [1896]). Claes’s study also takes in a survey of short-lived, lesser-known regional examples such as the Birmingham Guild-produced journal Quest (1894–96), and the polymathic Patrick Geddes’s Scottish-issued The Evergreen (1895–96). Claes’s focus is on little magazines that featured as part of the arts and crafts movement in the second half of the nineteenth century, and in particular those that strove to revive fine printing traditions and artisanal-based approaches to cultural production. Several chapters offer studies of journals emanating from the artisan guilds that drew inspiration from William Morris’s espousal of uncommercial, visually and aesthetically rich material production. Examples of journals that picked up on such themes were the Century Guild Hobby Horse (1884–92), its successor Hobby Horse (1893–94), and Quest. Claes offers sound insights into the material conditions of their production, and in some of the stronger sections of the volume, looks closely at the contradictions underpinning such journals’ championing of art as aesthetic pursuit against their need to ensure viability and survival through commercial sales, subscriptions, and advertising of mundane goods and services. Such arguments work well in the sections exploring the history and development [End Page 145] of the best-known and most controversial aesthetic little magazines of the century’s end, the Yellow Book and The Savoy. The publisher of the former, John Lane, proved a canny operator, turning the Aubrey Beardsley-illustrated Yellow Book into a scandalous success. Its distinct, yellow hardcover volumes became much sought after by well-heeled society members as a means of acquiring and demonstrating access to a decadent literary world represented by the likes of Oscar Wilde, John Buchan, Henry James, Kenneth Grahame, and George Moore. Following the infamous trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895 and his fall from grace...

Introduction: A Special Issue on Editing Ulysses

Introduction:A Special Issue on Editing Ulysses Charles Rossman James Joyce's Ulysses was plagued from the outset by hundreds of printing errors. The 1922 first edition, published in Paris by Sylvia Beach through her bookstore "Shakespeare and Company," contained an insert apologizing "for typographical errors unavoidable in the exceptional circumstances." During the course of eleven printings and two editions between 1922 and 1930, Shakespeare and Company attempted to correct their errors without achieving a reliable text. Subsequent editions by other publishers fared little better. Random House, for example, mistakenly set its first American edition in 1934 from an exceedingly corrupt (and cleverly disguised) pirated version. Although Random House tried to make things right by completely resetting the text of Ulysses for their 1961 reprinting, specialists agree that the 1961 edition is marred by hundreds, perhaps thousands, of errors. From 1922 to 1961, then, most efforts to establish a correct text of Ulysses appear to have added as many mistakes as they eliminated. In 1977, Hans Walter Gabler, a German scholar who had done post-doctoral work under Fredson Bowers at Virginia, undertook to establish an authoritative text of Ulysses. Financially supported by a $300,000 grant from the German government and encouraged by the trustees of the James Joyce estate, who welcomed a substantially changed text of Ulysses as an opportunity to extend the soon-to-expire copyright, Gabler and his assistants worked at re-editing Ulysses for seven years. Their new, computer-generated Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition was published by Garland Publishing on June 16 ("Bloomsday") 1984. The new Ulysses was not, however, merely a corrected reading text. It was a three-volume critical edition with a genetic display of the history of the text's composition on the left-hand pages, the established reading text on the right-hand pages, and some two hundred pages of textual apparatus. Moreover, in preparing his edition Gabler eschewed orthodox methods of "copytext editing," which probably would have yielded a corrected version of either the 1922 first edition or the 1961 Random House edition. [End Page 98] Instead of correcting an existing edition, Gabler undertook a complete, genetic reconstruction of Joyce's text from the existing manuscript materials. Beginning with the so-called Rosenbach manuscript, which is the fullest extant version of the early text in Joyce's own hand, Gabler traced the processes of Joyce's subsequent deletion, revision, and expansion. The result was a wholly new version of Ulysses that differed in some 5,000 details from the version that Joyce himself saw through the press in 1922, and in nearly as many for the 1961 Random House edition. Because of the magnitude and importance of the editing task, Gabler's bold editorial theories, and the novel (at the time) application of computer technology to the humanities, the Gabler Ulysses captured extraordinary attention even as work-in-progress. Upon publication, it achieved instant success in the popular press, with front-page coverage in the New York Times, a major review in Time magazine, and wide coverage in numerous lesser journals. Like the commentary in the popular press, most of the early academic reviews glowed with admiration for Gabler's achievement. The new Ulysses did not receive its first sustained and serious critical scrutiny until John Kidd presented a paper, "Errors of Execution in the 1984 Ulysses," at the Society for Textual Scholarship in New York City in April, 1985. There, Kidd ignited a controversy that has raged for five years. Gabler, Kidd, and a host of other commentators have battled in the pages of The New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement; Kidd has published a 175-page monograph in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (1989) attacking the new Ulysses; a hard-cover volume called Assessing the 1984 ULYSSES appeared in 1986; and two international conferences—one in Monaco in 1985, another in Miami in February 1989—have been devoted to its evaluation. Most recently, Philip Gaskell and Clive Hart, two distinguished scholars who are cited on the edition's title page as members of its Academic Advisory Committee (along with Richard Ellmann) have published Ulysses: A Review of Three Texts...

Textbook of Radiology Physics, First Edition. Editors: HariqbalSingh, AmolSasane and RoshanLodha, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India, 2016. Paperback 176 pp. Price: $40.00. ISBN 9789385891304.

This hardcover volume is the first edition textbook on radiology physics. It is composed of 25 chapters, starting with a general description about electromagnetic radiation, X-ray production and radiation protection. Then, it continues with topics on specific imaging modalities, such as, ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography (CT), mammography, positron emission tomography (PET), and single photon emission tomography (SPECT). The next few chapters address the issue of picture archiving and communication systems, contrast media used in CT, and artifacts. There is also a chapter on the planning of a radiology department. At the beginning of the textbook, you will find eight colorful plates of images and figures that are referenced throughout different sections of the book. The textbook provides a brief and simple description of various imaging systems. It is most suitable for residents who wish to perform adequately on examinations without taking the extra effort to understand the fundamental physics principles related to each modality. Since the textbook is written by physicians, it is ideal for radiology residents and technical staff working in imaging departments. It is also idyllic for medical colleges and various medical and hospital libraries. The book is probably not as detailed as some medical physicists in training would prefer, but it could be a good base for the initial understanding of the imaging chain. The 149 pages of the textbook begin with introducing the book contributors. There are 19 contributors in all. After a small preface and the acknowledgments section, the reader is introduced to the table of contents consisting of 25 chapters and a five page index. Although each chapter contains a substantial number of black and white figures and images, the reader can also revisit the eight plates of colored images, which follows the table of contents. Although not strictly necessary, a few references could have been added at the end of every chapter to facilitate further literature for the reader to review. This textbook provides a simple and concise description of the radiological physics of X-rays. It includes the essential information needed to understand how images are created, aspects that impact image quality, and factors that affect radiation risks and protection. Virginia Tsapaki is the Head of the medical physics department in Konstantopoulio General Hospital of Athens, Greece. She has been an IAEA expert in Medical Imaging Physics for over 10 years, IOMP Secretary General and EFOMP Chair of Projects Committee. She is currently the President of Hellenic Association of Medical Physicists (3rd term).

Reflections: Writing Comics into Art History in Contemporary Japan

In 2015 Japanese publisher Shogakukan completed a collection of lavishly illustrated coffee-table books on Japan’s art history (Nihon bijutsu zenshū). Each of the 20 hard-cover and boxed volumes in...

Bailey's Head and Neck Surgery—Otolaryngology, 5th edition. By Clark A.Rosen and Jonas T.Johnson. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014. 3016 pp. ISBN: 978‐1609136024.

Bailey’s 2-volume textbook has become an institution in otolaryngology, with a long history of providing practical, detailed, yet not overly encyclopedic information. The fifth edition in this superb tradition was published in 2014 with Drs Jonas Johnson and Clark Rosen at the helm; it is expected to please students of otolaryngology, both lifelong and in training. The chapters are chock-full with relevant clinical information yet do not succumb to the excessively didactic, providing an excellent balance for practical education. The images are presented in full color and range from intraoperative photography to an exposition of vestibular testing. In addition, the reader gains an access code for online viewing of the material. This electronic interface also permits download of JPEGs of the images in the chapters for teaching purposes. The two hardcover volumes contain 207 chapters in 11 sections. Sections focus on topics spanning the range of Basic Science, Rhinology, Head and Neck Oncological Surgery, Sleep Medicine, Otology, Cosmetic Surgery, Laryngology, Pediatric Otolaryngology, and Trauma. Within these sections, patient problems are addressed according to their clinical relevance, while key research publications are described and referenced. There is an additional section that focuses on Practice Issues and includes subjects such as relevant business law, coding, practice management, and conflict of interest. This Practice Issues section is a topic that many miss during residency and fellowship training and yet remains of great importance among practicing otolaryngologists. Linked to the textbooks is also a paperback review module with multiple-choice questions. Questions are straightforward to understand and based on the material in the hardcover volumes. This supplement will prove useful for those studying for exams presented in this format. In summary, the publication set is very well presented, clinically relevant, practically applicable, and beautifully illustrated. Congratulations to the editors, section editors, and author team on this excellent fifth edition of Bailey’s.

Southeast Asia. Gambling with the land: The contemporary evolution of Southeast Asian agriculture. By Rodolphe De Koninck and Jean-François Rousseau. Singapore: NUS Press, 2012. Pp. xv + 250. Maps, Plates, Notes, Bibliography and Index.

Southeast Asia. Gambling with the land: The contemporary evolution of Southeast Asian agriculture. By Rodolphe De Koninck and Jean-François Rousseau. Singapore: NUS Press, 2012. Pp. xv + 250. Maps, Plates, Notes, Bibliography and Index. - Volume 45 Issue 1

Class Gifts Under the Restatement (Third) of Property

This article updates and expands on an article originally published under the same title in the Ohio Northern University Law Review, Vol. 33, p. 993, 2007. The original article was published as part of a symposium issue on Frontiers of Estate Planning: Changing Laws for Changing Times. The symposium was held in March 2007 at Ohio Northern University Claude W. Pettit College of Law.The article deals with the treatment of class gifts in the new Restatement (Third) of Property: Wills and Other Donative Transfers. The original article was based on a 2004 Tentative Draft of the Restatement that was not final. The update reports on the final version as it appears in the hard cover volume that was published in late 2011. The final version differs somewhat from the Tentative Draft version.The Restatement deals comprehensively with class gifts — general characteristics of a class gift, presumptive meaning of class-gift terms, questions of status, increase and decrease in class membership, and class gifts to heirs.

Let's Make Those Book Chapters Open Too!

Let's Make Those Book Chapters Open Too!

Design Meets Disability (Pullin, G.; 2011) [Book Review

This book was initially released as a hardcover volume in 2009. It aims to entice and excite designers about the possibilities and prospects of designing for disabled people. With his concept of resonant design, defined as intended to address the needs of some people with a particular disability and other people without that disability but perhaps finding themselves in similar circumstances, the author tries to skirt the tensions between particularity and generality. He argues that designing for disability can invigorate design practices and inject different ways of thinking into the design community. The book is divided into two sections. The first outlines a series of tensions or meetings between key issues ostensibly separating the worlds of design and disability. In the second section of the book, the author engages in a series of (imaginary and real) conversations with chosen designers about designing a specific product for disabled people. The book is an engaging and accessible read. As it is rare to find work about disability outside the field of Disability Studies, the author is to be commended for his efforts to place design and disability in conversation. In directing his efforts at recruiting designers to the field of disability, perhaps new collaborations and affinities will emerge.

Gossans and Leached Capping; Field Assessment

Gossans and Leached Capping; Field Assessment. Roger Taylor. Pp. 146. 2011. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-642-22050-0. Price US$129.00. This small hardcover volume, devoted to weathered sulfide orebodies manifested in gossans and leached capping, contains concise and brief scientific descriptions of the weathering processes, accompanied by an extensive set of photographs. It is one more in the long series of pamphlets and books published by the author and his colleagues, first through the Economic Geology Research Unit at James Cook University (Townsville, Queensland Australia) and now through major publishing houses. The current volume focuses on the field recognition and interpretation of weathered ore deposits without the utilization of any of the multitude of currently available high-tech analytical tools. As the author states, it is an attempt to improve upon the seminal early books on leach capping interpretations led by Blanchard (1968), who produced the bible on leached cap interpretation. The current book focuses on observations in outcrop and through the hand lens, at scales from outcrops to hand specimen. The book contains eight chapters, including in each a concise discussion of the topic in the chapter, followed by photographic plates with adequate description such that the …

Introduction to Basal Ganglia X – Proceedings of the 10th Triennial Meeting of the International Basal Ganglia Society

The International Basal Ganglia Society (IBAGS) had its origins in 1983 at a Satellite Meeting of the International Union of Physiological Sciences held at Lorne, Australia. At that meeting Professor John McKenzie organized a symposium devoted to the structure and function of the basal ganglia that attracted some 50 attendees from 12 countries. Thirty years later, IBAGS has grown into international organization with over 400 members from over 30 countries spanning the entire world. More information about the history of IBAGS and its previous triennial meetings can be found at www.ibags.info. The present volume consists of contributions from attendees of the Tenth Triennial Meeting of IBAGS, held June 20th–24th, 2010, at the Ocean Place Resort in Long Branch, NJ, USA, on the Jersey shore. The meeting attracted 278 scientific attendees representing over 30 different countries. The program included 50 invited speakers and over 180 poster presentations. The scientific sessions comprised a broad range of themes including “New Insights Into Basal Ganglia Diseases From Genetic Models,” “Novel and Understudied Basal Ganglia Circuits and Pathways,” “What Do the Basal Ganglia Really Do,” “Cognitive Functions of The Basal Ganglia,” “Non-Motor Sequela of Basal Ganglia Diseases,” “Dysfunction of the Basal Ganglia in Dystonia And Dyskinesia,” “Atypical Neuromodulators in the Basal Ganglia – Beyond Acetylcholine and Dopamine,” and “Basal Ganglia Function: Novel Insights From Computational Modeling.” Other highlights of the meeting included the Keynote Lecture on optogenetics by Karl Diesseroth, the Special Lecture by Charlie Wilson who was inducted as the 6th IBAGS Lifetime Member, and the lobster cook-out and bonfire on the beach. And of course, the welcome attendance and energetic participation of John McKenzie, some 30 years after he organized the meeting that gave birth to IBAGS. After all previous IBAGS meetings, contributions were solicited from attendees that were published as a single, hardcover volume. This volume, and the contributions in it, were not-peer reviewed nor indexed by PubMed or other commonly used databases. Thus the articles written were principally available only to IBAGS members or others who had purchased the (usually expensive) volume. For IBAGS X, we elected to take advantage of modern technology and publish the proceedings electronically, as a Special Topics Issue of Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. All submissions were subject to the normal Frontiers journals’ peer review system, and virtually all of the accepted submissions were published on-line within 2 weeks of final acceptance. For the first time, the IBAGS proceedings articles are all indexed and searchable in PubMed and other scientific indexing services, and freely available to anyone with an internet connection. Now, that the last of the submissions have been reviewed and accepted for publication, the 46 articles resulting from IBAGS X have been sorted into 7 topics (Basal Ganglia Electrophysiology, Basal Ganglia Pharmacology, Basal Ganglia Anatomy, Genetic Models of Basal Ganglia Disorders, Basal Ganglia Function in Health and Disease, Learning in the Basal Ganglia and Computational Approaches to the study of the Basal Ganglia) and compiled into this e-book. We hope you find the collection interesting and valuable. We all look forward to IBAGS XI, which is scheduled to take place in Eilat, Israel, in March 2013, under the direction of Hagai Bergman and Izhar Bar-Gad.

Arbitration Clauses for International Contracts by Paul D. Friedland

Arbitration Clauses for International Contracts by Paul D. Friedland Published by Juris Publishing, Inc. (2007, 2nd edn, pages xii + 350 pp., Apps. 1–46, incl. CD-Rom ). Hardcover. Price US$150. ISBN-13: 978-1-933833-06-4. Although it is certainly correct that Paul Friedland’s new edition of Arbitration Clauses for International Contracts deserves a place on the short shelf of indispensable works on international arbitration, you will know that your practice is happily busy if this book rarely touches that shelf and instead occupies a different place, i.e. your desk. Mr Friedland has managed to provide, in one volume, concise explanations of the crucial matters that you need to discuss with clients (and, if you are in a law firm, transactional colleagues) in choosing arbitration and drafting arbitration clauses. Moreover, the explanations are accompanied by extensive examples of clauses addressing these issues, helpfully set out in 46 appendices. One or more of these sample clauses may readily serve as the first cut for the provision that ultimately appears in the contract on which you are asked to advise. Even though a hardcover volume does not travel lightly, the author and publisher have had the very sound idea of also including the appendices on a CD-ROM (a continuation of the practice followed with the first edition), so if your laptop is with you, the sample clauses are with you. It would be a mistake, however, to consider this book to be mostly a compilation of sample clauses – though the the compilation is certainly there for the using and should be used, and the usefulness of such a compilation is hardly insignificant. Moreover, it would be a mistake to characterise the book as a checklist for drafters – though it also has this use, and after Atul Gawande’s powerful study of the life-saving virtues of checklists in complex fields, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Metropolitan Books, 2009), the importance of a checklist is very clear. Instead, it probably would be …

Gotthilf Heinrich Schubert: Die Naturgeschichte als bestimmendes Element. (Erlanger Studien, 137) by Heike Petermann

MLR, 104.3, 2009 907 There is also underlying these lectures a lament forGermany's present political and cultural condition, and in this they reflect a generally perceived malaise. In the famous Vienna lectures of 1808 the tone is already different. The Romantic form of the lecture, public or (as in 1803) private, is an ideological vehicle both for the dissemination of a view of culture and for a presentation of the state of the nation'. Trinity College, Cambridge Roger Paulin GotthilfHeinrich Schubert: Die Naturgeschichte als bestimmendes Element. ByHeike Petermann. (Erlanger Studien, 137) Erlangen and Jena:Palm & Enke. 2008. 333 PP- 29. ISBN 978-3-7896-0837-7. This expensive-looking hard-cover volume, produced in an edition of 200 copies, is based on Heike Petermann's doctoral dissertation. The monograph is divided into fourmain sections, beginning with a detailed account of Schubert's life and career, with special emphasis on his teaching at theUniversities of Erlangen and Munich and recounting his close friendships with Schelling, Herder's son Emil, Ringseis, G?rres, Baader, and many other representatives of the later Romantic movement. Part provides another in-depth description of his teachings as a natural historian, but repeating many of the observations from Part 1.Petermann focuses on theminutiae, examining Schubert's lectures on an almost week-by-week basis, the numbers of students attending his classes, the candidates he examined, and a record of his salary over the years. Scholars of Romanticism will probably find little of interest here and one wonders what kind of reader the author has inmind. Part in, on Schubert the author, is similarly detailed. Students of the history of publishing may find some aspects quite interesting: remuneration for each manu script sheet isprovided and comparisons made with payments to other authors, such as E. T. A. Hoffmann and Goethe. (Schubert's takings trebled those ofHoffmann!) Part iv examines Schubert's writings on natural history, in particular Ansichten von derNachtseite derNaturwissenschaften and Symbolik des Traumes, but reveals few new insights and lacks a critical approach. While the impact of Ansichten on Hoffmann and Kleist is reported, no critical evaluation is given. In similar vein Petermann furnishes a detailed account of the story of the 'Bergmann von Falun' with reference toHoffmann's use of the plot. The study in general lacks a conceptual approach: definitions of natural history (p. 87) and anthropology (p. 91) are rather simplistic and the (brief) comparison of Schubert with Alexander von Humboldt fails to demonstrate that,while the lat termeasured, compared, and defined his material, Schubert based his findings on analogy, assuming thatknowledge of the self can be gained through knowledge of theworld. The author should have embedded Schubert's work more firmly in the natural philosophy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, indicating 908 Reviews hismove away from the emancipated philosophy of theEnlightenment. This applies inparticular to Schubert's involvementwith the revivalistmovement of theday,with spiritualism and animal magnetism, which explains his growing attachment to con servative circles inMunich and his involvement with the reactionary Evangelische Kirchenzeitung inBerlin. This handsome volume ismarred by the large number of misprints, render ing some passages barely comprehensible; even quotations are error-prone. The author s expressions of gratitude to proofreaders and the publisher seem mis placed. It isdifficult to see how thismonograph can contribute much to enhance studies ofRomanticism, especially the areas of natural science and medicine, where current research isparticularly active. Oxford Brookes University H. J. Hahn Eduard M?rike: Readings and Contexts (=Oxford German Studies, 36.1 (2007)). Ed. by Ray Ockenden. 133 pp. ?19. ISSN 0078-7191. Geraubte Augenblicke: Andenken und Inspiration beiM?rike, umMozart, im 19. Jahrhundert. By Natascha N. Hoefer. Heidelberg: Winter. 2007. 618 pp. 76. ISBN 978-3-8253-5342-1. Perhaps the proof ofM?rike's famed elusiveness is theway critical discussion has generated a series of epithets forhim which only refracthim further away from us (themost persistent of these is theBiedermeier label, but attempts to deconstruct it in favour of emphasizing M?rike's credentials as amodern have in their turn often led to equally unsatisfying descriptions). The essays collected by Ray Ockenden in this issue of Oxford German Studies aim to penetrate beyond...

Paleozoic Evolution and Metallogeny of Pericratonic Terranes at the Ancient Pacific Margin of North America.: MAURICE COLPRON and JOANNE NELSON, Editors. 523 Pp. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 45. ISBN-10: 1 897095 22 8. ISBN-13: 978 1 897095 22 5; ISSN: 0072 1042. Table of Contents at http://www.gac.ca/publications/view_pub.php?id=135. 2006. Price C$74.00 (nonmembers), C$55.00 (members).

This is an exceptional product that provides a new paradigm of understanding to Cordilleran geology. This hardcover volume includes18 papers and an index, as well as two large-format folded plates of critical figures and a CD-ROM. The CD provides high- and low-resolution PDFs of each of the papers, as well as data repositories that accompany most of the papers and attest to the considerable amount of new data contained within. Additionally, the CD contains large PDFs of more than 30 geologic maps published by the different government agencies that employ the authors. Geographically, the papers are divisible into six contributions on Yukon and northernmost British Columbia, six on southeastern British Columbia, and other papers with regional compilations. A single paper is dedicated to Alaska. This publication is the result of a five-year cooperative geo-science program, the Ancient Pacific Margin National Mapping Program, that has brought together geologists from the Yukon Geological Survey, the British Columbia Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Canada, and the U.S. Geological Survey with university researchers, students, and industry personnel. The focus of …

Early Masses and Mass-Pairs (review)

Reviewed by: Early Masses and Mass-Pairs J. Michael Allsen Early Masses and Mass-Pairs. Transcribed and edited by Gareth Curtis . ( Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music, 4.) ( Early English Church Music, 42.) London: Published for the British Academy by Stainer and Bell, c 2001. [Foreword ( John Caldwell ), 1 p.; acknowledgments, 1 p.; contents, 1 p; introd., p. ix–xiii; scores (each preceded by sources and crit. notes), p. 1–177 Cloth. ISMN M-2202-1931-3; ISBN 0-85249-846-2. £55.] This volume of early Masses and Mass-pairs edited by Gareth Curtis is the start of a new editorial direction, and a distinctly new "look" for the venerable series Early English Church Music, inaugurated in 1963 with John D. Bergsagel's edition of the first volume of Early Tudor Masses (London: Stainer and Bell) to make available church music by British composers of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in a form designed to serve both scholarly and practical needs. The series is intended to complete the publication in modern editions of all early sacred music in Britain from the Norman Conquest to the Commonwealth. (vol. 1 of series, p. iv) Since then, Early English Church Music has proved to be a valuable resource for students and performers of this music, providing a clear and well-edited entry into this large repertory. The first forty-one volumes comprise many subseries, including five volumes devoted to the sacred music of John Taverner (ca. 1490-1545) and six to Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656). Curtis's new volume is a continuation of another of these subseries devoted broadly to fifteenth-century liturgical music. These volumes, including Curtis's previous edition of the Brussels Masses from the manuscript Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er 5557 (Early English Church Music, 34; hereinafter EECM), as well as two volumes published much earlier (Antiphons and Music for Holy Week and Easter, ed. Andrew Hughes, EECM, 8 [1968] and Four Anonymous Masses, ed. Margaret Bent, EECM, 22 [1979]), cover repertory that would otherwise fall through the cracks of editions of collected works and monuments devoted to a single manuscript: anonymous and occasionally fragmentary music, as well as works by composers who are largely unknown aside from a piece or two. With the exception of a single volume devoted to facsimiles of late medieval fragments (Manuscripts of Fourteenth Century English Polyphony: A Selection of Facsimiles, ed. Frank Llewellyn Harrison and Roger Wibberley, EECM, 26 [1981]), and the recent edition of Thomas Morley's (1557/8- 1602) Services edited by John Morehen (EECM, 41 [1998]), the series has heretofore been weighted toward the "practical." Volumes appeared in a roughly octavo-size [End Page 219] format in paper covers, with large, clear typography eminently suited for singers. The music itself was presented in modern notation and clefs, with bar lines, two-to-one or four-to-one reductions of note values, and the standard equipment of scholarly editions (brackets above ligatures, barring that reflects modus-level notation, etc.). Though each volume included a full critical apparatus, and occasionally appendices with plainchant sources, the music itself seems to have been set out primarily with performance in mind. Many of the volumes, for example, include a keyboard reduction to facilitate rehearsal and performance. Along with Morehen's Morley edition, Curtis's Early Masses and Mass-Pairs represents a new style for Early English Church Music editions (see Lionel Pike's review of the Morley in Notes 58, no 1 [September 2001]: 176-79). It is a weighty, large-format (9" X 12.5"), hardcover volume. Critical notes are now integrated into the edition, directly preceding each piece or set of pieces. The most important change, however, is in the method for transcribing the works. While score format and modern treble and bass clefs are retained, the music itself appears in the original mensural notation. In his foreword to the edition, John Caldwell, general editor of Early English Church Music, explains this change in editorial procedure (p. v): It was widely felt that traditional methods of transcription . . . were no longer adequate to convey the essential nature of this freely flowing yet mensurally disciplined music. In these new editions, note-values will be unreduced, the...

Capillary Electro-Chromatography and Pressurized Flow Capillary Electro-Chromatography: An Introduction. Ira S. Krull, Robert L. Stevenson, Kavita Mistry, and Michael E. Swartz. New York: HNB Publishing, 2000, 240 pp., $54.00. ISBN 0-9664286-2-5.

This modestly priced hardcover volume provides an excellent introduction to the emerging technologies of capillary electrochromatography (CEC) and pressurized flow capillary electrochromatography (PEC). In the first technique, capillary electrophoresis is carried out by use of a capillary filled with packing, often a material used for HPLC. Because capillary electrophoresis and HPLC have complementary separation modes, the CEC separation has some of the advantages of both methods in terms of resolving power and sample capacity. In the second technique, PEC, pressurized flow of the capillary mobile phase …

"Rheumatoid Arthritis": A balanced overview of current research

This is a brief review of the third volume of the series edited by AN Theofilopoulos, "Current Directions in Autoimmunity". This hard-cover volume comprises 282 pages, 46 figures and 14 tables. The book has a cover price of 196 Swiss Francs, or 255 Deutschmarks, or 170.50 US dollars.

Launching a Research Agenda: The Early Monograph Series

For more than three decades AEJMC has had its own version of Unsolved Mysteries. Today members who look at the last three pages of Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs will note that Monograph No. 1 was titled Five European Broadcasting Systems, written by alter B. Emery and published by the Association for Education in Journalism (AEJ) in 1966. But long-time journalism faculty recall that the Association published monographs before 1966. When I became a member of the AEJMC Publications Committee five years ago, I inquired about monographs I had seen dated before 1966, but which were not carried in the current listing. Some of the members seemed be aware of an earlier series, but the national AEJMC office did not have any copies and had no information on them. The first clue came at the 1994 AEJMC convention in Atlanta when Robert Drechsel, director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, and a former member of the Publications Committee who knew of my interest in locating monographs from the early series, gave me a citation from one of these earlier publications. To my surprise, the publisher was the LSU Press. A bit of history began rush back at this point. A former professor of mine at LSU, Marcus M. Wilkerson, had been the founder of the LSU Press and served its director from 1935 until his death in 1953. Wilkerson, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 2931, was the author of two books: Public Opinion and the Spanish American War: a Study in War Propaganda (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1932) and Thomas Duckett Boyd: the Story of a Southern Educator (Baton Rouge, LSU Press, 1935). Also, I knew that the LSU School of Journalism had been very active in the administration of the Association in its early years, and Wilkerson had been president of AEJ in 1947. So it seemed quite logical that the LSU Press would be involved in publication of the early monographs. Armed these clues, I found that the LSU Archives had all of the seven earlier monographs. Each is a hard-cover volume in excellent condition. A review of each of the monographs is presented here: Monograph No. 1 Allen, Charles L. Free Circulation: A Study of Newspapers Having Free or Controlled Distribution. University, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1940. The monograph, which is 78 pages, eight pages of front matter but no index or bibliography, indicates that Journalism Monographs were published under the auspices of the National Council of Research, American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism. In the Introduction the author points out that the or of newspapers had been a subject of spirited discussion at various press association meetings for the previous ten years, with intensity of interest and vehemence of expression sometimes being substituted for factual information. He noted that publishers of newspapers which used paid subscriptions, particularly those who faced free-paper competition, had loudly denounced the throw aways, while publishers of throw aways had been equally vigorous in defending this type of publication. The purpose of Allen's study, a University of Illinois research project, was learn how free or controlled circulation newspapers operated: to discuss the advantages of their techniques, lean their problems and their costs of production, and try evaluate their distribution methods. The study was limited papers which could be visited by the author and publishers who consented personal interviews. Allen gathered information on personnel, advertising rates and procedures, publishing costs, distribution methods, sources of income, and ways in which newspapers had met the free distribution competition. Included in the survey were 81 papers, published in Chicago and suburbs during 1936-1937, both weekly and semi-weekly. …

Parliaments over presidents

Parliaments Over Presidents? Matthew Soberg Shugart (bio) The Failure of Presidential Democracy. Edited by Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. 436 pp. Paper, 2 vols. Vol. 1, 169 pp. Vol. 2, 358 pp. This book is the long-awaited product of a symposium on the relative merits of presidential and parliamentary forms of government held at Georgetown University in 1989. Anchoring the collection is a masterfully revised version of the now famous paper that Juan Linz presented at that conference, a summary of which appeared in the Winter 1990 issue of the Journal of Democracy. Linz’s essay alone is reason enough to purchase the book, which is available in two paperback volumes (Linz’s chapter appears in both) as well as in a single hardcover volume (to which page numbers in this review refer). Other leading scholars have also made important contributions. This collection is “must reading” for anyone interested in the relationship between political institutions and democratization. Most of the contributions echo the thesis presented by Linz—namely, that presidentialism is inherently inferior to parliamentarism. Alfred Stepan and Cindy Skach provide empirical support for Linz’s argument, demonstrating that few presidential systems have maintained stable democracy. Building on his previous work on the contrast between majoritarian and consensus models of governance, Arend Lijphart argues that even Westminster-style parliamentarism—in which single-party cabinets prevail—can be considered less majoritarian than presidentialism, for the simple reason that a prime minister can be ousted by his or her colleagues in the party on strictly political grounds. [End Page 168] Giovanni Sartori shares the other contributors’ skepticism about the efficacy of U.S.-style presidentialism, but is just as critical of parliamentary systems that are based on coalition cabinets. He notes that direct election of the president “counters ‘proportional politics’” (p. 115), although he favors a French-style system, in which the cabinet depends on the confidence of parliament rather than that of the president. In an excellent chapter on the case of France, Ezra N. Suleiman shows that the initiation of presidential elections in 1965 profoundly transformed the party system; at the same time, he argues that because the prime minister and cabinet are dependent for their political survival on the parliamentary majority, the constitutional powers of the presidency have been much less important to the functioning of the regime than is generally assumed. (The French system is therefore not the “pure presidentialism” seen in the United States and Latin America.) The remaining chapters, which make up the second paperback volume, cover specific Latin American cases: Chile (Arturo Valenzuela), Uruguay (Luis Eduardo González and Charles Guy Gillespie), Brazil (Bolívar Lamounier), Colombia (Jonathan Hartlyn), Ecuador (Catherine M. Conaghan), Peru (Cynthia McClintock), and Venezuela (Michael Coppedge). These historical surveys of governmental performance are certainly useful, yet rarely does the reader gain a good feel for how policy is actually made. In general, the authors pay insufficient attention to relations among different branches of government in the process of setting national priorities, passing budgets, and so forth. The focus of the book is political stability, which Linz says is endangered by the so-called dual democratic legitimacy of presidential systems. In a parliamentary system, the head of government is selected by the legislature and can be dismissed by a legislative vote of no confidence. There is no equivalent means of breaking an executive-legislative impasse in a presidential system, in which the head of government emerges out of a separate electoral process. Thus parliamentarism is “flexible”; presidentialism, “rigid.” Linz and his fellow contributors argue that this rigidity may tempt the military to assume the role of “moderating power.” The implication that the risk of coups could be eliminated by switching to parliamentarism goes too far, however. Looking beyond Latin America, we find a number of parliamentary systems with records of military intervention, including Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sudan, Thailand, and Turkey. And this brings us to the biggest shortcoming of this collection—which could almost as easily have been entitled The Failure of Latin American Democracy. The problem is the following: Given the concentration of presidential democracies in one part of the world (namely, Latin America), how...