Author: Biz India

Editors: Anne Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, and Timothy H. Holtz Publisher: Oxford University Press, 806 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is a unique book. There is probably no other written work out there available to students and professionals that focuses on health problems prevalent on a global scale, and discusses available solutions. The first two editions of this Textbook of International Health were written by the late Paul F. Basch, who was described by his colleague as “a man of singular purpose.” It has been, and is still acknowledged by students, scholars and others in the field,...

Author: Enrique Gaspar. Translated by Yolanda Molina-Gavilan and Andrea Bell With illustrations by Francese Soler from the original 1887 edition Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Book Review by: Artha Hemrajani The Time Ship, a translation from Spanish into English of the 1887 science fiction novel of Enrique Gaspar’s El anachronopete (‘ana’ means going backwards; ‘chrono’ means time; and ‘petes’ means he who flies) was published seven years before H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. Enrique Gaspar and H.G. Wells did not know each other or of each other’s ideas or plans to write a novel on the same subject of time...

Edited by Daniel Maximin. Translated by Keith L. Walker Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Book Review by: Artha Hemrajani Suzanne Cesaire (1915-1966) along with her husband Aime Cesaire helped start the Negritude movement. She was a French author from Martinique. This book contains seven articles she wrote for Tropiques, a cultural journal. She wrote these during the World War II years of the Vichy Regime in France and its territories. The island of Martinique was one of these, where she was born. There were in all 14 issues of this journal. It was sometimes censored, sometimes shut down by the...

Author: Roger l. Cooke Publisher: Wiley Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram When studying the history of mathematics, at least three approaches or coordinates come to mind, points out the author of this book Roger L. Cooke, PhD., who is Williams Professor of Mathematics at the University of Vermont. Those three approaches or coordinates are: culture, chronology and content. As you go through this book, you will discover that one or two of the coordinates frequently overlap. Sometimes all three overlap. The first two editions of this book were organized in different ways than the current one. The first edition...