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Book Review – Handbook of Bioelectronics

Editors: Sandro Carrara and Krysztof Iniewski Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 577 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The simplest meaning of bioelectronics is the relationship between biology and electronics. It is a means of using electronics to measure various data relating to a living body – human or  animal. The applications of electronics in biology, particularly in human anatomy and physiology so are numerous and varied, as you will learn just by reading the outline below of the book’s contents, much less than this book itself, are mind-boggling. This book was published in 2015, and it reveals interesting...

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Book Review – Quantum Field Theory for Economics and Finance

Editor: Belal Ehsaan Baauie Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 690 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani In his Synopsis, the author of this book Professor Belal Ehsaan Baaquie explains that quantum field theory was initially developed to describe indeterminate and random phenomena, be they classical or random in origin. He writes that while quantum field theory typically explains the phenomena of high energy physics, condensed matter and solid state physics, the common thread of these applications was that the quantum system has a large number of degrees of freedom (independent variables) Quantum field theory is not tied to quantum...

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Book Review – Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures

Editor: Gad Freudenthal Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 547 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book provides an overview of the scientific and other contributions of medieval Jewish people  to the world’s vast body of knowledge. There few, if any known books out there (that we’re aware of) that have put together the contributions of people of Hebrew and Jewish origin, to bodies of knowledge in these and related disciplines: astrology, astronomy, biology, culture (and the knowledge of various cultures, such a Arabic, Latin, and others), languages and linguistics, logic, mathematics, medicine, meteorology, philosophy, physics, psychology, and other...

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Book Review: The Worlds of the Indian Ocean – A Global History, Volumes 1 and 2

Editor: Professor Philippe Beaujard Translation edited by Tamara Loring, Frances Meadows, and Andromeda Tait Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 1,700 pages total Book Review by: Nano Khilnani “Asia and Africa dominated the cultural and economic landscape and the flow of ideas in the pre-modern world.” This is what the editor of this superbly-researched and well-organized written history – Professor Philippine Beaujard, a researcher and historian at the Paris-based Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, asserts at the beginning of his book. (The italicized words quoted here are ours). First, we lay out the outline of the contents of this...

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Book Review – An Introduction to Neuroendocrinology, Second edition

Authors: Michael Wilkinson and Richard E. Brown Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 479 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This second edition released in 2015 contains updates as well as new data and information that have been discovered since first edition was published in 1994. As we usually do, based on what medical specialists inform us what helps them most when they read reviews, we begin our book reviews by simply providing the list of chapters (and in some cases, sections that group together the chapters) in each book. So these are the 15 chapter titles: Classification of chemical...

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