Landscape Transformations and the Archaeology of Impact: Social Disruption and State Formation in Southern Africa (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology)

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An attempt to use archaeological materials to investigate the colonization of southeastern Africa during the period 1500 to 1900. Perry demonstrates the usefulness of archaeology in bypassing the biases of the ethnohistorical and documentary record and generating a more comprehensive understanding of history. Special attention is paid to the period of state formation in Swaziland and a critique of the `Settler Model', which the author finds to be invalid.

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This text provides an interesting context for reading the history and literature of southern Africa. Geography is useful in our grasp of migration in this part of the continent, which has rich oral traditions heretofore ignored by colonizers. The settlement of southern Africa by Bantu speaking peoples was ignored. Drought and other landscape transformations were the cause of later disruptions, like the mfecane. The text is highly readable and provides the student of southern Africa new information that predates colonization.

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Latvia: The Challenges of Change (Postcommunist States and Nations)

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The past one hundred years have been a very trying time for Latvia, complete with success, tragedy, and still unrealized promise. Within the course of a generation, the country experienced revolutions, wars and independent statehood, and then the slide into authoritarianism. World War II brought new occupations. The tragedies were staggering: holocaust, executions, and an exodus of refugees. Soviet consolidation bred deportations, forced collectivization and partisan warfare. Almost fifty years later, Latvia regained its independence and emerged from decades of disastrous Soviet rule.
This book comprehensively surveys Latvia's recent past and prospects for the new millennium, placing contemporary events in historical perspective. The authors address the evolution of the country from the movement against Soviet rule to the dilemmas of contemporary politics: party formation, the problem of corruption, the quest for the future and a regional and international role, the struggle to develop a civil society, the issue of ethnic relations and the recurring tendency towards statist solutions. Proper attention is also given to economic developments.

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Very concise conversation with two authors, ending with the phrase post-independence hangover. Very quick review of history with references if you really want to know more, and interesting piece of politics and history of the 50 years of Soviet domination, but a reminder that there were really only 30 years of independence, sort of a blink of an eye within a millenium. It has a realistic view of what is and wheter it is good or bad depends on what you are comparing it to. When you read it keep your biases in perspective to what you are reading

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Leishmania (World Class Parasites)

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Leishmania parasites cause a diverse group of diseases endemic to many tropical and subtropical regions of the world. This volume seeks to bring together recent research on cell and molecular biology of Leishmania with chapters on the host response to infection, the current epidemiology of leishmaniasis, explanations of the many different species, vector control, and strategies for vaccine development and drug treatment.
Leishmania, volume four of World Class Parasites, is written for researchers, students and scholars who enjoy reading research that has a major impact on human health, or agricultural productivity, and against which we have no satisfactory defense. It is intended to supplement more formal texts that cover taxonomy, life cycles, morphology, vector distribution, symptoms and treatment. It integrates vector, pathogen and host biology and celebrates the diversity of approach that comprises modern parasitological research.

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This book is a useful reference for researchers, especially for updated information presented in table form for Leishmania spp. (pp. 3 and 14-6), sand fly vectors (pp. 34-5) and regimens of chemotherapy (pp. 135-6). Authors were well-chosen to introduce the topics of their own research presented in 11 chapters (~15 pages each). Most chapters are, by necessity, focused largely on the authors' own work or views due apparently to page limitation. This is adequate and even desirable for frequently reviewed subjects, such as sand fly biology by Killick-Kendrick; or a relatively specific or new topic, which is naturally so or made so by the authors' skills, such as membrane transport by Landfear and Leishmania infection on macrophage function by Matlashewski. These chapters are thus probably most friendly to the general reader. The same can be said to a greater or lesser extent for chapters on macrophage receptors for Leishmania by Mosser and Brittingham, chemotherapy of leishmanasis by Zilberstein and Ephros, and Leishmania-sand fly interactions by Kamhawi. The space allocated is clearly insufficient to account for all necessary details, diversities and unknowns in the epidemiology of human and canine leishmaniasis, as presented by Dedet, Shaw and Campino as well as for the complexities and uncertainties in the immunobiology of leishmaniasis by Kaye, Farrell and Campos-Neto. These chapters will undoubtedly be appreciated by the specialists, but may not be by general readers who have little or no prior exposure to the caveat or nuance of Leishmania epidemiology and immunology. An exception to this may be the chapter by Campos-Neto on vaccines, since this is an area of great interest, and since some data from work in progress were presented. The book would be improved with the addition of another chapter or two on cell and molecular biology of Leishmania to discuss, for example, some exciting discoveries and development, e. g. unique cell organelles (e. g. tubular lysosomes, acidocalcisomes), glycobiology, gene expression, genome project, molecular genetics, kinetoplast RNA editing. Some of these topics are trypanosomatid-, but not necessarily Leishmania-specific. Still, our knowledge of how parasites and hosts work at cellular and molecular levels is crucial in our attempt to understand their interactions that makes leishmaniasis so unique in all aspects from epidemiology to immunobiology. There is high hope to render these biological phenotypes less descriptive and more clearly defined by genomic, proteomic, glyconomic, metabolomic and other bioinformatic approaches.There are several non-scientific distractions. There appears to be no copy-editing work, resulting in too many incomplete literature citations (four in pp. 147-50), and many typographic errors in the text, including two in the Preface. The Index is too brief and chapters are illustrated with very few diagrams and no photographs. These deficiencies are possibly due to a desire for rapid publication to keep chapters current and/or to cost-cutting measures established by the publisher.Nevertheless, many readers will find interesting thoughts and insights from their own perspectives in many chapters of this book, including this reviewer with decades of exposure to Leishmania and leishmaniasis. I find Shaw's historical view on this disease in the Amazon region interesting, as described in his chapter on South American leishmaniasis. His writing on the separation of subgenous Leihsmania and Viannia clarifies some confusion of our own experimental data. It is also interesting that PKDL is thought to result from the targeting of effector function against parasites in the skin of patients recovering from VL after chemotherapy, as stated by Kaye citing the work of Theander's group. These are just several examples of my own deficiencies rectified by reading this book. Other readers will find specific points of interest according to their own backgrounds and knowledge.The editor and serial editors deserve our appreciation and congratulations for their successful endeavour by putting this volume together for publication. There has been no hard cover book devoted to Leishmania since the late 1980's. This book may well be the last one of this kind, since in this era of information highway, the next book on Leishmania and leishmaniasis is likely to be electronically digitized for sale in the website. I will make sure to keep my copy around and urge you all to rush order a copy before it is sold.
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Leptin and Reproduction

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This volume embraces all areas of work on leptin and reproduction in both the female and the male, with respect to both basic and clinical research, human and animal models, and in vitro and in vivo paradigms. This is the very first work to review the roles and regulation of leptin, as these relate to reproduction and reproductive biology. In Leptin and Reproduction, a number of leading contributors review the current state of knowledge in this young, but extensively investigated, field of research. This book will make a valuable reference for scientists and researchers in the fields of reproductive biology, endocrinology, cell biology, embryology, ovarian physiology, animal science, andrology and specialists in infertility and assisted reproduction.

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"This is a wonderful, timely, and comprehensive volume. It provokes source material and references for the new investigator to this area, provides challenges, and provokes new thoughts and ideas to the established investigator, and it clearly takes forward the role of leptin as being much more than just an appetite hormone, but a critical regulator of physiologic functions. I congratulate all the authors and editors of this superb volume."
- John R.G. Challis, D.Sc., F.R.S.C.
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Macroeconomics of Monetary Union (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)

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This book applies contemporary macroeconomic theory and econometric modelling techniques in order to address policy issues relating to the CFA Franc Zone, a group of francophone African Countries sharing a common currency that is linked to the French Franc / Euro. Within this methodological framework, the author analyses the way in which the monetary institutions of the CFA influence macroeconomic development and policy formation.

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This is an excellent applied macroeconomics' book written by a non Francophone scholar. The book begins with an excellent introduction to the two institutions (BCEAO and BEAC) and an historical economic outline of the fourteen members of the CFA Franc Zone. Then it mentions a body of economic theory predicting the pre-commitment to a fixed exchange rate reducing the inflation, and presents an empirical model that allows investigating whether the exchange rate pegs is helpful in reducing the inflation (Chapter 2 CFA memberships, exchange rate pegs and inflation). Next, David Fielding compares the short run monetary adjustments in the Zone to the Anglophone Africa ones (Kenya and Tanzania). The fourth chapter deals with public debt and the strategic interaction of monetary and fiscal policies. In this chapter, by using a game-theoretic model, it is shown that CFA membership engenders greater monetary prudence in average than one can expect from countries with their own currency and central bank, and the free riding problem represents a potential inefficiency. The Fifth chapter addresses the asset demand and the monetary transmission mechanism by taking Cote d'Ivoire's cases. Chapter six tests capital market integration between CFA countries and France, whereas Chapter 7 introduces the problem of savings, investment and CFA membership and provides with time-series evidence from a comparison of Cote d'Ivoire with Kenya. Finally this book deals with CFA Franc membership and the role of relative price stability in investment performance.

I highly recommend this book to graduate students and scholars in economics willing to have different empirical macroeconomic evidences of the monetary union including the former French sub-saharan colonies. This manuscript can be an excellent complement to Masson and Patillo, Semedo and Villieu, and Guillaumont's books on CFA zone. Nevertheless in his conclusion and perspectives, Fielding did not consistently mention the peg to euro and the actual appreciation of CFA Franc via Euro, and some interesting scenarios such as an independent African currency around the CFA, the development of ECOWAS and the potential separation of the two CFAs, and the possibility to move toward a less rigid peg (e.g. Target Zone and Crawling bands for CFA Franc).
Leopold Engozogo Mba, Washington DC

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The Many Faces of Osteoarthritis (Methods and Tools in Biosciences and Medicine)

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Osteoarthritis is the most common joint pathology which primarily
affects the older population. The disease is characterized by unique
pathological changes in some synovial joints, predominantly affecting
the articular cartilage, but also entire joints, including the synovial
tissue and subchondral bone.
The remarkable growth of research on normal and abnormal biology of
tissues in the articulating joint, including the application of novel
molecular biological approaches and new imaging techniques, is reflected
in this volume. It describes the current state of knowledge and helps to
further understand the etiopathology of osteoarthritis, hopefully
leading to early detection of the disease and novel treatment
modalities. The volume contains contributions and discussions from a
select group of investigators, all experts in this field, who met at the
conference "The Many Faces of Osteoarthritis", held in June 2001 at Lake
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Highly relevant for researchers in the field of osteoarthritis. Texts not easily accessible through academic databases, but available together here at a very reasonable price.

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